Does Climate Change Need Behavior Change? A Behavioral Approach to Building Community Resilience. Join USAID's Adaptation Community Meeting for a discussion on behavioral approaches to building community resilience to climate change with Kevin Green, Senior Manager of Behavioral and Social Science at Rare. 

Social resilience increases a community’s ability to organize and respond to climate-related threats. Rare has trained local leaders in more than 50 countries to design and execute sophisticated behavior change “Pride” campaigns that inspire communities to change the way they interact with nature. 

Drawing from examples of Rare’s current work with small-scale fishing and farming communities in Latin America, Asia and Africa, this presentation will explore emerging efforts to apply the best insights from the behavioral sciences to collective action problems like natural resource management and climate adaptation. Specifically, it will consider how behavioral approaches like Rare’s can build social resilience, help communities adapt to climate change, and connect the dots between community engagement and national policy.

Rare will highlight how two Pride campaigns - in the coastal town of Pilar, Cebu (during and after 2013’s Typhoon Haiyan) and in the San Vicente de Chucuri municipality of Colombia (before and after a landslide that destroyed more than 70% of the cocoa-producing properties upstream) - transformed the local communities into willing stewards of their marine and freshwater resources and helped them to adapt to a changing climate’s threatening impacts.  Such adaptation and resilience building, done in collaboration with local democratic governance has generated demonstrable evidence of changes at the sub-national and national levels.  

Thursday, October 20
 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location:

Chemonics International, Inc.
1717 H St. NW, Washington, DC 20006

To join remotely: Online webinar  https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8465261346149719042

Webinar ID: 669-374-307

For more details and registration please click here. 

Speaker:

Kevin is interested in how and why humans cooperate to achieve common goals, especially when it seems impossible. As Senior Manager, Behavioral & Social Science at Rare, he collaborates with field staff and partners across Latin America and Asia in using social research methods and tools in the field, designing strategic social marketing and behavior adoption campaigns, and driving on-the-ground application of the constantly growing body of research in the behavioral sciences about how human beings are motivated. He previously led the development of Rare’s social impact monitoring framework and co-authored the Principles of Pride, a guide to the fundamental principles of Rare’s ‘Pride’ methodology. Kevin has researched and published on various conservation and development issues, including having partnered with the Climate & Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Fundación Natura Bolivia on research to investigate the climate resilience benefits of reciprocal watershed agreements and other payments for environmental services schemes across six Latin American countries. He is a faculty member of the Kinship Conservation Fellows program and a Senior Fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. He holds an MA in economics and international development from Johns Hopkins University and a BA in anthropology and sociology from Washington and Lee University.