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The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions. Regional Studies. This paper examines how adaptation is interpreted across different UK city-regions by governance and policy actors, finding that the discourse of adaptation is giving way to resilience. This is explained by the value of resilience as a discursive construct in mobilizing and coordinating policy actions. Resilience has greater appeal as a framing device over adaptation to such actors given its potential to enable buy-in from a wider city-regional governance network. However, this paper also highlights the ‘resilience trap’: the dangers of adopting short-term strategies, re-badging existing strategies and widening governance networks that obfuscate sub-national mobilization around adaptation. It then reflects on how governance actors may act to avoid the resilience trap.
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions. Regional Studies. This paper examines how adaptation is interpreted across different UK city-regions by governance and policy actors, finding that the discourse of adaptation is giving way to resilience. This is explained by the value of resilience as a discursive construct in mobilizing and coordinating policy actions. Resilience has greater appeal as a framing device over adaptation to such actors given its potential to enable buy-in from a wider city-regional governance network. However, this paper also highlights the ‘resilience trap’: the dangers of adopting short-term strategies, re-badging existing strategies and widening governance networks that obfuscate sub-national mobilization around adaptation. It then reflects on how governance actors may act to avoid the resilience trap.
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions
Kythreotis, Andrew P. (author) / Bristow, Gillian I. (author)
Regional Studies ; 51 ; 1530-1541
2017-10-03
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
adaptation , resilience , policy discourse , climate governance , sub-national scale , city-region , 回復力 , 政策论述 , 气候治理 , 次国家尺度 , 城市区域 , résilience , discours politique , gouvernance du climat , échelle sous-nationale , ville-région , Anpassung , Resilienz , politischer Diskurs , Klima-Regierungsführung , subnationale Ebene , Stadtregion , adaptación , resiliencia , discurso político , gobernanza climática , escala subnacional , región metropolitana , Q54 , Q58
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