Whose role is it to act on climate resilience?: Implementing Yorkshire's Climate Action Plan with Leeds City Council

谁在气候复原力方面发挥作用？：与利兹市议会实施约克郡气候行动计划

• 批准号: NE/W006987/1
• 负责人: Stephen Scott-Bottoms
• 金额: $ 4.39万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FW006987%2F1
• 关键词: Whose; role; act; climate; resilience

Discussions of climate change still mostly tend to focus on the question of how to reduce or mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. Yet just as crucially, the UK must adapt to changes in the climate that are already inevitable, thanks to historical and current global emissions. Collective resilience to these impacts needs to be built up, but action in this area has to date been slow. One reason for this delay is that there remains a lack of clarity about whose role it is to take a lead. In the case of Leeds City Council, for example, no department currently has designated responsibility for climate resilience. Flood Risk Management appears to be the closest fit, but the remit of that office has never been framed in these terms. So what would it mean for them to take on a role as resilience champions for Leeds? In addressing that question, the proposed research seeks to extrapolate wider lessons from this specific case study.The researcher would be embedded within Leeds' Flood Risk Management office for a year from November 2021. The placement would begin shortly after publication of the Climate Action Plan prepared by the new Yorkshire and Humber Climate Commission (the UK's first, region-wide climate commission, which has the support of all 22 local authorities in Yorkshire). The Action Plan will contain ambitious proposals for developing climate resilience in the region. Using these as a catalyst for discussion, the researcher will engage the Flood Risk team in a series of participatory research conversations. What would need to change in order for this team to address climate resilience more directly? How might this challenge affect their existing responsibilities and professional networks? What new public engagement strategies might become necessary, and to what extent do staff feel prepared for such changes? Through the research process, the applicant will establish a nuanced understanding of the day-to-day working, drivers, and decision-making contexts in which the Flood Risk team currently operate, and thus of the issues and obstacles involved in adapting to the resilience agenda. The applicant's suitability for this research role has been established through his previous engagements with flood risk professionals in West Yorkshire. His background as a researcher in drama and theatre gives him relevant skills and experience in facilitating improvisatory group work, in which the perspectives and experience of all participants are heard and responded to. He can thus support participants in identifying shared concerns, potential conflicts, and creative solutions. It is anticipated that the collaborative process may lead to the development of role-playing workshops in which staff can rehearse the more active public engagement roles that an emphasis on climate resilience is likely to entail. Pilot engagement initiatives on resilience will be pursued with selected community groups, to develop possible models for future collaborative working. Findings and recommendations from this case-study process will be disseminated to other partners within the Y&H Climate Commission. The research will thus have the potential to inform future decision-making processes at a regional level-and perhaps beyond that, nationally. Finally, the "story" of the research process will provide the basis for a tourable stage performance, written and presented by the researcher. This public output will use personal narratives as an accessible and entertaining means to raise awareness of, and to engage audiences in dialogue about, the challenges of climate resilience.

关于气候变化的讨论仍然主要集中在如何减少或减轻二氧化碳排放的问题上。然而，同样重要的是，由于历史和当前的全球排放，英国必须适应已经不可避免的气候变化。需要建立对这些影响的集体复原力，但迄今为止，这方面的行动进展缓慢。拖延的一个原因是，对于由谁来牵头仍不明确。以利兹市理事会为例，目前没有一个部门指定负责气候适应能力。洪水风险管理似乎是最合适的，但该办公室的职权范围从来没有在这些条款的框架。那么，对他们来说，担任利兹的韧性冠军意味着什么呢？在解决这个问题时，拟议中的研究试图从这个具体的案例研究中推断出更广泛的经验教训。研究人员将从2021年11月起在利兹的洪水风险管理办公室工作一年。新成立的约克郡和亨伯气候委员会（英国第一个区域范围的气候委员会，得到了约克郡所有22个地方当局的支持）制定的气候行动计划公布后不久，这一安排将开始。《行动计划》将载有关于发展本区域气候抗御能力的雄心勃勃的建议。使用这些作为讨论的催化剂，研究人员将从事洪水风险团队在一系列参与式研究对话。为了让这个团队更直接地解决气候适应性问题，需要做出哪些改变？这一挑战可能如何影响他们现有的责任和专业网络？可能需要采取哪些新的公众参与策略，员工对此类变化做好了多大程度的准备？通过研究过程中，申请人将建立一个细致入微的理解日常工作，司机，和决策环境中的洪水风险团队目前的运作，从而涉及的问题和障碍，以适应弹性议程。申请人对这一研究角色的适合性已经通过他以前在西约克郡与洪水风险专业人士的合作建立。他作为戏剧和戏剧研究员的背景为他提供了促进即兴小组工作的相关技能和经验，其中所有参与者的观点和经验都得到了倾听和回应。因此，他可以帮助参与者确定共同的关注点，潜在的冲突和创造性的解决方案。预计这一合作进程可能会导致举办角色扮演研讨会，工作人员可以在研讨会上演练强调气候抗御能力可能需要发挥的更积极的公众参与作用。将与选定的社区团体开展关于复原力的试点参与倡议，为今后的合作制定可能的模式。这一案例研究过程的结果和建议将分发给Y&H气候委员会的其他合作伙伴。因此，这项研究将有可能在区域一级为未来的决策过程提供信息，也许在国家一级。最后，研究过程中的“故事”将为研究者编写和呈现的可巡回舞台表演提供基础。这一公共产出将使用个人叙述作为一种可访问和娱乐的手段，以提高对气候适应能力挑战的认识，并使受众参与对话。