Size does matter: city scale and the asymmetries of climate change adaptation in three coastal towns
| dc.contributor.author | Paterson, Shona K. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pelling, Mark | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nunes, Lucí Hidalgo | |
| dc.contributor.author | de Araújo Moreira, Fabiano | |
| dc.contributor.author | Guida, Kristen | |
| dc.contributor.author | Marengo, Jose Antonio | |
| dc.contributor.funder | National Science Foundation | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Natural Environment Research Council | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-15T09:44:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-15T09:44:41Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-03-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Globally, it is smaller urban settlements that are growing most rapidly, are most constrained in terms of adaptive capacity but increasingly looked to for delivering local urban resilience. Data from three smaller coastal cities and their wider regional governance systems in Florida, US; West Sussex, UK and São Paulo, Brazil are used to compare the influence of scale and sector on city adaptive capacity. These tensions are described through the lens of the Adaptive Capacity Index (ACI) approach. The ACI is built from structuration theory and presents an alternative to social-ecological systems framing of analysis on adaptation. Structuration articulates the interaction of agency and structure and the intervening role played by institutions on information flow, in shaping adaptive capacity and outcomes. The ACI approach reveals inequalities in adaptive capacity to be greater across scale than across government, private and civil society sector capacity in each study area. This has implications for adaptation research both by reinforcing the importance of scale and demonstrating the utility of structuration theory as a framework for understanding the social dynamics underpinning adaptive capacity; and policy relevance, in particular considering the redistribution of decision-making power across scale and/or compensatory mechanisms, especially for lower scale actors, who increasingly carry the costs for enacting resilience planning in cities. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Metropole Project (METROPOLE: An Integrated Framework to Analyze Local Decision Making and Adaptive Capacity to Large-Scale Environmental Change) led by Frank Muller-Karger, supported by the Belmont Forum with national funding from NERC (NE/L008963/1), NSF (ICER 1342969) and FAPESP (G8MUREFU3FP-2201-040, Fapesp Proc. 12/51876-0 and 14/14598-8). | en |
| dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | en |
| dc.description.version | Published Version | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Paterson, S. K., Pelling, M., Nunes, L. H., de Araújo Moreira, F., Guida, K. and Marengo, J. A. (2017) 'Size does matter: City scale and the asymmetries of climate change adaptation in three coastal towns', Geoforum, 81, pp. 109-119. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.014 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.014 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 119 | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7185 | |
| dc.identifier.journaltitle | Geoforum | en |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 109 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10468/3779 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 81 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Elsevier | en |
| dc.rights | © 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open Access funded by Natural Environment Research Council. Under a Creative Commons license | en |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | Adaptive capacity | en |
| dc.subject | Structuration Scale | en |
| dc.subject | Urban | en |
| dc.subject | Brazil | en |
| dc.subject | USA | en |
| dc.subject | UK | en |
| dc.subject | Adaptive capacity index | en |
| dc.title | Size does matter: city scale and the asymmetries of climate change adaptation in three coastal towns | en |
| dc.type | Article (peer-reviewed) | en |
