The Multi-Dimensional Poverty and Poverty Dynamics and the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice invite papers on the relationship between poverty and climate change. We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches.
Long Abstract:
It is increasingly recognised that those living in poverty and deprivation bear the brunt of the consequences of climate change despite contributing least to it. Loss of livelihoods, involuntary relocation and lack of adequate support when crises occur are but a few of the ways in which those most vulnerable are affected. COP26 has laid bare the need for climate justice to go hand-in-hand with social justice, and for poverty reduction strategies to take account of and integrate mechanisms towards environmental sustainability.
The Multi-Dimensional Poverty and Poverty Dynamics and the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice invite papers on the relationship between poverty and climate change.We welcome papers from range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches, including interdisciplinary and mixed-methods studies. We invite papers that address one or more of these three key themes:
1) Impact of climate change on living standards, such as the impact of climate change on urban and rural (multidimensional) poverty.
2) Climate change, relocation and poverty. The different types of deprivations that people experience when they have to relocate because of climate change.
3) Environmental sustainability and poverty-reduction strategies. Specifically, we are looking for (i) papers that assess the environmental sustainability of (multidimensional) poverty-reduction strategies. (ii) How are multidimensional poverty-reduction strategies responding to climate change?
* Submission guidelines
Candidates should submit a short paper of between 1,200 and 1,800 words by 4th March 2022 via the DSA conference website.
The chairs and editorial board will provide extensive feedback on the shortlisted short papers before the presentation to stimulate debate across the panel and help the development of the short paper into a full paper.
Papers which address sound, theoretically informed and policy-relevant questions about poverty, social justice and climate change are particularly welcome. All empirical short papers should have a clear methodological section detailing data collection strategies as well as strengths and limitations.
This is a paper-based panel with the specific aim of selecting short papers with the potential to be developed into full journal papers. Presenters may choose to submit their final paper to the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
* Panel methodology
Convenors will ask panelists to read other people's short papers in advance of the synchronous discussion sessions. The convenors will also share in advance what they think are the key questions emerging from the short papers, which will be prompts for the synchronous discussion. The convenors will also start the synchronous session outlining these questions. Then, each presenter will give a 2 minute-pitch summarising their key argument and spend another 2 minutes addressing one of the key questions from the convenors. After this, the discussion will be open to the audience with convenors' moderation.
Ultra-poor women experience poverty and climate change differently. Drawing on livelihood experience of ultra-poor women in costal Bangladesh, this paper examines the necessity for ultra-poor women specific policies to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resilience to climate change.
Paper long abstract:
Bangladesh is one of the most climate vulnerable countries in the world. The National Plan for Disaster Management 2021-2025 integrates previous disaster management policies including national climate change policies to undertake strategies and actions to reduce vulnerabilities, especially of the poor and women, save lives and minimize economic losses. Using the framework of community based climate adaptation it promotes livelihood strategies for the poor. However, 26.7% of Bangladesh's coastal population in the south-west is ultra-poor, majority of who are women (World Vision Component Brief 2020). Ultra-poor women are characterized and differentiated from other poverty groups in terms of limited access to natural and social resources, absence of asset ownership, low level of education and skills, exposure to violence, malnourishment and disease (Halder & Mosley, 2004). Their needs for climate resilience may be different from other poor women for their unique challenges. This paper seeks to understand the specific experiences of climate change among ultra-poor women in coastal Bangladesh to identify their particular needs and examine the necessity for ultra-poor women specific policies. The paper draws on 40 life histories and 9 FGDs with ultra-poor women with different poverty experiences gathered as part of a research on a World Vision intervention integrating ultra-poor graduation with multi sectorial interventions for sustained poverty escapes in south-west coastal Bangladesh. The paper concludes that policies that generalize the vulnerability of the poor may need to be re-oriented to the specific needs of ultra-poor women to reduce their vulnerability and strengthen their resilience to climate change.
This paper explores advances made in low- and middle-income countries around economic transformation, social inclusivity and environmental sustainability, to understand synergies and trade-offs between domains and the state of progress since the turn of the century.
Paper long abstract:
Although policymakers often tout economic growth and transformation as a golden goose to promote prosperity and the goals of the Sustainable Development Agenda, some countries are seeing increases in inequality and stalling or reversing poverty reduction despite increases in labour productivity or GDP per capita. In addition, climate change may affect the pace of growth and other drivers of inclusion, but growth itself may proceed in ways unsustainable for planetary boundaries. The purpose of this analysis is to explore advances made in low- and middle-income countries around economic transformation, social inclusivity and environmental sustainability. These three pillars together are identified in this analysis as 'Nexus' outcomes.
The study draws on a range of country-level data across these three dimensions to examine synergies and trade-offs between domains and the state of progress since the turn of the century. It examines trends over two decades, correlations between Nexus domains, and undertakes a cluster analysis of countries over time to investigate the presence of Nexus outcomes. The analysis suggests that while labour productivity improvements and poverty reduction are closely correlated, these processes have typically not been environmentally sustainable when global impacts are taken into account. Environmental transformation and social inclusion have corresponded to better local environments, though, manifested for instance in better air quality. The paper concludes by presenting policy implications of the analysis, disaggregated by country income groups, with a view to more effectively joining up social, environmental, and economic agendas in low- and middle-income countries.
