Climate gating: A case study of emerging responses to Anthropocene Risks
Climate gating: A case study of emerging responses to Anthropocene Risks
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DOI：
10.1016/j.crm.2019.100196
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Dupont, Benoit
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作者：
Simpson, Nicholas Philip;Shearing, Clifford D.;Dupont, Benoit
本文探讨了2016年至2018年中期开普敦干旱期间对一种气候风险（严重缺水）的应对措施。为了加深我们对社会如何科普和发展的理解，它考虑了所选择的途径如何形成值得注意的应对多样性，以减轻与前所未有的干旱相关的影响和潜在危害。通过离网替代方案提高能力，私人的反应导致出现了规模非常大的创新安排，以适应性地确保家庭一级水的获取和储备，同时扩大总的储备幅度。新生的离网能力安排产生了意想不到的后果，加速了公共治理系统的转型和适应挑战。我们将这些观察结果与非国家行为者在其他领域看到的“离网”提供商品的新趋势联系起来，我们称之为“气候门控”。这些观察结果突出了这种分散和多中心的反应可能保护什么和不保护什么。
This article explores responses to one type of climate risk, severe water scarcity, during Cape Town's drought from 2016 to mid-2018. Advancing our understanding of how societies can cope and develop despite disruptions, it considers how selected pathways shaped noteworthy response diversity to mitigate the impact and potential harms associated with the unprecedented drought. Enhancing capacity through off-grid alternatives, private responses led to the emergence of innovative arrangements, at extraordinary scales, to adaptively secure variants of household level water access and reserves while expanding general reserve margins. Unintended consequences of nascent off-grid capacity arrangements precipitated transformations and accommodation challenges to public governance systems. We relate these observations to emerging trends in 'off-grid' provision of goods by non-state actors, seen in other fields, a phenomenon we call 'climate gating'. These observations highlight what is and what is not potentially safeguarded by such decentralised and polycentric responses.