Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands
Planning and implementation of regional climate change adaptation requires new, integrated governance arrangements that often involve public and private actors. Although entrepreneurship is widely considered an important part of such arrangements, little is known about the conditions that enable it,...
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| author | Debora de. Block Peter H. Feindt Erik van Slobbe |
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| description | Planning and implementation of regional climate change adaptation requires new, integrated governance arrangements that often involve public and private actors. Although entrepreneurship is widely considered an important part of such arrangements, little is known about the conditions that enable it, and its actual role is under-researched. Through an in-depth case study of an ecosystem-based adaptation project in the Netherlands, we have analyzed how the variegated actors in a governance network shape six conditions for entrepreneurial success, established in the entrepreneurship literature. Through a framing analysis, we found that all six conditions, i.e., prior career experience, altruistic motivations, financial motives, social networks, financial capital availability, and policies and regulations, were the object of constant negotiations. Their salience varied during the project as a result of variegated framing practices. In the early stages, issue, identity, and relationship frames were used to create a network of people with a range of relevant experience, connected by altruistic motivations. However, as the project progressed, distrust frames and different spatial- and temporal-scale frames created tensions between public and private actors. Accordingly, process frames, financial motivations, and capital availability became increasingly salient, reflecting the need to consolidate rules, roles, and responsibilities. The findings suggest that approaches to climate change adaptation imply ongoing struggles over the conditions that enable entrepreneurial success. We thereby add an important new dimension to the study of adaptation governance. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-445bf4e1d6254ac285f633078b716fff2022-12-21T19:28:23ZengResilience AllianceEcology and Society1708-30872019-03-012411910.5751/ES-10310-24011910310Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the NetherlandsDebora de. Block0Peter H. Feindt1Erik van Slobbe2Water Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University and ResearchAlbrecht Daniel Thaer Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt University at BerlinWater Systems and Global Change Group, Wageningen University and ResearchPlanning and implementation of regional climate change adaptation requires new, integrated governance arrangements that often involve public and private actors. Although entrepreneurship is widely considered an important part of such arrangements, little is known about the conditions that enable it, and its actual role is under-researched. Through an in-depth case study of an ecosystem-based adaptation project in the Netherlands, we have analyzed how the variegated actors in a governance network shape six conditions for entrepreneurial success, established in the entrepreneurship literature. Through a framing analysis, we found that all six conditions, i.e., prior career experience, altruistic motivations, financial motives, social networks, financial capital availability, and policies and regulations, were the object of constant negotiations. Their salience varied during the project as a result of variegated framing practices. In the early stages, issue, identity, and relationship frames were used to create a network of people with a range of relevant experience, connected by altruistic motivations. However, as the project progressed, distrust frames and different spatial- and temporal-scale frames created tensions between public and private actors. Accordingly, process frames, financial motivations, and capital availability became increasingly salient, reflecting the need to consolidate rules, roles, and responsibilities. The findings suggest that approaches to climate change adaptation imply ongoing struggles over the conditions that enable entrepreneurial success. We thereby add an important new dimension to the study of adaptation governance.http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art19/climate changeecosystem-based adaptationentrepreneurshipgovernance arrangements |
| spellingShingle | Debora de. Block Peter H. Feindt Erik van Slobbe Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands Ecology and Society climate change ecosystem-based adaptation entrepreneurship governance arrangements |
| title | Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands |
| title_full | Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands |
| title_fullStr | Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands |
| title_full_unstemmed | Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands |
| title_short | Shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation: a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the Netherlands |
| title_sort | shaping conditions for entrepreneurship in climate change adaptation a case study of an emerging governance arrangement in the netherlands |
| topic | climate change ecosystem-based adaptation entrepreneurship governance arrangements |
| url | http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol24/iss1/art19/ |
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