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Climate buffer infrastructure is on the rise as a promising ‘green’ climate adaptation strategy. More often than not, such infrastructure building is legitimized as an urgent technical intervention—while less attention is paid to the distribution of costs and benefits among the affected population. However, as this article shows, adaptation interventions may directly or indirectly result in the relocation or even eviction of households or communities, thereby increasing vulnerabilities for some while intending to reduce long-term climate vulnerabilities for all. We argue that this raises serious, if underappreciated, ethical issues that need to be more explicitly addressed in adaptation policy making. We illustrate our conceptual argument with the help of three examples of infrastructural ‘climate buffers’: Space for the River projects in the Netherlands, the Diamer–Bhasha dam in Pakistan and the coastal protection plan in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Jeroen Frank Warner; Hanne Wiegel. Displacement Induced by Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of ‘Climate Buffer’ Infrastructure. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9160 .
AMA StyleJeroen Frank Warner, Hanne Wiegel. Displacement Induced by Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of ‘Climate Buffer’ Infrastructure. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9160.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen Frank Warner; Hanne Wiegel. 2021. "Displacement Induced by Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of ‘Climate Buffer’ Infrastructure." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9160.
Day Zero was a purposefully designed narrative in political communication to change middle-class water consumption behaviour in a highly visible metropolitan context of persistent drought. As an “affective fact”, however it didn't so much elicit panic, but elicited a sense of fun and social solidarity in many. The unfeasibly precise prediction of water ‘running out’ the campaign obscured scientific uncertainties. In this context the contribution considers the role of ‘public’ scientists as highly visible authorities reinforcing or nuancing the Day Zero narrative. While the crisis narrative inevitably showed up rifts in South Africa's social fabric, and triggered protests against an underlying everyday crisis of water penury for marginalised urbanites. Our perspective is informed by documentary and press analysis, as well as a Focus Group Discussion with the South African National Press Club held on October 31, 2019.
Jeroen F. Warner; Richard Meissner. Cape Town's “Day Zero” water crisis: A manufactured media event? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 64, 102481 .
AMA StyleJeroen F. Warner, Richard Meissner. Cape Town's “Day Zero” water crisis: A manufactured media event? International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2021; 64 ():102481.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen F. Warner; Richard Meissner. 2021. "Cape Town's “Day Zero” water crisis: A manufactured media event?" International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 64, no. : 102481.
Why do communities prefer to stay in place despite potentially dangerous changes in their environment, even when governmental support for outmigration or resettlement is provided? That is the key question this paper seeks to answer. Voluntary immobility is a burgeoning research topic in environmental change-related migration studies, although the role of local sense-making of perceived risks and migration pressures has received only little attention. In order to examine decisions for non-migration, we argue that we need to consider people’s ontological security, or subjective sense of existential safety, which shapes risk perceptions. We apply this to the case of Villa Santa Lucía in Chilean Patagonia, where the local population has rejected relocation policies after the village was severely damaged by a mudslide in December 2017. We show how this rejection is not based on the lack of abilities to move, but on a fundamentally different risk assessment grounded in locally specific social representations of nature and human-nature relations. This alternative understanding of environmental risks allows the local population to uphold their sense of ontological security while remaining in Villa Santa Lucía, and renders relocation to avoid exposure to natural hazards futile or even inconsistent with local identities. We conclude that local sense-making of environmental risks is an important component of a more fine-grained understanding of environmental non-migration decisions.
Hanne Wiegel; Jeroen Warner; Ingrid Boas; Machiel Lamers. Safe from what? Understanding environmental non-migration in Chilean Patagonia through ontological security and risk perceptions. Regional Environmental Change 2021, 21, 1 -13.
AMA StyleHanne Wiegel, Jeroen Warner, Ingrid Boas, Machiel Lamers. Safe from what? Understanding environmental non-migration in Chilean Patagonia through ontological security and risk perceptions. Regional Environmental Change. 2021; 21 (2):1-13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHanne Wiegel; Jeroen Warner; Ingrid Boas; Machiel Lamers. 2021. "Safe from what? Understanding environmental non-migration in Chilean Patagonia through ontological security and risk perceptions." Regional Environmental Change 21, no. 2: 1-13.
