Reader in Environment and Development at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, SOAS, University of London, United Kingdom.
Assam State Team Leader, Action on Climate Today, India.
Disasters. 2019 Apr;43 Suppl 3(Suppl 3):S388-S411. doi: 10.1111/disa.12338.
One way to make development pathways more resilient in the face of a changing climate has been through mainstreaming adaptation into government policies, planning and sectoral decision-making. To date, many of the transferable lessons have taken the form of technical approaches such as risk assessments and toolkits. This article instead draws on evidence from South Asia to emphasise some of the more tacit and informal approaches used to influence adaptation policy. Despite their apparent significance in policy processes, such tactics are often neither planned for nor well reported in resilience-building projects and programme documents. Using evidence to populate a typology of influencing strategies, this article looks particularly at the role of policy entrepreneurs who navigate the political complexity of both formal and informal governance systems to promote successful adaptation mainstreaming. It concludes with recommendations for adaptation and resilience programming that can more effectively harness the breadth of influencing strategies.
有一种方法可以使发展路径在面对气候变化时更具弹性，那就是将适应措施纳入政府政策、规划和部门决策的主流。迄今为止，许多可转移的经验教训都采取了风险评估和工具包等技术方法的形式。本文则以南亚的证据为例，强调了一些更隐性和非正式的方法，用于影响适应政策。尽管这些策略在政策过程中具有明显的重要性，但在韧性建设项目和方案文件中，它们往往既没有计划，也没有得到很好的报告。本文使用证据构建了一个影响策略的分类法，特别关注那些在正式和非正式治理系统的政治复杂性中周旋的政策企业家，他们推动了成功的适应主流化。本文最后提出了适应和韧性规划的建议，以便更有效地利用广泛的影响策略。
