Public participation and climate change adaptation: Avoiding the illusion of inclusion
Public participation and climate change adaptation: Avoiding the illusion of inclusion
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DOI：
10.1080/14693062.2007.9685637
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
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7.1
通讯作者：
Tompkins, Emma L.
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作者：
Few, Roger;Brown, Katrina;Tompkins, Emma L.
在应对气候变化的政策中，公众参与是普遍提倡的。在这里，我们讨论了包容性的适应方法的前景，特别是借鉴在英国和其他地方的长期沿海管理的研究。我们确认公众参与是制定气候变化风险应对措施的一个重要规范目标，但认为其实践必须借鉴其他背景下对参与过程的现有批评。让广泛的利害关系方参与决策，对气候政策提出了根本性的挑战，其中许多挑战是权力关系所固有的。就对气候变化的预期反应而言，由于问题的长期性和不确定性，这些挑战被放大。如果不适当考虑这些问题，公众参与原则和预期适应原则之间可能出现紧张关系，并可能导致管理过度的包容形式，不可能满足参与性或工具性目标。在这种情况下，只要从一开始就明确公众参与的范围和限制，其他更具有工具性的参与办法更有可能取得成功。
Public participation is commonly advocated in policy responses to climate change. Here we discuss prospects for inclusive approaches to adaptation, drawing particularly on studies of long-term coastal management in the UK and elsewhere. We affirm that public participation is an important normative goal in formulating response to climate change risks, but argue that its practice must learn from existing critiques of participatory processes in other contexts. Involving a wide range of stakeholders in decision-making presents fundamental challenges for climate policy, many of which are embedded in relations of power. In the case of anticipatory responses to climate change, these challenges are magnified because of the long-term and uncertain nature of the problem. Without due consideration of these issues, a tension between principles of public participation and anticipatory adaptation is likely to emerge and may result in an overly managed form of inclusion that is unlikely to satisfy either participatory or instrumental goals. Alternative, more narrowly instrumental, approaches to participation are more likely to succeed in this context, as long as the scope and limitations of public involvement are made explicit from the outset.