2016
DOI: 10.1080/1523908x.2016.1223540
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Local governments in the driving seat? A comparative analysis of public and private responsibilities for adaptation to climate change in European and North-American cities

Abstract: The division of responsibilities between public and private actors has become a key governance issue for adaptation to climate change in urban areas. This paper offers a systematic, comparative analysis of three empirical studies which analysed how and why responsibilities were divided between public and private actors for the governance of local urban climate adaptation. For 20 governance arrangements in European and North-American cities, the divisions of responsibilities and the underlying rationales of act… Show more

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“…Citizens can contribute by taking adaptation measures in and around the house Tompkins & Eakin, 2012). Nevertheless, empirical manifestations of this shift of responsibilities to citizens and other nonstate actors are still limited in adaptation (e.g., Klein et al, 2017;Klein et al, 2018;Mees, 2017;Mees et al, 2016). Consequently, conceptual understandings of what "facilitating" and "enabling" roles for governments might entail in the adaptation domain are in an embryonic stage.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Citizens can contribute by taking adaptation measures in and around the house Tompkins & Eakin, 2012). Nevertheless, empirical manifestations of this shift of responsibilities to citizens and other nonstate actors are still limited in adaptation (e.g., Klein et al, 2017;Klein et al, 2018;Mees, 2017;Mees et al, 2016). Consequently, conceptual understandings of what "facilitating" and "enabling" roles for governments might entail in the adaptation domain are in an embryonic stage.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Decentralized governance provides more room for stakeholder involvement and for the consideration of issue‐, time‐and‐place‐specific knowledge, as well as more generic expert knowledge (Driessen et al , ). However, for governmental actors to improve their orientation on citizens regarding adaptation, it will probably also be necessary to engage more in interactive governance (as suggested also by Edelenbos et al , and Mees, ), in which centralized or decentralized governments are not the only initiating actors. This may imply that residents get a more equal role vis‐à‐vis governmental actors.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Governments at different levels appear to be primary actors (Mees et al , , ; Tompkins and Eakin, ). Various national governments have produced adaptation strategies and are determining the rules of the game for providers in the market, including the conditions for offering specific products and services (Mees, ). Local governments make concrete local policies or take specific actions in several adaptation domains, including flooding and urban heat stress (Jonsson and Lundgren, ; Mees, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In many countries, the prospect of climate change has led to government plans for adaptation measures (Biesbroek et al 2010, Berrang-Ford et al 2011 and to changes in governance arrangements (Gasper et al 2011, Van Buuren et al 2014, Mees 2016. The extent to which societies expect the state to coordinate these plans and concerted action to implement them differs across countries, and it appears to be subject to change as a result of a changing climate (Adger et al 2013.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%