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Climate shocks across the Global South require public financial management systems to transition from reactive budgeting to anticipatory and spatially informed governance. Relying solely on fiscal reforms is insufficient to achieve climate-responsive financial management. Instead, geospatial intelligence must be deliberately incorporated into teaching, learning, curriculum development, and professional training for public sector personnel. Currently, many countries continue to distribute public resources using nationally aggregated data. This practice conceals spatial risks, localised vulnerabilities, and place-based climate impacts, even amidst rising investments in climate adaptation and mitigation. Addressing these issues draws on spatial justice theory, experiential learning theory, and adaptive governance to align public sector capacity with the spatial realities of climate change.
Climate change impacts communities unevenly, yet many governments still allocate adaptation funding using broad national averages. Embedding geospatial skills into public finance training helps officials see where climate risks actually concentrate. This ensures funds target communities most in need rather than distributing resources based on incomplete, non-spatial data.
The work highlights opportunities for professional training programmes, curriculum development, and decision-support frameworks for public sector financial planning. Intended users include civil service academies, public finance ministries, and climate governance bodies. As a conceptual framework combining educational and governance theories, this research is at an early stage and requires translation into concrete educational syllabuses and administrative tools before practical adoption.
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As climate shocks intensify across the Global South, Public Financial Management (PFM) systems are increasingly required to move beyond reactive budgeting toward anticipatory, spatially informed, and education-driven governance. This chapter argues that climate-responsive public financial management cannot be achieved through fiscal reforms alone; it requires the deliberate integration of geospatial intelligence into teaching, learning, curriculum development, and professional training for public sector actors. The chapter combines spatial justice theory, Experiential learning theory and adaptive governance. Despite growing investments in climate adaptation and mitigation, many countries in the Global South continue to allocate public resources using nationally aggregated data that obscure spatial risk, local vulnerability, and place-based climate impacts.
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DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-9365-0.ch005
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