Social Capital Theory In Climate Change Adaptation

Page 1 Climate change adaptation

Introduction

Climate Change adaption refers to a process, action or outcomes in a system household community, group, region or country for the system to deal effectively with something difficult or to adjust some changing condition, stress, risk or opportunity. The concept of adaptation or adaptive capacity in climate change are interrelated to wide application of global change. The term adaptation to human system has been traced to the anthropologists and cultural ecologists, Julian Steward, who used “cultural adaptation” to describe the adjustment of “Cultural Cores” through the natural environment through substance activities (Butzer, 1989). O, Brion and Holland (1992,

The most important characteristics of social capital theory in climate change adaptation borrowed from social capital network and introducing climate change literature. The establishment of strong relationship are creating long term perspectives. Social capital theory was used Bourdieu (1984) and explain that the concept of social capital as a part of theory of social stratification forms from a realistic epistemology. The theory was used to demarcates those social relations that were used by elite group to reduce their privileged status. Coleman (1990) introduced social capital as explanatory variable in empirical analysis of educational attainment in USA. Putnam (1993) used social capital theory as part of explanation in institutional performance, governance and economic development in Italy. He also introduced social capital “features of social life, network, norms and trust that enable participant to act together more effectively to pursue shared objectives” (Putnam, 1995). To (wool cock, 1998) social capital theory has rapidly grown to prominence in the social science, so it has become a wide range of social science policy including economic development, health, education, regeneration, community development, infrastructure, social exclusion and community development. The concept of social capital in climate change policy is

The method of Adaptation Action Cycle facilitates to understand the diverse of climate change and different strategies being employed by the member on their adaptation journey, information and policy need to decision maker searching to enhance adaptive capacity. Adaptation Action Cycle are using as a tool for supporting and understanding change that is needed to access its results in the context of other industries, countries and social political system as well as a range of demography.

Adaptation is an internal cause to society and existing on ethics, knowledge and attitude to risk and culture. Reviewing the deep understanding from history, sociology and psychology of risk, economics and political science to develop four statement concerning boundary to adaptation. The first boundary to adaptation depends on the fundamental goal of adaptation support by different values. Secondly, adaptation is not to be limited by uncertainty around future happening of risk. The third one is the social and individual factors that limited adaptation action. The fourth one is the systematic undervaluation of loss of places and culture disguise real, experienced but subjective limits of