DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102279
论文题名: More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities
作者: Patterson J.J.
刊名: Global Environmental Change
ISSN: 9593780
出版年: 2021
卷: 68 语种: 英语
中文关键词: Comparative analysis
; Institutional change
; Large-N
; Survey
; Urban governance
英文关键词: adaptive management
; climate change
; institutional framework
; urban agriculture
; urban area
; urban climate
; urban planning
英文摘要: A key challenge for effective, ongoing urban climate adaptation is to adapt institutions within urban governance. While an extensive foundation of empirical knowledge on urban climate adaptation has accumulated over the last decade, our image of institutional adaptation continues to be dominated by a focus on planning. Whilst understandable, this can obscure a fuller range of areas in which institutional adaptation to climate change is being pursued. Furthermore, methodological path dependency in large-N analysis via a common focus on analyzing formal planning documents risks a skewed perspective as such documents may only offer a partial view. Building on the rich range of work to date assessing climate adaptation in cities, and notwithstanding continued major gaps such as in small-medium cities, we now need to find ways to examine the diversity of institutional adaptation occurring in practice, and to comparatively draw on the situated interpretive knowledge of case experts within individual cities to do so. With this aim in mind, this paper explores institutional adaptation in a specific domain (urban water) in a sample of 96 major cities across six continents through a survey of 319 case experts, examining the diversity of institutional adaptation across contexts and exploratively probing its drivers. Findings show that multiple forms of institutional adaptation are being jointly pursued in cities across all continents, leaning towards ‘softer’ rather than ‘harder’ forms, but nonetheless revealing a wide range of activity. Patterns in drivers suggest a political explanation for institutional adaptation (e.g. involving change agents and political pressure) rather than a rational one (e.g. involving response to climate-related risks and/or extreme events). Overall, there is a need to combine parsimony with expanded interpretive sensibility in advancing large-N research on institutional adaptation diversity in comparative perspective. © 2021 The Author Citation statistics:
资源类型: 期刊论文
标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/168328
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作者单位: Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, Vening Meineszgebouw A, Princetonlaan 8A, Utrecht, 3585CB, Netherlands
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Patterson J.J.. More than planning: Diversity and drivers of institutional adaptation under climate change in 96 major cities[J]. Global Environmental Change,2021-01-01,68