Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
Temporalities in Adaptation to Sea-Level Rise
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10.1080/00045608.2014.988101
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2015-03-04
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Graham, Sonia
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Fincher, Ruth;Barnett, Jon;Graham, Sonia
当地居民、企业家和参与气候变化适应的政策制定者对采取行动的时间往往有不同的看法。他们对时间的理解，以及他们调用时间的实践，形成了适应环境变化的复杂的，有时是相互冲突的时间性。它们以各种方式将过去的条件与现在和未来的条件联系起来，它们的当代实践以这种明示或暗示的联系为基础。然而，在适应环境变化的科学和政策中，现在和遥远的未来之间的时间联系没有得到充分的理论化和充分的考虑。在这篇文章中，我们解决这个理论和实践的挑战编织在一起的论据，从社会和环境地理的证据，在澳大利亚东南部的沿海小社区。我们表明，过去的条件居民的想象的未来，这些地方，想象的未来是不一致的，科学的，流行的，和未来的政策帐户。因此，我们认为，适应的时间性包括不相称的和不承认的方式知道，这些影响适应的做法。我们建议，政府为适应环境变化而制定的战略需要使适应的不同时间性变得可见，并调整政策。在此基础上，通过一系列短期和谈判达成的政策步骤，可以更好地把握当前和长远未来之间的时间。
Local residents, businesspeople, and policymakers engaged in climate change adaptation often think differently of the time available for action. Their understandings of time, and their practices that invoke time, form the complex and sometimes conflicting temporalities of adaptation to environmental change. They link the conditions of the past to those of the present and the future in a variety of ways, and their contemporary practices rest on such linking explicitly or implicitly. Yet the temporal connections between the present and distant future of places are undertheorized and poorly considered in the science and policy of adaptation to environmental change. In this article we address this theoretical and practical challenge by weaving together arguments from social and environmental geography with evidence from small coastal communities in southeastern Australia. We show that the past conditions residents' imagined futures and that these local, imagined futures are incongruent with scientific, popular, and policy accounts of the future. Thus we argue that the temporalities of adaptation include incommensurate and unacknowledged ways of knowing and that these affect adaptation practices. We propose that strategies devised by governments for adapting to environmental change need to make visible-and calibrate policies with-the diverse temporalities of adaptation. On this basis, the times between the present and the long-term future can be better navigated as a series of short and negotiated policy steps.