What Kind of Leadership Do We Need for Climate Adaptation? A Framework for Analyzing Leadership Objectives, Functions, and Tasks in Climate Change Adaptation

Meijerink, Sander; Stiller, Sabina

doi:10.1068/c11129

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“…A similar value on adaptive management was advocated by researchers of effective corporate social and environmental responsibility practices (Metcalf & Benn 2013) and climate change (Meijerink & Stiller 2013). For the latter, the authors make the case that with the amount of uncertainty that comes with climate change, adaptive leadership is crucial.…”

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Giving Direction and Clarity to Conservation Leadership

Bruyere

2015

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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Conservation leadership is a term without a widely shared understanding of its scope and meaning. In this article, the author shares perspectives based on interviews, literature, and a survey to begin to identify strategies that define conservation leadership. Results indicate that some elements of conservation leadership are similar to strategies of effective leadership more broadly. Conservation leadership also includes distinguishing aspects, however, such as conflict management and partnership‐building. The purpose of this article is to provide some initial thoughts and ideas to address “What is conservation leadership?” The outcomes of this work can assist those in leadership positions and those who teach conservation leadership by defining the skills and strategies necessary to be effective in conservation leadership roles.

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Section: Valuesmentioning

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Giving Direction and Clarity to Conservation Leadership

Bruyere

2015

CONSERVATION LETTERS

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“…Other characteristics of policy design such as the target group selection (Schneider and Sidney 2009), or other dimensions of governance processes such as the role of agency and leadership in actor coalitions (Meijerink and Stiller 2013), or the types of networks and modes of interactions involved need to be investigated to fully understand or perhaps even fill the implementation deficit of adaptation policy.…”

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The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Dupuis¹,

Knoepfel²

2013

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ABSTRACT. The implementation of adaptation policies suffers from barriers and limits; even though adaptation is now set on the political agendas of developed and developing countries, surprisingly few examples of concrete policy realizations are found in comparative assessments. We investigate how the framings of adaptation as a policy problem can relate to tractability issues in implementation. We distinguish three framings of adaptation: climate change adaptation (CCA), climate variability adaptation (CVA), and vulnerability-centered adaptation (VCA) that imply conflicting interpretations of the collective problem to be solved and the goals to be attained through policy solutions. Through the methodology of comparative case studies, we conduct an empirical analysis of three implementation processes in India and Switzerland, and examine how adaptation framings translate into formal policy design and concrete policy realizations. We find that, regardless of the adaptive capacity of the country where implementation takes place, the CCA framing meets more tractability issues than the VCA framing. Therefore, we discuss the paradox that the innovative and additional CCA types of policies, advocated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are more likely to face a deficit in implementation according to our analysis.

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“…CLT argues that all three leadership functions are equally important and that organizations need to balance between order (which is maintained through the administrative function) and chaos (which is created by the adaptive and enabling functions). Meijerink and Stiller (2013) have translated CLT, which was developed for analysing leadership within organizations, to a model of leadership within public-private governance networks dealing with adaptation issues (see Fig. 1).…”

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“…Rather, it is likely to be multifaceted, performed by non-positional leaders, and, most importantly, exercised by several individuals. Inspired by complexity leadership theory (CLT), developed in organizational studies (Uhl-Bien et al 2007), an integrative framework of leadership functions (political administrative, connective, adaptive, enabling, and dissemination) to enhance the adaptive capacity of governance networks has recently been proposed (Meijerink and Stiller 2013). These functions are conceptually linked to three main leadership challenges faced by these networks, on top of increasing their adaptive capacity, when dealing with climate adaptation.…”

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Leadership within regional climate change adaptation networks: the case of climate adaptation officers in Northern Hesse, Germany

Stiller

Meijerink

2015

Reg Environ Change

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In the climate adaptation literature, leadership tends to be an understudied factor, although it may be crucial for regional adaptation governance. This article shows how leadership can be usefully conceptualized and operationalized within regional governance networks dealing with climate adaptation. It applies an integrative framework inspired by complexity leadership theory, distinguishing several leadership functions to enhance the adaptive capacity of regional networks. We focus on one specific institutional innovation, appointed climate adaptation officers, who seek to connect science and governance practice, and to mainstream climate adaptation. Our question is twofold: What is the potential of climate adaptation officers to advance the adaptation agenda and to what extent did their establishment and working practice mirror the various leadership functions needed to raise the adaptive capacity of the regional network they operated in? The integrative leadership framework structures the analysis of climate adaptation officers forming part of a governmentfunded project seeking to enhance adaptation to climate variability in the central German region of Northern Hesse. The data consist of interviews with scientists and regional authority employees and project documentation including an evaluation. We find that climate adaptation officers raised awareness for climate adaptation and helped to shape and implement a number of projects within the overall KLIMZUG programme, highlighting impeding and enabling factors. The process of setting up this institutional innovation involved all forms of leadership functions and is an example of vertical mainstreaming. Its operation involved most clearly enabling and connective leadership functions and is an example of horizontal mainstreaming.

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What Kind of Leadership Do We Need for Climate Adaptation? A Framework for Analyzing Leadership Objectives, Functions, and Tasks in Climate Change Adaptation

Cited by 68 publications

References 41 publications

Giving Direction and Clarity to Conservation Leadership

Giving Direction and Clarity to Conservation Leadership

The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation

Leadership within regional climate change adaptation networks: the case of climate adaptation officers in Northern Hesse, Germany

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