Climate adaptation transformation in climate governance
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2023-10-12
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en
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Climate adaptation has high priority in political agendas, on all levels. At the same time, it’s hard to implement climate adaptation for local governments and there is persistent failure to reach climate goals. Therefore, it is interesting to expand the knowledge behind this reoccurring event.
This results in the following main research question: What is the relationship between governance capacity and green space policy by local governments and to what extent do geographical characteristics influence this relationship?
To do answer this question, the local governments cases in the Netherlands have been identified as either urban or rural, and studied qualitative.
There is evidence to suggest an effect from geographical characteristics on the governance capacity and green space policy relationship. More specific, municipalities with more urban characteristics tend to have more green space policy compared to municipalities with more rural characteristics. This is due to their unlocking and orchestrating capacity. This means that, climate governance is better developed in urban municipalities. Here, the conditions are more in favour to, for example, penalise unsustainable activities as petrification. Or to promote alternatives and raise awareness of green space benefits. Thus, addressing climate change and steering climate adaptive transformation can be done most efficiently in urban municipalities.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen