
Johan Lindgren
Universitetslektor

Risk and vulnerability analysis : A feasible process for local climate adaptation in Sweden?
Författare
Summary, in English
Climate change is an important new challenge for local authorities. This study analyses the potential for using the Swedish mandatory process for risk and vulnerability analysis (RVA) as a vehicle to improve local climate adaptation work. An advantage with RVA is its comprehensive approach in dealing with all relevant threats and all vital functions of society. In order to test the applicability of incorporating climate adaptation into RVA, we studied practical experiences from three Swedish municipalities. In all municipalities, a pre-study to identify relevant climate-induced events was performed. In one municipality, this was followed by a more detailed analysis of the potential impacts of these events on the functions of the various administrations and companies within the local authority. Problems identified in successful integration of climate change into the municipal RVA process were lack of sufficient knowledge to identify the impacts of climate change on the level of the respective specialist or district administration and lack of resources to perform the analysis. There were also some difficulties in including a long-term perspective relevant for climate adaptation into RVA, which usually focuses on current threats. A positive outcome was that work on extreme climate events in RVA provided a traceable method to identify events with a potentially great impact on the function of local society and results that could be fed into other ongoing processes, such as spatial planning and housing plans.
Publiceringsår
2013
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
781-800
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Local Environment
Volym
18
Issue
7
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Carfax Publishing
Ämne
- Environmental Management
Nyckelord
- climate adaptation
- policy integration
- risk and vulnerability analysis
- Swedish municipalities
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1354-9839