The regional governance of climate adaptation: A framework for developing legitimate, effective, and resilient governance arrangements

Termeer, C.J.A.M.; Dewulf, Art; Rijswick, Marleen van; Buuren, Arwin van; Huitema, D.; Meijerink, Sander; Rayner, Tim; Wiering, Mark

doi:10.1163/cl-2011-032

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“…Many studies try to summarise the defining characteristics of the governance of climate change adaptation (Folke et al 2005, Cash et al 2006, Pahl-Wostl 2006, Wolsink 2006, Biermann 2007, Olsson et al 2007, Raadgever et al 2008, Haug et al 2009, Van Buuren et al 2010b, Termeer et al 2011. Frequently mentioned characteristics are: its structure is multi-level, multi-domain and multi-actor (Cash et al 2006, Olsson et al 2007); its orientation is flexible and robust (Raadgever et al 2008, Van Buuren et al 2010b; its content accommodates a plurality of societal, economic and other values in combination with flood risk management (PahlWostl 2006); and its timeframe is focused on the long-term, but looks for 522 P.J.…”

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Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: the cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam

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Pauw

Buuren

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Environmental Politics

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More than half the world's population lives in cities, and over two-thirds of the world's cities will be exposed to flooding within the next 30 years due to factors including climate change, land subsidence, sea level rise, and socio-economic development. Traditionally, flood management has concentrated on providing protection against floods using technical measures, but there is currently an international shift towards more integrated flood risk management, whereby flood risk is defined as the probability of flooding multiplied by the potential consequences. Governance plays a key role in this transition. However, relatively little has been written on how climate governance lessons are implemented on a city-scale. Several characteristics of recent climate change adaptation governance, relating to its structure, orientation, content, and timeframe, are gleaned from the research literature. Flood risk management of two cities -Jakarta and Rotterdam -is examined.

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Section: Governance Lessons For Flood Risk Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: the cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam

Ward

Pauw

Buuren

et al. 2012

Environmental Politics

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“…Various scholars have signaled a fault line in the ways climate change adaptation is framed between a technoscientific framing of climate change adaptation versus a sociopolitical framing of the issue . I try to capture this as the distinction between framing climate change adaptation as a ‘tame’ technical problem versus a ‘wicked’ problem of governance .…”

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Contrasting frames in policy debates on climate change adaptation

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The process by which issues, decisions, or events acquire different meanings from different perspectives has been studied as framing. In policy debates about climate change adaptation, framing the adaptation issue is a challenge with potentially farreaching implications for the shape and success of adaptation projects. From the available literature on how the meaning of climate change adaptation is constructed and debated, three key dimensions of frame differences were identified: (1) the tension between adaptation and mitigation as two contrasting but interrelated perspectives on climate change; (2) the contrast between framing climate change adaptation as a tame technical problem, and framing climate change as a wicked problem of governance; and (3) the framing of climate change adaptation as a security issue, contrasting state security frames with human security frames. It is argued that the study of how climate change adaptation gets framed could be enriched by connecting these dimensions more closely with the following themes in framing research: (1) how decision-making biases that to framing issues as structured technical problems; (2) the process of scale framing by which issues are situated at a particular scale level; and (3) the challenge of dealing with the variety of frames in adaptation processes.

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“…The WFD marked a new beginning by prescribing river basin management, expanding the scope of water protection to all water bodies, promoting sustainable use of water, tentatively linking water management with other policies (Van Rijswick 2003, Keessen et al 2010a, allowing for regional and multilevel goal setting, improving public participation, introducing ecological standards, and facilitating adaptation to climate change (Termeer et al 2011). Article 4 of the Directive sets the environmental objectives with separate goals and standards for surface waters and groundwater.…”

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EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement?

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Garmestani²,

Rijswick³

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Considering the challenges and threats currently facing water management and the exacerbation of uncertainty by climate change, the need for flexible yet robust and legitimate environmental regulation is evident. The European Union took a novel approach toward sustainable water resource management with the passage of the EU Water Framework Directive in 2000. The Directive promotes sustainable water use through long-term protection of available water resources, progressively reduces discharges of hazardous substances in ground and surface waters, and mitigates the effects of floods and droughts. The lofty goal of achieving good status of all waters requires strong adaptive capacity, given the large amounts of uncertainty in water management. Striking the right balance between flexibility in local implementation and robust and enforceable standards is essential to promoting adaptive capacity in water governance, yet achieving these goals simultaneously poses unique difficulty. Applied resilience science reveals a conceptual framework for analyzing the adaptive capacity of governance structures that includes multiple overlapping levels of control or coordination, information flow horizontally and vertically, meaningful public participation, local capacity building, authority to respond to changed circumstances, and robust monitoring, system feedback, and enforcement. Analyzing the Directive through the lens of resilience science, we highlight key elements of modern European water management and their contribution to the resilience of the system and conclude that the potential lack of enforcement and adequate feedback of monitoring results does not promote managing for resilience. However, the scale-appropriate governance aspects of the EU approach promotes adaptive capacity by enabling vertical and horizontal information flow, building local capacity, and delegating control at multiple relevant scales

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The regional governance of climate adaptation: A framework for developing legitimate, effective, and resilient governance arrangements

Cited by 135 publications

References 24 publications

Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: the cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam

Governance of flood risk management in a time of climate change: the cases of Jakarta and Rotterdam

Contrasting frames in policy debates on climate change adaptation

EU Water Governance: Striking the Right Balance between Regulatory Flexibility and Enforcement?

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