Barriers and drivers to adaptation to climate change—a field study of ten French local authorities

Simonet, Guillaume; Leseur, Alexia

doi:10.1007/s10584-019-02484-9

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“…Previous research has suggested that barriers can be overcome with leadership, adequate resources (e.g. financial resources, technology, know-how), effective communication and information, awareness raising, and collaborations among multi-level actors (Oberlack 2017;Simonet and Leseur 2019). Yet, such perspective is hardly used in the context of cultural heritage.…”

Section: Barriers To Climate Change Adaptation Of Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them

Fatorić

Biesbroek

2020

Climatic Change

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Climate change is currently impacting cultural heritage globally. Despite advances in the understanding of the relationship between climate change impacts and cultural heritage, there are significant barriers that hamper adaptation of cultural heritage to current and projected climate risks. This paper aims to advance the empirical understanding of barriers to adapting cultural heritage to climate-related impacts in the Netherlands by identifying different barriers, their interdependencies, and possible strategies to overcome these barriers. Using a web-based questionnaire with 57 experts, we find that the most frequently reported barriers are a lack of climate change adaptation policy for cultural heritage, and lack of climate vulnerability and risk assessments for diverse cultural heritage types. Our study finds that barriers are perceived to be interdependent and conjointly constrain adapting cultural heritage to climate change. Six actionable strategies are identified to navigate these barriers.

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Section: Barriers To Climate Change Adaptation Of Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them

Fatorić

Biesbroek

2020

Climatic Change

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“…The conceptual approach, despite being thoroughly discussed in workshops with the relevant actors from all three regions and tested for its applicability, faces possible limiting conditions in terms of practical implementation. As such, numerous studies have identified both drivers and barriers to climate change adaptation [2,80,81], some of which have specifically been analysed in the context of multi-level, integrative approaches [32,82]. According to Swart et al [2], not all characteristics are necessarily present in every process, but they may be interrelated and, as a result, present difficult challenges.…”

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Developing an Integrative Theoretical Framework for Climate Proofing Spatial Planning Across Sectors, Policy Levels and Planning Areas

Juschten¹,

Reinwald²,

Weichselbaumer³

et al. 2021

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Spatial planning holds a key role in preventing or mitigating the impacts of climate change on both cities and rural areas, taking a forward-thinking and holistic approach to urban and regional development. As such, spatial planning deals with challenges occurring at different scales and across sectors. The international literature points out the need for horizontal and vertical cooperation to tackle climate change impacts. While there is abundant knowledge regarding the challenges related to climate change at different spatial levels, procedural integration into planning frameworks and practice is currently under-researched. This paper presents a novel theoretical framework that integrates various steps towards a holistic, integrative and adaptive climate proofing process. An iterative process was used for conceptual development, based on literature review followed by external feedback meetings and two workshops with the core team of planning experts responsible for exchange across federal states. By specifically addressing the challenges relating to cross-regional and cross-sectoral planning, this novel framework attempts to (i) facilitate a hierarchy of measures, (ii) maximise co-benefits for various adaptation purposes and climate change mitigation and (iii) foster the long-term institutionalisation of integrative processes across sectors, planning areas and policy levels.

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“…However, Ekstrom et al [ 7 ] argue that barriers may be overcome with “concerted effort, creative management, change of thinking, prioritization, and related shifts in resources, land uses, institutions, etc.” By gaining the necessary skills, learning, and adapting through ongoing work, health departments can build institutional capacity allowing them to overcome barriers more easily in the future [ 22 , 23 ]. Identifying and leveraging the conditions that facilitate climate adaptation can help health agencies build their capacity to address climate impacts [ 24 ].…”

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Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice: Notes from the Field

Mallen

Joseph

McLaughlin

et al. 2022

IJERPH

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State and local public health agencies are at the forefront of planning and responding to the health challenges of climate hazards but face substantial barriers to effective climate and health adaptation amidst concurrent environmental and public health crises. To ensure successful adaptation, it is necessary to understand and overcome these barriers. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Climate-Ready States and Cities Initiative (CRSCI) provides funding to state and local health departments to anticipate and respond to health impacts from climate change using the Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE) framework. This paper explores the barriers to and enablers of successful adaptation projects among BRACE West CRSCI grantees, including Arizona, California, Oregon, and the city and county of San Francisco. The barriers included competing demands such as the COVID-19 pandemic, dependence on partners with similar challenges, staff and leadership turnover, uncertain and complex impacts on at-risk populations, and inadequate resources. The enablers included effective partnerships, leadership support, dedicated and skilled internal staff, and policy windows enabling institutional change and reprioritization. These findings highlight effective strategies in the field that state and local health departments may use to anticipate potential barriers and establish their work in an environment conducive to successful adaptation.

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Barriers and drivers to adaptation to climate change—a field study of ten French local authorities

Cited by 33 publications

References 56 publications

Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them

Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them

Developing an Integrative Theoretical Framework for Climate Proofing Spatial Planning Across Sectors, Policy Levels and Planning Areas

Overcoming Barriers to Successful Climate and Health Adaptation Practice: Notes from the Field

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