Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies

Driessen, Peter; Rijswick, H.F.M.W. van

doi:10.1163/cl-2011-051

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“…This chapter assumes that this is especially true in the case of climate adaptation, because most governance institutions date back to a time when the climate issue was of hardly any importance . New governance arrangements will inevitably face tensions with the formal and informal rules of existing institutions, protected by historically grown power relations (Driessen & van Rijswick, 2011).…”

Section: Specific Feature One: An Emerging Policy Domainmentioning

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“…In spite of inherent long-term uncertainties, decisions about adaptation strategies need to be taken or prepared now (Burton et al, 2007). An important choice, therefore, is whether to act in a more precautionary manner or wait for more scientific evidence about the impacts of climate change or the projected harm (Driessen & van Rijswick, 2011;Jordan et al, 2010).…”

Section: Element Three: the Timing Of Policiesmentioning

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“…An underlying dilemma involves the allocation of public and private responsibilities (Driessen & van Rijswick, 2011;Mees et al, 2013). Is adaptation typically a public responsibility of the state or a private responsibility that should be left partially or entirely to citizens?…”

Section: Element Five: the Selection Of Policy Instrumentsmentioning

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Governance Arrangements for Adaptation to Climate Change

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Adaptation to climate change is not only a technical issue; above all, it is a matter of governance. Governance is more than government and includes the totality of interactions in which public as well as private actors participate, aiming to solve societal problems. Adaptation governance poses some specific, demanding challenges, such as the context of institutional fragmentation, as climate change involves almost all policy domains and governance levels; the persistent uncertainties about the nature and scale of risks and proposed solutions; and the need to make short-term policies based on long-term projections. Furthermore, adaptation is an emerging policy field with, at least for the time being, only weakly defined ambitions, responsibilities, procedures, routines, and solutions. Many scholars have already shown that complex problems, such as adaptation to climate change, cannot be solved in a straightforward way with actions taken by a hierarchic or monocentric form of governance. This raises the question of how to develop governance arrangements that contribute to realizing adaptation options and increasing the adaptive capacity of society. A series of seven basic elements have to be addressed in designing climate adaptation governance arrangements: the framing of the problem, the level(s) at which to act, the alignment across sectoral boundaries, the timing of the policies, the selection of policy instruments, the organization of the science-policy interface, and the most appropriate form of leadership. For each of these elements, this chapter suggests some tentative design principles. In addition to effectiveness and legitimacy, resilience is an important criterion for evaluating these arrangements. The development of governance arrangements is always context- and time-specific, and constrained by the formal and informal rules of existing institutions.

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Section: Element Three: the Timing Of Policiesmentioning

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“…(Mickwitz 2003, 419) Various strategies and public policy instruments have been applied by governments, such as the widely used instrument of regulation (Bovens,'t Hart, and van Twist 2007;Driessen and Van Rijswick 2011;Taylor et al 2012). Although scholars have proposed several classifications of instruments, in this section we will present a classification in three main categories as proposed by Vedung (1998) and since then frequently applied by, for example, Grazi and van den Bergh (2008) and Weiss (2000).…”

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Evaluating environmental policy instruments mixes; a methodology illustrated by noise policy in the Netherlands

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Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Environmental policy is characterised by complexity, in causes and effects, resulting in various combinations of policy instruments. However, evaluating these policy instrument mixes and assessing their effectiveness is difficult because of a lack of methodological approaches. This paper therefore proposes a methodology which comprises: (a) describing the underlying policy theory; (b) describing the policy instruments; (c) analysing goal attainment; and (d) evaluating effectiveness, focusing on coverage of points of intervention, steering power of policy instruments and coherence of the policy instruments mix. The methodology is illustrated with an evaluation of noise policy in the Netherlands -a typical complex policy domain in which a mix of policy instruments has been in place for decades, and thus provides a good empirical case.

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“…We acknowledge that there are also normative reasons for assessing residents' roles in climate change adaptation. For instance, one may find that democratic legitimacy requires residents to be able to co‐decide about issues in which they have a stake (Adger et al , ; Driessen and Van Rijswick, ). Such normative considerations fall beyond the scope of this paper.…”

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The Roles of Residents in Climate Adaptation: A systematic review in the case of the Netherlands

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Climate adaptation literature has hitherto devoted limited attention to the roles of residents. Yet their role is crucial in addressing non‐ or maladaptation, as their initiative or consent is often necessary to take adaptation measures in or around the house. To address this knowledge gap, this paper explores mainstream and additional roles for residents through a literature review. Mainstream roles are those roles that residents usually take, while additional roles are more specific and local in nature. The latter may, however, provide the seeds for wider change. To structure the results, we made a distinction between three forms of residents' commitment to adaptation: as (1) citizens falling under the jurisdiction of various governmental levels; (2) consumers (including home owners) in the market; and (3) civil society members/partners. While this is an established categorization in other domains of environmental governance, it has not yet been systematically applied to the adaptation domain. The paper's empirical focus regarding mainstream and additional roles is on the Dutch adaptation domains of flood risk management, stormwater management and dealing with heat stress. We found scope for additional roles for residents, especially as consumers in the market and civil society members. The findings are of significance for the global debate on residents' roles in climate adaptation and suggest that addressing all three forms of commitment may enhance the implementation of measures as well as their legitimacy, residents' awareness and societies' potential to innovate. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies

Cited by 35 publications

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Governance Arrangements for Adaptation to Climate Change

Governance Arrangements for Adaptation to Climate Change

Evaluating environmental policy instruments mixes; a methodology illustrated by noise policy in the Netherlands

The Roles of Residents in Climate Adaptation: A systematic review in the case of the Netherlands

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