Institutionalising mechanisms for building urban climate resilience: experiences from India

Karanth, Anup; Archer, Diane

doi:10.1080/09614524.2014.911246

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“…The second scenario involved mandatory mechanisms, which works through formalised processes with clear mandates and responsibilities as in the case of Surat [39]. Therefore, city resilience-building should be translated into formal rules that provide mandates for the relevant city institutions.…”

Section: Ngonisation Of Formal Platforms?mentioning

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Negotiating Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Climate Change Resilience and Risk Governance in Indonesia

Lassa

2019

Climate

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Institutions matter because they are instrumental in systematically adapting to global climate change, reducing disaster risks, and building resilience. Without institutionalised action, adapting to climatic change remains ad-hoc. Using exploratory research design and longitudinal observations, this research investigates how urban stakeholders and policy entrepreneurs negotiate institutional architecture and pathways for sustaining climate change adaptation and resilience implementation. This paper introduces hybrid institutionalism as a framework to understand how city administrators, local policy makers, and policy advocates navigate complex institutional landscapes that are characterised by volatility and uncertainties. Grounded in the experience from a recent experiment in Indonesia, this research suggests that institutionalisation of adaptation and resilience agenda involves different forms of institutionalisation and institutionalism through time. Future continuity of adaptation to climate change action depends on the dynamic nature of the institutionalism that leads to uncertainty in mainstreaming risk reduction. However, this research found that pathway-dependency theory emerges as a better predictor for institutionalising climate change adaptation and resilience in Indonesia.

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Section: Ngonisation Of Formal Platforms?mentioning

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Negotiating Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Climate Change Resilience and Risk Governance in Indonesia

Lassa

2019

Climate

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“…In the latter, the city government, local chamber of commerce, education institutions and technical consultants set up the Surat Climate Change Trust to co‐ordinate climate change activity, aided by the capacities of the Rockefeller Foundation. As a Trust, the organization could circumvent conventional procedure and acquire funds externally to enable independent action (E. Chu, ; Karanth & Archer, ). However, studies also find that participation in such collaborative climate planning activities is often limited to those with influence such as entrepreneurial lobbies and consultancies (Blok, ; E. Chu, ; cf.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Indian Cities' Climate Responsesmentioning

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Urbanization in the time of climate change: Examining the response of Indian cities

Khosla

Bhardwaj

2018

WIREs Climate Change

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India's urban transition is salient to the growing emphasis on city responses to climate change. While projected to experience the largest global urban transition with significant infrastructure investment in the next few decades, the welfare of Indian cities remains poor, which complicates the implications for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper traces, synthesizes and characterizes the emerging literature on Indian urban climate debates. It discusses the arc of urban climate efforts, from an initial emphasis on climate vulnerabilities and risks, broadening over time to include climate mitigation. The paper examines the governance forms and political motivations with which such actions are pursued in cities and finds three overarching characteristics: the use of local development priorities as an entry point to climate mitigation and adaptation; the role of nonstate actors in promoting climate-relevant outcomes; and the proclivity for discrete project-based activities. The paper suggests that while a range of Indian cities are beginning to consider climate concerns, a larger strategic understanding of the interaction between climate and development priorities, across policy and governance levels, is yet to be developed. The future trajectory of urban India's responses to climate change will be shaped by the institutional prioritising, linking and integrating of urgent local development and mitigation and adaptation goals.This article is categorized under:

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“…The regulatory and knowledge infrastructure for climate change is decentralized across national, state and local authorities, and is based on the idea that planning for climate change requires actions that are transparent, accountable and cognizant of local contexts (Fisher, 2012;Sharma and Tomar, 2010). (Chu, 2016a;Karanth and Archer, 2014). Bhubaneswar: civil defence corps Solicit volunteers for community protection during disaster events.…”

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“…Surat: urban health and climate resilience center Establish a center to improve the urban health management system using evidence-based research, improving disease surveillance techniques, and updating operational procedures. (Chu, 2016a;Karanth and Archer, 2014).…”

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“…During this episode, 75% of the urban area was flooded, leading to a disease epidemic within slum neighborhoods. Because of these major disasters, Surat's climate adaptation initiative is heavily focused on public health, flooding, water supply, and economic and industrial development (ACCCRN, 2011;Anguelovski et al, 2014;Bhat et al, 2013;Karanth and Archer, 2014).…”

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The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Policy Experiments

Chu

2016

Env Pol Gov

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Climate change is increasingly posing risks to infrastructure and public services in cities across the global South. Building on ideas of policy experimentation at the nexus of institutional and transition theories, this paper assesses six climate change adaptation experiments across the cities of Surat, Indore and Bhubaneswar in India to uncover the politics behind how experiments are conceived of, implemented, and supported in light of local development needs. Through employing both embedded and cross-case comparative methods, I argue that policy experiments are often framed around achieving tangible urban economic benefits and maximizing specific project complementarities, which allow emerging adaptation priorities access to established policy directives and funding streams. However, I conclude that despite being arenas for testing new ideas, quantifying climate and development co-benefits, and engaging private and civil society actors, adaptation policy experiments must be coherent with urban political economic contexts in order for them to affect sustained, equitable and transformative programmatic change.

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Institutionalising mechanisms for building urban climate resilience: experiences from India

Cited by 28 publications

References 11 publications

Negotiating Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Climate Change Resilience and Risk Governance in Indonesia

Negotiating Institutional Pathways for Sustaining Climate Change Resilience and Risk Governance in Indonesia

Urbanization in the time of climate change: Examining the response of Indian cities

The Governance of Climate Change Adaptation Through Urban Policy Experiments

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