TY - JOUR
T1 - Coproductive Imaginaries for Climate Change Adaptation
T2 - A Case of Adaptation Initiatives in the Gandaki River Basin, Western Nepal
AU - Ghimire, Rajiv
AU - Chhetri, Netra
N1 - Funding Information:
We are thankful to the USAID-funded Hariyo Ban Program and ASU GPSA for providing dissertation support grants to conduct this research. We are grateful to the research team and all respondents who generously provided their knowledge and insights. Our special thanks to School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS) and Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes (CSPO) at ASU for their contributions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by American Association of Geographers.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - For too long climate change adaptation was taken as a problem to be addressed through technological fixes. Using a place-based and contextual approach to imaginaries, we present emerging dialectics that collectively bring a set of knowledge to address climate adaptation challenges. With the analysis of the Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in the Gandaki River Basin, Western Nepal, we explore how local adaptation initiatives promote sociotechnical imaginaries and how it translates to social practice. Drawing on an initial field visit, stakeholder interviews, a scoping review, and the analysis of LAPA documents, this article reveals that local adaptation practices not only are designed to address climatic challenges but are also a response to a host of other ongoing stresses and are firmly connected to local communities. Although the LAPA initiative in Nepal looks innovative, there still is a need to reinforce grassroots-level initiatives and practices with the use of both traditional and modern knowledge and capacity to enhance the adaptation action at the local level. The study of Nepal’s LAPA shows how both scientific and traditional knowledge coalesce at the community level as a response to changing climate, illustrating the complex and hybrid nature of climate adaptation.
AB - For too long climate change adaptation was taken as a problem to be addressed through technological fixes. Using a place-based and contextual approach to imaginaries, we present emerging dialectics that collectively bring a set of knowledge to address climate adaptation challenges. With the analysis of the Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) initiative in the Gandaki River Basin, Western Nepal, we explore how local adaptation initiatives promote sociotechnical imaginaries and how it translates to social practice. Drawing on an initial field visit, stakeholder interviews, a scoping review, and the analysis of LAPA documents, this article reveals that local adaptation practices not only are designed to address climatic challenges but are also a response to a host of other ongoing stresses and are firmly connected to local communities. Although the LAPA initiative in Nepal looks innovative, there still is a need to reinforce grassroots-level initiatives and practices with the use of both traditional and modern knowledge and capacity to enhance the adaptation action at the local level. The study of Nepal’s LAPA shows how both scientific and traditional knowledge coalesce at the community level as a response to changing climate, illustrating the complex and hybrid nature of climate adaptation.
KW - climate change adaptation
KW - coproduction
KW - imaginaries
KW - metis
KW - techne
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U2 - 10.1080/00330124.2021.1996249
DO - 10.1080/00330124.2021.1996249
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85123929716
SN - 0033-0124
VL - 75
SP - 324
EP - 334
JO - Professional Geographer
JF - Professional Geographer
IS - 2
ER -