The article claims that to those affected, disaster is an existential experience. For them, it is an unexpected existential ‘event’ clearly separating a ‘before’ from an ‘after’. In the academic disaster domain however the ‘disaster as event’ is being eroded both by complexity approaches and critical approaches, which both, if for different reasons, consider disaster ‘normal’. By the example of the Enschede, the Netherlands, urban fireworks explosion of 2000 I argue that we should not only celebrate community resilience but take much more seriously how disasters may paralyse and traumatize individuals and communities. The application of Giddens' ‘ontological security’ to urban disaster foregrounds the importance for the disaster-affected population of regaining a sense of continuity and trust in the living and regulatory environment. Retaining (cultural) memory, also mediated through the arts, supports long-term rehabilitation. In the case under scrutiny, the municipal government indeed proved responsive to a desire to preserve disaster memory rather than just look ahead, yet unresolved forensic puzzles and lack of accountability may have slowed psychological closure.
Jeroen Warner. Enschede cries – Restoring ontological security after a fireworks disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2021, 59, 102171 .
AMA StyleJeroen Warner. Enschede cries – Restoring ontological security after a fireworks disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 2021; 59 ():102171.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen Warner. 2021. "Enschede cries – Restoring ontological security after a fireworks disaster." International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 59, no. : 102171.
This paper brings work on mobility and ‘staying’ together with theoretical ideas of resilience to consider responses to climate change. To date, the majority of work that has explored the impacts of climate change on human populations has taken a migration-centred perspective, with an emphasis on mobility as a key response in crises, including extreme climatic events and civil conflict. However, evidence suggests that people may alternatively – and pro-actively – adopt a different approach involving “staying” as a climate change adaptation strategy. This is important as recent evolutionary approaches to resilience have highlighted how resilience is an on-going process of adaptation which emphasises the temporal, fluid and open-ended aspects of individuals’ experiences and practices in shaping everyday lives. In turn, this means that individuals’ experiences and practices can lead to different strategies of staying (as well as moving) in the face of climate change. Consequently, the paper highlights four key areas where more research is required in order to explore the links between climate change, ‘staying’ and resilience. These include the importance of historical context in disentangling and contextualising the “multicausal” nature of individuals’ mobility decisions; translocal networks in shaping mobility or immobility; the influence of equity, diversity and gendered social expectations on staying; and the importance of governance responses in facilitating resilience, adaptation and subsequent decisions by individuals to stay or move.
Simon Pemberton; Basundhara Tripathy Furlong; Oliver Scanlan; Vally Koubi; Meghna Guhathakurta; Khalid Hossain; Jeroen Warner; Dik Roth. ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: A proposed research agenda. Geoforum 2021, 121, 192 -196.
AMA StyleSimon Pemberton, Basundhara Tripathy Furlong, Oliver Scanlan, Vally Koubi, Meghna Guhathakurta, Khalid Hossain, Jeroen Warner, Dik Roth. ‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: A proposed research agenda. Geoforum. 2021; 121 ():192-196.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSimon Pemberton; Basundhara Tripathy Furlong; Oliver Scanlan; Vally Koubi; Meghna Guhathakurta; Khalid Hossain; Jeroen Warner; Dik Roth. 2021. "‘Staying’ as climate change adaptation strategy: A proposed research agenda." Geoforum 121, no. : 192-196.
The South Asia region is one of the most unstable in the world, having experienced multiple wars. In recent years, water disputes have intensified between this region’s countries, including Pakistan and India, as water is intertwined with their security and has been securitized. Indeed, securitization is one of the strategies that has the power of representation of water as a security issue. The study examines how Pakistan has represented the Indus transboundary waters as a security issue through linguistic constructs, especially to motivate domestic audiences.
