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Assessment of adaptation, policy, and capacity building outcomes from 14 processes
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.09.003
Seth P. Tuler , K. Dow , T. Webler

Abstract In the US alone, there are over 200 tools that support climate adaptation planning, along with a large number of case studies documenting their use. Case studies frequently document positive results. Systematic assessment of processes can provide important benefits, including justification for action and expenditures, promotion of learning and adaptive management, accountability, and ensuring “fit” with other goals. There are very few such assessments in the context of climate adaptation planning, despite of the emphasis on the development and use of planning tools by federal and state agencies, university researchers, and non-profit organizations. We undertook an effort to assess the outcomes resulting from fourteen applications of the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process, which we helped develop and implement. VCAPS is designed to facilitate information exchange, co-production of knowledge, and stakeholder collaboration while helping communities appraise climate change-related risks and devise strategies to manage them. Using qualitative interviews we explored the perceived value and the measurable performance outcomes of VCAPS at both individual and community scales occurring 3–10 years after the processes were conducted, allowing participants to take a broader view of “success” and reflect on how different forms of success emerged over time. Although the assessment of each case is based on a small number of interviews, we learned that VCAPS informed plans and decisions of municipalities, informed actions and decisions of other public and private actors, generated broader support for subsequent actions, helped efforts to secure/seek funding for climate adaptation actions, developed material resources to support planning, and promoted learning among participants. This assessment also reinforces prior work showing that deliberative planning tools/processes are conducive to developing adaptive capacities; processes should be closely coordinated with regular governance activities to impact policy and action; adequate time for deliberation needs to be budgeted; participants need support to “think outside the box” and consider adaptation strategies that are both incremental and transformational as well as highlight potential undesirable consequences of adaptation; and processes, like VCAPS, produce actionable outcomes when participants agree on the immediacy of the issue. We conclude with observations about the need for evaluation of participatory processes and the challenges of defining success of tools to support municipal climate change adaptation planning.

中文翻译:

评估 14 个流程的适应、政策和能力建设成果

摘要 仅在美国,就有 200 多种支持气候适应规划的工具,以及大量记录其使用的案例研究。案例研究经常记录积极的结果。过程的系统评估可以提供重要的好处,包括行动和支出的理由、促进学习和适应性管理、问责制以及确保与其他目标“契合”。尽管联邦和州机构、大学研究人员和非营利组织都强调规划工具的开发和使用,但在气候适应规划的背景下,此类评估很少。我们努力评估漏洞、后果和适应规划方案 (VCAPS) 过程的 14 次应用所产生的结果,我们帮助开发和实施。VCAPS 旨在促进信息交流、知识共同生产和利益相关者合作,同时帮助社区评估与气候变化相关的风险并制定管理这些风险的策略。通过定性访谈,我们探讨了 VCAPS 在个人和社区规模上的感知价值和可衡量的绩效结果,这些结果发生在流程进行 3-10 年后,让参与者对“成功”有更广泛的看法,并反思不同形式的随着时间的推移,成功出现了。尽管对每个案例的评估都是基于少量访谈,但我们了解到 VCAPS 为市政当局提供了知情的计划和决定、其他公共和私营部门的知情行动和决定,为后续行动产生了更广泛的支持,帮助努力确保/寻求气候适应行动的资金,开发物质资源以支持规划,并促进参与者之间的学习。该评估还加强了先前的工作,表明审议性规划工具/过程有利于发展适应能力;流程应与定期治理活动密切协调,以影响政策和行动;需要为审议安排充足的时间;参与者需要支持“跳出框框思考”并考虑渐进式和变革性的适应战略,并强调适应的潜在不良后果;当参与者就问题的紧迫性达成一致时,流程(如 VCAPS)会产生可操作的结果。
更新日期:2020-12-01
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