Mainstreaming climate change adaptation at the local level |
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Authors: | Trude Rauken Per Kristen Mydske Marte Winsvold |
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Affiliation: | 1. CICERO (Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo), Oslo, Norwaytrude.rauken@cicero.uio.no;3. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, PO Box 1097, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway;4. Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research, Oslo, Norway |
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Abstract: | National authorities in many countries aim at having climate change adaptation mainstreamed into existing policy domains in order to achieve coherence and synergies, and to avoid mal-adaptation. Because of local variations in climate change impacts, the lion's share of climate adaptation work will have to take place at the local level. This means also that the mainstreaming process needs to occur locally. This article examines the mainstreaming of climate change adaptation into existing sectors in five Norwegian municipalities. Applying theories of mainstreaming and policy integration we find that policy development is slower, but perhaps more robust in the municipalities that have chosen a horizontal, cross-sectoral approach to mainstreaming than in the municipalities that have chosen a vertical sector approach to mainstreaming. |
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Keywords: | climate change adaptation mainstreaming policy integration local-level government |
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