Dutch municipalities tackling climate change adaptation to heat stress through mainstreaming across sectors

IF 4.9 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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As climate change accelerates, adapting to heat stress means preventing excess deaths, increased healthcare costs, reduced productivity, and damaged infrastructure and buildings. In cities, the urban heat island effect exacerbates these impacts. Adapting to heat stress requires action by a multitude of actors in different domains, including infrastructure and building owners, health care and social workers, and vulnerable inhabitants. While there is research on heat stress adaptation by single sectors, there is a significant knowledge gap regarding heat adaptation across sectors. To contribute to bridging this knowledge gap, we answer the following research question: To what extent and how are municipalities in the Dutch Province of Overijssel mainstreaming heat stress as part of their adaptation efforts? To answer this question, we combine action-oriented research employing the Institutional Analysis and Development Framework in a Dutch municipality, with a survey conducted among 15 municipalities located in the same province. Our research identifies two major challenges. First, the implementation of heat adaptation remains limited. Second, we identified two challenges regarding mainstreaming, namely a mismatch between the responsibility of heat adaptation in the built environment vis-à-vis the health care sector, and a lack of information on vulnerable groups that makes cross-sectoral collaboration more difficult. Thus, the extent to which heat adaptation is being mainstreamed as part of municipalities’ efforts to adapt the built environment is still quite limited and heat stress management at the intersection with the health care sector remains mostly absent, leaving vulnerable groups exposed.

荷兰市政当局通过跨部门主流化应对气候变化,适应热压力
随着气候变化的加速,适应热应激意味着防止过多的死亡、医疗费用的增加、生产力的降低以及基础设施和建筑物的损坏。在城市,城市热岛效应加剧了这些影响。适应热应激需要不同领域的众多参与者采取行动,包括基础设施和建筑物所有者、医疗保健和社会工作者以及弱势居民。虽然有关于单个部门适应热压的研究,但关于跨部门适应热压的研究还存在很大的知识差距。为了弥补这一知识空白,我们回答了以下研究问题:为了回答这个问题,我们在荷兰的一个市镇采用了机构分析和发展框架,并在同一省的 15 个市镇中进行了调查。我们的研究发现了两大挑战。首先,热适应的实施仍然有限。其次,我们发现了两个主流化方面的挑战,即建筑环境与医疗保健部门在热适应方面的责任不匹配,以及弱势群体信息的缺乏导致跨部门合作更加困难。因此,作为市政当局调整建筑环境努力的一部分,热适应主流化的程度仍然相当有限,与医疗保健部门交叉的热应力管理仍然大多缺失,使弱势群体暴露在外。
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Environmental Science & Policy
Environmental Science & Policy 环境科学-环境科学
CiteScore
10.90
自引率
8.30%
发文量
332
审稿时长
68 days
期刊介绍: Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non-renewable natural resources, sustainability, and the interactions among these issues. The journal emphasises the linkages between these environmental issues and social and economic issues such as production, transport, consumption, growth, demographic changes, well-being, and health. However, the subject coverage will not be restricted to these issues and the introduction of new dimensions will be encouraged.
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