Perspectives of the Expert and Experienced on Challenges to Regional Adaptation for Sea Level Rise: Implications for Multisectoral Readiness and Boundary Spanning
Perspectives of the Expert and Experienced on Challenges to Regional Adaptation for Sea Level Rise: Implications for Multisectoral Readiness and Boundary Spanning
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专家和经验丰富的人对海平面上升区域适应挑战的看法：对多部门准备和跨越边界的影响
作者：
B. John;J. Yusuf
摘要本研究的重点是适应海平面上升（SLR）的特定背景下的汉普顿路地区东南沿海弗吉尼亚州。本报告分析了在可持续土地退化方面具有专家和经验的利害关系方的观点，以便对该区域处理可持续土地退化问题的能力及其采用全社区方针进行适应的准备情况有一个知情的了解。对专家和经验丰富者的调查显示：（1）他们优先考虑的区域适应最具挑战性的三个阶段是什么;（2）这些优先领域中的哪些问题是最紧迫的。我们的研究结果指出，跨组织和整个社区的中观和微观层面的边界，以确保多个组织和个人在一个区域可以参与适应的重要性。最后，这项工作简要讨论了跨越边界的方法如何为一个地区提供一条克服有效气候相关适应障碍的途径。
Abstract This study focuses on adaptation to sea level rise (SLR) in the specific context of the Hampton Roads region of southeastern coastal Virginia. It analyzes the perspectives of stakeholders who are experts in and have experience with SLR to develop an informed understanding of the region’s ability to address SLR and its readiness to pursue adaptation using a whole-of-community approach. A survey of the expert and experienced reveals (1) what they prioritized as the top three most challenging phases of regional adaptation and (2) what issues within those priority areas were the most pressing. Our findings point to the importance of meso- and micro-level boundary spanning across organizations and the whole of the community to ensure that multiple organizations and individuals in a region can be engaged in adaptation. Finally, this work briefly discusses how boundary-spanning approaches can provide a region a pathway toward overcoming barriers to effective climate-related adaptation.