Diffusion of climate policy integration in adaptation strategies: translating the EU mandate into UK and Danish national contexts

IF 3.4 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Regional Environmental Change Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI:10.1007/s10113-023-02110-6
Anne Jensen, Helle Ørsted Nielsen, Duncan Russel
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Abstract In this paper, we examine how the EU Climate Adaptation Strategy and especially its pivotal principle of policy integration of climate adaptation has diffused into the climate adaptation strategies of Member States. We explore how this quest for climate adaptation policy integration (CPI) was pushed by vertical diffusion of the framing and policy mixes launched at the EU level. To do so, we analyse and compare national climate adaptation strategies in two EU Member States—the UK and Denmark—during 2013–2021, which witnessed Brexit and increased attention to climate impacts. Conceptually and analytically, we draw on the policy diffusion literature centring on four potential drivers of vertical policy diffusion: interests, rights, ideology and recognition. Furthermore, to scrutinize what is diffused, we conceptualize climate policy integration including the rationale and policy instruments for climate policy integration. We find that both countries’ approaches to climate change adaptation have been shaped by rights-based diffusion in a mixture of shadow hierarchy, soft power and activation of other policy areas with binding directives and observe how what appears to be asymmetrical diffusion has strong elements of symmetrical diffusion. We further identify divergence between the cases before and after Brexit and in mandating local level actions.
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适应战略中气候政策整合的扩散:将欧盟的授权转化为英国和丹麦的国情
本文考察了欧盟气候适应战略,特别是其气候适应政策一体化的关键原则如何扩散到成员国的气候适应战略中。我们探讨了气候适应政策整合(CPI)是如何被欧盟层面启动的框架和政策组合的垂直扩散所推动的。为此,我们分析和比较了英国和丹麦这两个欧盟成员国在2013-2021年期间的国家气候适应战略,这两个国家见证了英国脱欧和对气候影响的日益关注。从概念上和分析上,我们借鉴了政策扩散文献,集中讨论了垂直政策扩散的四个潜在驱动因素:利益、权利、意识形态和认可。此外,为了仔细研究扩散的内容,我们将气候政策整合概念化,包括气候政策整合的基本原理和政策工具。我们发现,这两个国家的气候变化适应方法都是由以权利为基础的扩散所塑造的,这种扩散混合了阴影等级、软实力和具有约束性指令的其他政策领域的激活,并观察了看似不对称的扩散如何具有强大的对称扩散元素。我们进一步确定了英国脱欧前后以及强制地方层面行动之间的差异。
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Regional Environmental Change
Regional Environmental Change 环境科学-环境科学
CiteScore
6.80
自引率
2.40%
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125
审稿时长
4.5 months
期刊介绍: Environmental changes of many kinds are accelerating worldwide, posing significant challenges for humanity. Solutions are needed at the regional level, where physical features of the landscape, biological systems, and human institutions interact. The goal of Regional Environmental Change is to publish scientific research and opinion papers that improve our understanding of the extent of these changes, their causes, their impacts on people, and the options for society to respond. "Regional" refers to the full range of scales between local and global, including regions defined by natural criteria, such as watersheds and ecosystems, and those defined by human activities, such as urban areas and their hinterlands. We encourage submissions on interdisciplinary research across the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, and on more focused studies that contribute towards the solutions to complex environmental problems. Topics addressed include (i) the regional manifestations of global change, especially the vulnerability of regions and sectors; (ii) the adaptation of social-ecological systems to environmental change in the context of sustainable development; and (iii) trans-boundary and cross-jurisdictional issues, legislative and governance frameworks, and the broad range of policy and management issues associated with building, maintaining and restoring robust social-ecological systems at regional scales. The primary format of contributions are research articles, presenting new evidence from analyses of empirical data or else more theoretical investigations of regional environmental change. In addition to research articles, we also publish editorials, short communications, invited mini-reviews on topics of strong current interest, as well as special features that provide multifaceted discussion of complex topics or particular regions
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