Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Terese E. Venus, Stephanie Bilgram, Johannes Sauer, Arun Khatri-Chettri
Summary: Vulnerability assessment in two districts in the Indo-Gangetic Plains reveals that Vaishali is more susceptible to climate change compared to Karnal. Improving infrastructure can reduce vulnerability, while promoting extension training and information technologies is key to enhancing adaptive capacity.
ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
(2022)
Article
Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
Mayank Shekhar, Muskan Singh, Shaktiman Singh, Anshuman Bhardwaj, Rupesh Dhyani, Parminder S. Ranhotra, Lydia Sam, Amalava Bhattacharyya
Summary: The changing climate poses a significant threat to wheat yield and food security in the Gangetic Plain. Excessive precipitation and rising winter temperatures may delay wheat growth, while higher temperatures can potentially increase yield. Additionally, air temperature and sea surface temperature show a significant positive correlation with wheat yield in this region.
THEORETICAL AND APPLIED CLIMATOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Md Taskin Parvez, A. B. M. Mohsin, Sadman S. Arnob, Martyn C. Lucas, Nipa Chaki, Md Abdul Gofur Khan, Shams M. Galib
Summary: Analysis of long-term data is a valuable approach to understand the decline of biodiversity in large tropical rivers. In this study, the response of fish fauna to various factors was investigated in the lower Ganges River from 1982 to 2017. The results showed a decreasing trend in both abundance and diversity of fish. The decline was attributed to fishing pressure, invasive species, reduction of permanent water area, decreased rainfall and water depth, and increased air temperature. Conservation measures should focus on reducing fishing impacts and preventing accidental release of non-native fish.
BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Tim Forsyth, Constance L. McDermott, Rabindra Dhakal
Summary: Equitable resilience is an important focus of development policy, but the framing of equity itself can shape the target and scope of development efforts. Universalistic assumptions may overlook dynamic and intersectional influences on risk and vulnerability. Efforts that focus on caste and gender as indicators of social marginalization may overlook changes in vulnerability contexts and increasing vulnerability to climate change. Critical attention is needed to understand how normative framings of equity shape equitable resilience.
Review
Forestry
Sangram Bhanudas Chavan, Ravinder Singh Dhillon, Chhavi Sirohi, Appanderanda Ramani Uthappa, Dinesh Jinger, Hanuman Singh Jatav, Akash Ravindra Chichaghare, Vijaysinha Kakade, Venkatesh Paramesh, Sushil Kumari, Dinesh Kumar Yadav, Tatiana Minkina, Vishnu D. D. Rajput
Summary: Climate change and land degradation result in carbon loss. Agroforestry is suggested as a potential method to mitigate climate change. The Indian government promotes tree-based systems to increase tree cover and mitigate climate change. Poplar and eucalyptus are major agroforestry tree species with high carbon sequestration potential. Successful commercial agroforestry systems have been implemented in the Indo-Gangetic plains.
Article
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Pragya Timsina, Anjana Chaudhary, Akriti Sharma, Emma Karki, Bhavya Suri, Brendan Brown
Summary: The majority of farmers in the rural Global South still rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Despite women accounting for almost half of the world's farmers, they face gender-specific challenges due to cultural and social norms that limit their access to resources and opportunities. This study investigates the bending of agricultural gender norms in the Eastern Gangetic Plains and explores the connections between feminist political ecology and agricultural technology production frameworks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matilda N. Azong, Clare J. Kelso
Summary: The study finds that women in both matrilineal and patrilineal societies in rural communities are vulnerable to climate change impacts, experiencing similar patterns of vulnerability related to socio-economic and cultural discrimination. However, widows in patrilineal societies have more autonomy in controlling resources compared to those in matrilineal societies, highlighting the importance of considering cultural perspectives in adaptation policies and programs.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
Article
Agronomy
Muhammad Arshadul Hoque, Mahesh K. Gathala, Jagadish Timsina, Md. A. T. M. Ziauddin, Mosharraf Hossain, Timothy J. Krupnik
Summary: Intensive rice-based cropping systems in south Asia are crucial for providing food for rural and urban populations. However, current intensive tillage practices damage soil quality and reduce crop yields and profit margins. Crop diversification and conservation agriculture-based management practices can improve resource-use efficiency and increase the productivity and profitability of rice-based systems.
FIELD CROPS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Timothy Foster, Roshan Adhikari, Subash Adhikari, Scott Justice, Baburam Tiwari, Anton Urfels, Timothy J. Krupnik
Summary: This study explores how to significantly reduce the costs of diesel pump irrigation by supporting and incentivizing farmers to invest in newer, more cost-effective designs that are better suited to local operating conditions in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains. These interventions can unlock irrigation potential, improve agricultural productivity, enhance resilience to climate extremes, and strengthen farmers' capacity to invest in emerging low-carbon pumping technologies.
AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Mona Daoud
Summary: This paper discusses the gendered nature of vulnerability to climate change, emphasizing the close relationship between climate change experiences and gender and wider social relations in the household and community. The study found that factors relating to the gendered aspects of men's and women's livelihoods in the household and community influence vulnerability to climate change, shaped by local gender ideologies and cultures.
REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Anton Urfels, Carlo Montes, Gerardo Balwinder-Singh, Gerardo van Halsema, Paul C. Struik, Timothy J. Krupnik, Andrew J. McDonald
Summary: The timing of rice planting significantly affects the productivity and resilience of the rice-wheat cropping pattern in the IGP. Synchronizing rice planting dates with the monsoon onset improves performance in the Eastern IGP, while fixed planting dates or planting medium duration varieties at monsoon onset perform best in the Northwestern IGP.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Development Studies
Sneha Krishnan
Summary: This article examines the gendered recovery processes following disasters in four districts of Assam, India using a political ecology lens. The findings highlight the different mechanisms of displacement and the varying impacts on different groups of women, as well as their diverse coping strategies.
CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT
(2023)
Article
Forestry
Emmanuel A. Boakye, Yves Bergeron, Igor Drobyshev, Arvin Beekharry, David Voyer, Alexis Achim, Jian-Guo Huang, Pierre Grondin, Steve Bedard, Filip Havreljuk, Fabio Gennaretti, Martin P. Girardin
Summary: Sugar maple growth in the southern range has been declining since the 1980s, due to various factors including heatwaves, drought, frosts, acidic deposition, and insect defoliation. This study examines maple growth in northern regions and finds that declining growth trends persist, posing a risk to ecosystem services. The decline in growth is correlated with summer vapour pressure deficit and may limit the expansion of sugar maples due to climate change.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bramka Arga Jafino, Stephane Hallegatte, Julie Rozenberg
Summary: Focusing solely on reducing climate impacts when assessing adaptation benefits may provide misleading policy advice. It is important to consider how policies influence the absolute level of metrics of interest in scenarios with climate change. Evaluating climate adaptation policies should also take into account development factors, rather than solely focusing on climate change impacts.
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Manob Das, Arijit Das, Rajiv Pandey
Summary: This study evaluates the dependency and prominence of ecosystem services from ecological patches on tribal livelihood in the Barind region of Eastern India. The findings show a strong nexus between livelihood strategies and ecosystem services, with households highly dependent on provisioning ecosystem services for their livelihood strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Aude Vialatte, Cecile Barnaud, Julien Blanco, Annie Ouin, Jean-Philippe Choisis, Emilie Andrieu, David Sheeren, Sylvie Ladet, Marc Deconchat, Floriane Clement, Diane Esquerre, Clelia Sirami
Article
Engineering, Civil
Floriane Clement, Prachanda Pradhan, Barbara Van Koppen
WATER INTERNATIONAL
(2019)
Article
Water Resources
Gitta Shrestha, Floriane Clement
Review
Food Science & Technology
Floriane Clement, Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Stephanie Leder, Soumya Balasubramanya, Panchali Saikia, Ram Bastakoti, Emma Karki, Barbara van Koppen
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
(2019)
Article
Geography
Floriane Clement, Fraser Sugden
Summary: The study highlights the importance of integrating local knowledge in climate change policy-making, while also addressing power dynamics and authority issues. Farmers' discourses appear to align with policy narratives on the surface, but challenge core assumptions of national and international climate change adaptation policies at a fundamental narrative level.
Article
Geography
Marie-Charlotte Buisson, Floriane Clement, Stephanie Leder
Summary: The development sector has predominantly focused on a static and apolitical framing of women's empowerment. This article proposes the inclusion of a new variable, the will to change, to reintroduce dynamic and political processes in framing and measuring empowerment. The study analyzes the influence of critical consciousness on women's will to change the status quo, as well as the role of visible agency, social structures, and individual determinants in these processes. Findings show that women with higher visible agency and critical consciousness are more willing to gain agency in certain empowerment domains. This analysis advances the understanding of empowerment processes and supports the design of development programs and improvement of measurement tools.
JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Pablo F. Mendez, Floriane Clement, Guillermo Palau-Salvador, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas
Summary: To achieve sustainability, we must understand how social-ecological systems respond to different governance structures and consider their historical, institutional, political, and power conditions. Our study combines the networks of action situations approach with a polycentric power typology and the concept of discursive power to analyze the conditions in social-ecological system traps. Using the Donana estuary-delta as a case study, we examine the governance mechanisms that prevent further degradation in the system, but also the coordination failures and power dynamics that pose a risk of regime shift and suppression of system functions.
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Development Studies
Fraser Sudgen, Bina Agarwal, Stephanie Leder, Panchali Saikia, Manita Raut, Anoj Kumar, Dhananjay Ray
Summary: The study examines the viability of farmers' collectives as a model for resource-constrained smallholders compared to individual family farms through an action research project in Eastern India and Nepal. Different collective models have varying levels of economic gain, ability to handle gender inequalities and conflicts over labor sharing. However, overall, the collectives have brought benefits such as increased efficiency in labor utilization and bargaining power.
JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Gitta Shrestha, Deepa Joshi, Floriane Clement
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS
(2019)
Article
Environmental Studies
Floriane Clement, Wendy Jane Harcourt, Deepa Joshi, Chizu Sato
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF THE COMMONS
(2019)
Article
Development Studies
Corey O'Har, Florian Clement
Article
Development Studies
Fraser Sugden, David Seddon, Manita Raut
JOURNAL OF AGRARIAN CHANGE
(2018)
Article
Environmental Studies
Floriane Clement, Diana Suhardiman, Luna Bharati
WATER ALTERNATIVES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL ON WATER POLITICS AND DEVELOPMENT
(2017)
Article
Anthropology
Fraser Sugden
DIALECTICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
(2017)
Article
Development Studies
S. W. Bunting, S. Luo, K. Cai, N. Kundu, S. Lund, R. Mishra, D. Ray, K. G. Smith, F. Sugden
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
(2016)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hallie Eakin, Nadine Methner, Gina Ziervogel
Summary: There is a growing need to involve private actors in public adaptation in urban systems. Urban administrators have limited control over urban dynamics, and the actions of private actors have a significant influence. A conceptual framework combining cognitive and behavioral theory, institutional analysis, adaptive capacity, and research on urban adaptation governance is used to understand the potential for private provisioning. The case of Cape Town's response to drought illustrates the complex interactions that shape private actors' willingness to engage in public-oriented adaptation.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2024)