Hanifeh Rigi; Jeroen F. Warner. Pakistan’s representation of transboundary water as a security issue. International Journal of Water Resources Development 2021, 1 -24.
AMA StyleHanifeh Rigi, Jeroen F. Warner. Pakistan’s representation of transboundary water as a security issue. International Journal of Water Resources Development. 2021; ():1-24.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHanifeh Rigi; Jeroen F. Warner. 2021. "Pakistan’s representation of transboundary water as a security issue." International Journal of Water Resources Development , no. : 1-24.
Managing transboundary river basins proves a challenge for China when encountering disagreements with its neighbors that experience different political and social conditions. This paper analyzes what happens when China characterizes water as a security issue, examining China’s fluid securitization practices, where changes can be identified indicating that the Chinese government values the various water security concerns differently. Two cases are adopted for comparison. In the case of China sharing the Mekong River, the Chinese government has shown a willingness to incorporate more issues found both inside and outside of the water sector. In contrast, in the case of the sharing of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, China’s security agenda has been limited to the consideration of water availability and has led to military security concerns. The findings indicate that China’s water security agenda is not only driven by a concern for water management over specific rivers, but also judgments that incorporate strategic military consideration with regard to countries that they are involved with. The case of China thus suggests that water security is a complex domain that demonstrates competing values and concerns in (de)politicizing water. Therefore, water-related security issues cannot be understood solely from an environmental policy perspective.
Lei Xie; Jeroen Warner. The politics of securitization: China’s competing security agendas and their impacts on securitizing shared rivers. Eurasian Geography and Economics 2021, 1 -30.
AMA StyleLei Xie, Jeroen Warner. The politics of securitization: China’s competing security agendas and their impacts on securitizing shared rivers. Eurasian Geography and Economics. 2021; ():1-30.
Chicago/Turabian StyleLei Xie; Jeroen Warner. 2021. "The politics of securitization: China’s competing security agendas and their impacts on securitizing shared rivers." Eurasian Geography and Economics , no. : 1-30.
The present contribution argues for taking power in hydrodiplomacy seriously and claims that the hydrodiplomacy literature is too focused on the ‘puzzling’ of diplomacy at the expense of the ‘powering’. Legitimate rule needs a combination of hard (coercion) and soft power (consent). We posit that different styles can be distinguished in negotiation by focusing on the use of power resources. With this understanding, negotiations can be analysed with greater clarity. To transpose the ‘powering’ and ‘puzzling’ from the policy sciences to diplomacy, we will draw on the main schools of International Relations theory: Realism, Institutionalism, Constructivism, and Critical theory. Each of them brings insights relevant to different uses of power and in order to understand the negotiations in practice we need all four perspectives. We combine this approach with insights from a particular power typology, and various aspects of time, including uncertainty and path dependency. To exemplify our approach, we draw on a transboundary example involving state and non-state actors (dispute over the use of the Scheldt between The Netherlands and Belgium) and a local example of hydro-political interactions (irrigation system in Yemen). While the Scheldt case appears a good example of a move to common institution building over time, a closer look reveals the influence of “back tables”, popular movements and decision-making supported by crises, past traumas and future uncertainties, highlighting the time factor. The Yemeni case illustrates likewise that institutions and better arguments do not necessarily win out while different sources of power are mobilised. We conclude that a focus on institutions, as in the dominant literature, does not tell the whole story in hydrodiplomacy. Our approach enables us in a structured manner to identify additional insights about preferred styles of negotiation.
Jeroen Warner; Rens de Man. Powering hydrodiplomacy: How a broader power palette can deepen our understanding of water conflict dynamics. Environmental Science & Policy 2020, 114, 283 -294.
AMA StyleJeroen Warner, Rens de Man. Powering hydrodiplomacy: How a broader power palette can deepen our understanding of water conflict dynamics. Environmental Science & Policy. 2020; 114 ():283-294.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen Warner; Rens de Man. 2020. "Powering hydrodiplomacy: How a broader power palette can deepen our understanding of water conflict dynamics." Environmental Science & Policy 114, no. : 283-294.
