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Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico
In the last decades, the impacts of climate change have affected people, societies, economic sectors and ecosystems in all the continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding food security, and increasing and creating poverty traps....
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| author | Simón Gutiérrez, Ana Alí |
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| description | In the last decades, the impacts of climate change have affected people, societies, economic sectors and ecosystems in all the continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding food security, and increasing and creating poverty traps. The poor, that are highly dependent on wildlife and natural resources for their persistence, will be affected the most. However, it seems that environmental priorities are not considered in the developmental agendas. If biodiversity and climate change are not included in policy domains other than the environmental, many negative effects will not be adequately mitigated or minimised. Addressing these multidimensional problems requires policy coherence for improving the outcomes of social and environmental policies, and for using more efficiently the limited resources that developing countries have. The overall aim of this study is to determine if there is coherence between the objectives of the National Development Plan and the sectoral programs of Mexico, with a special focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation, povertyalleviation, and biodiversity conservation. Through a discourse network analysis, it was possible to determine the policy components within each program and to systematically identify the connections between them and investigate if there was policy coherence. Since the documents analysed belong to two different levels of the government, it was possible to analyse vertical and horizontal coherence. The analysis showed that there is vertical coherence between the NDP and the sectoral programs, low coherence between the sectoral programs, as well as low coherence between the four policy components of major interest. This analysis increases the very scarce literature on Mexico's policy coherence, providing empirical evidence that allows finding windows of opportunity for improving the coherence between sectoral programs in the future. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/33026 Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico Simón Gutiérrez, Ana Alí Rennkamp, Britta Climate Change and Development In the last decades, the impacts of climate change have affected people, societies, economic sectors and ecosystems in all the continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding food security, and increasing and creating poverty traps. The poor, that are highly dependent on wildlife and natural resources for their persistence, will be affected the most. However, it seems that environmental priorities are not considered in the developmental agendas. If biodiversity and climate change are not included in policy domains other than the environmental, many negative effects will not be adequately mitigated or minimised. Addressing these multidimensional problems requires policy coherence for improving the outcomes of social and environmental policies, and for using more efficiently the limited resources that developing countries have. The overall aim of this study is to determine if there is coherence between the objectives of the National Development Plan and the sectoral programs of Mexico, with a special focus on climate change adaptation and mitigation, povertyalleviation, and biodiversity conservation. Through a discourse network analysis, it was possible to determine the policy components within each program and to systematically identify the connections between them and investigate if there was policy coherence. Since the documents analysed belong to two different levels of the government, it was possible to analyse vertical and horizontal coherence. The analysis showed that there is vertical coherence between the NDP and the sectoral programs, low coherence between the sectoral programs, as well as low coherence between the four policy components of major interest. This analysis increases the very scarce literature on Mexico's policy coherence, providing empirical evidence that allows finding windows of opportunity for improving the coherence between sectoral programs in the future. 2021-03-01T15:32:31Z 2021-03-01T15:32:31Z 2020 2021-03-01T07:35:18Z Master Thesis Masters MPhil http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33026 eng application/pdf Department of Environmental and Geographical Science Faculty of Science |
| spellingShingle | Climate Change and Development Simón Gutiérrez, Ana Alí Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| title_full | Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| title_fullStr | Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| title_full_unstemmed | Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| title_short | Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico |
| title_sort | policy coherence between biodiversity conservation climate change and poverty alleviation in mexico |
| topic | Climate Change and Development |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/33026 |
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