Resilience, transition or transformation? A comparative analysis of changing water governance systems in four southern cities

Hordijk, Michaela; Sara, Liliana Miranda; Sutherland, Catherine

doi:10.1177/0956247813519044

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“…Although cognitive advancement is usually observed by studying individuals (Armitage et al 2008;Marschke and Sinclair 2009), several publications in our sample explicitly refer to cognitive changes at the collective level. This trend is foremost evident in studies applying concepts like knowledge co-production (Armitage et al 2011), knowledge integration (Hordijk et al 2014), or communities of practice (Puente-Rodriguez et al 2015). Several articles mention an increased collective awareness among the public and politicians about, e.g.…”

Section: Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Suškevičs

Hahn

Rodela

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Learning is considered as a promising mechanism to cope with rapid environmental change. The implications of learning for natural resource management (NRM) have not been explored in-depth and the evidence on the topic is scattered across multiple sources. We provide a qualitative review of types of learning outcomes and consider their manifestations in NRM across selected empirical literature. We conducted a systematic search of the peer-reviewed literature (N=1223) and a qualitative meta-synthesis of included articles, with an explicit focus on learning outcomes and NRM changes (N=53). Besides social learning, we found several learning concepts used, including policy and transformative learning, and multiple links between learning and NRM reported. We observe that the development of skills, together with a systems-approach involving multilevel capacities, are decisive for implications of learning for NRM. Future reviews could systematically compare how primary research applies different learning concepts and discusses links between learning and NRM changes.

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Section: Learning Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Suškevičs

Hahn

Rodela

et al. 2017

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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“…Tensions prevail between conflicting sector agendas and priorities, and firm political commitment is lacking to the climate adaptation agenda at local, regional, and national levels (an issue which is well known across many cities in Africa, cf. Leck andSimon 2013, Hordjik andSara 2014;Inderberg et al 2015). Political priorities are accorded to a variety of high-profile development programs.…”

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Climate adaptation at what scale? Multi-level governance, resilience, and coproduction in Saint Louis, Senegal

Vedeld¹,

Coly²,

Ndour³

et al. 2015

Nat Hazards

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This paper utilizes a multi-level governance framework to explain how and at what scale climate adaptation, exemplified by flood risk management, was governed in the medium-scale city of Saint Louis, Senegal. It explores how this policy sector worked toward a ''resilient city'' pointing to gaps between governance as prescribed and as practiced. The paper suggests that strong coordination of climate change adaptation and flood risk management should take place at city level, reflecting the ''place-based'' character of these policy sectors. However, adaptation cannot be addressed successfully at any single geographic scale or by any one category of actor. Effective collaboration across politico-administrative boundaries at multiple scales is required in order to address tensions between competing policy agendas and tackle socio-spatial inequality and vulnerability. We found that public officials at the city and regional state level encouraged some degree of citizen participation in planning and input into adaptation. However, despite emerging networks for city-level coordination and capacity to adapt to flood risks among local residents, there were limitations in how higher-level government and institutions supported the lower levels in vertical and horizontal coordination. In particular, services and investments within poor and vulnerable settlements were lacking. This undermined the capability of municipal staff for local engagement and for diverse groups of residents to become really effective partners with the government in coproducing services required to enhance resilience. More so, it limited opportunities to bring local actions to scalebeyond the city boundaries and toward transitional adaptation and transformation.

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“…Here four archetypal risk management regimes are defined that reflect a set of intended and unintended practices: collapse, resistance, resilience, and transformation. We specify these terms and associated concepts from an extensive review of literature (Rotberg 2011 andDouglas et al 2015 on analyses of systems under conditions of collapse; Folke et al 2010, Schlüter and Herrfahrdt-Pähle 2011, Wilson et al 2013, Hordijk et al 2014 on resilience and the connective transformability; Brown et al 2013, Ferguson et al 2013, McApline et al 2015 on the concept of transformation and diagnosing transformative change; Binder et al 2013, Polechová and Barton 2015 on the use of different frameworks for analyzing social-ecological systems; Hodbod and Adger 2014 on how to connect resiliency to management system analysis).…”

Section: Four Risk Management Regimesmentioning

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Transitions between risk management regimes in cities

Solecki¹,

Pelling²,

Garschagen³

2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Ongoing climate change is encouraging cities to reevaluate their risk management strategies. Urban communities increasingly are being forced to respond to climate shifts with actions that promote resistance, resilience, or even larger scale transformations. Our objective is to present a conceptual framework that facilitates examination of how the transition from one type of risk management strategy or regime to another takes place. The research framework is built around a set of assumptions regarding the process of transition between risk management regimes. The framework includes five basic conceptual elements: (1) risk management regimes, (2) development pathways, (3) activity spheres, (4) activity spaces, and (5) root, contextual, and proximate drivers. The interaction among these elements and the potential for transition between four different possible regime states including resistance, resilience, transformation, and collapse are presented. The framework facilitates and guides analysis on whether and how transition is emergent, constrained, or accelerated in specific contexts. A case study of post-Hurricane Sandy New York is used to illustrate the framework and its overall effectiveness.

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Resilience, transition or transformation? A comparative analysis of changing water governance systems in four southern cities

Cited by 55 publications

References 16 publications

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Learning for social-ecological change: a qualitative review of outcomes across empirical literature in natural resource management

Climate adaptation at what scale? Multi-level governance, resilience, and coproduction in Saint Louis, Senegal

Transitions between risk management regimes in cities

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