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Opportunities for municipal climate adaptation: aligning local adaptation plans with provincial and national policy in South Africa Gina Ziervogel, Penny Price and Emma Archer [email protected] Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town Our common future under climate change, Paris, 9 July 2015
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Opportunities for municipal climate adaptation: aligning local adaptation plans with provincial and national policy in South Africa
Gina Ziervogel, Penny Price and Emma Archer
[email protected] Department of Environmental and Geographical Science and African Climate & Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
Our common future under climate change, Paris, 9 July 2015
Overview• Opportunities and enablers of municipal scale adaptation
governance• Importance of co-production for building adaptive capacity
across scale• Case study: Development of Bergrivier municipality climate
adaptation plan
Opportunities for municipal climate change governance• Growing literature on institutional barriers to adaptation
governance
• Important to understand opportunities and enablers“factors that make it easier to plan and implement adaptation actions, that expand adaptation options, or that provide ancillary co-benefits” Klein et al. (2014: 907)
• Local government key to supporting opportunities • Provide resource/change planning (Biesbroek et al. 2013; Measham et al.
2011)
• Access to multiple stakeholders• Connects to national and international (Pasquini et al. 2014; Bulkeley 2010)
Building adaptive capacity through co-production
• Nature of co-production• Experts from science, policy, practice and local communities (Bulkeley
2006)
• Importance of developing contextually relevant strategies (Corburn 2009)
• Co-production as part of adaptation• Focus on process and capacity critical given slow uptake of
adaptation implementation (Kates et al. 2012; Tompkins et al 2010)
• Reflexive engagement between research and practice (Patel et al. 2015)
• Social capital is needed to draw on multiple knowledges and work collectively (Armitage et al. 2011)
Western Cape Government Climate Change Municipal Support Programme
• Support for local & district municipalities to development & implement climate adaptation plans
• New programme, 1st year = 4 Municipalities
• Partnerships • Bergrivier councillors and officials• Local community / NGO representation• CSIR• CSAG• ACDI
Process: Bergrivier municipality
• Formal solicitation of interest for involvement
• Presentation to mayoral committee to achieve buy-in
• 3 in-situ workshops
• Draft adaptation plan• Initial draft by Provincial official• Input from scientists • Finalisation by Bergrivier officials
• Integration of climate change adaptation plan into IDP
Workshop 1 (Oct 2012) Workshop 2 (Nov 2012) Workshop 3 (Jan 2013)
Current vulnerability Climate change vulnerability (impacts
and prioritisation)
Developing adaptation options
Key climatic events in Bergrivier
Key sectors and activities
High temp Flood
Erratic rainfal
lHeavy winds
Infrastructure - Roads
L M L L
Infrastructure -Structures / buildings
M L L M
Infrastructure - Low income housing
M H L M
Infrastructure - Storm water
L H H M
Service delivery - Water
M M L L
Service delivery - Electricity
M M L M
UCT ACDI Interdisciplinary process
• A diverse group of practitioners and academics
• A facilitated process of investigation into climate and development in Bergrivier over 2 years
1: Policy opportunity - Mainstreaming climate adaptation into development planning
National Climate Change Response Policy (2011)
Clearly outlines the need for local government to integrate climate change considerations and constraints into municipal master planning, e.g. IDP
Western Cape Climate Change Response Strategy
Climate Adaptation Work Group reports on mainstreaming adaptation into municipal planning and operations
Climate Change Municipal Support Programme reported on under Annual Performance Plan
Bergrivier Municipality
Integrated Development Plan (2013)
Climate Change Adaptation Plan integrated into IDP
Bergrivier Municipality Climate Change Adaptation Plan (2014)
Focus areas: Mainstreaming climate change governance into municipal governance; Climate resilient low cost housing; Stormwater; Conservation of natural resources (focus on clearing alien invasive vegetation); Agriculture
2: Policy opportunity – Flexibility of process
• Province’s measurable outcome: • “Climate adaptation mainstreamed into local level municipal
planning and operations”
• Iterative feedback between the provincial and local levels• Limited resources
Source: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexibility; http://www.area15.es/wp-content/uploads/bombilla-mundo.jpg
3: Capacity opportunity – Collaborative and entrepreneurial government leaders
• Public managers critical role in ‘catalysing’ knowledge production and providing leadership (Maiello et al. 2013; Termeer et al. 2012)
• Collaborative leadership• Municipal “champion”’s limited knowledge of climate change
adaptation
• Entrepreneurial leadership• Provincial “champion” with strong social capital
4: Capacity opportunity – Diverse group of stakeholders
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
SCIENTISTS LOCAL PRACTITIONERS
Conclusion: Supporting co-production to build adaptive capacity
• Importance of leveraging opportunities • Cross scalar policy alignment • Capacity• Aligned with development priorities
• Co-production • Supported because of social capital• Built adaptive capacity across groups• About a process not a destination
Paper under review with Environment and Urbanization. Please contact me for a copy.
Thank [email protected]@GinaZiervogel
