Adapting to climate change by water management organisations: Enablers and barriers
Adapting to climate change by water management organisations: Enablers and barriers
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhydrol.2018.02.047
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发表时间：
2018-04
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
A. Azhoni;S. Jude;I. Holman
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作者：
A. Azhoni;S. Jude;I. Holman
通过水的媒介，气候变化将特别受到影响。因此，管理社会和生态用水需求的水组织可能受到的影响最大。本研究回顾了目前的文献关于适应气候变化的水资源管理组织和相关的barriers.Literature适应能力越来越多，一个普遍的共识是出现在适应能力的决定因素，虽然存在差异如何评估，增强和应用于政策制定，由于其动态，上下文和潜在的性质。由于适应能力难以测量，成功的适应难以定义，一些研究集中在组织的适应属性的存在。报告成功适应的研究很少，随着适应研究向实施过渡，正在发现适应的障碍。但是，这些障碍的根源往往被忽视，这些障碍之间的相互联系也没有得到很好的解决，由于自上而下和自下而上两种适应方法的局限性，人们越来越多地建议将这两种方法结合起来。然而，知识如何在不同的规模上运作的组织可以提高其他组织在另一个规模上运作的适应能力是缺乏的，由于跨规模的组织间网络的研究很少。行为者之间的社交网络被认为是促成适应的一个关键因素。然而，网络研究通常侧重于个人行为者，很少在公共机构/组织之间进行。此外，现有的文献不足以理解适应使能特征、障碍和适应表现之间的关系。审查表明，研究了解的出现和维持的障碍是迫切需要的。解决这些知识差距将有助于改进适应战略的设计，从而提高水资源管理的能力，以应对气候变化的持续挑战。
Climate change will be particularly experienced though the medium of water. Water organisations, that are managing societal and ecological needs for water, are therefore likely to experience the impact the most. This study reviews the current literature regarding adaptation to climate change by water management organisations and associated barriers.Literature on adaptive capacity is growing and a general consensus is emerging on the determinants of adaptive capacity, although variations exist regarding how it is to be evaluated, enhanced and applied to policy making due to its dynamic, contextual and latent nature. Since adaptive capacity is hard to measure and successful adaptation difficult to define, some studies focus on the existence of adaptation attributes of organisations. Studies reporting successful adaptation are minimal and barriers of adaptation are being discovered as adaptation research transitions into implementation. But the root causes of these barriers are often overlooked and the interconnectedness of the barriers is poorly addressed.Increasingly, combining top-down and bottom-up approaches to adaptation is being recommended due to the limitations of each. However, knowledge regarding how organisations operating at different scales can enhance adaptive capacity of other organisations operating at another scale is lacking due to the few studies of inter-organisational networks across scales. Social networks among actors are recognised as a key factor to enable adaptation. However, network studies generally focus on individual actors and rarely between public agencies/organisations. Moreover, the current literature is inadequate to understand the relationship between adaptation enabling characteristics, barriers and adaptation manifestation. The review demonstrates that research on understanding the emergence and sustenance of barriers is urgently required. Addressing these knowledge gaps will help to improve the design of adaptation strategies, thereby improving the ability of water management to address the ongoing challenges of climate change.