Translation and Transmission of Climate Adaptation Policy Discourse
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Adaptation to climate change is recognised as a development issue and has correspondingly given rise to a set of discourses and policies – the Adaptation Policy Framework (APF). This paper investigates how APF is transmitted through internationally-financed policy processes and projects in Pakistan. APF follows the same pattern (framing, design, mechanisms, actors) as development-oriented aid. Yet, from conception to implementation, APF transmission does not follow a top-down path but appears a socially negotiated process, involving brokers and translators where multi-dimensional issues are translated into community needs by applying classical development intervention tools, thereby legitimising/ de-legitimising certain actions and producing project realities.
Keywords:
Adaptation policy framework, Brokers and translators, Discourses, Pakistan, Transmission
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