Avoiding Climate Change: “Agnostic Adaptation” and the Politics of Public Silence

Koslov, Liz

doi:10.1080/24694452.2018.1549472

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“…However, substantial uncertainty remains regarding which areas will experience retreat and how it will occur. Studies of economically robust coastal adaptation suggest that retreat will take place in lower-income, more rural areas (6,7), but case studies within the United States have primarily documented retreat in urban areas [e.g., (8)(9)(10)(11)], raising questions about whether predicted patterns of rural retreat will hold true within or across nations. Existing retreat experiences may also offer strategies relevant across international contexts and lessons about revisions needed to meet future demands.…”

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“…Buyouts as a means of accomplishing managed retreat have received a growing amount of scholarly attention (14,16,17). This work, mostly case based, has evaluated factors influencing individual homeowners' decisions to accept or reject buyout offers (10,(18)(19)(20), potentially inequitable implementation practices (9,11), land use after buyouts occur (14), relocation outcomes for residents (21), and the limited evidence of policy learning through time (16).…”

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Managed retreat through voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties

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Retreat from some areas will become unavoidable under intensifying climate change. Existing deployments of managed retreat are at small scale compared to potential future needs, leaving open questions about where, when, and how retreat under climate change will occur. Here, we analyze more than 40,000 voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties in the United States, in which homeowners sell properties to the government and the land is restored to open space. In contrast to model-based evaluation of potential future retreat, local governments in counties with higher population and income are more likely to administer buyouts. The bought-out properties themselves, however, are concentrated in areas of greater social vulnerability within these counties, pointing to the importance of assessing the equity of buyout implementation and outcomes. These patterns demonstrate the challenges associated with locally driven implementation of managed retreat and the potential benefits of experimentation with different approaches to retreat.

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“…On Staten Island, for example, Oakwood Beach residents requested a buyout from New York City after Hurricane Sandy, and the city refused. 61 The community was only able to relocate because residents convinced the state government to apply for buyout funds on their behalf.…”

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Managed Retreat in the United States

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2019

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“…An equally important and related insight is that endogenous objectives, concerns, and priorities even if unrelated to or silent on climate changemotivate urban climate action (Anguelovski and Carmin, 2011;Aylett, 2014;Castán Broto, 2017;Khosla and Bhardwaj, 2018;Koslov, 2019;Kousky and Schneider, 2003;Slocum, 2004). Such 'co-benefits' have been identified as crucial in motivating climate action as they bring with them immediate benefits, such as development or welfare, which local actors are familiar with and directly benefit from.…”

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Superimposition: How Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change

Bhardwaj

Khosla

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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City governments are facing complex challenges due to climate change, but those in the global South often have limited capacities and governance arrangements to develop and execute a response. Cities must also manage other existing priorities such as housing, water and waste management, which have established bureaucratic practices and incentives. How are such cities with limited climate governance capacity and with existing non-climate priorities developing a climate response? From interviews and participant observation in two Indian cities that are pioneering climate action, we find that actors are ‘superimposing’ climate objectives onto existing bureaucratic practices. Building on analysis of ongoing projects in the two cities, we theorize superimposition as an approach taken by bureaucracies that have the intention of responding to climate change but have limited control over their planning practices and mandates, high levels of institutional inertia to change existing practices, and multiple other objectives related to development that dominate agendas. As superimposition does not involve the modification of existing bureaucratic practices or incentives, the types of climate actions which emerge from this approach reflect the features, scope and limitations of existing political arrangements. We highlight five such features of how Indian city bureaucracies respond to climate change: (1) the primacy of central and state ‘schemes’, (2) the prioritization of ‘development’ as an objective, and the imperative to implement (3) ‘quick win’, (4) ‘visible’ and (5) ‘bankable’ projects. Superimposition has led to creative and politically tenable climate projects that meet both climate objectives and those of existing schemes on housing, water and waste. But these projects are also limited by existing governance arrangements with tradeoffs for long-term planning, urban justice and public ownership of infrastructure.

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Avoiding Climate Change: “Agnostic Adaptation” and the Politics of Public Silence

Cited by 37 publications

References 18 publications

Managed retreat through voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties

Managed retreat through voluntary buyouts of flood-prone properties

Managed Retreat in the United States

Superimposition: How Indian city bureaucracies are responding to climate change

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