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Social Learning about Climate Adaptation: Global and Local Perspectives
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Stockholm Environment Institute, Working Paper - 2009
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Solutions to contemporary environmental challenges will require dialogue and learning among stakeholders with different perspectives. Moreover, improving the potential for social learning can be seen as a strategy for meeting the inherent complexity and uncertainty of global change. Social learning processes have been studied in the context of co-management of resources and as a feature of international environmental governance, with increasing recognition of the links between governance levels.
This SEI Working Paper explores social learning about climate adaptation in relation to the architecture of climate governance. It compares the potential for social learning at the international level with a local perspective based on preliminary results from a case study of climate adaptation in the Stockholm region, Sweden. It focuses on conditions that have been shown to influence social learning in other areas, with special attention to “boundary organizations”; arenas for bridging across perspectives at different scales and levels of governance; “shadow systems” for developing knowledge outside the norm; and the role of conflicting goals. The paper concludes that there is a need for arenas for social learning about local adaptation that have enough diversity among participants to be able to address conflicting goals in addition to sharing knowledge. It also suggests that research on social learning would benefit from more attention to influences across governance levels.
Year: 2009
Type: Working Paper
Authors: Annika E. Nilsson and Åsa Gerger Swartling
Head of Communications: Robert Watt
Publications Manager: Erik Willis
Editor: Tom Gill
Layout: Richard Clay
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