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Principles, drivers, and policy tools for just climate change adaptation in legacy cities
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2020-09-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.05.007
Sara Hughes

Abstract Climate change adaptation presents an opportunity for legacy cities to address growing social, racial, and economic inequality, or engage in just climate change adaptation. While the importance of just and equitable climate change adaptation is well understood, the policy and politics that underlie such efforts are less well understood. This paper focuses on the development of just climate change adaptation strategies in legacy cities, particularly those in the Great Lakes region of the U.S., where the challenges and opportunities for climate change adaptation are particularly high. Detroit, Michigan and Cleveland, Ohio are used as illustrative case studies. These cities are two of the only two legacy cities of the Great Lakes region to have developed formal and explicit adaptation plans, and foregrounded justice and equity early in the process. A review of planning documents, and interviews with key stakeholders, in the two cities are used to identify the components of justice being included in climate change adaptation planning, the drivers or motivations for foregrounding justice in their adaptation planning, and the policy tools being used or developed to reach these goals. The findings reveal an awareness among stakeholders and decision makers in both cities of the importance of addressing inequality in climate change adaptation, some attention to justice principles in the adaptation plans themselves, and a diverse set of policy tools emerging to support this work. Importantly, despite relatively modest ambitions for climate change adaptation, both cities face implementation challenges that are likely to be common among legacy cities of the region.

中文翻译:

传统城市仅适应气候变化的原则、驱动因素和政策工具

摘要 气候变化适应为传统城市提供了解决日益严重的社会、种族和经济不平等或参与气候变化适应的机会。虽然公正和公平地适应气候变化的重要性已广为人知,但作为此类努力基础的政策和政治却鲜为人知。本文重点关注传统城市的气候变化适应策略的制定,特别是美国五大湖地区的城市,那里的气候变化适应挑战和机遇特别大。密歇根州底特律和俄亥俄州克利夫兰被用作说明性案例研究。这些城市是大湖区仅有的两个制定正式和明确适应计划的遗产城市中的两个,并在此过程的早期突出正义和公平。通过对两个城市的规划文件的审查和与主要利益相关者的访谈,确定气候变化适应规划中包含的正义组成部分、在其适应规划中突出正义的驱动因素或动机,以及正在使用的政策工具或开发以实现这些目标。调查结果揭示了两个城市的利益相关者和决策者对解决气候变化适应不平等的重要性的认识,对适应计划本身公正原则的一些关注,以及支持这项工作的各种政策工具的出现。重要的是,尽管在适应气候变化方面的雄心相对较小,
更新日期:2020-09-01
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