Kythreotis, Andrew P.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9436-8185 and Bristow, Gillian I. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5714-8247
2017.
The 'resilience trap': exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions.
Regional Studies
51
(10)
, pp. 1530-1541.
10.1080/00343404.2016.1200719
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Abstract
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions. Regional Studies. This paper examines how adaptation is interpreted across different UK city-regions by governance and policy actors, finding that the discourse of adaptation is giving way to resilience. This is explained by the value of resilience as a discursive construct in mobilizing and coordinating policy actions. Resilience has greater appeal as a framing device over adaptation to such actors given its potential to enable buy-in from a wider city-regional governance network. However, this paper also highlights the ‘resilience trap’: the dangers of adopting short-term strategies, re-badging existing strategies and widening governance networks that obfuscate sub-national mobilization around adaptation. It then reflects on how governance actors may act to avoid the resilience trap.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL) |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 0034-3404 |
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| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 June 2016 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 6 June 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Nov 2024 07:00 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/91681 |
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