assessing resilience: components, relationships, innovation and continuity
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Presented by Lance W. Robinson at the 5th Africa Drought Adaptation Forum, Arusha, Tanzania, 11-12 February 2013..TRANSCRIPT
Assessing Resilience:
5th African Drought Adaptation Forum
Lance W. Robinson
Components Relationships Innovation Continuity
Resilience
• … is an emergent property of complex social-ecological systems
• … results from dynamic, non-linear relationships among variables
• … is very difficult to measure until a threshold has been crossed
Resilience
• … is an emergent property of complex social-ecological systems
• … results from dynamic, non-linear relationships among variables
• … is very difficult to measure until a threshold has been crossed
• … is context specific
Influence Diagram Produced by Elders of Yaa Sharbana
CRIC Components
Relationships
Sources of Innovation
Sources of Continuity
• Cattle, sheep and goats • Camels • Pastures • Water points
• Herd mobility • Pasture regeneration processes • Commons institutions governing access to water
• Diversity and flexibility of livestock species mix
• Organizational and institutional linkages • Biodiversity embedded in sacred sites and patchy landscape pattern
• Sacred sites • Oral history
Examples of Thresholds Indicators Elements of the
Social-Ecological System Examples of
Threshold Indicators
Components • Camels • Pasture and water points
• No. of camels/household • Sq. km. of quality pasture within 20 km.
of temporary dry season water sources
Relationships • Herd mobility
• Commons institutions for water
• TLUs in the rainy season based within x
km. of permanent water sources • Ratio of private wells operated as
commons vs. private property
Sources of Innovation • Biodiversity embedded in sacred
sites and a patchy landscape pattern
• α diversity of plant species in sacred sites
Sources of Continuity • Sacred sites
• Sq. km. of land respected as a sacred
sites or other community-conserved areas
Building Resilience: Implications on the Ground
• Development of temporary water sources in good pasture areas
• Creation and strengthening of organizational/ institutional linkages
Next steps:
• Both context-specific and generic indicators are needed
• ILRI together with Technical Consortium (TC) for Ending Drought Emergencies and Building Resilience to Drought in the Horn of Africa is working toward a resilience measurement framework based on both
Thank you