Coastal Restoration as Contested Terrain: Climate Change and the Political Economy of Risk Reduction in Louisiana
Coastal Restoration as Contested Terrain: Climate Change and the Political Economy of Risk Reduction in Louisiana
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沿海恢复作为有争议的地形：气候变化和路易斯安那州风险降低的政治经济学
DOI：
10.1111/socf.12273
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发表时间：
2016
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1.8
通讯作者：
K. Gotham
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作者：
K. Gotham
尽管许多研究考察了结构因素和机构利益对风险估计实践的影响，但对围绕对降低风险措施的不同反应的政治动态知之甚少。本文以路易斯安那州海岸恢复规划和决策过程为例，考察了降低风险的政治经济学。具体而言，本文利用文献证据、长期人种学实地观察和半结构化访谈来调查2012年路易斯安那州可持续海岸综合总体规划（最新的长期风险降低计划，以减缓海岸侵蚀并实现可持续海岸）周围风险冲突和争端的扩散。正如我所指出的，路易斯安那州的海岸修复是一个有争议的领域，各种有争议的团体都在努力影响和控制关于气候变化风险和海岸侵蚀风险减少的辩论。通过检查路易斯安那州有争议的风险定义和风险减少策略的扩散，我的目标是通过风险辩论，为塑造风险立场的组织和制度力量，创造和分配风险的政治经济力量，以及社区身份和文化的社会建设提供新的见解。
Although many studies have examined the effects of structural factors and institutional interests on risk estimation practices, little is known about the political dynamics surrounding divergent responses to risk reduction measures. This article examines the political economy of risk reduction, using a case study of Louisiana's coastal restoration planning and decision-making process. Specifically, the article draws on documentary evidence, long-term ethnographic field observations, and semistructured interviews to investigate the proliferation of risk conflicts and disputes surrounding the 2012 Louisiana Comprehensive Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast, the latest long-term risk-reduction plan to slow coastal erosion and achieve a sustainable coast. As I point out, coastal restoration in Louisiana is contested terrain where a variety of contentious groups struggle to influence and control debates over climate change risk and coastal erosion risk reduction. By examining the proliferation of contested risk definitions and risk reduction strategies in Louisiana, I aim to provide new insight into the organizational and institutional forces that shape positions on risk, the political-economic forces that create and allocate risk, and the social construction of community identity and culture through risk debates.