Sumit Vij; Jeroen Warner; Anamika Barua. Power in water diplomacy. Water International 2020, 45, 249 -253.
AMA StyleSumit Vij, Jeroen Warner, Anamika Barua. Power in water diplomacy. Water International. 2020; 45 (4):249-253.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSumit Vij; Jeroen Warner; Anamika Barua. 2020. "Power in water diplomacy." Water International 45, no. 4: 249-253.
In this article, we critically review the developmental claims made for the construction of the Rampal power plant in southwestern Bangladesh, in the light of evidence about transformations of land control related to this construction project. Land has become a heavily contested resource in the salinity-intruded southwestern coastal area of Bangladesh. Changes in land control for the construction of the Rampal power plant and similar projects have intensified decades of struggles over rights and access to land. The Rampal project is labelled as “development” and claims to contribute to the elimination of poverty. However, we find that, in reality, this project leads to a reorganization of land control, rights and access in ways that perpetuate and intensify waves of eviction and exclusion of small landholders and landless laborers, thus threatening agriculture-based rural livelihoods. We analyze how four actor groups involved in land control are differently affected by the project interventions, embedded in the context of historical land tenure developments. We find that the benefits of this “development”, primarily favoring rich and powerful social groups and investors, necessitates a critical rethinking of Bangladesh's development and its claims of poverty elimination in the light of related land control practices.
Muhammad Shifuddin Mahmud; Dik Roth; Jeroen Warner. Rethinking “development”: Land dispossession for the Rampal power plant in Bangladesh. Land Use Policy 2020, 94, 104492 .
AMA StyleMuhammad Shifuddin Mahmud, Dik Roth, Jeroen Warner. Rethinking “development”: Land dispossession for the Rampal power plant in Bangladesh. Land Use Policy. 2020; 94 ():104492.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMuhammad Shifuddin Mahmud; Dik Roth; Jeroen Warner. 2020. "Rethinking “development”: Land dispossession for the Rampal power plant in Bangladesh." Land Use Policy 94, no. : 104492.
This article proposes and fleshes out an analytical method designed to support efforts to transform inequitable and unsustainable transboundary water arrangements. Such ‘transformative analysis’ leverages socio-ecological thinking to critically evaluate the processes that have established and maintain an arrangement, including hydro-diplomacy itself. Transformative analysis facilitates the interpretation of strategies to deflect transformation, identification of destructive forms of cooperation, and strategic classification of opportunities for transformation. The assertions are premised on an understanding of the particularities of water conflict, and followed by a discussion of ways researchers may overcome the challenges inherent in the method.
Mark Zeitoun; Naho Mirumachi; Jeroen Warner; Matthew Kirkegaard; Ana Cascão. Analysis for water conflict transformation. Water International 2019, 45, 365 -384.
AMA StyleMark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi, Jeroen Warner, Matthew Kirkegaard, Ana Cascão. Analysis for water conflict transformation. Water International. 2019; 45 (4):365-384.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMark Zeitoun; Naho Mirumachi; Jeroen Warner; Matthew Kirkegaard; Ana Cascão. 2019. "Analysis for water conflict transformation." Water International 45, no. 4: 365-384.
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a qualitative and exploratory study aimed at learning more about the local forms of resilience that emerged in two localities (one rural and one urban locality) in Talcahuano, Chile, in response to the major earthquake and devastating tsunami that hit them on February 27, 2010. Design/methodology/approach To ensure that people’s experiences remained leading throughout the study, data were collected in the field by the first author over a period of 13 months using a variety of qualitative methods. The primary methods were observation, participation and semi-structured interviews with a variety of actors, ranging from community members to local leaders and emergency professionals. For the analysis, a scheme was used that categorizes manifested resilience using two dimensions: damage and responsiveness. Since this scheme has been mostly used to evaluate tree populations, it was adapted to fit the appraisal of a social system. Findings The findings suggest that damage levels in the two communities were similar, but that the responsiveness was not. One locality revealed high levels of resilience, while the other exposed increased susceptibility to future similar events. Originality/value This research initiative was relevant because it exposed actual resilience. Also, the specificities of the findings enable insights about prevalent vulnerability, in particular the local capacity of response, and that can be used to elaborate concrete earthquake/tsunami disaster scenarios and design local disaster risk reduction interventions.
