Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience Through Multi-scalar Collaboration From Resilience to Transformation: the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers
Research, part of a Special Feature on Resilience Through Multi-scalar Collaboration From Resilience to Transformation: the Adaptive Cycle in Two Mexican Urban Centers
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DOI：
10.5751/es-04038-160211
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发表时间：
2011-05
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0.6
通讯作者：
M. Pelling;David Manuel-Navarrete
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作者：
M. Pelling;David Manuel-Navarrete
气候变化只是资本主义内部矛盾的一种表现，其中还包括经济不平等和政治异化。从这个角度看，分析人类对气候变化的反应必须涉及社会权力关系。我们探索弹性理论的潜力，以满足这一挑战，通过应用一个框架，整合了自适应周期启发式和结构化理论，把权力的核心分析和问题的社会系统面临气候变化的转型质量。这一理论框架适用于马哈瓦尔和普拉亚卡门，两个迅速扩大的城镇在墨西哥的加勒比海沿岸。复原力透镜成功地突出了在现有治理制度和发展道路中维持刚性高于灵活性的社会关系的内部矛盾。这就产生了一套强化机制和行动，既维持现状，又破坏长期的灵活性、公平和可持续发展。结果之一是对适应和减缓气候变化的范围加以限制，而这些限制是日常生活和发展规划等方面的外在因素。
Climate change is but one expression of the internal contradictions of capitalism that include also economic inequality and political alienation. Seen in this way analysis of human responses to climate change must engage with social relations of power. We explore the potential for resilience theory to meet this challenge by applying a framework that integrates the adaptive cycle heuristic and structuration theory to place power at the heart of the analysis and question the transformational qualities of social systems facing climate change. This theoretical frame is applied to Mahahual and Playa del Carmen, two rapidly expanding towns on Mexico's Caribbean coast. The resilience lens is successful in highlighting internal contradictions that maintain social relations of rigidity above flexibility in the existing governance regimes and development pathway. This generates a set of reinforcing institutions and actions that support the status quo while simultaneously undermining long-term flexibility, equitable and sustainable development. One outcome is the placing of limits on scope for adaptation and mitigation to climate change which are externalized from everyday life and development planning alike.