Avoiding maladaptation risks in ecosystem-based adaptation measures: a prospective participatory tool - a mangrove case study in the gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador
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- Autor: Higuera Roa, Oscar Andrés
- Identificador
- 1208568
- Fecha de publicación
- 2022
- Forma obra
- Tesis
- Lugar de producción
- 2022
- Nota de edición
- Digitalización realizada por la Biblioteca Virtual del Banco de la República (Colombia)
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- Ciencias naturales y matemáticas; Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Ciencias de la vida Biología; Ciencias naturales y matemáticas / Ciencias de la vida Biología / Ecología
- Maladaptation; Ecosystem-based Adaptation; Risk; Mangrove; Adaptation tool; Framework; Nature-based solutions
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- Colfuturo
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- Guayaquil (Ecuador)
- Abstract: Undoubtedly climate change is already impacting and changing natural and human systems. However, climate change has just started to happen, and more severe and frequent impacts are expected to happen in the next decade. Therefore, climate change adaptation is an immediate and imminent need for future development options. Among the various approaches to adapting to climate change, Ecosystem-based Adaptation measures are seen as a no-regret or low-regret option. But like any other anthropogenic intervention, adaptation measures such as EbA can have detrimental impacts and side effects that adversely affect human and natural systems. This unintended process is called maladaptation. Since recent evidence about maladaptation has been studied, EbA practitioners are increasingly concerned about avoiding maladaptation risks in adaptation projects. Yet, there is not enough literature that explores maladaptation in EbA measures. Responding to this gap, the purpose of the present thesis was to propose a prospective participatory tool for identifying, diagnosing, and avoiding maladaptation risks in EbA measures to support practitioners in designing more holistic, resilient, and sustainable adaptation projects. As a result, the maladaptation concept was initially analyzed using the existing related literature to develop a conceptual framework consisting of drivers, mechanisms, dimensions, attributes, forms, outputs, and outcomes of maladaptation. At the same time, a harmonized and integrated definition of maladaptation was developed based on its current understanding. Following that framework, a tool for analyzing maladaptation risks was drafted, validated with various experts, and tested in a pilot EbA measure to conserve, sustainably use, and restore mangroves in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Through the case study, not only the proposed tool was tested for analyzing maladaptation risks, but also the conceptual framework was used to understand maladaptation in an EbA measure better. By doing that, this master’s thesis expects to contribute to the emerging climate change adaptation discipline while providing means to practitioners to improve the design of future EbA measures using the maladaptation lens.
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