Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Nepal's Climate-Change Cultural WorldPasang Yangjee Sherpa T his chapter explores national-level climate-change policies as they pertain to the everyday lives of Himalayan people at the local level.It focuses on the 2011 Climate Change Policy, the National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA), the National Framework for Local Adaptation Plans of Action (LAPA) and the National Planning Commission's (NPC) 'Climate Resilient Planning' document that form the core climate policies on which other policy documents are based.It reviews and builds on recent literature to unravel the ways in which adaptation programmes currently operate and to underscore how the omission of nonclimatic factors and context-specific vulnerabilities from adaptation programmes has caused them to fail in meeting their stated goals.It also draws from ethnographic fieldwork in the Mount Everest region in northeastern Nepal between 2009 and 2012, among conservation and development practitioners in Kathmandu in 2014 and in Humla, northwestern Nepal, in 2016.It employs the 'cultural world' (Bodley 2003) as a conceptual framework for exploring national actors involved in the design, preparation and implementation of climate-change policies.The national climatechange cultural world is understood as an extensive social environment, where entities routinely interact to secure their existence and where, in spite of their operational differences, they share understandings about the global climate-change phenomenon and the institutional roles, rights and obligations to respond to it.The chapter reveals that biophysical, technomanagerial and apolitical approaches to climate change are extant in Nepali climate policies.It discusses biophysical understandings of climate change in the policies that
Source: Berghahn Books
Author: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4393019199