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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.02.016
	Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia
	Fidelman P.I.J.; Leitch A.M.; Nelson D.R.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:4
英文摘要	Multilevel governance is regarded as a promising approach to deal with the multidimensional nature of climate change adaptation. However, the policy context in which it is implemented is very often complex and fragmented, characterised by interacting climate and non-climate strategies. An understanding of multilevel decision-making and governance is particularly important, if desired adaptation outcomes are to be achieved. This paper examines how climate change adaptation takes place in a complex multilevel system of governance, in the context of Australia's Great Barrier Reef (GBR) region. It examines over one hundred adaptation strategies at federal, state, regional and local levels in terms of type, manifestation, purposefulness, drivers and triggers, and geographic and temporal scope. Interactions between strategies are investigated both at the same level of governance and across governance levels. This study demonstrates that multilevel approach is a necessary, but not a sufficient condition in responding to complex multiscale and multisector issues, such as climate change adaptation. Short-term adaptation measures; a predominant incremental, sectoral, top-down approach to adaptation; and the lack of a framework for managing interactions are major threats to effective climate adaptation in the GBR region. Coping with such threats will require long-term transformative action, establishing enabling conditions to support local adaptation, and, most important, creating and maintaining strategic interactions among adaptation strategies. Coordinating and integrating climate and non-climate strategies across jurisdictions and policy sectors are the most significant and challenging tasks for multilevel governance in the GBR region and elsewhere. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Australia; Climate change adaptation; Great Barrier Reef; Multilevel governance; Social-ecological systems
学科领域	action plan; adaptive management; climate change; environmental policy; governance approach; strategic approach; top-down approach; Australia; Coral Sea; Great Barrier Reef; Pacific Ocean; Queensland
语种	英语
scopus关键词	action plan; adaptive management; climate change; environmental policy; governance approach; strategic approach; top-down approach; Australia; Coral Sea; Great Barrier Reef; Pacific Ocean; Queensland
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/117944
作者单位	Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia; Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Australia; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, Australia; University of Georgia, Department of Anthropology, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fidelman P.I.J.,Leitch A.M.,Nelson D.R.. Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia[J],2013,23(4).
APA	Fidelman P.I.J.,Leitch A.M.,&Nelson D.R..(2013).Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.Global Environmental Change,23(4).
MLA	Fidelman P.I.J.,et al."Unpacking multilevel adaptation to climate change in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia".Global Environmental Change 23.4(2013).