Is Adaptation Governable in the Arctic? National and Regional Approaches to Arctic Adaptation Governance

Tennberg, Monica

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-9542-9_11

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“…Thus, the study shows how the present logics and rationales of a larger forest industry may be seen to limit alternative forest management rationales and practices, and thereby also potential climate change adaptation (cf. Slocum 2004;Tennberg 2009;Methmann 2010;Oppermann 2011). It also illustrates how a process of implementing effective adaptation measures might require space for alternative thoughts and actions (cf.…”

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“…In their study on spruce dominance in reforestation after storms, Lodin et al (2017, p. 196) concluded that "the high proportion of spruce cannot be reduced to the individual rationality of the forest owners". In the case of storms, this emphasises how different logics and rationalities hinder effective climate change policy and adaptation (Slocum 2004;Tennberg 2009;Methmann 2010;Oppermann 2011) that require space for alternative thoughts and actions (Burchell 1996). The emergence of a specific rationality is often produced and articulated in relation to, or in the absence of, programmes (Mckee 2009) and re-negotiations of present roles and rationalities (Larner and Butler 2005).…”

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In the eye of the storm: adaptation logics of forest owners in management and planning in Swedish areas

Andersson

Keskitalo

Bergstén

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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With a changing climate, storm and wind throw is becoming an increasing risk to forest. However, Swedish forest management practices have so far involved relatively little consideration of adaptation to climate change. This study examined resistance and alternatives to "business as usual" forest management, drawing upon material obtained in interviews with individual forest owners who spontaneously identified and discussed storm and wind throw as a risk to their forest. They thereby expressed a logic differing from that of the forest industry in Sweden, which has largely normalised storm risk rather than considering it in climate change adaptation work. The present analysis illustrates the broad and largely concerned position of individual forest owners, in contrast with a more established industry position on storm as an accepted and existing risk. Overall, the study highlights the diversity, agency and power relations within Swedish forestry and the forested landscapeaspects that are vital to better understanding processes relevant to forest and climate change adaptation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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In the eye of the storm: adaptation logics of forest owners in management and planning in Swedish areas

Andersson

Keskitalo

Bergstén

2018

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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“…Moreover, it reveals how different logics and rationalities hinder effective climate change policy and adaptation (cf. [113][114][115][116]). …”

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Adaptation to Climate Change in Forestry: A Perspective on Forest Ownership and Adaptation Responses

Andersson

Keskitalo

Lawrence

2017

Forests

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Adaptation to climate change has often been discussed from the perspectives of social vulnerability and community vulnerability, recognising that characteristics at local level will influence the particular adaptations undertaken. However, the extent to which national-level systemic factors influence and shape measures defined as adaptations has seldom been recognised. Focusing on adaptation to climate change in forestry, this study uses the example of two countries in the northern hemisphere with different forest ownership structures, forestry industry and traditions: Sweden, with strong private, non-industrial ownership, dominant forest industry and long forestry traditions; and Scotland, with forest ownership dominated by large estates and investment forestry based on plantations of exotic conifer species. The study shows how adaptation to climate change is structurally embedded and conditioned, which has resulted in specific challenges and constraints for different groups of forest owners within these two different contexts. This produces a specific set of political spaces and policy tools by rendering climate change in relation to forestry manageable, negotiable and practical/logical in specific ways. It is recommended that the focus of future work on climate-related issues and development of adaptation measures and policy should not be primarily on climate-related factors, but on institutional analysis of structural factors and logics in target sectors, in order to critically explore concepts of agency and power within these processes.

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“…For indigenous peoples, this means having to adapt and accommodate to their changing environmental conditions, conditions that they have not brought about themselves but which are nevertheless very much present in indigenous communities. Thus, the need and will to adapt and to be resilient construct indigenous peoples as actors responsible for coping and persisting in the face of environmental challenges (see also Tennberg ). Despite indigenous peoples' political participation and abilities to exert influence, the adaptation rhetoric implies that in the near future, it is not environmental politics, but rather indigenous cultures and livelihoods that must change drastically.…”

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At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism: Indigenous Peoples in International Environmental Politics

Lindroth

Sinevaara-Niskanen

2013

Int Polit Sociol

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Indigenous peoples are often perceived as custodians of nature owing to their close relationship with their environment and their nature‐based livelihoods. This paper investigates the kinds of environmental agencies that are constructed for, and by, indigenous peoples within the United Nations (UN) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (PF) and the Arctic Council. The particular focus of this research is the issue of responsibility. The article brings together empirical materials from the two forums and engages with them using Foucault‐inspired approaches. We offer a critical discussion of indigenous peoples' environmental agency in international politics, addressing the need to problematize representations of indigenous agency that to date have been largely unchallenged in both the practice and study of international politics. We identify three perspectives through which the environmental agency of indigenous peoples is validated and justified: having particular knowledge, being stakeholders, and having a close relationship with nature. Certain kinds of expectations are inscribed in each of these perspectives; responsibility becomes intertwined with agency.

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Is Adaptation Governable in the Arctic? National and Regional Approaches to Arctic Adaptation Governance

Cited by 6 publications

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In the eye of the storm: adaptation logics of forest owners in management and planning in Swedish areas

In the eye of the storm: adaptation logics of forest owners in management and planning in Swedish areas

Adaptation to Climate Change in Forestry: A Perspective on Forest Ownership and Adaptation Responses

At the Crossroads of Autonomy and Essentialism: Indigenous Peoples in International Environmental Politics

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