Barriers to adaptation in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Preliminary findings

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts

“…This views the relationship between macro-level processes and local risks as one of globally driven constraint on local environments. This perspective is echoed in climate change adaptation scholarship concerned with the influence of global environmental change on local climate change governance and risks (Adger et al 2009;Leichenko et al 2010) and with the inter-relationship between global environmental change and the impact of contemporary economic and political changes, including global economic crisis and subsequent austerity programmes (Liverman and Vilas 2006;Eakin and Tompkins 2006;Wilson et al 2014;Wright 2016). The impacts of the 2009 crisis and austerity on disaster risk management programmes have been much less well traced.…”

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts

“…This views the relationship between macro-level processes and local risks as one of globally driven constraint on local environments. This perspective is echoed in climate change adaptation scholarship concerned with the influence of global environmental change on local climate change governance and risks (Adger et al 2009;Leichenko et al 2010) and with the inter-relationship between global environmental change and the impact of contemporary economic and political changes, including global economic crisis and subsequent austerity programmes (Liverman and Vilas 2006;Eakin and Tompkins 2006;Wilson et al 2014;Wright 2016). The impacts of the 2009 crisis and austerity on disaster risk management programmes have been much less well traced.…”

What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile

“…One of the most prominently discussed factors in the extant literature is the organizational capacities of public organizations, such as the municipal administration [14][15][16][17][18][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][51][52][53]. Capacities consist of resources available within an organization to enhance coping and reduce disaster risks, strengthen resilience, and include financial, human, managerial and technical expertise [14][15][16][17][36][37][38][40][41][42][44][45][46][47]49]. Scholars have underlined the importance of capacities for risk reduction and adaptation at the local scale [1,14,61,62].…”

“…Comparing cases of municipalities in South Asia and West Africa, Agrawal and Ribot [50] suggest that representation and accountability in local governments are critical to serve local needs efficiently and equitably, because it influences competition, balance of power, and responsibility in municipal decision making. Another part of the literature proposes that municipalities with greater degrees of coordination between departments, flexibility, and good governance practices facilitate beneficial information flows and framing for risk reduction and adaptation [15,18,20,42,57,58,75]. For example, exploring barriers and facilitators of adaptation in Canadian municipalities, Burch [57] encourages improvements in municipal regulations, procedures, and routines, and more interactions between departments and the municipal council.…”

Urban neighbourhood flood vulnerability and risk assessments at different diurnal levels

“…Currently 5.2 million properties in England and Wales are deemed to be at risk of flooding (Environment Agency, 2017). Yet within those at-risk areas, people and places will suffer differently according to their degrees of vulnerability (Birkmann et al, 2013), that is, the physical and socioeconomic characteristics or wider deprivation in those areas (Maantay & Maroko, 2009;Wilson, O'Brien, O'Keefe, & England, 2014). Understanding and identifying vulnerability at the right scale prior to undertaking new flood management approaches is vital in order to establish potential impacts within communities.…”

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts

“…This views the relationship between macro-level processes and local risks as one of globally driven constraint on local environments. This perspective is echoed in climate change adaptation scholarship concerned with the influence of global environmental change on local climate change governance and risks (Adger et al 2009;Leichenko et al 2010) and with the inter-relationship between global environmental change and the impact of contemporary economic and political changes, including global economic crisis and subsequent austerity programmes (Liverman and Vilas 2006;Eakin and Tompkins 2006;Wilson et al 2014;Wright 2016). The impacts of the 2009 crisis and austerity on disaster risk management programmes have been much less well traced.…”

What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile

“…One of the most prominently discussed factors in the extant literature is the organizational capacities of public organizations, such as the municipal administration [14][15][16][17][18][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][51][52][53]. Capacities consist of resources available within an organization to enhance coping and reduce disaster risks, strengthen resilience, and include financial, human, managerial and technical expertise [14][15][16][17][36][37][38][40][41][42][44][45][46][47]49]. Scholars have underlined the importance of capacities for risk reduction and adaptation at the local scale [1,14,61,62].…”

