Policy Coherence for Antifragility: a new conceptual and methodological proposal

The project at a glance

Start date:

01 Jan 2018
Duration in months:

36
Funding:

Uni
Principal Investigator(s):

Harlan KOFF

About

Approaches such as resilience assessment and Policy Coherence for Development (PCD), in the current global context, in which the capability of social-ecological systems are losing their ability to sustain life are useful tools to shed light on how policies should be designed and implemented. Rethinking is resilience is a need when we are facing major shocks: antifragile systems benefit from them and improve their capabilities to handle shocks. This PhD research seeks to assess how coherent policies are for antifragility in specific contexts and in the face of determined shocks in the social, environmental and economic dimensions of social-ecological systems. It operationalizes policy coherence and resilience, through Policy Coherence for Antifragility (PCAf) analyzing how they enhance or reduce vulnerability, equity and formality. PCAf examines how different policy arenas: social, environmental, and economic undermine or support resilience objectives and analyzes how mechanisms within policies in the three arenas reinforce or weaken antifragility. Through two study cases in southern Mexico, this research assesses how policies are performing in their pursuit of transformative development, detecting the trade-offs and mutual reinforcement between them.