{"id":259,"date":"2019-06-25T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/uche-nnachi\/?p=259"},"modified":"2019-07-05T18:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T18:11:28","slug":"climate-resilience-what-does-it-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/uche-nnachi\/2019\/06\/25\/climate-resilience-what-does-it-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"RESILIENCE – What does it mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Climate change is as real as the air that\nwe breathe! The impact of climate change over the years is why we have to build\nclimate resilience. Climate change is occurring and has impacts that are\nbeginning to show clearly that we have a global problem. These impacts continue\nto increase daily and could be severe in the future, if drastic steps are not\ntaken to mitigate and\/or adapt to its impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Globally, there has been a major shift in\nthe seasons and an increasing frequency of extreme weather events all over. This\nis as a result of a variety of factors that have weathered the atmosphere and\nhave rendered it weak. We need to brace ourselves for the impacts of this\nchanges that are mostly manmade. People are now experiencing significant\nimpacts of climate change, which include changing weather patterns, rising sea\nlevels and more extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The impacts of climate change vary all over\nthe world, hence different communities face different climate change impacts\nfor which they need to adapt. This is where we begin to talk about climate\nresilience and actively building measures to improve climate resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate resilience, in terms of climate change\nrefers to strengthening the ability of human and non-human systems to withstand\nand respond to changes in the earth\u2019s climate. There is a rising awareness by\nnational and international bodies to build climate resilience. Climate\nresilience addresses the vulnerabilities that communities, cities and countries\nface with the environmental consequences of climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most understandings of resilience share a\ncommon interest in the concept of vulnerability, with a general tendency to\nregard vulnerability and resilience as contrasting values. This idea is\nexpressed in several different ways; while some see an increase in\nvulnerability as a decrease in resilience, others regard these concepts as two\nsides of the same coin, still others see vulnerability as a property that needs\nto be countered by resilience (Bahadur et al., 2010).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christophe\nB\u00e9n\u00e9, in is works, conceptualized resilience as a combination\nof absorptive, adaptive and transformative capacities. This concept essentially\ndescribes resilience as the ability to deal with shocks through \u2018persistence\u2019, \u2018incremental\nadjustment\u2019 or \u2018transformational responses\u2019 and is known as the 3D Resilience\nFramework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Resilience as the result of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. (Source: B\u00e9n\u00e9 et al., 2016)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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