Group P - Collaborative Climate Adaption Project

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Area	please enter the area name here
Place	Tegucigalpa
Country	Honduras
Topic	please enter the topic here
Author(s)	Please enter your name(s)

Rationale: Why have you selected this case study area?

Honduras is the second poorest country in Latin America and nominated by the World Bank Organization as the third most vulnerable country in the World. Despite of its great climate conditions, in 2011 Honduras’s Government had to call for State of Emergency every 38 days. Most of its vulnerability is due to its poor infrastructure, high population growth rate, unemployment which results in criminality, its inexistent land and city planning, and its increasing annul precipitation (which is one of the world’s 20 most highest). Tegucigalpa, itself is a mirror of poor planning. Most of the city’s neighborhoods are located on places where buildings were not plausible. Most of Tegucigalpa’s soil conditions are poor for construction purposes and often result in erosion. Tegucigalpa’s topography and poor drainage infrastructure often cause the city to be fooded and this is terrible considering what that Honduras has a high annual precipitation.

Authors' perspectives

It is very diffcult to explain the complexity of Honduran reality. Honduras suffers what most of 3rd world countries suffer: Huge Social Wealth distribution differences, Political crisis, high assassination rates and no future planning. The climate change problems will affect primarily those with poor economic incomes, which live in the areas, which were not planned or meant to be occupied. The social and security problems maintain the average Honduran distracted from concerning on Climate change. Natural Disasters then happen and thousands of people loose their homes, others suffer severe damage on their working facilities and the aid never gets to them because it’s lost in bureaucratic stages and the system’s corruption. Little investigation has been done in Honduras regarding on Climate Change although there has been an increase in annual precipitation during the last years in winter and much more droughts during summer. To make this worse, Honduras has being absorbed by the political crisis originated by the Coup d’état in 2009, the emergence of a socialist political power, Venezuela’s political interference and plenty of assassinations to lawyers, journalists, political leaders and policemen. All this social confict that is perceived more in Tegucigalpa (political capital from Honduras) has obsessed Hondurans overshadowing other important issues as natural disasters mitigation. It’s also widely known that Latin-American culture and planning are like water and oil. Our carefree way of living has result on poor response to natural disasters, long-term recuperation from hurricanes, earthquakes and foods.

Landscape and/or urban context

• Biogeography, land use patterns, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics
• ratio of green/blue and sealed/built-up areas

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Cultural/social/political context

• Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

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Local Climate

• What are the climatic conditions at present? Have there been extreme weather events in the near past?
• Which changes are expected? Is there any evidence?

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Analysis of vulnerability

• If you consider these potential changes - which aspects/functions of your case study would be affected?

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Proposals for Climate Change Adaption

• How could your case study area become more resilient to climate change?
• Which measures would need to be taken to adapt to the new situation?
• How could you assure sustainability of these measures?
• Please describe 2-3 measures

Proposals for Climate Change Mitigation

• Which measures would need to be taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other drivers of climate change within your case study area?
• How could you assure sustainability of these measures?
• Please describe 2-3 measures

Your scenario

• How will this area look like in 2060?
• Please forecast one potential future development taking climate change into account

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What can be generalized from this case study?

• Are there any important theoretical insights?
• Which research questions does it generate?
• Short statement plus background notes

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References

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