Leading the UK Adaptation Agenda: A Landscape of Stakeholders and Networked Organizations for Adaptation to Climate Change

Boyd, Emily; Street, Roger; Gawith, Megan; Lonsdale, Kate; Newton, Laurie; Johnstone, Kay; Metcalf, Gerry

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0567-8_6

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“…We included national governments as our comparable unit of analysis, selected based on OECD membership and on having official languages in either English or French (opportunistic sampling based on the languages spoken by the research team): Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US). In the UK, responsibility for adapting to climate change has been devolved to national authorities in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland [ 61 ]. We included any reported adaptation initiatives that were implemented across the entire UK or in England, since Her Majesty’s Government is responsible for adaptation initiatives at both levels, consistent with other studies [ 23 ].…”

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Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in OECD Countries

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Berrang‐Ford

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Climate change is a major challenge facing public health. National governments play a key role in public health adaptation to climate change, but there are competing views on what responsibilities and obligations this will—or should—include in different nations. This study aims to: (1) examine how national-level public health adaptation is occurring in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries; (2) examine the roles national governments are taking in public health adaptation; and (3) critically appraise three key governance dimensions of national-level health adaptation—cross-sectoral collaboration, vertical coordination and national health adaptation planning—and identify practical examples suited to different contexts. We systematically reviewed publicly available public health adaptation to climate change documents and webpages by national governments in ten OECD countries using systematic web searches, assessment of self-reporting, and content analysis. Our findings suggest national governments are primarily addressing infectious disease and heat-related risks posed by climate change, typically emphasizing capacity building or information-based groundwork initiatives. We find national governments are taking a variety of approaches to public health adaptation to climate change that do not follow expected convergence and divergence by governance structure. We discuss practical options for incorporating cross-sectoral collaboration, vertical coordination and national health adaptation planning into a variety of contexts and identify leaders national governments can look to to inform their public health adaptation planning. Following the adoption of the Paris Agreement and subsequent increased momentum for adaptation, research tracking adaptation is needed to define what health adaptation looks like in practice, reveal insights that can be taken up across states and sectors, and ensure policy orientated learning.

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Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in OECD Countries

Austin

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“…Due to the omission of the regional administrative level and other austerity measures by the British government since 2010, several partners either disappeared or had to cut back their activities. Today, key partners are local authorities, public agencies, research organisations, public service providers, non-governmental organisations, and businesses (Boyd et al 2011). Overall, non-state actors play significant roles as core partners (i.e.…”

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Innovation in climate adaptation policy: are regional partnerships catalysts or talking shops?

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2014

Environmental Politics

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“…Three indicators were specific to climate change, with two focused on mitigation and one on adaptation: the process-based indicator NI188-Planning to adapt to climate change, which provided guidance and helped to measure progress on adaptation. At least one of the three indicators was prioritised in 97 % of LAs (Cooper and Pearce 2011), and whilst NI188 was only prioritised in 30 % of LAs (Cooper and Pearce 2011), it has nevertheless been considered a strong steering mechanism and driver of action (ASC 2012;Boyd et al 2011). This is due to it having successfully altered the institutional context in favour of climate change action in those LAs in which it was prioritised.…”

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Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany

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Planning for adaptation to climate change is often regarded to be a local imperative and considered to be more effective if grounded on a solid evidence base and recognisant of relevant climate projections. Research has already documented some of the challenges of making climate information usable in decision-making but has not yet sufficiently reflected on the role of the wider institutional and regulatory context. This article examines the impact of the external institutional context on the use and usability of climate projections in local government through an analysis of 44 planning and climate change (adaptation) documents and 54 semi-structured interviews with planners in England and Germany conducted between July 2013 and May 2014. We show that there is little demand for climate projections in local adaptation planning in either country due to existing policy, legal and regulatory frameworks. Local government in England has not only experienced a decline in use of climate projections, but also the waning of the climate change adaptation agenda more widely, amidst changes in the planning and regulatory framework and severe budget cuts. In Germany, spatial planning makes substantial use of past and present climate data, but the strictly regulated nature of planning prevents the use of climate projections, due to their inherent uncertainties. Findings from the two countries highlight that if we are to better understand the usability of climate projections, we need to be more aware of the institutional context within which planning decisions are made. Otherwise we run the risk of continuing to provide tools and information that are of limited use within their intended context.

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Leading the UK Adaptation Agenda: A Landscape of Stakeholders and Networked Organizations for Adaptation to Climate Change

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in OECD Countries

Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change in OECD Countries

Innovation in climate adaptation policy: are regional partnerships catalysts or talking shops?

Adaptation planning and the use of climate change projections in local government in England and Germany

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