“…Comparing cases of municipalities in South Asia and West Africa, Agrawal and Ribot [50] suggest that representation and accountability in local governments are critical to serve local needs efficiently and equitably, because it influences competition, balance of power, and responsibility in municipal decision making. Another part of the literature proposes that municipalities with greater degrees of coordination between departments, flexibility, and good governance practices facilitate beneficial information flows and framing for risk reduction and adaptation [15,18,20,42,57,58,75]. For example, exploring barriers and facilitators of adaptation in Canadian municipalities, Burch [57] encourages improvements in municipal regulations, procedures, and routines, and more interactions between departments and the municipal council.…”

Urban neighbourhood flood vulnerability and risk assessments at different diurnal levels

“…Currently 5.2 million properties in England and Wales are deemed to be at risk of flooding (Environment Agency, 2017). Yet within those at-risk areas, people and places will suffer differently according to their degrees of vulnerability (Birkmann et al, 2013), that is, the physical and socioeconomic characteristics or wider deprivation in those areas (Maantay & Maroko, 2009;Wilson, O'Brien, O'Keefe, & England, 2014). Understanding and identifying vulnerability at the right scale prior to undertaking new flood management approaches is vital in order to establish potential impacts within communities.…”

Relating root causes to local risk conditions: A comparative study of the institutional pathways to small-scale disasters in three urban flood contexts

“…This views the relationship between macro-level processes and local risks as one of globally driven constraint on local environments. This perspective is echoed in climate change adaptation scholarship concerned with the influence of global environmental change on local climate change governance and risks (Adger et al 2009;Leichenko et al 2010) and with the inter-relationship between global environmental change and the impact of contemporary economic and political changes, including global economic crisis and subsequent austerity programmes (Liverman and Vilas 2006;Eakin and Tompkins 2006;Wilson et al 2014;Wright 2016). The impacts of the 2009 crisis and austerity on disaster risk management programmes have been much less well traced.…”

What Motivates Local Governments to Invest in Critical Infrastructure? Lessons from Chile

“…One of the most prominently discussed factors in the extant literature is the organizational capacities of public organizations, such as the municipal administration [14][15][16][17][18][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][51][52][53]. Capacities consist of resources available within an organization to enhance coping and reduce disaster risks, strengthen resilience, and include financial, human, managerial and technical expertise [14][15][16][17][36][37][38][40][41][42][44][45][46][47]49]. Scholars have underlined the importance of capacities for risk reduction and adaptation at the local scale [1,14,61,62].…”

“…Comparing cases of municipalities in South Asia and West Africa, Agrawal and Ribot [50] suggest that representation and accountability in local governments are critical to serve local needs efficiently and equitably, because it influences competition, balance of power, and responsibility in municipal decision making. Another part of the literature proposes that municipalities with greater degrees of coordination between departments, flexibility, and good governance practices facilitate beneficial information flows and framing for risk reduction and adaptation [15,18,20,42,57,58,75]. For example, exploring barriers and facilitators of adaptation in Canadian municipalities, Burch [57] encourages improvements in municipal regulations, procedures, and routines, and more interactions between departments and the municipal council.…”

Urban neighbourhood flood vulnerability and risk assessments at different diurnal levels

“…Currently 5.2 million properties in England and Wales are deemed to be at risk of flooding (Environment Agency, 2017). Yet within those at-risk areas, people and places will suffer differently according to their degrees of vulnerability (Birkmann et al, 2013), that is, the physical and socioeconomic characteristics or wider deprivation in those areas (Maantay & Maroko, 2009;Wilson, O'Brien, O'Keefe, & England, 2014). Understanding and identifying vulnerability at the right scale prior to undertaking new flood management approaches is vital in order to establish potential impacts within communities.…”