Unattended gap in local adaptation plans : the quality of vulnerability knowledge in climate risk management
Marín-Puig, Anna (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Ariza Sole, Eduard (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Casellas, Antònia (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. SGR - SGR - Research Group on Inactive Governance and Socio-ecological Territorial Dynamics of the Anthropocene (INTERFASE)

Date:	2022
Description:	14 pàg.
Abstract:	A risk-based management approach to climate change is dominant in local adaptation plans integrating climate-science data with place-based vulnerability assessments. While the former has a regional character and uncertainty is approached by means of probabilities and confidence, the latter is context-specific, relies on local knowledge and uncertainty is barely assessed. The objective of this paper is to highlight the relevance of uncertainty analysis in the vulnerability assessment of local adaptation plans by enhancing the Knowledge Quality Assessment tool. This analytical proposal differs from technical uncertainty analysis because it addresses both the social context and the process of knowledge production. Next, the advanced uncertainty dimensions have been applied in the vulnerability assessment used in two Mediterranean adaptation plans. Findings show that institutional arrangements and the role of intermediate parties (contextual dimension) shape the knowledge used, produced, and reproduced (substantive dimension) and hamper community-engaged assessments (procedural dimension). Resulting vulnerability representations, which are poorly grounded on context-sensitive knowledge, compromise the relevance of risk-assessment outputs and local agency in adaptation governance. The present research contributes to the academic study of plans evaluation and of the adaptation science-governance interface at the local scale.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación PID2019-106438RB-I00 Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSO2016-76842-C2-1-R
Rights:	Aquest document està subjecte a una llicència d'ús Creative Commons. Es permet la reproducció total o parcial i la comunicació pública de l'obra, sempre que no sigui amb finalitats comercials, i sempre que es reconegui l'autoria de l'obra original. No es permet la creació d'obres derivades.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Knowledge governance ; Knowledge quality ; Local climate change adaptation plan ; Uncertainty ; Vulnerability ; Pla local d'adaptació al canvi climàtic ; Vulnerabilitat ; Qualitat del coneixement ; Incertesa ; Govern del coneixement

DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100465

14 p, 2.3 MB

The record appears in these collections:
Articles > Research articles
Articles > Published articles