Facilitating Climate Change Responses A Report of Two Workshops on Knowledge from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2010) / Chapter Skim
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8 Adaptation and Natural Resource Management
8 Adaptation and Natural Resource Management
Pages 103-112
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In the Carolinas, some federal stimulus money went to hiring city sustainability coordinators, who are looking mainly at mitigation but are also addressing adaptation by improving energy efficiency in low-income housing. 1The presentation is available at http://www7.nationalacademies.org/hdgc/Adapting% 20to%20Climate-Learning%20from%20the%20Carolinas%20Water%20Resources%20Sector.
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Maps of projected sea level rise rarely come with data showing what climate scenario they are based on or show uncertainties in the digital elevation models, even though these details are associated with huge differences in the number of people who are at risk. The CISA project has worked on improving visual communication and representation of uncertainty in climate maps, drawing on advances in "cognitive cartography." The project is working to estimate vulnerability to drought.
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Climate Change Science Program, 2008) , which contained significant social science content, including several good case studies, and also emphasizes the need for an iterative process of climate information translation.
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There is a long history in water of visionary legislation that makes big promises that have led to weak performance. Coordinating bodies in general have not had a good track record of accomplishment, although they deflect political heat.
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She asked whether human responses are negative feedback that control the systems or positive feedback that amplify preexisting trends. She said that positive feedbacks in fisheries might be counteracted by changes in property rights regimes.
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The National Marine Fisheries Service and the regional fishery management council -- or the industry voluntarily -- could close certain areas temporarily with a rotating fishery, protect the remaining viable clam populations with lower quotas, or change size limits on the clams. These things have not yet been done.
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One participant commented that social science tends to be deployed to identify narrow solutions but not to look at the larger social context. McCay responded that social scientists ask for funds to study the social context but are unsuccessful.
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There is no a good coarse-scaled social theory, and fine-scaled expertise exceeds global expertise. This situation allows social science to make headway on adaptation, which is largely local.
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He seems to assume that the density of cross-institution ties produced beneficial results, a result that contrasts with Ingram's experience with water management institutions in which these ties resulted only in spreading risk. Henry commented that, in this case, existing networks evolved to lead to adaptive outcomes and asked how this came about: What is the evidence?
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Is this really in effect a tautological argument identifying density of institutional linkages, adaptation, and democracy? McCay asked about the broader theory underlying the case, and Kasperson asked if there is a good statement somewhere of the major theoretical approaches to adaptation and also whether Chhatre's theory is supposed to be general or specific to certain domains.
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