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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.09.008
	Local levers for change: Mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal planning to foster sustainability transitions
	Wamsler C.; Luederitz C.; Brink E.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	29
英文摘要	Unprecedented global challenges demand wide-reaching societal modification to ensure life support functions and human well-being. In the absence of adequate international responses to climate change and the need for place-based adaptation, local governments have a pivotal role in fostering sustainability transitions. In this context, the importance of ecosystem-based adaptation is increasingly recognized as a multi-benefit approach that utilizes ecosystem services to harmonize human-environment systems. Although research advocates the mainstreaming of ecosystem-based adaptation to advance sustainable planning, the pathways for its systematic implementation are missing and it remains unclear how local authorities can best integrate this new approach into their core work. The purpose of this study is to increase knowledge of the potential ways to mainstream ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal planning. We investigate four coastal municipalities in southern Sweden (Malmö, Helsingborg, Lomma and Kristianstad) and examine, based on vertical and horizontal integration processes, the key characteristics of existing mainstreaming strategies. Results show that, although ecosystem service planning and climate change adaptation planning together establish the conceptual foundation for ecosystem-based adaptation, related activities are often implemented separately and are rarely comprehensive. We illustrate how combined mainstreaming strategies can reinforce and complement each other and how strong leadership in the integration of processes has the ability to compensate for a lack of guidance or supporting legislation from higher decision-making levels. Finally, we conclude that systemic mainstreaming of sustainability issues is a promising avenue for initiating and promoting sustainability transitions and has the potential to address the criticism that other mainstreaming topics have faced. On this basis, we specify the core characteristics necessary to ensure its effective and meaningful application. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Green infrastructure; Organizational learning; Policy integration; Spatial and landscape planning; Sustainable transformation; Urban planning
学科领域	climate change; coastal development; decision making; ecosystem service; implementation process; local adaptation; local government; local planning; planning practice; sustainable development; Sweden
语种	英语
scopus关键词	climate change; coastal development; decision making; ecosystem service; implementation process; local adaptation; local government; local planning; planning practice; sustainable development; Sweden
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117699
作者单位	Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), P.O. Box 170, Lund, SE-221 00, Sweden; Institute of Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, Lüneburg, 21335, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wamsler C.,Luederitz C.,Brink E.. Local levers for change: Mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal planning to foster sustainability transitions[J],2014,29.
APA	Wamsler C.,Luederitz C.,&Brink E..(2014).Local levers for change: Mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal planning to foster sustainability transitions.Global Environmental Change,29.
MLA	Wamsler C.,et al."Local levers for change: Mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation into municipal planning to foster sustainability transitions".Global Environmental Change 29(2014).