ABSTRACT

Sea level rise (SLR) caused by climate change presents challenges for public planners all over the world. In this study, practical challenges and ethical factors in adaptation to SLR were identified based on interviews with planners in Sweden. Six challenges were identified: lack of knowledge and human resources, lacking integration and coordination, lacking or insufficient frameworks for dealing with long-time-horizons, responsibility for implementation and financing, and goal conflicts in the process of implementing adaptation policy. These challenges are then developed into a typology of ethical factors that are of particular importance for adaptation to SLR, categorised as input-oriented, process-oriented and outcome-oriented ethical factors. The challenges and ethical factors identified in this paper are the first step taken towards answering the question of what a sustainable and ethical adaptation to SLR in the context of local and regional policy-making could look like.

摘要

由气候变化引起的海平面上升（SLR）为世界各地的公共规划人员提出了挑战。在这项研究中，根据对瑞典计划人员的访谈，确定了在适应SLR方面的实际挑战和道德因素。确定了六项挑战：缺乏知识和人力资源，缺乏整合与协调，缺乏长期应对框架，应对实施和筹资的责任以及在实施适应政策过程中的目标冲突。然后，将这些挑战发展为伦理因素的类型学，这对于适应SLR尤其重要，分为面向投入，面向过程和面向结果的伦理因素。