The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions
研究了英国城市区域中治理和政策行动者如何解读气候变化适应，发现适应话语正被韧性取代，并揭示了“韧性陷阱”即短期策略、旧策新装和扩大治理网络带来的风险。
The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions. Regional Studies. This paper examines how adaptation is interpreted across different UK city-regions by governance and policy actors, finding that the discourse of adaptation is giving way to resilience. This is explained by the value of resilience as a discursive construct in mobilizing and coordinating policy actions. Resilience has greater appeal as a framing device over adaptation to such actors given its potential to enable buy-in from a wider city-regional governance network. However, this paper also highlights the ‘resilience trap’: the dangers of adopting short-term strategies, re-badging existing strategies and widening governance networks that obfuscate sub-national mobilization around adaptation. It then reflects on how governance actors may act to avoid the resilience trap.