The tools of climate adaptation policy: analysing instruments and instrument selection

Henstra, Daniel

doi:10.1080/14693062.2015.1015946

Cited by 113 publications

(88 citation statements)

References 79 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Public authorities employ various policy instruments to implement transformation, including regulation, organisation, resources, information, network building, best practices and others (Hood & Margetts, 2007;Howlett & Rayner, 2007;Lascoumes & Le Gal es, 2007). The selection and arrangement of these instruments are complex activities that bring into play different assumptions and ideologies (Lascoumes & Le Gal es, 2007), have different attributes in terms of "resource intensiveness, targeting precision, political risk, and ideological and financial constraints" (Henstra, 2016), and may see limited implementation if they do not gain acceptance in the community concerned.…”

Section: Governan Ce Appr Oachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Coaffee

Therrien

Chelleri

et al. 2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

Self Cite

115

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Governan Ce Appr Oachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Coaffee

Therrien

Chelleri

et al. 2018

Contingencies & Crisis Mgmt

Self Cite

115

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…Adaptation plans are priorities rather than formal policy, which means state requirements will have little enforcement. Henstra (2016) suggests that the use of authority tools such as coercion (rather than empowerment) is likely to have a high degree of political risk. Further, Henstra shows that authority tools require a significant investment on the parts of governments to ensure compliance.…”

Section: Governmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Holding Back the Storm: Target Populations and State Climate Adaptation Planning in America

Koski

Keating

2018

Review of Policy Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper investigates the landscape of state‐level adaptation planning in the United States. We answer three primary research questions: First, how are states planning for climate change? Second, who are states targeting for climate adaptation? Third, what tools are states using to motivate climate adaptation efforts? We develop and implement a coding scheme using Schneider and Ingram’s Social Construction Framework (SCF) to characterize variation in 2033 individual adaptation goals mentioned in all 14 American states with explicit adaptation plans. We use these data to understand the types of tools used to motivate different actors (governmental, private, nonprofit) to adapt to climate change. We find that the most frequent target of state adaptation planning is the state itself, which provides an opportunity to extend the SCF to a target group often not mentioned in public policy. Specifically, we find that states target themselves with mandates or tools designed to acquire information. Other stakeholders in adaptation are more likely to be the targets of capacity building tools. Private actors are the only population more likely to be targeted by incentives. The project expands the Social Construction Framework to include targets and tools of planning efforts. Practically, our article offers a methodology by which to compare the vastly heterogeneous efforts to adapt to climate change at the subnational level.

show abstract

“…Finally, policy instruments are the resources at the disposal by government(s) to intervene and implement policy action, so as to achieve the set policy goals. Various policy instruments have been reported such as knowledge, treasure, authority, and organization (Henstra, 2016).…”

Section: Financial Policy Instrument(s)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Power interplay between actors in climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia

Vij

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

To address the impacts of climate change, countries in South Asia are increasingly making efforts to design climate change adaptation (CCA) policies. Such policies are prepared in a complex power-loaded environment, where different policy actors struggle with one another to meet their personal or collective interests. Current CCA policy research highlights the importance of power in policy-making, but few studies have looked into this systematically.This dissertation therefore aims to study the role of power in CCA policy-making in South Asia and to recommend ways to deal with the negative effects of power.The research adopts an abductive research design, using qualitative case studies in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Case studies at local, national and transboundary level are conducted to study how actors' power interplay influences CCA policy-making processes and policies.This dissertation proposes a power interplay framework that describes interactions between policy actors and how actors deploy material and ideational resources to influence one another.It presents evidence of how policy actors use these resources at local and regional level to exclude local policy actors and push for short-termism in local adaptation plans and in the planning process for the transboundary Brahmaputra River basin. It shows that multiple climate policy paradigms shape the way in which adaptation is framed and approached by policy actors and that these paradigms have an important influence on how power interplay evolves.To reduce the negative effects of power -for example, the exclusion of actors -I distilled four power-sensitive design principles (PDPs) from other social science disciplines for application in the CCA context. The results of this dissertation offer theoretical contributions to the study of CCA policy-making in South Asia, and concrete and practically relevant PDPs are proposed to improve long-term CCA planning. Chapter 4Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River 75

show abstract

The tools of climate adaptation policy: analysing instruments and instrument selection

Cited by 113 publications

References 79 publications

Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Urban resilience implementation: A policy challenge and research agenda for the 21st century

Holding Back the Storm: Target Populations and State Climate Adaptation Planning in America

Power interplay between actors in climate change adaptation policy-making in South Asia

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About