Adaptive Social Protection, Human Capital, and Climate Change
Climate change, and its associated impacts, threatens to reverse decades of global progress in improving people’s health, human capital accumulation, and poverty reduction. At the same time, individuals and households with more human capital and are better positioned to withstand climate change impacts. Several studies have established a correlation between higher human capital with faster disaster preparedness and recovery. These challenges are particularly pressing for Indonesia, where the poor are disproportionately affected by climate shocks. The disproportionate impact of climate change on poor households, and those vulnerable to poverty, signals the importance of social protection as a critical interlocutor to help address the pressing threat of climate change and climate shocks. This background paper outlines the important relationship between human capital development and climate change adaptation; and the needs and opportunities for improving the adaptiveness of Indonesia’s social protection system.
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| Format: | Policy Note biblioteca |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC: World Bank
2024-03-12
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| Subjects: | CLIMATE CHANGE, SOCIAL PROTECTION, HUMAN CAPITAL, POVERTY, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099022524232011138/P1772451bb33750361b4e2165a9e625af4d https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41180 |
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| Summary: | Climate change, and its associated
impacts, threatens to reverse decades of global progress in
improving people’s health, human capital accumulation, and
poverty reduction. At the same time, individuals and
households with more human capital and are better positioned
to withstand climate change impacts. Several studies have
established a correlation between higher human capital with
faster disaster preparedness and recovery. These challenges
are particularly pressing for Indonesia, where the poor are
disproportionately affected by climate shocks. The
disproportionate impact of climate change on poor
households, and those vulnerable to poverty, signals the
importance of social protection as a critical interlocutor
to help address the pressing threat of climate change and
climate shocks. This background paper outlines the important
relationship between human capital development and climate
change adaptation; and the needs and opportunities for
improving the adaptiveness of Indonesia’s social protection system. |
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