Victim pressure, institutional inertia and climate change adaptation: The case of flood risk
Victim pressure, institutional inertia and climate change adaptation: The case of flood risk
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DOI：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2010.09.002
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
影响因子：
8.9
通讯作者：
Penning-Rowsell, Edmund
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作者：
Harries, Tim;Penning-Rowsell, Edmund
在英格兰的一个案例研究区域，对风险管理人员进行了访谈，以确定影响在更传统的、基于工程的、适应洪水风险和专注于减少脆弱性的适应之间做出选择的因素。对这些访谈的深入分析结果对适应气候变化具有整体意义。他们认为，政府实施更广泛适应措施的政策可能会受到体制文化的阻碍，当时结构性、工程化的方法是常态。政治权力下放和公众咨询的风尚加剧了这一效应，使得决策者对直接受自然灾害影响的人的影响做出了更大的反应，而不是对更广泛人口的需求或政府的政策声明做出反应。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司。保留所有权利。
Interviews were conducted with risk managers in a case-study area in England to determine the factors influencing the choice between more traditional, engineering based, adaptation to flood risk and those focussing on vulnerability reduction. The findings of in-depth analysis of these interviews have implications for climate change adaptation as a whole. They suggest that government policies to implement a broader range of adaptation measures might be hampered by institutional cultures formed when structural, engineered approaches were the norm. Political decentralisation and the fashion for public consultation exacerbate this effect, leaving decision-makers more responsive to the influence of those directly affected by natural hazards than they are to the needs of the wider population or to policy pronouncements by government. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.