caa a22 4500 605520259 CHVBK 20210128100734.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11213-014-9335-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11213-014-9335-y Multi-level Stakeholder Influence Mapping: Visualizing Power Relations Across Actor Levels in Nepal's Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Regime [Elektronische Daten] [Chase Sova, Ariella Helfgott, Abrar S. Chaudhury, David Matthews, Thomas F. Thornton, Sonja J. Vermeulen] Where power lies and how it is conceived in studies of governance and institutions is often not discussed. This is due to the ubiquitous nature of the topic. Power is shaped by a variety of institutional factors, including the architecture of governing structures, questions of scale and level, and access to key resources including knowledge and capital, among other factors. To date, there are relatively few tools available that allow policy makers, researchers, and development practitioners to render these power dynamics explicit and thus take steps to mitigate the potentially deleterious effects of power orientations. This paper proposes a methodology, multi-level stakeholder influence mapping (MSIM), for elucidating power dynamics between actors in complex system regimes. MSIM departs from existing power mapping techniques in that it relies on individual interviews conducted across multiple actor levels and utilizes a participatory mapping process for shared system boundary critique. MSIM was piloted in Nepal's agricultural climate change adaptation regime with actors from the central, regional, and local operational levels. The results suggest that without proper consideration of the role of power in agricultural adaptation regimes, the resulting interventions will likely be insufficient in catalyzing adaptation pathways and moderating the negative impacts of climate change. Furthermore, power analyses produced from the perspective of a single actor level or respondent type can risk sub optimization of adaptation outcomes and can misdirect the lobbying efforts of those agencies utilizing mapping outputs. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Climate change nationallicence Adaptation nationallicence Agriculture nationallicence Nepal nationallicence Power nationallicence Influence nationallicence Mapping nationallicence Sova Chase CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut Helfgott Ariella CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut S. Chaudhury Abrar CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut Matthews David Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut F. Thornton Thomas Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut J. Vermeulen Sonja CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-08-01), 383-409 1094-429X 28:4<383 2015 28 11213 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-014-9335-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-014-9335-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sova Chase CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Helfgott Ariella CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- S. Chaudhury Abrar CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Matthews David Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- F. Thornton Thomas Environmental Change Institute (ECI), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- J. Vermeulen Sonja CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-08-01), 383-409 1094-429X 28:4<383 2015 28 11213