Changing climate policy paradigms in Bangladesh and Nepal

Vij, Sumit; Biesbroek, Robbert; Groot, Annemarie; Termeer, Katrien

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.12.010

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“…Some have argued that an emphasis on maintaining the resilience of a current set of functions rather than long‐term sustainability (Davoudi, ) poses the danger of focusing on short‐term strategies in a manner that leads us into a “resilience trap” (Kythreotis & Bristow, ). From a climate change perspective, this may translate into focusing on resilience to extreme weather events rather than on longer term adaptation strategies, or on reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Vij, Biesbroek, Groot, & Termeer, ). An exclusive focus in the long term can be equally limiting, because urgent issues and day‐to‐day struggles are ignored.…”

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The power to define resilience in social–hydrological systems: Toward a power‐sensitive resilience framework

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Since the early work on defining and analyzing resilience in domains such as engineering, ecology and psychology, the concept has gained significant traction in many fields of research and practice. It has also become a very powerful justification for various policy goals in the water sector, evident in terms like flood resilience, river resilience, and water resilience. At the same time, a substantial body of literature has developed that questions the resilience concept's systems ontology, natural science roots and alleged conservatism, and criticizes resilience thinking for not addressing power issues. In this study, we review these critiques with the aim to develop a framework for power‐sensitive resilience analysis. We build on the three faces of power to conceptualize the power to define resilience. We structure our discussion of the relevant literature into five questions that need to be reflected upon when applying the resilience concept to social–hydrological systems. These questions address: (a) resilience of what, (b) resilience at what scale, (c) resilience to what, (d) resilience for what purpose, and (e) resilience for whom; and the implications of the political choices involved in defining these parameters for resilience building or analysis. Explicitly considering these questions enables making political choices explicit in order to support negotiation or contestation on how resilience is defined and used. This article is categorized under: Human Water > Water Governance. Engineering Water > Planning Water.

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“…Highly vulnerable countries like Vietnam have also demonstrated a growing interest in climate change adaptation, investing significantly in building policy capacity within their hierarchical bureaucracies to integrate adaptation across different administrative levels (Phuong, Biesbroek, & Wals, ). In Bangladesh, for example, both bottom‐up and top‐down initiatives have emerged as a response to the vast climate‐induced challenges facing the country and its citizens (Araos, Berrang‐Ford, Ford, Biesbroek, & Moser, ; Vij, Biesbroek, Groot, & Termeer, ).…”

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Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation

Biesbroek

Peters

Tosun

2018

Review of Policy Research

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Despite recognizing the importance of public bureaucracies in governing climate change, our knowledge of how their behavioral and structural characteristics influence climate change adaptation policy is limited. This article provides an introduction to a collection of studies that seeks to explore the link between climate change adaptation and public bureaucracies, and to distill lessons for the scholarship on adaptation as well as the persistent debates on the role of administrative traditions in public policy. The articles in the special issue demonstrate that how state and social actors are organized, the ways in which scientific advice enters bureaucracies, and uniformity in the making and implementing of policy matter for adaptation policy. We conclude that the concept of administrative traditions is still necessary for understanding the choices made by public actors, but contend that other factors such as economic motives and political willingness should be considered more critically in the literature on administrative traditions. KEY WORDS: administrative traditions; behavior; climate change adaptation; public bureaucracies; public policy 公共官僚和气候变化适应尽管大众认可公共官僚在治理气候变化中产生的作用，但关于前者的行为特征和架构特征是如何影响气候变化适应政策的认识还很局限。本文引入了一系列研究，这些研究试图探索气候变化适应和公共官僚机构之间的联系。同时本文提取出相关学术经验，用于研究适应和对行政传统在公共政策中产生的作用而进行的持续辩论。本期特刊收录的文章展示了国家行为者和社会行为者如何进行相应组织，从而使科学建议进入官僚机构，并且让用于适应政策的政策事务在制定和实施时达到统一。本文结论认为，行政传统这一概念对理解公共行为者做出的选择而言依然是必要的，但结论同时主张，例如经济动机和政治意愿等其他因素应在行政传统文献中受到更具批判性的考量。关键词：行政传统,行为,气候变化适应,公共官僚,公共政策 Burocracia pública y adaptación al cambio climático A pesar de reconocer la importancia de las burocracias públicas al gobernar el cambio climático, es limitado nuestro conocimiento de cómo sus características estructurales y de comportamiento tienen una influencia sobre las políticas de adaptación al cambio climático. Este artículo proporciona una introducción a una colección de estudios que busca explorar el vínculo entre la adaptación al cambio climático y las burocracias públicas, y extraer lecciones para la investigación sobre la adaptación, así como para los debates persistentes sobre el papel de las tradiciones administrativas en las políticas públicas. Los artículos en elPublic Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation 777 número especial demuestran que la forma en que se organizan los actores estatales y sociales, las formas en que el asesoramiento científico ingresa en las burocracias y la uniformidad en la elaboración y la implementación de políticas son importantes para la política de adaptación. Llegamos a la conclusión de que el concepto de tradiciones administrativas sigue siendo necesario para comprender las decisiones tomadas por los actores públicos, pero sostenemos que otros factores, como los motivos económicos y la voluntad política, deberían considerarse de manera más crítica en la literatura sobre tradiciones administrativas. PALABRAS CLAVE: tradiciones administrativas; comportamiento; adaptación al cambio climático; burocracias públicas; políticas públicas

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“…Various researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations focused on the similarities and differences between CCA and DRR, and on the process for integration (Kelman and Gaillard 2008;Alexander et al 2013;Hasan et al 2013;Mercer et al 2014;Banwell et al 2018;Brewer et al 2018;Dias et al 2018;Raza 2018;Vij et al 2018;Xu et al 2018;Zuccaro and Leone 2018). Suggestions of increases in the frequency, intensity, and severity of climate-related disasters call for better integration of DRR and CCA in order to reduce vulnerability and increase population resilience, especially over the South Asian region (Seidler et al 2018).…”

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Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation Over South Asia: Challenges and Ways Forward

Mall

Srivastava

Banerjee

et al. 2018

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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South Asia is vulnerable to a variety of hydrometeorological hazards, which are often crossboundary in nature. Climate change is expected to influence many of these hazards. Thus, climate-related risks over South Asia make disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) key policy goals. Recently there is an increasing consensus that DRR including CCA should be embedded in development planning. Disaster risk reduction including CCA has progressively gained importance in global governance. Across South Asia, however, such integration is only in a preliminary stage. This review was to assess the existing status and scope of DRR including CCA in development projects across South Asia, so that an effective and achievable deliberation may be made to regional policymakers. A total of 371 projects relevant to CCA and DRR were reviewed. The project inventory was diverse in nature with respect to location, scale, sectoral focus, and strategic importance. Bangladesh, India, and Bhutan were observed to be proactive in implementing DRR-and CCA-related projects. Meta-analysis of the project inventory suggests an urgent need for an individual and collaborative convergence of processes for DRR and CCA through policies, plans, strategies, and programs.

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Changing climate policy paradigms in Bangladesh and Nepal

Cited by 65 publications

References 34 publications

The power to define resilience in social–hydrological systems: Toward a power‐sensitive resilience framework

The power to define resilience in social–hydrological systems: Toward a power‐sensitive resilience framework

Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation

Disaster Risk Reduction Including Climate Change Adaptation Over South Asia: Challenges and Ways Forward

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