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Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation

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  • Robbert Biesbroek
  • B. Guy Peters
  • Jale Tosun

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Despite recognizing the importance of public bureaucracies in governing climate change, our knowledge of how their behavioral and structural characteristics influence climate change adaptation policy is limited. This article provides an introduction to a collection of studies that seeks to explore the link between climate change adaptation and public bureaucracies, and to distill lessons for the scholarship on adaptation as well as the persistent debates on the role of administrative traditions in public policy. The articles in the special issue demonstrate that how state and social actors are organized, the ways in which scientific advice enters bureaucracies, and uniformity in the making and implementing of policy matter for adaptation policy. We conclude that the concept of administrative traditions is still necessary for understanding the choices made by public actors, but contend that other factors such as economic motives and political willingness should be considered more critically in the literature on administrative traditions. 尽管大众认可公共官僚在治理气候变化中产生的作用,但关于前者的行为特征和架构特征是如何影响气候变化适应政策的认识还很局限。本文引入了一系列研究,这些研究试图探索气候变化适应和公共官僚机构之间的联系。同时本文提取出相关学术经验,用于研究适应和对行政传统在公共政策中产生的作用而进行的持续辩论。本期特刊收录的文章展示了国家行为者和社会行为者如何进行相应组织,从而使科学建议进入官僚机构,并且让用于适应政策的政策事务在制定和实施时达到统一。本文结论认为,行政传统这一概念对理解公共行为者做出的选择而言依然是必要的,但结论同时主张,例如经济动机和政治意愿等其他因素应在行政传统文献中受到更具批判性的考量。 A pesar de reconocer la importancia de las burocracias públicas al gobernar el cambio climático, es limitado nuestro conocimiento de cómo sus características estructurales y de comportamiento tienen una influencia sobre las políticas de adaptación al cambio climático. Este artículo proporciona una introducción a una colección de estudios que busca explorar el vínculo entre la adaptación al cambio climático y las burocracias públicas, y extraer lecciones para la investigación sobre la adaptación, así como para los debates persistentes sobre el papel de las tradiciones administrativas en las políticas públicas. Los artículos en el número especial demuestran que la forma en que se organizan los actores estatales y sociales, las formas en que el asesoramiento científico ingresa en las burocracias y la uniformidad en la elaboración y la implementación de políticas son importantes para la política de adaptación. Llegamos a la conclusión de que el concepto de tradiciones administrativas sigue siendo necesario para comprender las decisiones tomadas por los actores públicos, pero sostenemos que otros factores, como los motivos económicos y la voluntad política, deberían considerarse de manera más crítica en la literatura sobre tradiciones administrativas.

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  • Robbert Biesbroek & B. Guy Peters & Jale Tosun, 2018. "Public Bureaucracy and Climate Change Adaptation," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 35(6), pages 776-791, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:35:y:2018:i:6:p:776-791
    DOI: 10.1111/ropr.12316
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    1. Kevin Grecksch & Carola Klöck, 2020. "Access and allocation in climate change adaptation," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 20(2), pages 271-286, June.
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    6. Kevin Grecksch & Carola Klöck, 0. "Access and allocation in climate change adaptation," International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, Springer, vol. 0, pages 1-16.

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