Karen Elisabeth Engel; Jeroen Frank Warner. Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile: appraising local disaster response. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 2019, 28, 585 -602.
AMA StyleKaren Elisabeth Engel, Jeroen Frank Warner. Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile: appraising local disaster response. Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal. 2019; 28 (5):585-602.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKaren Elisabeth Engel; Jeroen Frank Warner. 2019. "Resilience in Talcahuano, Chile: appraising local disaster response." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 28, no. 5: 585-602.
The Congo River is the deepest in the world and second-longest in Africa. Harnessing its full hydropower potential has been an ongoing development dream of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its more powerful regional allies. If completed, the Grand Inga complex near Kinshasa, the capital of the DRC, will be the largest dam project in the world. Its eight separate dams (Inga 1–8) are envisioned to be “lighting up and powering Africa”. Opponents claim, however, that the rewards will be outsourced to corporate mining interests rather than meeting the needs of the local population, and that the project is flawed economically, socially and environmentally. The planned construction of the Inga dams and associated infrastructure has been stuck in limbo since it was mooted in the 1960s; a fantasy rather than a reality. This article attempts to analyse the rivalry underlying the Grand Inga scheme beyond the “pro” and “contra” reports. Embracing Lacanian psychoanalysis and triangulating multiple sources, we seek to unmask Grand Inga as a potent fantasy. Whilst exhibiting its purpose to serve as a screen to protect both proponents of and opponents to the dam from encountering their own self-deception, we conclude the scheme to be at its most powerful whilst the dream remains unfulfilled.
Jeroen Warner; Sarunas Jomantas; Eliot Jones; Sazzad Ansari; Lotje De Vries. The Fantasy of the Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project on the River Congo. Water 2019, 11, 407 .
AMA StyleJeroen Warner, Sarunas Jomantas, Eliot Jones, Sazzad Ansari, Lotje De Vries. The Fantasy of the Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project on the River Congo. Water. 2019; 11 (3):407.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen Warner; Sarunas Jomantas; Eliot Jones; Sazzad Ansari; Lotje De Vries. 2019. "The Fantasy of the Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project on the River Congo." Water 11, no. 3: 407.
Jeroen F. Warner. The role of regional organizations in disaster risk management. A Strategy for Global ResilienceHollis, Simon, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015. Hardcover US$105.00; Softcover $100.00 Isbn 978‐1‐137‐43929‐1; 242 pp. including index. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 2019, 27, 195 -195.
AMA StyleJeroen F. Warner. The role of regional organizations in disaster risk management. A Strategy for Global ResilienceHollis, Simon, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015. Hardcover US$105.00; Softcover $100.00 Isbn 978‐1‐137‐43929‐1; 242 pp. including index. Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management. 2019; 27 (2):195-195.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen F. Warner. 2019. "The role of regional organizations in disaster risk management. A Strategy for Global ResilienceHollis, Simon, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2015. Hardcover US$105.00; Softcover $100.00 Isbn 978‐1‐137‐43929‐1; 242 pp. including index." Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management 27, no. 2: 195-195.
This article shows how Bangladesh and India intentionally maintain the status quo for the Brahmaputra River at the transboundary level, using material and ideational resources. Results show that India wants to reduce its hegemonic vulnerabilities and Bangladesh aims to maintain its control over the Brahmaputra river, simultaneously building its technical and negotiation skills. We conclude that the underlying processes of maintaining the status quo can be comprehended as ‘non-decision making’. The analysis presented will help policy actors to push towards a forward-looking climate change adaptation planning for the Brahmaputra River.
