‘It Takes More to Get a Ship to Change Course’: Barriers for Organizational Learning and Local Climate Adaptation in Sweden

Storbjörk, Sofie

doi:10.1080/1523908x.2010.505414

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“…For example management practises often take the form of reactive and sector-based responses, diminishing the prospects to evolve more comprehensive climate adaptation strategies (Naess et al 2005;Glaas et al 2010;O'Brien and Hochachka 2010) or to better integrate climate adaptation into other policy areas (Huq and Reid 2004;Ahmad 2009;Biesbrook et al 2010;Storbjörk 2010).…”

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“…In creating long term strategies, municipalities can learn much from local and regional strategic 28 planning for economic growth. Both growth and vulnerability are insufficient to approach as a one-time issue due to their dynamic and rapid characteristics (Glaas et al 2010;Storbjörk 2010). Contrary to vulnerability, growth is rarely dealt as a one-time issue.…”

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Evolving local climate adaptation strategies: incorporating influences of socio–economic stress

Hjerpe

Glaas

2011

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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Socio-economic and climatic stresses affect local communities' vulnerability to flooding.Better incorporation of socio-economic stress in local vulnerability assessments is important when planning for climate adaptation. This is rarely done due to insufficient understanding of their interaction, in both theory and practice. The omission leads to critical weaknesses in local adaptation strategies. This study analyses how socioeconomic stress interacts with climatic stress and shape local vulnerability to flooding, and how such stress can be more efficiently managed within local government organisations. A framework containing potential stresses was developed and applied to investigate how socio-economic stress affected exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity in two case studies, using interview and group exercise transcripts. Cases consisted of major development projects in two Swedish municipalities, Gothenburg and Lilla Edet. The cases were similarly exposed to climatic stress but differed in socio-2 economic context, and previous professional climate change experience. Fierce foreign competition and market structure were seen as the two most significant socio-economic stresses influencing local vulnerability to flooding through shaping the 'local' worldview. In falling order sensitivity, exposure, and adaptive capacity were seen to be influenced by the socio-economic stresses. Two approaches to efficiently incorporate climatic and socio-economic stress in local management are proposed: shifting the focus of vulnerability assessments towards future sensitivity of people and settlements, rather than on the current infrastructure's sensitivity, would facilitate their use in planning and by 'mainstreaming' adaptation into long-term strategic planning vulnerability would be more dynamically addressed and periodically revised.

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Evolving local climate adaptation strategies: incorporating influences of socio–economic stress

Hjerpe

Glaas

2011

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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“…Mickwitz et al (2009, p. 60) claim that the capacities of spatial planning are shrinking due to "the rigidity of administrative and political borders, the stability of departmentalism and the strength of sectional interests and preferences for small-scale solutions". Such fragmentation in the form of "silo mentalities" and cross-sectoral mismatches in integrating critical concerns has been problematized in both planning studies (Blanco & Alberti, 2009;Healey, 2007;Isaksson & Storbjörk, 2012;Nilsson, 2007;Vigar, 2009) and adaptation studies (Glaas et al, 2010;Lidskog & Uggla, 2009;Mickwitz et al, 2009;Naess et al, 2005;Romero-Lankao, 2012;Storbjörk, 2010;Wilby & Keenan, 2012;Wilson, 2006). Fragmentation is also evident in the interplay between planning instruments, such as municipal comprehensive and local development plans (Hilding-Rydevik & Åkerskog, 2011;Measham et al, 2011;Vigar, 2009).…”

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“Sometimes Climate Adaptation is Politically Correct”: A Case Study of Planners and Politicians Negotiating Climate Adaptation in Waterfront Spatial Planning

Storbjörk

Hjerpe

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…The first step was to assess current adaptation approaches using a meta-evaluation of existing single and cross-case studies published between 2008 and 2013 [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32]. These studies were identified through searching databases of scientific articles using the following search string: adaptation AND (Sweden OR Swedish) AND (urban OR city OR cities OR municipa*).…”

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Planning for Climatic Extremes and Variability: A Review of Swedish Municipalities’ Adaptation Responses

Wamsler

Brink

2014

Sustainability

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Climate change poses a serious challenge to sustainable urban development worldwide. In Sweden, climate change work at the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners' "adaptation turn" is recent and still ongoing. This paper presents a meta-evaluation of Swedish municipal adaptation approaches, and how they relate to institutional structures at different levels. The results show that although increasing efforts are being put into the identification of barriers to adaptation planning, in contrast, there is little assessment or systematization of the actual adaptation measures and mainstreaming strategies taken. On this basis, opportunities for advancing a more comprehensive approach to sustainable adaptation planning at both the local and institutional level are discussed.

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‘It Takes More to Get a Ship to Change Course’: Barriers for Organizational Learning and Local Climate Adaptation in Sweden

Cited by 80 publications

References 31 publications

Evolving local climate adaptation strategies: incorporating influences of socio–economic stress

Evolving local climate adaptation strategies: incorporating influences of socio–economic stress

“Sometimes Climate Adaptation is Politically Correct”: A Case Study of Planners and Politicians Negotiating Climate Adaptation in Waterfront Spatial Planning

Planning for Climatic Extremes and Variability: A Review of Swedish Municipalities’ Adaptation Responses

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