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Publikováno v:
Energy Research & Social Science. 46:368-380
Substantial public engagement in and support for climate action is needed to prevent the worst impacts of climate change from occurring. Efforts to boost such engagement can be collectively referred to as “social mobilization” initiatives, which
Autor:
Tom Berkhout, Lisa Westerhoff
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Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy. 31(5):841-857
Local governments across the Canadian province of British Columbia have begun to implement measures to achieve energy and greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Among these, a handful of communities have emerged as leaders, supported by a network
Publikováno v:
Environmental Policy and Governance. 22:381-394
Adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognized as a necessary complement to mitigation, resulting in a growing number of adaptation policies and actions across the globe. This study applie ...
Publikováno v:
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. 55:435-452
Using the Foucauldian theoretical framework of governmentality, this paper examines the role of regulative ‘technologies of government’ in climate change adaptation. The paper examines such technologies and underlying rationalities in a multi-lev
Publikováno v:
Environmental Politics. 20:445-463
Climate change adaptation strategies are emerging across Europe as societies attempt to adapt to the challenges of a changing environment. Social constructivist analyses of environmental policy – especially those emphasising ‘framing’ – can b
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Climate Policy. 11:1071-1085
A framework of adaptive capacity and prerequisites for planned adaptation are used to identify the resources and conditions that have enabled or constrained the development of planned adaptation at national to local levels in Italy, Sweden, Finland a
Autor:
Lisa Westerhoff, Sirkku Juhola
Publikováno v:
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLICY. 14(3):239-247
As adaptation is increasingly recognised as an important component in responding to climate change, adaptation measures are slowly emerging at different scales of governance across Europe and elsewhere in the industrialised North. The relative novelt
Autor:
Lisa Westerhoff, Sirkku Juhola
Publikováno v:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGIES AND MANAGEMENT. 2(3):222-241
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to emphasise the importance of resolving the disconnect between issues of quality, timing and uncertainty in climate projections and the need for swift, informed and appropriate climate change adaptation decisions.
Publikováno v:
Climate and Development. 1:31-46
This paper explores the relationship between environmental change and development through a vulnerability study of a rural village in southwest Bangladesh. Villagers deal with a variety of pressing stresses, and climate change is not considered separ
Autor:
Lisa Westerhoff, Barry Smit
Publikováno v:
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change. 14:317-337
This paper builds on work on the dynamics of vulnerability and multiple stressors through a case study in the Afram Plains of the Eastern region in Ghana. A vulnerability framework is applied in the community of Mimkyemfre to identify and explain the