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Climate adaptation in the Anthropocene: Constructing and contesting urban…
Climate adaptation in the Anthropocene: Constructing and contesting urban risk regimes
Theory
Risk regimes in the Anthropocene
Climate adaptation is an attempt to anticipate and prepare for ‘a state of the world that does not yet exist’
Organizational pressures of hierarchy and cost control can exacerbate risks and silence concerns about them
Risk management entails the legitimation of risks and the distribution of impacts and costs
The emerging risk regime for climate adaptation
The configuration of actors, rules, markets, and norms that is
emerging to address urban climate risk
Results
(1) Context: the city of Boston
Leader in planning for both climate mitigation and adaptation
Possessed institutional infrastructure for addressing climate change
(2) Risk realized and prioritized
Business groups have begun to evaluate the impact of climate risks on real estate, tourism, insurance, supply chains, and operations
(3) Risk regimes imagined
The business as usual imaginary
Centrality in economy and management aspects
Prioritize markets and business actors
The innovative models and finance imaginary
Innovation and entrepreneurship to create new markets and business models
The radical change imaginary
Environmental activists and community groups, who often express awareness of their vulnerabilities and marginalization from core decision-making processes
(4) The evolving ‘progressive instrumentalist regime’
Attempt to reconcile the challenges of addressing climate risks with economic development goals
Comprises elements of the ‘business as usual’ and ‘innovative
finance and models’ imaginaries, while the more radical concerns of community groups are marginalized
Methods
Case Study
Site: Boston
14 interviews
28 meetings and workshops
Coding process