Causes and Consequences of Local Government Efforts to Reduce Risk and Adapt to Extreme Weather Events: Municipal Organizational Robustness
Causes and Consequences of Local Government Efforts to Reduce Risk and Adapt to Extreme Weather Events: Municipal Organizational Robustness
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DOI：
10.3390/su13147980
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发表时间：
2021-07
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
P. Valdivieso;Pablo Neudorfer;Krister P. Andersson
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作者：
P. Valdivieso;Pablo Neudorfer;Krister P. Andersson
本研究文章调查了市政当局为提供有弹性的关键基础设施而作出的市政机构安排的原因和后果。研究解释了市政组织稳健性和外部制度动态如何调节能力、领导力和地方政府投资决策之间的关系。我们用回归方法检验了关于缓和效应的假设，使用了9年来智利345个市政当局的数据，并在定性数据的支持下分析了证据。我们的结果显示，市政组织的稳健性--运作规则、规划、管理灵活性和整合性以及问责制--是数量上最显著的调节因素。这些证据使我们推断，在具有弹性的关键基础设施这一新兴政策领域支持地方政府的努力，需要特别注意市政机构安排的稳健性。结果适用于地方政府有责任履行义务且其决定对适应产生影响的国家。由于“把治理带回家--地方政府关于快速气候行动的经验教训”特刊的目标之一是探讨行动如何受到行为者所处的体制关系的推动或制约，本研究有助于实现这一目标。
This research article investigates the causes and consequences of municipal institutional arrangements for the provision of resilient critical infrastructure in municipalities. The study explains how the municipal organizational robustness and external institutional dynamics moderate the relation between capacities, leadership, and local government investment decisions. We examine hypotheses on moderating effects with regression methods, using data from 345 Chilean municipalities over a nine-year period, and analyzing the evidence with support of qualitative data. Our results reveal that municipal organizational robustness—operational rules, planning, managerial flexibility and integration, and accountability—is the most quantitatively outstanding moderating factor. The evidence leads us to deduce that efforts to support local governments in the emerging policy domain of resilient critical infrastructure require special attention to the robustness of municipal institutional arrangements. The results are valid for countries where the local governments have responsibilities to fulfill and their decisions have consequences for the adaptation. Since one of the objectives of the Special Issue “Bringing Governance Back Home—Lessons for Local Government Regarding Rapid Climate Action” is to explore how action is enabled or constrained by institutional relations in which the actors are embedded, this study contributes to achieving the goal.