Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Bohman, Anna; Glaas, Erik; Karlson, Martin

doi:10.3390/w12010203

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“…Solving adaptive challenges is demanding and involves trying new ways of working, tolerating losses, and gaining new capacities (Heifetz et al, 2009). Arguably, alternative stormwater management requires new ways of thinking, planning, and collaborating (Bohman et al, 2020).…”

Section: Adaptation and Transformation In The Water Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These two municipalities have developed specific sector plans for stormwater management, requiring different municipal sectors, professions, and people to discuss, negotiate, and collaborate on stormwater planning in new ways. Current stormwater management literature has already identified several emerging challenges like norms and practices (Lund, 2018), uncertainty (Thorne et al, 2018), and the need for cross-sectoral collaboration (Bohman et al, 2020). Based on the theory of adaptive challenges, this study develops an analytical framework to understand how municipalities can address these adaptive challenges.…”

Section: Identifying Adaptive Challengesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Urban areas are increasingly vulnerable to climate change, especially extreme precipitation episodes that can cause severe infrastructure damage and water source contamination (Bohman et al, 2020;Carter & Jackson, 2007;Hovik et al, 2015;Jiang et al, 2017;O'Donnell et al, 2017). As climate change challenges are amplified (Pachauri et al, 2014) and traditional stormwater infrastructure struggles to handle the increase in large downpours, alternative blue-green approaches like open waterways, swales, rain beds, and green roofs have emerged (Alves et al, 2019;Carter & Jackson, 2007;Dhakal & Chevalier, 2016;Travaline et al, 2015;Voskamp & Van de Ven, 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Franco-Torres et al (2020) describe the shift to alternative stormwater management as part of a new urban water paradigm, addressing growing social, technological, and environmental complexity and uncertainty. Although a considerable body of literature explores a range of technical, institutional, and financial barriers to implementing alternative stormwater measures (Dhakal & Chevalier, 2017;Jiang et al, 2017;Matthews et al, 2015;Meerow & Newell, 2017;O'Donnell et al, 2017;Qiao et al, 2019;Thorne et al, 2018;Wihlborg et al, 2019), the shift requires a deeper understanding of the holistic and flexible approaches to stormwater management (Alexandre, 2018;Bohman et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…values, worldviews, mindsets, interests, norms, beliefs, practices, and approaches to change) is necessary to secure long-lasting, sustainable climate adaptation and transformation. In current stormwater literature, we see clear calls to address such adaptive elements like clashing norms and practices between different governance paradigms (Lund, 2018), uncertainty concerning alternative stormwater approaches (Thorne et al, 2018), and the need for changing the way of collaborating across sectors in stormwater planning (Bohman et al, 2020).…”

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Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning

Kvamsås

2021

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Municipal water sectors shift from building traditional grey stormwater infrastructure to ambitious plans for holistic blue-green infrastructure due to climate vulnerability. The shift requires new ways of thinking, working, and collaborating, and we need to understand and address the new planning challenges the shift creates. While existing stormwater literature explores a range of technical, institutional, and financial barriers to alternative stormwater implementation, we hold the shift requires a deeper understanding of holistic and flexible stormwater management approaches. In this context, we investigate adaptive challenges like norms, practices, uncertainty, and new ways of collaborating across sectors in alternative stormwater planning in Norway. The studied planning processes exemplify how the need for making stormwater measures legally binding in municipal planning changes work practices in municipal water sectors. A novelty of the paper is that it shows how water departments take leadership of formal planning processes and adopt the planning department's language and working methods. We find that the studied municipalities promote cross-sectoral collaborative approaches that create space for professional negotiation and mediation and invite a deeper understanding of other's interests and views. We hold that such approaches could contribute to more holistic and flexible planning approaches, securing long-term sustainable stormwater management.

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Section: Adaptation and Transformation In The Water Sectormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Identifying Adaptive Challengesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning

Kvamsås

2021

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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Co‐benefits and conflicts in alternative stormwater planning: Blue versus green infrastructure?

Kvamsås

2022

Env Pol Gov

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Blue-green infrastructure (BGI) is often promoted for its co-benefits and multifunctionality. However, this infrastructure is repeatedly planned, implemented and researched almost entirely based on the goals of stormwater management. Thus, more knowledge is required about how co-benefits are perceived and actioned by planning actors. By investigating co-benefits from a value perspective, this paper will contribute to the ongoing debate on how stormwater planning actors address the potential co-benefits and conflicts in the planning and implementation of BGI. The data are derived from policy document analyses and interviews with municipal and private planning actors in Bergen and Tromsø, Norway. The paper argues that municipal water actors are motivated to implement BGI beyond stormwater management goals and approach co-benefits and holistic stormwater management as an ideal in stormwater planning. However, the tensions and conflicts between the co-benefits become more evident in the actual implementation of BGI. The paper finds that when holistic BGI implementation is initiated by the municipal water actors, the stormwater management aspects dominate the BGI implementation. Finally, the paper concludes that even though blue and green values and interests are often conflicted in the implementation of BGI, urban stormwater planning is in the process of developing a blue-green value set based on the potential synergies of co-benefits. The paper therefore empirically illustrates how collective values and interests can develop and unfold across sectors and professional disciplines in BGI planning.

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Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact

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Meisch

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WIREs Climate Change

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Institutions have a central role in climate change governance. But while there is a flourishing literature on institutions' formal rules, processes, and organizational forms, scholars lament a relative lack of attention to institutions' informal side; their cultures. It is important to study institutions' cultures because it is through culture that people relate to institutional norms and rules in taking climate action. This review uncovers what work has been done on institutional cultures and climate change, discerns common themes around which this scholarship coheres, and advances and argument for why institutional cultures matter. We employed a systematic literature review to assemble a set of 54 articles with a shared concern for how climate change and institutional cultures concurrently affect each other. The articles provided evidence of a nascent field, emerging over the past 5–10 years and fragmented across literatures. This field draws on diverse concepts of institutionalism for revealing quite different expressions of culture, and is mostly grounded in empirical studies. These disparate studies compellingly demonstrate, from different perspectives, that institutional cultures do indeed matter for implementing climate governance. Indeed, the articles converge in providing empirical evidence of eight key sites of interaction between climate change and institutional cultures: worldviews, values, logics, gender, risk acceptance, objects, power, and relationality. These eight sites are important foci for examining and effecting changes to institutions and their cultures; showing how institutional cultures shape responses to climate change, and how climate change shapes institutional cultures. This article is categorized under: The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge > Knowledge and Practice

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Integrating Sustainable Stormwater Management in Urban Planning: Ways Forward towards Institutional Change and Collaborative Action

Cited by 36 publications

References 20 publications

Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning

Addressing the adaptive challenges of alternative stormwater planning

Co‐benefits and conflicts in alternative stormwater planning: Blue versus green infrastructure?

Beyond rules: How institutional cultures and climate governance interact

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