Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
" perspective piece published in Nature Climate Change you requested, which argues that resilience can be useful for linking the post 2015 frameworks if given a stronger normative steer, arguing that:
- An emphasis on systems thinking in resilience theory shouldn’t prevent us putting people, their agency and empowerment at the centre of the analysis
- Resilience should reflect understandings of assets, freedoms and capabilities that are fundamental to human development and livelihoods thinking,
- Building resilience in a changing climate must be underpinned by a human rights approach that places a stronger burden on international community, nation states and private sector to uphold their responsibilities, whilst permitting self-determination of the qualities and dimensions of resilience
- We must work with the ongoing dynamic processes of social transformations when building resilience, rather than assume resilience means maintenance of the prevailing conditions.