Planning as Anticipation of Resistance

Sanyal, Bishwapriya

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“…These workshops enable decision makers to better understand what could provoke tensions and conflicts when choosing land-use planning options. They help to bring perceived barriers into sharper focus (Sanyal, 2005).…”

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Planning adaptation based on local actors’ knowledge and participation: a climate governance experiment

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Involving a wide-range of stakeholders at different moments in the planning of urban adaptation to climate change can help to overcome different barriers to adaptation, such as a lack of common perception, or control over options. This Article argues for an approach that involves a wide range of actors throughout the planning process in order to confront the challenges of urban adaptation to climate change. It builds on the results of a three-year participatory action research project to identify the catalysts with which local administrations can overcome the lack of data, the low level of engagement around the climate issue, and the cause-and-effect linkages of climate change impacts on the urban environment. Significant factors include territorial rootedness, leveraging actors' experience, interaction between actors, as well as the valuing of local actors as experts of territorial management rather than as novices with regard to climate change adaptation. In addition to contributing towards the engagement of a large number of stakeholders around adaptation issues, a planning process that involves representatives from various sectors and during several stages contributes to a greater understanding of these issues and their linkages. It follows that such a process will bring changes to urban practices by better articulating local concerns about climatic issues. Policy relevanceAlthough participation is commonly advocated in policy responses to climate change, only few empirical studies have investigated the ways in which local actors' knowledge can be integrated into climate change adaptation planning processes. The article builds on the results of an action research project carried out in Québec City, Canada, to address the relevance of involving a progressively broader range of actors as the adaptation process moves through its various phases. Given that a multitude of barriers to adaptation are at play at different times in a municipality, collaborations between local stakeholders emerge as a key factor. These collaborations provide greater insight into the linkages between climate change impacts and the urban environment and, in doing so, bring into question ordinary urban management and design practices.

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“…The literature on development and climate change outlines the limitations of both top-down and bottom-up planning. Escobar (1985), Sanyal (2005), and Clayton et al (2003) argue that top-down perspectives in development are both disempowering and ineffective because they often neglect local issues and overlook the role of local institutions. The literature also highlights the constraints of bottom-up planning, which is often dominated by powerful local elites, thus leaving the poor more marginalized ( Nepal is landlocked multiethnic, multilingual, multi-religious country, situated north of India in the Himalayas.…”

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Effectiveness of the Local Adaptation Plan of Action to support climate change adaptation in Nepal

Regmi

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Filho

2014

Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change

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A key challenge in climate change adaptation in developing countries as a a hole, and to handling global change in particular, is to link local adaptation needs on the one hand, with national adaptation initiatives on the other, so that vulnerable households and communities can directly benefit. This study assesses the impact of the Nepal government's efforts to promote its Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA) and its applicability to other Least Developed Countries (LDCs). Based on data gathered from two field studies in Nepal, the research shows that the Nepal's LAPA has succeeded in mobilizing local institutions and community groups in adaptation planning and recognizing their role in adaptation. However, the LAPA approach and implementation have been constrained by socio-structural and governance barriers that have failed to successfully integrate local adaptation needs in local planning and increase the adaptive capacity of vulnerable households. This paper describes mechanisms of suitable governance strategies for climate change adaptation specific to Nepal and other LDCs. It also argues the need to adopt an adaptive co-management approach, where the government and all stakeholders identify common local and national level mainstreaming strategy for knowledge management, resource mobilization and institutional development, ultimately using adaptation as a tool to handle global change.

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“…There, most of the senior officials and politicians suggested dropping the ROW restoration idea on the ground that it is obstructing traffic flow, generating dusts and prompting people's oppositions. Sanyal (2005)'s assertion, in this case, is correct that public sector planners must anticipate institutional resistance to their efforts, particularly from within the state structure. Disagreements are not uncommon when participation and cooperation from diverse level of government agencies are involved in a complex development task (Knill & Tosun, 2012).…”

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What makes, a big and difficult policy enforcement, possible? A success story from Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Karki

2015

Habitat International

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Planning as Anticipation of Resistance

Cited by 38 publications

References 33 publications

Planning adaptation based on local actors’ knowledge and participation: a climate governance experiment

Planning adaptation based on local actors’ knowledge and participation: a climate governance experiment

Effectiveness of the Local Adaptation Plan of Action to support climate change adaptation in Nepal

What makes, a big and difficult policy enforcement, possible? A success story from Kathmandu Metropolitan City

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