Philippa Shepherd

Université Grenoble Alpes

The Capability Approach has been applied to themes of human security, community resilience, social differentiation and disaster risks. Where it has had limited application is to socio-ecological system notions of vulnerability and resilience in a global environmental change context. This article attempts to address this gap, asking the question: To...

This paper describes two case studies of demand-side water management in the Okanagan region of southern British Columbia, Canada. The case studies reveal important lessons about how local context shapes the process of adaptation; in these cases, adaptation to rising and changing water demand under a regime of increasingly limited supply in a semi-...

The research activity described in this report is a comprehensive regional assessment of the impacts of climate change on water resources and options for adaptation in the Okanagan Basin. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop integrated climate change and water resource scenarios to stimulate a multistakeholder discussion on the implicatio...