Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A.
Cities face intersectional challenges implementing climate adaptation policy. This research contributes to scholarship dedicated to understanding how policy implementation affects socially vulnerable groups, with the overarching goal of promoting justice and equity in climate policy implementation....
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| author | Jeffrey T. Malloy Catherine M. Ashcraft Paul Kirshen Thomas G. Safford Semra A. Aytur Shannon H. Rogers |
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| description | Cities face intersectional challenges implementing climate adaptation policy. This research contributes to scholarship dedicated to understanding how policy implementation affects socially vulnerable groups, with the overarching goal of promoting justice and equity in climate policy implementation. We apply a novel framework that integrates social justice theory and the advocacy coalition framework to incrementally assess just climate adaptation in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Boston made an ambitious commitment to address equity as part of its climate planning and implementation efforts. In this paper, we evaluate the first implementation stage over the period 2016–2019 during which Boston developed coastal resilience plans for three neighborhoods. Despite Boston's commitment to equity, we find injustice was nevertheless reproduced through representation and coalition dynamics, the framing of problems and solutions, and a failure to recognize the priorities and lived experiences of city residents. The assessment framework presented can be adapted to evaluate how other climate adaptation initiatives advance social justice and highlights the need for incremental evaluation over short time periods to inform ongoing implementation efforts. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0d245058920d404cbab7fed8050091592022-12-22T03:42:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Cities2624-96342022-11-01410.3389/frsc.2022.928230928230Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A.Jeffrey T. Malloy0Catherine M. Ashcraft1Paul Kirshen2Thomas G. Safford3Semra A. Aytur4Shannon H. Rogers5Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United StatesDepartment of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United StatesSchool for the Environment, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United StatesDepartment of Sociology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United StatesDepartment of Health Management and Policy, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United StatesCommunity and Economic Development, Cooperative Extension, and Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United StatesCities face intersectional challenges implementing climate adaptation policy. This research contributes to scholarship dedicated to understanding how policy implementation affects socially vulnerable groups, with the overarching goal of promoting justice and equity in climate policy implementation. We apply a novel framework that integrates social justice theory and the advocacy coalition framework to incrementally assess just climate adaptation in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. Boston made an ambitious commitment to address equity as part of its climate planning and implementation efforts. In this paper, we evaluate the first implementation stage over the period 2016–2019 during which Boston developed coastal resilience plans for three neighborhoods. Despite Boston's commitment to equity, we find injustice was nevertheless reproduced through representation and coalition dynamics, the framing of problems and solutions, and a failure to recognize the priorities and lived experiences of city residents. The assessment framework presented can be adapted to evaluate how other climate adaptation initiatives advance social justice and highlights the need for incremental evaluation over short time periods to inform ongoing implementation efforts.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.928230/fulljust climate adaptationAdvocacy Coalition Framework (ACF)social justiceclimate policyClimate Ready Bostonpublic policy implementation |
| spellingShingle | Jeffrey T. Malloy Catherine M. Ashcraft Paul Kirshen Thomas G. Safford Semra A. Aytur Shannon H. Rogers Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities just climate adaptation Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) social justice climate policy Climate Ready Boston public policy implementation |
| title | Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. |
| title_full | Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. |
| title_fullStr | Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. |
| title_short | Implementing just climate adaptation policy: An analysis of recognition, framing, and advocacy coalitions in Boston, U.S.A. |
| title_sort | implementing just climate adaptation policy an analysis of recognition framing and advocacy coalitions in boston u s a |
| topic | just climate adaptation Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) social justice climate policy Climate Ready Boston public policy implementation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsc.2022.928230/full |
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