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Åsa Knaggård

Associate professor | Senior lecturer | Researcher CEC | Principal investigator BECC | Health and safety representative | Recognised Teaching Practitioner

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Sustainable Distribution of Responsibility for Climate Change Adaptation

Uthållig fördelning av ansvar för klimatanpassning

Author

  • Åsa Knaggård
  • Erik Persson
  • Kerstin Eriksson

Summary, in English

To gain legitimacy for climate change adaptation decisions, the distribution of responsibility for these decisions and their implementation needs to be grounded in theories of just distribution and what those affected by decisions see as just. The purpose of this project is to contribute to sustainable spatial planning and the ability of local and regional public authorities to make well-informed and sustainable adaptation decisions, based on knowledge about both climate change impacts and the perceptions of residents and civil servants on what constitutes a sustainable distribution of responsibility. Our aims are: (1) a better understanding of the practical implications of theories about just distribution of responsibility for the choice of local and regional climate adaptation measures; (2) knowledge about what residents and civil servants consider a sustainable distribution of responsibility for climate adaptation measures; and (3) a better understanding of conflicts concerning the distribution of responsibilities and systematic knowledge about the possibilities to manage them. In this interdisciplinary project, we study six municipalities and their residents, and two county administrative boards, all in Sweden, using mixed methods: value theory, document studies, interviews, focus groups, and surveys.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Practical Philosophy

Publishing year

2020-06-18

Language

English

Publication/Series

Challenges

Volume

11

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

MDPI AG

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences

Keywords

  • Climate change adaptation
  • distribution of responsibility
  • Municipal planning
  • climate ethics
  • focus groups
  • Mixed Methods
  • climate change adaptation
  • distribution of responsibility
  • municipal planning
  • climate ethics
  • focus groups
  • mixed methods

Status

Published

Project

  • Sustainable Distribution of Responsibility for Climate Change Adaptation

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2078-1547