Enabling communities for a changing climate: Re-configuring spaces of hazard governance
Enabling communities for a changing climate: Re-configuring spaces of hazard governance
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DOI：
10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.007
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发表时间：
2019-03-01
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影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Woodley, Ewan
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作者：
Barr, Stewart;Woodley, Ewan
在过去的十年里，人们对英国洪水等环境危害的风险以及人为气候变化导致这些风险发生频率增加的可能性越来越关注和公开辩论。在本文中，我们认为，试图减轻这一过程，通过侧重于个性化的风险沟通和行为改变是不太可能成功的，考虑到周围的气候变化知识在公共话语的认识冲突。作为回应，我们主张开发环境知识的替代框架，利用社会学习来促进认识的重新调整和环境治理的重新调整，以促进实现。我们利用对英格兰西南部洪水研究的见解来强调传统政策方法（如行为改变）在环境危害管理的公共辩论中变得如此霸道的方式。相比之下，我们展示了重新调整环境治理的潜力，以重新配置气候变化知识，并建立新的空间，以减少基于地方的社区规模的灾害脆弱性。我们认为，这对研究人员和政策制定者与公众合作以减少气候变化下的灾害风险的方式具有重大的认识论和实践意义。
The last ten years have witnessed increasing levels of concern and public debate about the risks associated with environmental hazards such as flooding in the UK and the likelihood that these will increase in frequency due to anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we argue that attempts to mitigate this process through a focus on individualised risk communication and behavioural change are unlikely to be successful, given the epistemic conflicts surrounding climate change knowledges in public discourse. In response, we argue for an alternative framework for developing environmental knowledges, using social learning to promote both epistemic realignment and a re-scaling of environmental governance that promotes enablement. We use insights from research on flooding in South West England to highlight the ways in which traditional policy approaches such as behavioural change have come to be so overbearing in public debate on environmental hazards management. In contrast, we demonstrate the potential for a re-scaling of environmental governance to reconfigure climate change knowledge and build new spaces for enablement to reduce hazard vulnerability at the place-based community scale. We argue that this has major epistemological and practical implications for the ways that researchers and policy makers work with publics to reduce hazard risk under a changing climate.