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Influencing resilience: the role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation
- Source :
- Disasters
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- One way to make development pathways more resilient in the face of a changing climate has been through mainstreaming adaptation into government policies, planning and sectoral decision-making. To date, many of the transferable lessons have taken the form of technical approaches such as risk assessments and toolkits. This article instead draws on evidence from South Asia to emphasise some of the more tacit and informal approaches used to influence adaptation policy. Despite their apparent significance in policy processes, such tactics are often neither planned for nor well reported in resilience-building projects and programme documents. Using evidence to populate a typology of influencing strategies, this article looks particularly at the role of policy entrepreneurs who navigate the political complexity of both formal and informal governance systems to promote successful adaptation mainstreaming. It concludes with recommendations for adaptation and resilience programming that can more effectively harness the breadth of influencing strategies.
- Subjects :
- Typology
Paper
policy entrepreneurs
Governance system
Asia
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
mainstreaming
media_common.quotation_subject
Climate Change
0211 other engineering and technologies
Face (sociological concept)
Public policy
Disaster Planning
02 engineering and technology
adaptation
Mainstreaming
01 natural sciences
Politics
Political science
Humans
Adaptation (computer science)
policy influence
resilience
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
media_common
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
business.industry
Administrative Personnel
General Social Sciences
policy processes
Public relations
Resilience, Psychological
Papers
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Psychological resilience
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14677717
- Volume :
- 43
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disasters
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....181bce8f30c187b0731363c73b9aa7f1