CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Getova, Simona |
|---|---|
| Title | Debunking of a super wicked problem: could it be that climate justice rooted community-based adaptation and mitigation strategies are a possible solution? Case studies: Community Forest Management in Costa Rica |
| Summary | The main purpose of this study is threefold: to deconstruct the super wicked problem of a lack of climate justice policy approach for community-based adaptation and mitigation strategies, create conceptual and analytical climate justice frameworks on the decomposed bases of the problem, and analyse community-based synergized adaptation and mitigation strategies against it. Designed as an exploratory, qualitative study, the research overall takes an applied forward reasoning approach; uses a deductive approach and method triangulation to respond to the first two sub-research questions in order to develop conceptual and analytical climate justice frameworks, and an inductive approach of both method and data source triangulation to provide analysis of on-the-ground community forest management (CFM) strategies considered a synergy of both adaptation and mitigation efforts, as a response to the third sub-research question. The completion of the latter uses a snowball sampling to reach out to CFM implementing communities, as well as to various relevant local, national and international actors. To draw empirical conclusions, the study uses fieldwork with ethnographic and phenomenological elements, conducts scoping, conversational and in-depth interviews, participant observation, and participatory action research (PAR). The analysis of the findings for the research takes advantage of the narrative inquiry approach, to conclude that the seemingly small scale instances of community forest management with some aspects pertaining to climate justice are the ones that need to be nourished and catered to by local, national and international actors, as they are the ones on the frontlines of the changing climate. |
| Supervisor | McGinnis, Michael Vincent; Urge-Vorsatz, Diana |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/getova_simona.pdf |
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