期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
卷 121, 期 -, 页码 42-48出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.001
关键词
Adaptation planning; Climate change adaptation; Decision making; Global warming; Uncertainty; Vulnerability
资金
- New Zealand Ministry of Business and Innovation's Resilience to Nature's Challenges National Science Challenge 'Resilience in Practice Model'
- Ministry for Primary Industries through the Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change (SLMACC) programme
The concept of "Think global, act local" has been linked with climate change issues for decades, suggesting that downsizing ideas, tools and processes can be easily achieved. Adaptation pathways are increasingly used to identify and evaluate adaptation options against a range of plausible futures. Meeting criteria for local credibility, legitimacy, and relevance is emphasized to effectively construct and implement place-based adaptation pathways.
?Think global, act local? has been linked with climate change issues for several decades and suggests a simple downscaling of ideas, tools and processes can be relatively easily achieved. Adaptation pathways, for example, are increasingly used to identify and evaluate adaptation options against a range of plausible futures. The process is applied to both large-scale infrastructure and investment decisions, as well as smaller-scale, sub-national issues associated in part, with climate change impacts and implications. Consequently, pathways are being developed in the context of multiple contested values, competing with other, more immediate, non-climate-related or indirectly related planning processes, such as freshwater management, community resilience and wellbeing, and biodiversity conservation. In this Short Communication we reflect specifically on place-based adaptation pathways constructed, presented, and implemented within limited budgets and without recourse to resourceintensive research capacities. We emphasise the need to meet criteria for local credibility, legitimacy, and relevance. Specifically, we suggest there is a need to accommodate the complexities of local conditions; establish affordable and accessible processes; and build technical and participatory capability. These considerations may assist with co-creating place-based pathways and incorporate a wider range of complex issues both political and contextual with multiple constituencies including, as necessary, where science itself is increasingly questioned or disregarded. In turn this might lead to sets of country specific, nested local hierarchical adaptation options developed through pluralist approaches.
作者
我是这篇论文的作者
点击您的名字以认领此论文并将其添加到您的个人资料中。
推荐
暂无数据