The paper examines the water-related climate change impacts and injustice for the urban poor in Tehran, a formerly resilient city to climate conditions which depended on communal water management systems. Revisiting the role of civil societies for climate adaptation is suggested as a key solution.
Paper long abstract:
This paper aims to analyze the water-related climate change impacts and injustice on the urban poor in Tehran Capital, a formerly resilient city to climate conditions and water shocks which used to depends on the communal water management systems in the past. To this purpose, the rapid urban changes, the consequent transformation of the climate systems and the resulting key hazards in Tehran (extreme drought and flood events) are identified first. Then, the study of cross-cutting issues and particularly, the in-depth analysis of transformations in the urban water system in Tehran reveal the key vulnerability and the exposure of human and natural systems to water-related climate risks in the city. Based on the integrated analysis of both urban and social/gender dimensions of the distribution of risks and inequalities, and the overlay of the vulnerability and exposures to the mentioned hazards, the informal settlements nearby the water valleys in the north, and a cluster of low-income neighborhoods in southern Tehran are recognized as highly at-risk systems from flood and drought events. At the end, the examination of the societal conditions, including the changes and the gaps in the institutional and the governance arrangements in the urban sectors reveals that the climate change impacts and poverty are deeply intertwined in Tehran. As a result, this research provide a set of recommendations on the need for revisiting the role of civil societies and the grassroots for urban water adaptation and climate justice in rapidly changing informal settlements of Tehran.
This paper explores how government planning in three middle-income countries evolved to interweave economic, social, and environmental policy goals and the outcomes these 'nexus' policies have produced. We also trace where policies emerged from and how they moved to the centres of power.
Paper long abstract:
Achieving prosperity for all within planetary boundaries requires that governments take wide-ranging transformative action, but joining up policies across different fields (economic, social, environmental) can be challenging. A companion analysis also undertaken under the ODI Nexus project (Diwakar, 2022) empirically analysed key development indicators and identified the Dominican Republic, Sri Lanka and Thailand as front-runners in achieving more holistic development outcomes. Looking deeper at these case studies, we sought to identify national policy interventions that struck balances between the different objectives or realms of development. We identified development planning that has led to significant measurable outcomes, and explored the policy development, legislation and, implementation processes required for integrated transformational policy to succeed.
In each country we found national-scale, triple-win policies led from the main seats of power that usually emerged following a trigger event that forced a reckoning with the failures of previous pathways. However, there is not yet much evidence of triple-win outcomes being achieved, i.e., despite targeting balanced development outcomes, the case study countries have performed well in only one or two areas, often implicitly trading off the other realm. 'Additive' rather than transformational development pathways, and a failure to contend with trade-offs between the realms and administrative inertia hampered more truly multi-dimensional development.
We conclude with suggestions for future work to unpick not only how to outline integrated 'landing spaces' for transformational nexus policies, but also how to support them to achieve their outcomes in the timeframes required to ensure equitable prosperity within planetary boundaries.
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Short Abstract:
The Multi-Dimensional Poverty and Poverty Dynamics and the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice invite papers on the relationship between poverty and climate change. We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches.
Long Abstract:
It is increasingly recognised that those living in poverty and deprivation bear the brunt of the consequences of climate change despite contributing least to it. Loss of livelihoods, involuntary relocation and lack of adequate support when crises occur are but a few of the ways in which those most vulnerable are affected. COP26 has laid bare the need for climate justice to go hand-in-hand with social justice, and for poverty reduction strategies to take account of and integrate mechanisms towards environmental sustainability.
The Multi-Dimensional Poverty and Poverty Dynamics and the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice invite papers on the relationship between poverty and climate change.We welcome papers from range of disciplinary backgrounds and methodological approaches, including interdisciplinary and mixed-methods studies. We invite papers that address one or more of these three key themes:
1) Impact of climate change on living standards, such as the impact of climate change on urban and rural (multidimensional) poverty.
2) Climate change, relocation and poverty. The different types of deprivations that people experience when they have to relocate because of climate change.
3) Environmental sustainability and poverty-reduction strategies. Specifically, we are looking for (i) papers that assess the environmental sustainability of (multidimensional) poverty-reduction strategies. (ii) How are multidimensional poverty-reduction strategies responding to climate change?
* Submission guidelines
Candidates should submit a short paper of between 1,200 and 1,800 words by 4th March 2022 via the DSA conference website.
The chairs and editorial board will provide extensive feedback on the shortlisted short papers before the presentation to stimulate debate across the panel and help the development of the short paper into a full paper.
Papers which address sound, theoretically informed and policy-relevant questions about poverty, social justice and climate change are particularly welcome. All empirical short papers should have a clear methodological section detailing data collection strategies as well as strengths and limitations.
This is a paper-based panel with the specific aim of selecting short papers with the potential to be developed into full journal papers. Presenters may choose to submit their final paper to the Journal of Poverty and Social Justice.
* Panel methodology
Convenors will ask panelists to read other people's short papers in advance of the synchronous discussion sessions. The convenors will also share in advance what they think are the key questions emerging from the short papers, which will be prompts for the synchronous discussion. The convenors will also start the synchronous session outlining these questions. Then, each presenter will give a 2 minute-pitch summarising their key argument and spend another 2 minutes addressing one of the key questions from the convenors. After this, the discussion will be open to the audience with convenors' moderation.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Friday 8 July, 2022, -