Special Issue Introduction: Adding insult to injury: Climate change and the inequities of climate intervention

Marino, Elizabeth; Ribot, Jesse

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.03.001

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“…Another rationale for public responsibility is related to national security: in many countries, the construction and maintenance of dikes and levees and emergency planning are regarded as the responsibility of governments (Aakre & Rübbelke, 2010;Berkhout, 2005;Heltberg, Siegel, & Jorgensen, 2009;Osberghaus et al, 2010). Another rationale for public responsibility is fairness, by correcting for the distributional consequences of climate impacts and of adaptation action (Bulkeley, Carmin, Castán Broto, & Edwards, 2013;Marino & Ribot, 2012). Climate impacts are rather localized, leading to different impacts on different groups and localities (e.g.…”

Section: Public Versus Private Responsibilitiesmentioning

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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

Mees

2016

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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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 actors for those divisions were analysed and compared. Data were gathered through content analysis of over 100 policy documents, 97 indepth interviews and 2 multi-stakeholder workshops. The comparative analysis reveals that local public authorities are the key actors, as they bear the majority of responsibilities for climate proofing their cities. In this stage of policy emergence, local authorities are clearly in the driving seat. It is envisaged that local public authorities need to more actively engage the different private actors such as citizens, civil society and businesses through governance networks along with the maturation of the policy field and the expected acceleration of climate impacts in the coming decades.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Public Versus Private Responsibilitiesmentioning

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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

Mees

2016

Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning

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“…Although some scholars have recently argued that understanding climate change demands a more nuanced understanding of politics and power relations (Arnall, 2013;Marino & Ribot, 2012), this has yet to filter down to analysis of these relations within the process of governance in the global South. However, there are exceptions - Felli and Castree (2012, p. 4) criticize the UK Government Foresight Report on Migration and Global Environmental Change for failing to discuss the conditions under which "poor people could actually use their representative state bodies in order to implement suitable adaptive measures -for instance, developmental policies, welfare provision, redistributive social protection, and infrastructural investments".…”

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The national and local politics of climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe

Dodman

Mitlin

2014

Climate and Development

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The description and analysis of climate change adaptation programmes in low-and middle-income countries rarely examines the political conditions and contexts in which these take place, or the way in which these activities may themselves shape local and national politics. This paper uses a case study of Zimbabwe to examine how the discourse and practice of climate change has been incorporated in, and has the potential to influence, national politics in a context marked by high levels of contestation. It identifies the ways in which climate change is framed within national political discourses, and describes the structures for governing climate change adaptation and how these are influenced by global priorities and policies. The paper then raises specific questions that are fundamental to understanding the broader political implications of work related to climate change in low-income countries, and argues that these must be engaged with if climate change adaptation is to generate sustainable long-term improvements in livelihoods and well-being for citizens in these contexts.

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“…Climate change justice research has largely focused on rural areas and resource dependent communities, or conflicts in the global arena (Brown 2003, Adger et al 2006, Dellink et al 2009, Füssel 2010, Okereke and Dooley 2010, Marino and Ribot 2012, Yates 2012. The use of participation and collaboration processes in cities, and the political struggles these processes necessarily engage, are only starting to be considered by the IPCC and the broader urban climate change community (Few et al 2007, van Aalst et al 2008, Aylett 2010.…”

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Justice in Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Criteria and Application to Delhi

Hughes¹

2013

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ABSTRACT. Cities around the world are increasingly developing plans to adapt to the consequences of climate change. These plans will have important consequences for urban populations because they are likely to reshape and reconfigure urban infrastructures, services, and decision making processes. It is critical that these adaptation plans are developed in a way that is just. Criteria was developed that can be used to assess justice in adaptation so that the processes, priorities, and impacts address the needs of the most vulnerable urban populations. Further, mechanisms are outlined that have been proposed as responsible for producing urban injustice. The justice criteria are applied to the case of adaptation planning in Delhi and the extent to which poor and informal populations are included and affected by this planning. The analysis shows that adaptation planning in Delhi does not meet the justice criteria in part because of a lack of capacity and the political economy of poverty in the city. The criteria for justice and mechanisms of injustice offer an important step toward developing a greater understanding of not only whether city-level adaptation planning is just, but also why it is or is not.

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Special Issue Introduction: Adding insult to injury: Climate change and the inequities of climate intervention

Cited by 241 publications

References 26 publications

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

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

The national and local politics of climate change adaptation in Zimbabwe

Justice in Urban Climate Change Adaptation: Criteria and Application to Delhi

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