Download Delivering Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience

ESRC WR DTC Collaborative Studentships
Session 2016-2017 – Closing Date: 5 March 2016
Project Title
Delivering Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Programmes: Evaluating adaptive
capacity and human well-being outcomes of a complex multi-objective climate-development
programme
Principal
Supervisor
Name
Dr Susannah Sallu
School
Earth and Environment
Tel No
+44 113 3431641
E-Mail
[email protected]
Project
Partner
1. Tanzania Forest Conservation Group
2. Ongawa – Engineering for Human Development
Project Description
This studentship is in collaboration with the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group (http://www.tfcg.org/) and
Ongawa (http://www.ongawa.org/en/).
Mainstreaming climate change adaptation into development planning in poor countries is essential to reduce
vulnerability and avoid reversal of development gains. However, such mainstreaming remains one of the biggest
challenges encountering numerous hurdles, from the lack of cross-sectoral coordination and technical capacity, to
time scale differences between development and adaptation goals, bureaucratic complexities, unclear
distribution of costs and benefits, and possible trade-offs.
Increasingly Overseas Development Assistance and development projects try to deliver better integrated
climate-development initiatives, variously labelled as climate proofing, climate-smart or climate resilient development.
Whilst studies have investigated conceptually the interactions between climate change and development objectives
poor understanding remains of how actual interactions between the multiple components of a programme in specific
contexts affect outcomes for people’s adaptive capacity and human well-being. This studentship provides an
opportunity for someone to progress ideas in this important area.
The project will aim to critically investigate interactions between multiple interventions of the Integrated
Adaptation and Resilience programme in Tanzania, and how these affect local adaptive capacity and wellbeing.
The student conducting this project will be supervised by Dr. Susannah Sallu & Dr. Monica Di Gregorio from the
University of Leeds, with input from technical and field staff of the Tanzania Forest Conservation Group and Ongawa.
The project will involve direct working with these organisations and a local District Council in Tanzania through
focussed case study work on a EuropeAid funded Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Programme.
This programme is currently being implemented by the collaborating NGOs and a local District Council, involving
multiple forest-adjacent village communities in the East Usambara mountains of Tanzania. The East Usambara form
part of the Eastern Arc mountains – which are globally important for biodiversity and very important for surrounding
communities as a source of ecosystem services (see http://www.easternarc.org/ and http://www.valuingthearc.org/ for
more information).
Drawing on the expertise of project supervisors, conceptually the project is likely to draw on the climate-development
policy integration approach (Adelle & Russel 2013, Kok et al. 2008), resilience thinking (Folke et al. 2010) and multidimensional poverty and well-being approaches (Bourguignon and Chakravarty 2003). Impacts of multiple
interventions within and between villages/communities will be explored using qualitative methods, or a combination of
both qualitative and quantitative methods, to generate insights on mutual benefits, trade-offs and distribution of
benefits and costs for local people. The research will involve a significant period of fieldwork in Tanzania for data
collection. This project provides an opportunity to develop new academic insights that can inform evaluation of the
current Adaptation and Resilience programme and the future design of development intervention and associated
policy.
As well as being part of the White Rose Social Science DTC, the student on this project will benefit significantly from
being based within the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/sri/ and from
affiliation with the ESRC Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy (ESRC-CCCEP) http://www.cccep.ac.uk/,
the Centre for Global Development http://cgd.leeds.ac.uk/ and the Researchers in Development Network
http://cgd.leeds.ac.uk/ridnet/ at Leeds. Modules from two SRI-led Masters programmes (MSc Environment and
Development & MSc Climate Change and Environmental Policy) provide state of the art training in climate change
adaptation, environment and development, and environmental policy and governance. The student will join an active
team of research students currently working in Tanzania and elsewhere in Africa. The student will also benefit from
research collaboration with staff and students at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania.
Entry Requirements
Minimum UK Upper Second Class Honours or equivalent for 1+3 entry.
For candidates wishing to enter on a +3 studentship a Masters degree will be required.
Students with academic training in the following fields: Sustainability, Geography, Environmental studies, International
Development, Climate Change and Public Policy studies will be particularly well suited to this PhD.
Other relevant training and practical / work experience will also be considered.
Some experience conducting fieldwork / working overseas is desirable.
Willingness to conduct fieldwork in Tanzania is essential.
Application Process
Contact
Name
School
Web
Michelle Lesnianski
http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/hom
e/
Tel No
E-Mail
+44 113 3431634
[email protected]
How to Apply for an ESRC WR DTC Studentship at Leeds:
Applicants must first submit the relevant study application form(s) and be in receipt of a Student ID Number.
Applicants must then complete the University’s ESRC WR DTC Studentship Application Form (click here for
application form). This should be returned to [email protected] by the relevant deadline. Further details of
the application procedure and information on other ESRC WR DTC Studentships at the University of Leeds can be found at:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/rsa/postgraduate_scholarships/esrc-info
Full awards will cover UK/EU academic fees and a tax-free maintenance grant paid at standard Research Council
rates (£14,057 in Session 2015/16) for full-time study, together with other allowances if appropriate. EU applicants will
be eligible for an award paying tuition fees only, except in exceptional circumstances, or where residency has been
established for more than 3 years prior to the start of the course.
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