Sumit Vij; Jeroen F. Warner; Robbert Biesbroek; Annemarie Groot. Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River. Water International 2019, 45, 254 -274.
AMA StyleSumit Vij, Jeroen F. Warner, Robbert Biesbroek, Annemarie Groot. Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River. Water International. 2019; 45 (4):254-274.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSumit Vij; Jeroen F. Warner; Robbert Biesbroek; Annemarie Groot. 2019. "Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River." Water International 45, no. 4: 254-274.
Envisioning the future city as the outcome of planned development, several master and strategic plans for Dhaka were prepared. However, these plans, do not adequately address the well-known and combined effects of climate change and unplanned urbanization on urban flooding. Additionally, the spatial planning component is missing in adaptation planning, which broadly concentrates on the climate change. Long-term adaptation strategies should consider both the temporal and spatial extent of flooding. Uncertainties in climate change and urbanization will induce planning failure beyond the Adaptation Tipping Point for flooding exceeding the thresholds of the bio-physical system or the acceptable limits of societal preference. In this paper, a shift is proposed from the current planning practice of single-dimensional ‘Predict and Act’ towards a more resilience-based ‘Monitor and Adapt’ approach. It is prudent to visualize the effects of urbanization and climate change and translate them into strategies for improved adaptation based spatial planning. Here, Dhaka's exposure to floods under different climate change and urban (planned and unplanned) development scenarios is assessed based on acceptable thresholds obtained from plans (top-down defined) and stakeholders (bottom-up perspectives). The scale of effects of these two drivers on urban flooding is exhibited through the zone differentiated flooding extent. While apparently the effect of climate change on flooding is greater than that of unplanned urban developments, both play an important role in instigating tipping points and intensifying risks.
Farhana Ahmed; Eddy Moors; M. Shah Alam Khan; Jeroen Warner; Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga. Tipping points in adaptation to urban flooding under climate change and urban growth: The case of the Dhaka megacity. Land Use Policy 2018, 79, 496 -506.
AMA StyleFarhana Ahmed, Eddy Moors, M. Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner, Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga. Tipping points in adaptation to urban flooding under climate change and urban growth: The case of the Dhaka megacity. Land Use Policy. 2018; 79 ():496-506.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFarhana Ahmed; Eddy Moors; M. Shah Alam Khan; Jeroen Warner; Catharien Terwisscha van Scheltinga. 2018. "Tipping points in adaptation to urban flooding under climate change and urban growth: The case of the Dhaka megacity." Land Use Policy 79, no. : 496-506.
This paper applies an Adaptation Tipping Point (ATP) approach for the assessment of vulnerability to flooding in the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh. A series of rigorous modelling exercises for fluvial and pluvial flooding was conducted to identify the critical ATPs of the physical system, under both existing and proposed flood risk management strategies, for different urban and climate change scenarios. But a standalone assessment of the physical system’s ATPs is insufficient to gain a complete understanding of flood risks; community resilience also depends on people’s adaptability and the acceptance of risks by the community in question. Through participatory public consultations, this study determines the critical ATPs for community risk acceptance. The concept of the “Integrated Adaptation Tipping Point (IATP)”, introduced here, combines the accepted level of risk to the community with the ATPs for physical systems. This approach reveals that the assessed vulnerability to flooding increases when social tipping points are considered.
Farhana Ahmed; M Shah Alam Khan; Jeroen Warner; Eddy Moors; Catharien Terwisscha Van Scheltinga. Integrated Adaptation Tipping Points (IATPs) for urban flood resilience. Environment and Urbanization 2018, 30, 575 -596.
AMA StyleFarhana Ahmed, M Shah Alam Khan, Jeroen Warner, Eddy Moors, Catharien Terwisscha Van Scheltinga. Integrated Adaptation Tipping Points (IATPs) for urban flood resilience. Environment and Urbanization. 2018; 30 (2):575-596.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFarhana Ahmed; M Shah Alam Khan; Jeroen Warner; Eddy Moors; Catharien Terwisscha Van Scheltinga. 2018. "Integrated Adaptation Tipping Points (IATPs) for urban flood resilience." Environment and Urbanization 30, no. 2: 575-596.
