Mainstreaming climate change adaptation: An incremental approach to disaster risk management in Australia

Heazle, Michael; Tangney, Peter; Burton, Paul; Howes, Michael; Grant-Smith, Deanna; Reis, Kimberley; Bosomworth, Karyn

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2013.05.009

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“…Less reactive definitions focus on disaster prevention, vulnerability reduction, timely adaptation to a changed reality, and regeneration capacity (Paton and Johnston 2006, Maguire and Hagan 2007, Lavell et al 2012, Heazle et al 2013, reflecting the view that DR is a more positive and proactive focus for disaster management than disaster vulnerability (Cutter et al 2008). …”

Section: Comparison Of Resilience Definitions and Conceptual Traditionsmentioning

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Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Davidson¹,

Jacobson²,

Lyth³

et al. 2016

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222

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ABSTRACT. In the context of accelerated global change, the concept of resilience, with its roots in ecological theory and complex adaptive systems, has emerged as the favored framework for understanding and responding to the dynamics of change. Its transfer from ecological to social contexts, however, has led to the concept being interpreted in multiple ways across numerous disciplines causing significant challenges for its practical application. The aim of this paper is to improve conceptual clarity within resilience thinking so that resilience can be interpreted and articulated in ways that enhance its utility and explanatory power, not only theoretically but also operationally. We argue that the current confusion and ambiguity within resilience thinking is problematic for operationalizing the concept within policy making. To achieve our aim, we interrogate resilience interpretations used within a number of academic and practice domains in the forefront of contending with the disruptive and sometimes catastrophic effects of global change (primarily due to climate change) on ecological and human-nature systems. We demonstrate evolution and convergence among disciplines in the interpretations and theoretical underpinnings of resilience and in engagement with cross-scale considerations. From our analysis, we identify core conceptual elements to be considered in policy responses if resilience is to fulfill its potential in improving decision making for change. We offer an original classification of resilience definitions in current use and a typology of resilience interpretations. We conclude that resilience thinking must be open to alternative traditions and interpretations if it is to become a theoretically and operationally powerful paradigm.

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Section: Comparison Of Resilience Definitions and Conceptual Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Davidson¹,

Jacobson²,

Lyth³

et al. 2016

E&S

222

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“…Third, the adaptation of climate change adaptation to existing priorities is encouraged by the idea that adaptation is applicable to all and so, like sustainability, needs to be 'mainstreamed' across present-day decision-making contexts (eg, Lasco et al, 2009). While this is true and important in a sense (Heazle et al, 2013), it runs the risk that "the adaptation agenda is open to abuse" (Brouwer et al, 2013, page 134) by those wanting to legitimate existing approaches. While some existing approaches may be deeply valuable, as illustrated by sustainable development, others may be actively unhelpful.…”

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Opening and Closing the Future: Climate Change, Adaptation, and Scenario Planning

Rickards

Ison

Fünfgeld

et al. 2014

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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Abstract. The gales of climate change blow the future open and closed. In response, we are having to learn to live with a renewed notion of limits and a novel level of uncertainty. One emerging governance response is a turn to scenario planning, which generates narratives about multiple futures refracted out from the present. Like climate change itself, scenario planning, and the broader field of futures studies it is part of, is historically and socially positioned, belying its application as a mere method or tool. This paper discusses the growing turn to scenario planning within government climate change adaptation initiatives in light of parallel shifts in governance (eg, interest in efficiency and wicked problems) and adaptation efforts (eg, framed as risk management or resilience) and their shared roots in the ambiguities of sustainable development. It provides an extended introduction to a theme issue that provides, overall, a nested discussion of the role of scenario planning by government for climate change adaptation, noting how governance, climate change adaptation, and scenario planning all fold together the motifs of openness and closedness. This paper engages with the emerging field of future geographies and critical interest in future orientations to highlight the way society's growing engagement on climate change adaptation exposes, critiques, replicates, and amplifies our existing orientations to the future and time and their politically contested and embedded character. It points to the way the motif of open futures can be both progressive and conservative, as political and economic interests seek to open up some futures while closing down others in the name of the ambivalent goals of adaptation and sustainable development.

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“…For example, in Australia the current architecture of the federal system provides limited space for tackling complex issues such as climate change and risks. Rather, the political system tends to encourage vagueness, duplication of responsibilities, and conflicts (Heazle et al 2013;Howes et al 2015). Nevertheless, the Australian government is making efforts to develop a multilevel collaborative approach.…”

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A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

Forino

Meding

Brewer

2015

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Climate change adaptation (CCA) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) have similar targets and goals in relation to climate change and related risks. The integration of CCA in core DRR operations is crucial to provide simultaneous benefits for social systems coping with challenges posed by climate extremes and climate change. Although state actors are generally responsible for governing a public issue such as CCA and DRR integration, the reform of top-down governing modes in neoliberal societies has enlarged the range of potential actors to include non state actors from economic and social communities. These new intervening actors require in-depth investigation. To achieve this goal, the article investigates the set of actors and their bridging arrangements that create and shape governance in CCA and DRR integration. The article conducts a comprehensive literature review in order to retrieve main actors and arrangements. The article summarizes actors and arrangements into a conceptual governance framework that can be used as a backdrop for future research on the topic. However, this framework has an explorative form, which must be refined according to site-and context-specific variables, norms, or networks. Accordingly, this article promotes an initial application of the framework to different contexts. Scholars may adopt the framework as a roadmap with which to corroborate the existence of a theoretical and empirical body of knowledge on governance of CCA and DRR integration.

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Mainstreaming climate change adaptation: An incremental approach to disaster risk management in Australia

Cited by 69 publications

References 18 publications

Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Interrogating resilience: toward a typology to improve its operationalization

Opening and Closing the Future: Climate Change, Adaptation, and Scenario Planning

A Conceptual Governance Framework for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Integration

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