Abstract

Increasingly there is evidence that movement away from reactive drought response and exclusive focus on disaster management toward proactive drought risk mitigation reduces vulnerability and improves adaptive capacity. However to do so requires both deep interdisciplinary science surrounding vulnerability and adaptation, as well as the engagement of agricultural producers as active participants in drought planning and technology adoption. Such participatory planning requires an interdisciplinary team and a conception of holistic climate change and drought policies that work symbiotically together and over time. Response to slow and creeping events of drought, and rapid onset are equally important. Considering compound, interconnected, interacting, and cascading risks in different locals, regions, and contexts grounds analysis in vulnerability and sensitivity. Comparing case studies in South America and Canada allows for generalizable findings respecting policy instruments and mixes of policy instruments that advance resilience, reduces soft limits of adaptation, while avoiding maladaptation. This paper reviews case studies in Western Canada, Chile, Argentina, and Colombia providing specific institutional and policy recommendations as well as policy and research practices.

Presenters

Margot Hurlbert
Canada Research Chair, Climate Change, Energy and Sustainability Policy, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

Technical, Political, and Social Responses

KEYWORDS

Adaptation to Drought; Proactive Drought Policy; Participatory Research and Policy

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