Asuncion Lera St.Clair, Research Director, CICERO-Center for International Climate and Environmental Research- Oslo
The Himalaya Climate Change Adaptation Programme HICAP is a pioneering collaboration among three organizations – CICERO, ICIMOD, and UNEP GRID-Arendal – aimed at contributing to enhanced resilience of mountain communities, particularly women, through improved understanding of vulnerabilities, opportunities, and potentials for adaptation. Women in the region have important responsibilities as stewards of natural and household resources and are therefore well positioned to contribute to adaptation strategies; but they are more vulnerable than men to climate change as they face more social, economic, and political barriers limiting their coping capacity.
The Program has at is core a relational conception of poverty within the context of socio-ecological vulnerabilities. The scientific framework of the program acknowledges a sense of urgency in the face of multiple socio-ecological boundaries and changes across various spatial and temporal scales as well as the need to understand the cultural, gendered and value-related specificities of multiple stakeholders, their relation to one another and their relation to nature. Vulnerability to climate change is directly linked to other vulnerabilities, but it is a relational of multiple vulnerabilities across space and social sectors what enables seeing the processes that creates them as well as the potentials for increasing resilience. For more information see http://www.icimod.org/hicap/?q=4779
Contact: asun.stclair@cicero.oslo.no – Website
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