Shadow spaces for social learning: a relational understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations
Shadow spaces for social learning: a relational understanding of adaptive capacity to climate change within organisations
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DOI：
10.1068/a39148
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发表时间：
2008-04-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Smith, Denis
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作者：
Pelling, Mark;High, Chris;Smith, Denis
英国政府最近的气候变化政策，以及在《联合国气候变化框架公约》框架内更广泛的政策运动，都强调了适应能力的建设。但是，影响建立适应性组织能力的制度约束是什么？作者综合了多层次环境治理的社会学习和制度方面的理论，以帮助解开组织内部个人和集体行动的模式，这些模式可以增强或限制组织在面对气候突变时的适应能力。理论综合基于与当地奶农团体和两个支持性公共部门机构的实证工作，这两个机构都是拥有自身权利的地方行动者，也为其他地方行动者（环境署、威尔士议会和议会赞助的公共机构）塑造了经营环境。在当地组织内部和组织之间为个人提供发展私人和官方认可的社会关系的空间，作为促进社会学习的途径。它也是一种适应资源，几乎不需要财政投资，但确实需要重新思考组织内部激励的个人技能和工作惯例。
Recent UK government policy on climate change, and wider policy movement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, emphasise the building of adaptive capacity. But what are the institutional constraints that shape capacity to build adaptive organisations? The authors synthesise theory from social learning and institutional aspects of multilevel environmental governance to help unpack the patterns of individual and collective action within organisations that can enhance or restrict organisational adaptive capacity in the face of abrupt climate change. Theoretical synthesis is grounded by empirical work with a local dairy farmers group and two supporting public sector bodies that are both local actors in their own rights and which also shape the operating environment for other local actors (the Environment Agency and the Welsh Assembly and Assembly-sponsored public bodies). Providing space within and between local organisations for individuals to develop private as well as officially sanctioned social relationships is supported as a pathway to enable social learning. It is also a resource for adaptation that requires little financial investment but does call for a rethinking of the personal skills and working routines that are incentivised within organisations.