Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Incorporating climate change concerns into national development planning allows adaptation to happen in harmony with the sustainable development of a country. Cambodia has received international support to enable climate change-resilient development...

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Main Authors: Va Dany, Ros Taplin, Bhishna Bajracharya, Michael Regan, Louis Lebel
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-467892018-04-25T07:22:10Z Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia Va Dany Ros Taplin Bhishna Bajracharya Michael Regan Louis Lebel Environmental Science Agricultural and Biological Sciences © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Incorporating climate change concerns into national development planning allows adaptation to happen in harmony with the sustainable development of a country. Cambodia has received international support to enable climate change-resilient development; “mainstreaming climate change” is one of the key recent strategies. This article aims to identify entry points for integrating climate change concerns into national development planning, especially for the wate r resources and agriculture sectors. The study uses institutional ethnography research methods with informants drawn from government organisations, local academic institutions, and development partners, together with content analysis of key policy documents. It was found that the Cambodian national planning process restricts the involvement of other actors such as researchers, civil society, and private sector; yet flexible, in that it provides opportunities for the inclusion of climate change and other related concerns. The study identified specific entry points in key policy documents, such as the National Strategic Development Plans, and ministries’ plans. Other entry points were identified in the development planning process, for example, in the process of development departments and ministries’ plans, and actors such as department planners, and departments of planning of line ministries. Climate-informed planning is now plausible; more significant integration of concerns with future climate change, however, will require more commitment and stronger connections among national planning stakeholders, adaptation actors, and research communities. 2018-04-25T07:01:20Z 2018-04-25T07:01:20Z 2017-08-01 Journal 15732975 1387585X 2-s2.0-84963704471 10.1007/s10668-016-9788-5 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84963704471&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/46789
institution Chiang Mai University
building Chiang Mai University Library
country Thailand
collection CMU Intellectual Repository
topic Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
spellingShingle Environmental Science
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Va Dany
Ros Taplin
Bhishna Bajracharya
Michael Regan
Louis Lebel
Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
description © 2016, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. Incorporating climate change concerns into national development planning allows adaptation to happen in harmony with the sustainable development of a country. Cambodia has received international support to enable climate change-resilient development; “mainstreaming climate change” is one of the key recent strategies. This article aims to identify entry points for integrating climate change concerns into national development planning, especially for the wate r resources and agriculture sectors. The study uses institutional ethnography research methods with informants drawn from government organisations, local academic institutions, and development partners, together with content analysis of key policy documents. It was found that the Cambodian national planning process restricts the involvement of other actors such as researchers, civil society, and private sector; yet flexible, in that it provides opportunities for the inclusion of climate change and other related concerns. The study identified specific entry points in key policy documents, such as the National Strategic Development Plans, and ministries’ plans. Other entry points were identified in the development planning process, for example, in the process of development departments and ministries’ plans, and actors such as department planners, and departments of planning of line ministries. Climate-informed planning is now plausible; more significant integration of concerns with future climate change, however, will require more commitment and stronger connections among national planning stakeholders, adaptation actors, and research communities.
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author Va Dany
Ros Taplin
Bhishna Bajracharya
Michael Regan
Louis Lebel
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Ros Taplin
Bhishna Bajracharya
Michael Regan
Louis Lebel
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title Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
title_short Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
title_full Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
title_fullStr Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
title_full_unstemmed Entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in Cambodia
title_sort entry points for climate-informed planning for the water resources and agriculture sectors in cambodia
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