Implementing climate variability adaptation at the community level in the Amazon floodplain

Antonio F.P. Oviedo, Sylvia Mitraud, David G. McGrath and Marcel Bursztyn

Environmental Science & Policy, 2016, vol. 63, issue C, 151-160

Abstract: The need to design measures for adapting to climate change is increasingly recognized as important and has encouraged research on the role of local ecological knowledge (LEK) in supporting adaptation. Studies of how LEK can help adapt to increasing climate variability remain limited. This article develops an approach through which the process of adaptation can be tracked at a community level. We describe how community residents in the Amazon floodplains incorporate natural hydrologic and ecological processes into their management systems to optimize ecosystem functioning.

Keywords: Local ecological knowledge; Adaptation; Policy making; Environmental governance; Amazon floodplain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.05.017

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