Building Local Institutional Capacities for Urban Flood Adaptation: Lessons from the Water as Leverage Program in Semarang, Indonesia
| Autor: | Jos Arts, Margo van den Brink, Naim Laeni, Tim Busscher, Henk Ovink |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Urban and Regional Studies Institute |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Institutional capacity
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Geography Planning and Development Flood adaptation 0211 other engineering and technologies TJ807-830 Urban development 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Leverage (negotiation) Urban planning Flood resilience GE1-350 International program Adaptation (computer science) Resilience (network) resilience flood resilience flood adaptation urban development international program institutional capacity Semarang Water as Leverage program Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Political capital Environmental effects of industries and plants Resilience Flood myth Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment 021107 urban & regional planning Climate resilience Environmental sciences Business Strengths and weaknesses |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, 12(23):10104, 1-22. MDPI AG Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 10104, p 10104 (2020) Sustainability; Volume 12; Issue 23; Pages: 10104 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Cities in Southeast Asia face various institutional barriers to cope with climate and water-related challenges. Several international programs for urban flood resilience therefore stress the importance of local institutional capacity building in initiating and delivering flood adaptation solutions. However, research to provide insights and recommendations into whether and how such international resilience programs could enable the building of local institutional capacities remains scarce. To bridge this gap, this paper presents an analytical framework to study institutional capacity building by international resilience programs, focusing on intellectual, social and political capital. The central case is the development and implementation of the Water as Leverage (WaL) program in Semarang, Indonesia. Our main results show that this program was able to stimulate the integration of knowledge, building of local coalitions and creation of adaptation narratives, which contributed to developing six strategic climate resilience proposals. This paper reflects on institutional strengths and weaknesses, and concludes that although the WaL program introduced an innovative approach for collaboration between international experts, urban designers and local stakeholders, sustaining momentum for the reflexive learning process, involving city-based NGOs and establishing formal links with decision makers were key challenges that hindered the development of institutional capacities to implement the developed proposals. |
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