Windows of opportunity: addressing climate uncertainty through adaptation plan implementation

Hamin, Elisabeth M.; Brabec, Elizabeth

doi:10.1080/09640568.2013.849233

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“…As previously mentioned, the potential role spatial planning can play in facilitating sustainable adaptation to climate change in general has been widely acknowledged [15][16][17][18]20], along with its more general role in facilitating the reduction or elimination of exposure to incidents or disasters such as flooding and bushfires [127,128]. Spatial planning has been used as a facilitator of adaptation to climate change, but only a limited number of studies have analysed such examples.…”

Section: Spatial Planning Sustainable Urban Water Management and CLImentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Urban Water Management under a Changing Climate: The Role of Spatial Planning

Hurlimann

Wilson

2018

Water

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Abstract:The provision of a sustainable supply of water is an increasingly difficult task to achieve in many urban environments. This arises because of pressures related to population growth and increased per capita demand for water. Additionally, climate change is impacting the natural cycle of water in many locations, with a significant impact projected for the future. Many scholars advocate 'sustainable urban water management' (SUWM) as an approach that can address the root causes of these challenges. Yet the implementation of SUWM and adaptation to climate change in the urban water sector remains limited. This paper argues that spatial planning provides tools and processes that can facilitate the full implementation of SUWM goals, and adaptation to climate change. The potential of spatial planning to achieve SUWM, including sustainable urban water supply management through both supply and demand end initiatives, in light of climate change, is discussed. A framework is developed to consider a broad range of spatial planning interventions that can facilitate adaptation to climate change and SUWM concurrently. The paper provides information and tools to assist water planners achieve SUWM and a well-adapted water sector and urban environment, in an integrated, holistic and comprehensive manner, to meet future water supply needs. Achieving these goals will need collaborative activities across multiple built environment disciplines. Future research activities to advance these goals are outlined.

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Section: Spatial Planning Sustainable Urban Water Management and CLImentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The potentially facilitative role of spatial planning in adapting to climate change more broadly has been highlighted by a number of authors (including: (including: [15][16][17][18][19][20]). While there has been recent analysis of the potential role for spatial planning to facilitate SUWM (e.g., [21]), work has been limited to date.…”

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Sustainable Urban Water Management under a Changing Climate: The Role of Spatial Planning

Hurlimann

Wilson

2018

Water

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“…Faced with uncertainty as to the timing, nature and magnitude of risks, planning needs to include adaptive management, where decision and response frameworks are designed to adjust to changing circumstances and information. Such approaches can be designed into statutory planning documents through controls that are triggered when a particular 'threshold' is reached, or when new information comes to light (Folke, 2006, Abunaser et al, 2013. A second approach is that of scenario building, whereby potential story lines about the future are developed as a way of exploring or testing different possible approaches in a more creative way (Wilson, 2009).…”

Section: Climate Change Spatial Planning and Municipal Action Plannmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climbing the Adaptation Planning Ladder: Barriers and Enablers in Municipal Planning

Hamin¹,

Gurran²

2015

Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation

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Local municipal governments have a crucial role in helping communities adapt to climate change. Recognizing different levels of climate preparedness, this chapter analyzes what steps communities tend to follow when they move forward on climate adaptation, including prerequisites for planning and the selection of policies. Drawing on content analyses of local climate adaptation plans from the United States (US) and

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“…To date, there has been limited reference to windows of opportunity, policy windows or adaptation windows in climate change adaptation, resilience or environmental policy literature. References that do exist typically refer to windows that open up and create opportunities for more transformative approaches to climate change adaptation due to extreme events [3,33,34]; changes in political circumstances [33]; paradigm shifts and policy innovations [35][36][37]; temporal planning windows [38]; and through adaptation frameworks [34].…”

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“…The Copenhagen Cloudburst plan is an example of a policy transformation that occurred in response to the opening of an ephemeral window [38] …”

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Making Space for Proactive Adaptation of Rapidly Changing Coasts: A Windows of Opportunity Approach

2017

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Abstract:Coastlines are very often places where the impacts of global change are felt most keenly, and they are also often sites of high values and intense use for industry, human habitation, nature conservation and recreation. In many countries, coastlines are a key contested territory for planning for climate change, and also locations where development and conservation conflicts play out. As a "test bed" for climate change adaptation, coastal regions provide valuable, but highly diverse experiences and lessons. This paper sets out to explore the lessons of coastal planning and development for the implementation of proactive adaptation, and the possibility to move from adaptation visions to actual adaptation governance and planning. Using qualitative analysis of interviews and workshops, we first examine what the barriers are to proactive adaptation at the coast, and how current policy and practice frames are leading to avoidable lock-ins and other maladaptive decisions that are narrowing our adaptation options. Using examples from UK, we then identify adaptation windows that can be opened, reframed or transformed to set the course for proactive adaptation which links high level top-down legislative requirements with local bottom-up actions. We explore how these windows can be harnessed so that space for proactive adaptation increases and maladaptive decisions are reduced.

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Windows of opportunity: addressing climate uncertainty through adaptation plan implementation

Cited by 28 publications

References 43 publications

Sustainable Urban Water Management under a Changing Climate: The Role of Spatial Planning

Sustainable Urban Water Management under a Changing Climate: The Role of Spatial Planning

Climbing the Adaptation Planning Ladder: Barriers and Enablers in Municipal Planning

Making Space for Proactive Adaptation of Rapidly Changing Coasts: A Windows of Opportunity Approach

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