Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland

Climate change severely affects Alpine regions. Adaptation to climate change is needed in order to deal with these impacts, but the implementation of national adaptation strategies is inhibited by multiple obstacles. Regional strategic frameworks are just emerging, adaptation is of little priority t...

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Main Authors: Dominik Braunschweiger, Marco Pütz, Frank Heidmann, Mark-Jan Bludau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2018-01-01
Series:Regional Studies, Regional Science
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507
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Marco Pütz
Frank Heidmann
Mark-Jan Bludau
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description Climate change severely affects Alpine regions. Adaptation to climate change is needed in order to deal with these impacts, but the implementation of national adaptation strategies is inhibited by multiple obstacles. Regional strategic frameworks are just emerging, adaptation is of little priority to local agendas and policy mainstreaming is limited on all administrative levels. This paper provides a better understanding of the governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland, an example of a federal system with a strong focus on subnational levels and multilevel governance. We conceptualize governance as a network of policies, measures, actors and knowledge, and visualize their interactions using D3.js, a data-driven JavaScript library. The findings illustrate the typical division of labour in federal multilevel governance systems. The national level provides a strategic framework and funding and conducts coordinating measures at subnational levels, especially the local-level implementation of concrete measures. Conducting comparable mappings for other countries would allow interesting comparisons and insights into common barriers and opportunities to adaptation to climate change.
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spelling doaj.art-06a6335f5eab4ba6b3ba9e80afe1e46e2022-12-22T00:33:29ZengTaylor & Francis GroupRegional Studies, Regional Science2168-13762018-01-015139840110.1080/21681376.2018.15495071549507Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in SwitzerlandDominik Braunschweiger0Marco Pütz1Frank Heidmann2Mark-Jan Bludau3Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald Schnee und LandschaftEidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald Schnee und LandschaftUniversity of Applied Sciences PotsdamUniversity of Applied Sciences PotsdamClimate change severely affects Alpine regions. Adaptation to climate change is needed in order to deal with these impacts, but the implementation of national adaptation strategies is inhibited by multiple obstacles. Regional strategic frameworks are just emerging, adaptation is of little priority to local agendas and policy mainstreaming is limited on all administrative levels. This paper provides a better understanding of the governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland, an example of a federal system with a strong focus on subnational levels and multilevel governance. We conceptualize governance as a network of policies, measures, actors and knowledge, and visualize their interactions using D3.js, a data-driven JavaScript library. The findings illustrate the typical division of labour in federal multilevel governance systems. The national level provides a strategic framework and funding and conducts coordinating measures at subnational levels, especially the local-level implementation of concrete measures. Conducting comparable mappings for other countries would allow interesting comparisons and insights into common barriers and opportunities to adaptation to climate change.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507multilevel governanceenvironmental governanceclimate change adaptationpolicy implementationgovernance of implementationSwiss national adaptation strategy
spellingShingle Dominik Braunschweiger
Marco Pütz
Frank Heidmann
Mark-Jan Bludau
Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
Regional Studies, Regional Science
multilevel governance
environmental governance
climate change adaptation
policy implementation
governance of implementation
Swiss national adaptation strategy
title Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
title_full Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
title_fullStr Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
title_full_unstemmed Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
title_short Mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in Switzerland
title_sort mapping governance of adaptation to climate change in switzerland
topic multilevel governance
environmental governance
climate change adaptation
policy implementation
governance of implementation
Swiss national adaptation strategy
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2018.1549507
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