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Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 5. Social Network Analysis.

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Title Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 5. Social Network Analysis.
 
Creator WorldFish
 
Subject food security
climate change
agriculture
 
Description Assessing options for adapting to climate change is an important part of building resilient fishing and
farming communities.
This brochure is part of a series that collectively detail how a community-based assessment of climate
change was used in partnership with coastal communities and provincial and national-level stakeholders
in Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. The assessment contains four distinct, but related, steps (Fig 1)
focused on supporting community-level decision-making for adaptation through a series of participatory
action research activities. Each brochure in this series details a specific activity in the four-step assessment.
This series of eight brochures is primarily aimed for use where resources are limited or where it is more
appropriate to use a rapid, qualitative and non-data intensive method of assessment. Community
leaders, local NGOs and regional and national-level government representatives in developing countries
may find this series useful.
In this brochure we provide details of an activity relating to the ‘Evaluation of options’ step of the
assessment, namely Social Network Analysis (SNA). This activity was conducted with community members
and aimed at understanding the social networks that influence the capacity of fishers and farmers to
produce food for consumption and cash sales. More specifically, the following questions were posed:
• Who do fishers and farmers engage with in relation to their livelihood activities?
• What are the resources that flow between different people and organizations (referred to as actors)
in fisher and farmer social networks?
• Who in the fisher and farmer social networks is important for enabling the implementation of
adaptation options? Are the links to these actors effective and able to deliver the necessary resources?
• Are there any actors missing from the social networks that would help improve effective
implementation of adaptation actions and their sustainable use?
 
Date 2013
2016-01-08T10:31:19Z
2016-01-08T10:31:19Z
 
Type Brochure
 
Identifier WorldFish. 2013. Assessing adaptation options for climate change: A guide for coastal communities in the Coral Triangle of the Pacific 5. Social Network Analysis.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69492
http://pubs.iclarm.net/resource_centre/Assessing.adaptation.to.CC.Social.network.analysis.pdf
 
Language en
 
Rights Open Access