Laurence Delina Authors Paper Providing Framework on Technology Use to Local Climate-Development Organizations

Laurence Delina, a former senior post-doctoral associate at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently authored a paper titled “ICTs for delivering climate-development strategies: an informational governance framework for local climate-development organizations” published in the journal Climate and Development.

Around the world, a growing number of “climate-development organizations” (CDOs) — particularly at the local and community levels — are seeking to address the climate-development challenge in multiple ways. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) (e.g. television, radio, cell phones, mobile apps, wireless networks, and more) have been recognized as playing an important role for CDOs. But local CDOs in developing countries often lack the necessary access to technology, while also facing strategic and governance challenges due to an absence of frameworks on how these CDOs can most effectively incorporate ICTs into their efforts. This paper provides CDOs at the local and community levels with guidance on how to build better “informational governance” for their climate-development efforts.

Delina recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. While at the Pardee Center, Delina led a research project called The Future of Energy Systems in Developing Countries, which sought to understand the options and trade-offs for achieving a secure and sustainable energy future in a select number of developing countries. In his newest book, titled Emancipatory Climate Actions: Strategies from histories (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), Delina offers strategies for strengthening climate change activism based on the mechanisms that made previous large-scale social movements successful. He is the author of three other books: Strategies for Rapid Climate Mitigation: Wartime mobilisation as a model for action? (Routledge 2016), Accelerating Sustainable Energy Transition(s) in Developing Countries: The challenges of climate change and sustainable development (Routledge 2017), and Climate Actions: Transformative Mechanisms for Social Mobilisation (Palgrave Macmillan 2019).