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articles in this IDS Bulletin present insights from the Linking Climate Adaptation
(LCA) Project that aimed to ensure that poor people benefit from adaptation processes,
rather than bearing greater burdens by, for example, having the risks caused by
climate change shifted in their direction. The key research aim of the LCA Project
was to determine what kind of procedural and institutional frameworks are needed
to ensure that locally determined adaptation needs are linked "upwards"
to national and international policy and institutional structures. The overview
brings together policy relevant insights on this question whilst also explaining
the conceptual underpinnings of the project, focusing on the nature of vulnerability
and adaptation and policy processes to support community-led adaptation. The key
conclusions are that climate change is a serious, ongoing threat to development
and will add burdens to those who are already poor and vulnerable, and that climate
vulnerability analysis should be incorporated systematically into the three main
policy and institutional frameworks relevant for adaptation: development, disaster
relief and climate change. Ways of fostering conceptual, operational and institutional
linkages between these three domains are described, focusing on how these can
help communities take centre stage in conducting vulnerability analysis and implementation
to enhance their long-term capacities for adaptation.
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