A survey of public participation in planning for climate change adaptation among selected areas of Zambia‘s Lusaka province.
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2012
Authors
Muchanga, Manoah
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CPI
Abstract
The study aimed at investigating the stakeholders that would be relevant in planning for climate change
adaptation. Uncertainties in terms of who could in planning prompted a snap shot survey research whose
contextual relevance was premised on the Ahmadabad fourth conference on Environmental Education, to address
climate change as a major global issue. It was also contextualized in the frameworks of article six of the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992) and the Zambia National Adaptation
Programme on Action (NAPA). Using a hermeneutic survey design, a sample of 165 households was captured
using cluster and simple random sampling techniques. Respondents were interviewed using a semi-structured
interview schedule. Overall, the study revealed that planning for climate change would require a diversity of
views from multiple stakeholders such as educationists, traditional leaders, the government, affected people,
government statutory bodies, clergies, NGOs, among others. Since most of the residents thought adaptation
planning to be mainly (35 per cent to 90 per cent), the government’s responsibility, it was recommended that
further researches be conducted in order to find out how partnership for climate change adaptation planning and
learning could be strengthened. The research findings could be useful to environmental educationists and
practitioners, researchers, the government and others.
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Climate change. , Education.
Citation
Muchanga, M. (2012). A Survey of Public Participation in Planning for Climate Change Adaptation Among Selected Areas of Zambia‘s Lusaka Province. American International Journal for Contemporary Research. Vol. 2, No. 8, p.