A communication framework for climatic risk and enhanced green growth in the eastern coast of Ghana |
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| Institution: | 1. Regional Institute for Population Studies, University of Ghana, LG 96 Legon, Ghana;2. Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, LG 59 Legon, Ghana;3. School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Wits, 2050, South Africa;1. Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, 285 Mercer Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10003, USA;2. Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School, Columbia University, Jerome Greene Hall, 435 West 116th Street, New York, NY, 10027, USA;3. Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Clark Hall, 291 McCormick Road, P.O. Box 400123, Charlottesville, VA, 22904, USA;4. The Fletcher School/Global Development and Environment Institute, 44 Teele Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA;5. International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1, 2361 Laxenburg, Austria;1. Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, CF10 3WA Wales, United Kingdom;2. Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom;3. Cardiff School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University, Wales, United Kingdom;4. Biosciences, Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom;5. The SFS Center for Marine Resource Studies, Turks and Caicos Islands, United Kingdom;1. Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, College of Agriculture and Natural Sciences, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana;2. Centre for Coastal Management, Africa Centre of Excellence in Coastal Resilience, ACECoR, University of Cape Coast, Ghana;3. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies (IMAS), University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia;4. Department of Population and Health, Faculty of Social Sciences, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana;1. Department of Geography and Resource Development, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana;2. Sustainability Research Institute, School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, UK |
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| Abstract: | Progresses made in global responses to climate change shows that adaptation is gradually finding its way into development planning, yet delays are generally expected from competing priorities of several sectors, policy and knowledge challenges. To understand these dynamics, a pathway for enhanced climatic risk communication, which is a form of a non-structural adaptation, was analyzed in Ghana’s coastal zones. Two learning platforms, the Community-based Risk Screening Tool for Adaptation and Livelihoods (CRiSTAL), and U-Learning (Theory U-Process) were used to engage the state level policy-making process in governing development within coastal zones in the face of increased climatic risks and climate change impacts. Local livelihood priorities showed that a national level development planning framework that excluded local contexts of climatic risks face possible maladaptation. Subsequently the process that was engaged in the local contextualization of climatic risks and development in selected Districts culminated in the consensus framework, Coastal Zone Green Growth (CZGG), informed mostly by concerns over clean energy usage and ecologically compatible use of coastal resources. Therefore the CZGG potentially provides co-benefits for enhanced ecosystem services, livelihoods and adaptation. Thus, it constitutes a denominator for measuring climatic risks and adaptation to potentially inform the policy-making process towards sustainable coastal zone management practices. Except for the desired goals of CZGG being far reaching and futuristic, they overlapped with goals of the adaptation strategies of the local population, which are similar to development goals. Therefore communicating localized contexts of coastal climatic risks of which sea level rise is seen often as remote to planning, could strengthen risk management in integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) and enhance resilience of vulnerable communities. However, this will require the designation of a body which is accustomed to the local issues to facilitate, harmonize and coordinate multi-sector actions and diverse stakeholders’ interests for the CZGG to become a reality in contributing to ICZM in Ghana. |
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| Keywords: | Adaptation Coastal zone CRiSTAL Ecosystem services Planning U-Learning Vulnerability |
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