Barriers to climate change adaptation in the Netherlands
Barriers to climate change adaptation in the Netherlands
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荷兰适应气候变化的障碍
作者：
R. Biesbroek;Judith Klostermann;C. Termeer;P. Kabat
对最近关于适应气候变化的文献和关于政策过程的一般文献的回顾表明，存在大量阻碍气候变化适应战略的制定和实施的障碍。为了减少和管理障碍的数量，并结合两种文学流派，我们提出了适应障碍的七个集群。然而，人们对这些气候变化适应政策和做法的障碍的相对重要性知之甚少。2010年3月至2010年7月期间，在荷兰参与气候变化适应项目和计划的来自不同部门和级别的264名科学家、政策制定者和私人行为者中进行了一项在线调查。调查的目的是收集他们的经验和看法，在文献中确定的障碍，并在日常工作中遇到。气候相关和非气候相关的障碍都包括在调查中。对数据进行定性和定量分析。组织了一次调查反馈讲习班，与若干调查答复者讨论结果。本研究的结果显示，受访者认为冲突的时间尺度是最重要的适应障碍。其他排名靠前的障碍包括利益冲突；缺乏财政资源；任务和职责划分不清；不确定的社会成本和未来收益；以及治理规模内部和之间的分裂。此外，分析表明，尺度在理解适应障碍方面很重要：来自低治理水平的行动者似乎认为这些障碍比来自高治理水平的行动者更严重。
Review of recent literature on adaptation to climate change and general literature on policy processes shows that there are a large number of barriers that hamper the development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies. To reduce and manage the number of barriers and combine both streams of literature, we propose seven clusters of barriers to adaptation. Little is known, however, about the relative importance of these barriers to climate change adaptation policies and practices. An online survey was conducted between March 2010 and July 2010 among 264 scientists, policymakers, and private actors from different sectors and levels who are involved in climate change adaptation projects and programmes in the Netherlands. The survey aimed to gather their experiences with, and perceptions of, the barriers identified in the literature and encountered in their daily work. Both climate-related and non-climate-related barriers were included in the survey. Data were subjected to both qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey feedback workshop was organized to discuss the results with several of the survey respondents. Results of this study revealed that respondents considered conflicting timescales as the most important cluster of barriers to adaptation. Other highly ranked barriers include conflicting interests; lack of financial resources; unclear division of tasks and responsibilities; uncertain societal costs and future benefits; and fragmentation within and between scales of governance. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrated that scales matter in understanding the barriers to adaptation: actors from lowlevels of governance seem to consider the barriers as more severe than actors from high levels of governance.