Legitimacy of urban climate change adaptation: a case in Helsinki

Klein, Johannes; Mäntysalo, Raine; Juhola, Sirkku

doi:10.1007/s10113-015-0797-y

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“…Although social network analysis has recently become a popular tool for examining interorganizational relationships for effective regional environmental governance (Baird et al 2016;Ingold and Leifeld 2016;Klein et al 2016;Luthe et al 2012;McConney et al 2015;Schoon et al 2017;Varela-Ortega et al 2016), analyses of the role of interpersonal relationships in adaption to regional environment change at the individual level remain rare (Isaac and Matous 2017).…”

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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Agrarian communities in different regions develop diverse coping strategies to address the environmental changes they face. In this work, we test how to stimulate farmers' social learning across diverse regions to promote informed responses to soil degradation. We invited 117 randomly selected members of 16 randomly selected Sumatran communities to three 3-day networking and training events in regions with diverse socio-environmental histories. One event was held in the respondents' remote rural district (Tanggamus), the second was held in a more densely populated region on Sumatra Island (Kalianda), and the third was held in a heavily populated region on Java Island (Garut and Ciamis). Eighteen months later, we surveyed the information-sharing networks and agricultural practices of 370 members of these communities. The participants had become popular sources of agricultural advice, but the strength of this impact depended on the region in which their networking intervention was conducted. The participants in the event on Java had become the most central members of their communities. Although all the participants received the same formal information, those who interacted with the farmers in a region with the longest history of population pressure and land degradation management were more likely to adopt the recommended practices. The participants in this intervention doubled their odds of adopting organic fertilizers compared with those who networked only with peers in their local environment. Environmental memory of coping with change can be shared between regions through social learning, which can be stimulated by simple interventions.

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An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Matouš

Todo

2018

Reg Environ Change

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“…It is further understood that the existing context, ideologies and underlying rationales for adaptation influence the choice of policy instruments 3 and the modes of public-private interaction (Felli and Castree, 2012;Fünfgeld and McEvoy, 2014;Juhola, 2013;Klein, 2016;Klein et al, 2016;Mees et al, 2015;O'Hare et al, 2016;Rickards et al, 2014;Romero-Lankao et al, 2013;Taylor and Harman, 2016;Tennekes et al, 2013). The emergence of governance has influenced the way in which power and responsibilities are allocated between the public and private actors including individuals and companies (Anguelovski and Carmin, 2011;Hooghe and Marks, 2003;Jordan et al, 2005).…”

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Local authorities and the engagement of private actors in climate change adaptation

Klein

Juhola

Landauer

2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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The local level and private actors play an important role in the implementation of climate change adaptation. The engagement of the private sector and citizens has received increasing attention in recent years. Local authorities' choice of policy instruments, the distribution of responsibilities, and the benefits of adaptation as a public or a private good have a bearing on the involvement of private actors. Based on interviews and documents from Copenhagen and Helsinki, we analyse how public authorities' choices, to whom and how they shift responsibilities, can foster transformational, participatory or market-oriented elements of adaptation. The results indicate that local authorities play a dominant role in providing adaptation. Public authorities steer where the private sector and citizens are expected to take responsibilities. This mix of top-down steering, market mechanisms and citizen involvement might reduce the advantages that a shift of responsibilities towards private actors could provide for the handling of climate change adaptation.

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“…Structures— In Helsinki and in the Helsinki Metropolitan Region, the issue of adaptation was taken up within the existing administrative structures with the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority (HSY) and the Helsinki City Environment Centre as the driving forces (Klein et al, ). Over time, several coordination and collaboration activities have emerged, addressing adaptation beyond formal administrative structures.…”

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“…This collaborative approach has challenged established bureaucratic procedures and division of work between administrative departments. While there is an informal adaptation network, there have been no changes in the formal administrative structure yet (Klein et al, ).…”

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“…So far, the private sector and citizens have played a minor role in adaptation in Helsinki with most of the coordination and collaboration taking place within the public sector (Juhola, ; Klein et al, ; Tuusa et al, ). Both the persistence of administrative structures typical for a statism approach and the conflict between the strong role of public administration and managerial approaches, representing both state‐market dualism and state‐market‐civil society synergism, have shaped adaptation in Helsinki and the Helsinki Metropolitan Region (see Table for an overview).…”

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The Influence of Administrative Traditions and Governance on Private Involvement in Urban Climate Change Adaptation

Klein

Juhola

2018

Review of Policy Research

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This qualitative study examines how administrative traditions and governance in two cities, New York City and Helsinki, have affected the interplay of public administration, the private sector, and citizens in climate change adaptation. The results show that both cities aim for an increased state-market-civil society interaction. However, their efforts have different points of departure and follow different trajectories. New York City's administration is within the Anglo-American tradition of state-market dualism, while the state-market-civil society interaction for adaptation is coordinated by newly created administrative organizations. This interaction has to be accommodated to the strong reliance on market mechanisms. Helsinki's administration has its roots in the welfare state administration with a strong role of the public administration. Increased state-market-civil society interaction results in a reduced influence of the public sector and the reliance on ad hoc projects and informal modes of cross-sectoral cooperation.

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Legitimacy of urban climate change adaptation: a case in Helsinki

Cited by 18 publications

References 48 publications

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

An experiment in strengthening the networks of remote communities in the face of environmental change: leveraging spatially distributed environmental memory

Local authorities and the engagement of private actors in climate change adaptation

The Influence of Administrative Traditions and Governance on Private Involvement in Urban Climate Change Adaptation

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