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Climate change collaboration among natural resource management agencies: lessons learned from two US regions
Authors:Christopher James Lemieux  Jessica Thompson  D Scott Slocombe  Rudy Schuster
Institution:1. Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, 75 University Ave W., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L3C5 Canada;2. Communication and Performance Studies, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, USA;3. US Geological Survey, Fort Collins, USA
Abstract:It has been argued that regional collaboration can facilitate adaptation to climate change impacts through integrated planning and management. In an attempt to understand the underlying institutional factors that either support or contest this assumption, this paper explores the institutional factors influencing adaptation to climate change at the regional scale, where multiple public land and natural resource management jurisdictions are involved. Insights from two mid-western US case studies reveal that several challenges to collaboration persist and prevent fully integrative multi-jurisdictional adaptation planning at a regional scale. We propose that some of these challenges, such as lack of adequate time, funding and communication channels, be reframed as opportunities to build interdependence, identify issue-linkages and collaboratively explore the nature and extent of organisational trade-offs with respect to regional climate change adaptation efforts. Such a reframing can better facilitate multi-jurisdictional adaptation planning and management of shared biophysical resources generally while simultaneously enhancing organisational capacity to mitigate negative effects and take advantage of potentially favourable future conditions in an era characterised by rapid climate change.
Keywords:climate change  adaptation  collaboration  transboundary  natural resources  management  policy  planning  adaptive capacity  mainstreaming
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