Size Does Matter: City Scale And The Asymmetries Of Climate Change Adaptation In Three Coastal Towns

dc.creatorPaterson S.K.
dc.creatorPelling M.
dc.creatorNunes L.H.
dc.creatorde Araújo Moreira F.
dc.creatorGuida K.
dc.creatorMarengo J.A.
dc.date2017
dc.date2017-08-17T19:09:40Z
dc.date2017-08-17T19:09:40Z
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T05:14:41Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T05:14:41Z
dc.identifierGeoforum. Elsevier Ltd, v. 81, n. 1, p. 109 - 119, 2017.
dc.identifier0016-7185
dc.identifier10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.02.014
dc.identifierhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85014401461&doi=10.1016%2fj.geoforum.2017.02.014&partnerID=40&md5=7806c914eed9cef3247bbbdb27bdcbc4
dc.identifierhttp://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/322881
dc.identifier2-s2.0-85014401461
dc.identifier.urihttp://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/1357044
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.descriptionGlobally, it is smaller urban settlements that are growing most rapidly, are most constrained in terms of adaptive capacity but increasingly looked to for delivering local urban resilience. Data from three smaller coastal cities and their wider regional governance systems in Florida, US; West Sussex, UK and São Paulo, Brazil are used to compare the influence of scale and sector on city adaptive capacity. These tensions are described through the lens of the Adaptive Capacity Index (ACI) approach. The ACI is built from structuration theory and presents an alternative to social-ecological systems framing of analysis on adaptation. Structuration articulates the interaction of agency and structure and the intervening role played by institutions on information flow, in shaping adaptive capacity and outcomes. The ACI approach reveals inequalities in adaptive capacity to be greater across scale than across government, private and civil society sector capacity in each study area. This has implications for adaptation research both by reinforcing the importance of scale and demonstrating the utility of structuration theory as a framework for understanding the social dynamics underpinning adaptive capacity; and policy relevance, in particular considering the redistribution of decision-making power across scale and/or compensatory mechanisms, especially for lower scale actors, who increasingly carry the costs for enacting resilience planning in cities. © 2017
dc.description81
dc.description1
dc.description109
dc.description119
dc.descriptionG8MUREFU3FP-2201-040, FAPESP, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
dc.descriptionFundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherElsevier Ltd
dc.relationGeoforum
dc.rightsfechado
dc.sourceScopus
dc.subjectAdaptive Capacity
dc.subjectAdaptive Capacity Index
dc.subjectBrazil
dc.subjectScale
dc.subjectStructuration
dc.subjectUk
dc.subjectUrban
dc.subjectUsa
dc.titleSize Does Matter: City Scale And The Asymmetries Of Climate Change Adaptation In Three Coastal Towns
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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