Perceptions and responses to urban flood risk: Implications for climate governance in the South

Fatti, Christina Culwick; Patel, Zarina

doi:10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.06.011

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“…Nevertheless, an increasing amount of the world's greenhouse gas emissions is projected to come from the developing world, and countries in the South are often less equipped to handle the impacts of climate change, while at the same time being more vulnerable (Bradshaw, ; Fatti and Patel, ). It is therefore important to understand the dynamics of local climate governance in the South, where resources often are scarcer and governments face many more immediate problems, which divert attention away from climate and environmental issues (Fatti and Patel, ). The aim of this paper is therefore to contribute to the knowledge about local environmental governance in the South, to highlight the forms of governance used and how these are received.…”

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“…Network governance has been argued to ‘provide a means to assist local governments, states, and regional planning authorities to share experiences across national jurisdictions so as to undertake effective mitigation and adaptation policies for climate change and other problems without waiting for nation‐states themselves to do so’ (Feldman, , p. 788). These forms of partnerships have also been emerging in South Africa, where local governments often lack the capacity and knowledge to develop and implement these policies independently (Fatti and Patel, ). An example of this is the COP17/CMP7 Responsible Accommodation Campaign in Durban, which was developed and implemented by a network of actors from academia, private business and local government, supported by a wider network of representatives from private industry and civil society organizations.…”

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Local Climate Governance in the Global South: The case of eThekwini Municipality and the Responsible Accommodation Campaign

Lervik

Sutherland

2017

Env Pol Gov

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Local climate governance has become a key focus of the climate change agenda. Much research has been conducted on the topic in northern countries, but more research is needed in the South, where local governments often are less equipped to deal with challenges associated with climate change. This paper discusses different forms of local climate governance, with a specific focus on the relevance of networks. Local climate governance in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa, is used as a case study, particularly focusing on a campaign that was implemented in 2011 before the international climate conference (COP17). The modes of governing in eThekwini are considered through a framework of local climate governing and identified mainly as self‐governing and governing through enabling, the campaign being an example of the latter. The campaign also exemplifies how network governance can shape climate policy and significantly alter a project from initiation to implementation. While networks can contribute to improved communication and information exchange, there may be an inherent risk of private partners having a perverse incentive against implementing effective climate policies due to their own interests in maintaining current structures. It is not clear whether the change from regulative governance to governing by enabling will lead to more effective climate policies in the longer term. More research is required to determine this. While this study is too small to make broader generalizations, it does provide insight into how the introduction of network governance may impact climate governance at the local level in the South. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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Local Climate Governance in the Global South: The case of eThekwini Municipality and the Responsible Accommodation Campaign

Lervik

Sutherland

2017

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“…In one study, for the city of Polokwane, 82 the most useful adaptation was identified as demand management, with a delayed and phased approach to supply augmentation, should a drying trend emerge over time. These quantitative studies have been complemented in some instances by more qualitative approaches to suggest the kinds of strain that climate change is likely to place on water management and flood governance in the future [84][85][86] as well as the economic impacts on securing water under climate change.…”

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Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

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WIREs Climate Change

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In this paper we review current approaches and recent advances in research on climate impacts and adaptation in South Africa. South Africa has a well-developed earth system science research program that underpins the climate change scenarios developed for the southern African region. Established research on the biophysical impacts of climate change on key sectors (water, agriculture, and biodiversity) integrates the climate change scenarios but further research is needed in a number of areas, such as the climate impacts on cities and the built environment. National government has developed a National Climate Change Response White Paper, but this has yet to translate into policy that mainstreams adaptation in everyday practice and longer-term planning in all spheres and levels of government. A national process to scope long-term adaptation scenarios is underway, focusing on cross-sectoral linkages in adaptation responses at a national level. Adaptation responses are emerging in certain sectors. Some notable city-scale and project-based adaptation responses have been implemented, but institutional challenges persist. In addition, a number of knowledge gaps remain in relation to the biophysical and socio-economic impacts of climate change. A particular need is to develop South Africa's capacity to undertake integrated assessments of climate change that can support climate-resilient development planning. © 2014 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. How to cite this article:WIREs Clim Change 2014Change , 5:605-620. doi: 10.1002 This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes. 4 Responding to these scenarios, policies have been developed, including the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme and more recently National Treasury consideration and planned implementation of carbon taxes. 5,6 Increasingly, however, the issue of climate adaptation is coming to the fore. In the context of South Africa's urgent socio-economic developmental needs and threatened ecosystem services, adaptive responses that reduce vulnerability to current as well as future climate variability and change are critical. Reducing the so-called 'adaptation deficit', that is exposure and sensitivity to the present-day climate variability and observed change, is an important dimension of long-term adaptation planning. 7 Responses at the national level have started to focus on integrated development trajectories more broadly. South Africa's new National Development Plan 2030 8 goes some way toward reframing climate change as a development challenge. Several government departments across all three spheres of government-national, provincial, and local-are now developing climate change strategies and/or plans.To develop a coherent national adaptation response, there is a need to integrate cli...

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“…A growing housing stock infers more impermeable surfaces. More impermeable surfaces may induce extra loads on drainage systems and thereby increase flood vulnerability (Fatti & Patel, ; Freni, La Loggia, & Notaro, ; Kazmierczak & Cavan, ; Zevenbergen et al, ). Time series of amounts of impermeable surfaces with the spatial and temporal scale needed for this study do not exist in Sweden.…”

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Insured flood damage in Sweden, 1987–2013

Grahn

Olsson

2018

J Flood Risk Management

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This study uses insurance claims as a proxy for property damage to analyse flood damage in Sweden between the years 1987 and 2013. The number of compensated insurance claims per year has risen rapidly during this period. As much as 70% of the claims are caused by flood damage occurring during the summer months June, July, and August, when intense rain with low predictability is common. To explore the damage trend a time series cross sectional analysis using four different fixed effect models was applied to the data set. Due to data scarcity, the time series had to be limited to 16 years and contain a total of 304 damage observations. The potentially explanatory climate related factor extreme rain, defined as >6 mm/15 min, and the socioeconomic factors gross regional product (GRP) per capita and housing stock were tested as explanatory factors. The GRP per capita and housing stock were found to be significant in two regression models. The estimated effect of extreme rainfall events exceeded the effects of GRP per capita and housing stock in the models. Extreme rain was robust to model specification and was found to have a highly significant impact on Swedish flood damage.

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Perceptions and responses to urban flood risk: Implications for climate governance in the South

Cited by 88 publications

References 44 publications

Local Climate Governance in the Global South: The case of eThekwini Municipality and the Responsible Accommodation Campaign

Local Climate Governance in the Global South: The case of eThekwini Municipality and the Responsible Accommodation Campaign

Climate change impacts and adaptation in South Africa

Insured flood damage in Sweden, 1987–2013

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