Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
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Siri Eriksen is Professor at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and project leader of ‘Courting Catastrophe? Humanitarian Policy and Practice in a Changing Climate’.
Institute of Development Studies.
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Dr Lars Otto Naess is a social scientist with more than 15 years experience with climate change, development and agriculture. His current research interests include social and institutional dimensions of adaptation to climate change, policy processes on climate change and agriculture at national and sub-national levels, the role of local knowledge for adaptation to climate change, and adaptation planning in the context of international development.
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
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Ruth Haug is Professor of Development Studies at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU).
Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
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Lutgart Lenaerts is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric) at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences.
Institute of Development Studies.
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Aditi Bhonagiri works as a research consultant and digital
media producer with IDS on projects focused on issues of gender, environment, agriculture, social and political movements.
Volume 48
Number 4
Published: August 9, 2017
Climate change introduces new challenges for humanitarian aid through changing hazard patterns. The linkages between climate change and humanitarian aid are complex. While humanitarian organisations deal directly with vulnerable opulations, interventions and actions also form part of global politics and development pathways that are currently
generating climate change, inequities and vulnerability.
This IDS Bulletin represents a call for increasing engagement between humanitarian aid and adaptation interventions to support deliberate transformation of development pathways. Based on studies carried out as part of the ‘Courting Catastrophe’ project, we argue that humanitarian interventions offer several entry points and opportunities for a common agenda to drive transformational adaptation. Changes in political and financial frameworks are needed to facilitate longer-term actions; additionally, transformational adaptation demands moving from a mode of delivering expert advice and solutions to vulnerable populations, to taking up multiple vulnerability knowledges and making space for contestation of current development.
