Advancing responses to climate change through improved interplay between planning theory and practice

Matthews, Tony; Baker, Douglas

doi:10.1080/13563475.2019.1674640

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“…In the vision and in the backcasting exercise, participants underlined the importance of constantly monitoring the lake SES to learn from its evolution, and of adjusting or adapting measures and actions to new knowledge and scientific evidence, which is precisely one of the main purposes of feedback (Matthews & Baker, 2021; Quay, 2010). Participants also mentioned that some monitoring activities are in place and realized by several key stakeholders, which represents the first seeds of feedback processes.…”

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“…Numerous authors underline the importance of various feedback aspects, but only some group them into a coherent process. Feedback implies: (1) continuous surveillance and monitoring enabling observation of system evolution, dynamics and feedbacks (Barker, 2012; Boyd et al, 2015; Gober, 2014; Jurgilevich, 2021); (2) an analysis of how measures or actions influence the system (Croxatto et al, 2020; Lawrence et al, 2020; Muiderman et al, 2020); (3) learning from observations to generate new knowledge (Boyd et al, 2015; Dotson, 2019; Poli, 2012); and (4) adjusting measures and actions accordingly to enhance flexibility and adapt decision‐making to new realities that influence the system's evolution (Matthews & Baker, 2021; Quay, 2010; Serrao‐Neumann et al, 2013; White et al, 2015).…”

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“…This implies a systemic approach whereby all governance processes are embedded to form an anticipatory governance system (Boston, 2019(Boston, , 2021Wiek et al, 2012). This also necessitates open-minded institutional culture and decision makers who make room for anticipation and participatory processes (Boyd et al, 2015;Maffei et al, 2020;Matthews & Baker, 2021). Heo and Seo (2021) proposed the concept of 'continuity' to describe this criterion, signifying the importance of continued anticipation efforts as well as the embedding of all anticipatory governance criteria into a coherent whole.…”

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Opportunities for and barriers to anticipatory governance of two lake social–ecological systems in Germany and Canada

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Climate change effects are already being felt around the globe, and governance systems need to adapt to this new reality to foster greater resilience in social–ecological systems (SES). Anticipatory governance is a concept proposed for such a purpose. However, its definition remains rather vague in the literature, as is its practical use for decision makers. In this paper, we contribute to filling these two shortcomings. First, we conducted a systematic literature review of the concept and derived the following main criteria: foresight, networked engagement, integration and feedback. Second, we use the identified criteria to analyse two social–ecological systems around lakes in Lower Saxony, Germany and in Quebec, Canada. In both cases, data were generated using a participatory approach (interviews and workshops) with local stakeholders. We examined these data, identifying opportunities and barriers to anticipatory governance. Our findings support, with empirical data for the first time, the claim in the literature that ensemble‐ization—the fact that all anticipatory governance criteria must be put forward jointly and not in isolation—is a facilitator for the emergence of anticipation. Furthermore, by highlighting opportunities and barriers to anticipatory governance within two temperate lake SES cases, we illustrate how to understand a given system's limitations with respect to anticipatory governance, as well as how to engage with the concept through concrete, already existing opportunities. The proposed course of actions could help design more anticipatory governance systems to support decision‐making processes that could enhance SES resilience. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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confidence: 99%