Climate change adaptation creates significant challenges for decision makers in the flood risk‐management policy domain. Given the complex characteristics of climate change, adaptive approaches (which can be adjusted as circumstances evolve) are deemed necessary to deal with a range of uncertainties around flood hazard and its impacts and associated risks. The question whether implementing adaptive approaches is successful highly depends upon how the administrative tradition of a country enable or hinder applying a more adaptive approach. In this article, we discern how the administrative tradition in the Netherlands, England, and New Zealand impact upon the introduction of adaptive flood risk management approaches. Using the concept of administrative traditions, we aim to explain the similarities and/or differences in how adaptive strategies are shaped and implemented in the three different state flood management regimes and furthermore, which aspects related to administrative traditions are enablers or barriers to innovation in these processes.
Arwin Van Buuren; Judy Lawrence; Karen Potter; Jeroen F. Warner. Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions. Review of Policy Research 2018, 35, 907 -929.
AMA StyleArwin Van Buuren, Judy Lawrence, Karen Potter, Jeroen F. Warner. Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions. Review of Policy Research. 2018; 35 (6):907-929.
Chicago/Turabian StyleArwin Van Buuren; Judy Lawrence; Karen Potter; Jeroen F. Warner. 2018. "Introducing Adaptive Flood Risk Management in England, New Zealand, and the Netherlands: The Impact of Administrative Traditions." Review of Policy Research 35, no. 6: 907-929.
While excited about the ground-breaking work coming out of the epistemic community promoting adaptive (climate) management (AM), we worry about its tendency to ignore normative implications originating in the implicit worldviews underlying AM literature. Generally, AM has a “green” ideology and focuses on the bioregion as the only sensible level for analysis and action. This tendency for systemic functionalism of AM-as-(green)-policy-prescription depoliticizes an issue (“what to do about climate change”) that is political through and through. For example, those who stand to lose their livelihood as a result of AM plans or simply cannot adapt so fast may resist AM propositions. Implementing AM in practice thereby often leads to social and institutional engineering to overcome resistance. AM in academia seems quite far removed from the “real worlds” of social deliberation and praxis where policy is made and implemented, and where other values and interests than those implicit in AM prevail. We therefore highlight the importance of practices on the ground, claiming AM is not achieved by bioregional policies, but developed “on the hoof” at locally appropriate scales. Everyday professional work is characterized by “organized improvisation” where tacit professional and experiential knowledge are of prime importance. This article is categorized under:
Jeroen F. Warner; Anna J. Wesselink; Govert D. Geldof. The politics of adaptive climate management: Scientific recipes and lived reality. WIREs Climate Change 2018, 9, 1 .
AMA StyleJeroen F. Warner, Anna J. Wesselink, Govert D. Geldof. The politics of adaptive climate management: Scientific recipes and lived reality. WIREs Climate Change. 2018; 9 (3):1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJeroen F. Warner; Anna J. Wesselink; Govert D. Geldof. 2018. "The politics of adaptive climate management: Scientific recipes and lived reality." WIREs Climate Change 9, no. 3: 1.
Dik Roth; Martijn Vink; Jeroen Warner; Madelinde Winnubst. Watered-down politics? Inclusive water governance in the Netherlands. Ocean & Coastal Management 2017, 150, 51 -61.
AMA StyleDik Roth, Martijn Vink, Jeroen Warner, Madelinde Winnubst. Watered-down politics? Inclusive water governance in the Netherlands. Ocean & Coastal Management. 2017; 150 ():51-61.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDik Roth; Martijn Vink; Jeroen Warner; Madelinde Winnubst. 2017. "Watered-down politics? Inclusive water governance in the Netherlands." Ocean & Coastal Management 150, no. : 51-61.