Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation

Erik Glaas; Mattias Hjerpe; Elin Wihlborg; Sofie Storbjörk

doi:10.1002/eet.1982

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Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation

Erik Glaas Mattias Hjerpe Elin Wihlborg Sofie Storbjörk

Environmental Policy and Governance Vol. 32 No. 3 pp. 179-191 · Wiley

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Abstract

AbstractTransformative adaptation is described as decisive to mitigating risks and to seizing opportunities from a changing climate, requiring new ways of governing, planning and collaborating, alongside technical innovations. Building municipal capacities for citizen participation in adaptation is important to enabling such transformational changes but remains challenging. By applying capacities distilled from the literature on Urban Transformative Capacity and Participatory Climate Governance in a Swedish municipal case, this study aims to disentangle key limits for, and innovations to strengthen, local capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation. Interviews with municipal officials, focus groups with citizens, and document analyses were employed to analyse how climate adaptation and citizen participation are governed, and how these policy areas are interacting and could be bridged. The study points at conditions that foremost prevent bridging established policies and practices on adaptation and citizen participation, stemming from the different logics and distribution of responsibility within, and lacking collaboration between, these separated policy areas. The analysis concludes that potential ways to enable citizen participation in adaptation involve: broadening the geographical boundaries of deliberations; redefining the target groups for participation; co‐designing participation targets, approaches and evaluation; and developing new ways to analyse and act on the patterns in the citizen inputs received.

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Published: Mar 14, 2022
Vol/Issue: 32(3)
Pages: 179-191
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Authors

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Erik Glaas

Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change Linköping University Linköping Sweden

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Mattias Hjerpe

Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change Linköping University Linköping Sweden

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Elin Wihlborg

Department of Management and Engineering ‐ Political Science Linköping University Sweden

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Sofie Storbjörk

Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change Linköping University Linköping Sweden

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Erik Glaas, Mattias Hjerpe, Elin Wihlborg, et al. (2022). Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation. Environmental Policy and Governance, 32(3), 179-191. https://doi.org/10.1002/eet.1982

Disentangling municipal capacities for citizen participation in transformative climate adaptation

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