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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.102005
	Environmental hazards, rigid institutions, and transformative change: How drought affects the consideration of water and climate impacts in infrastructure management
	Ulibarri N.; Scott T.A.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	59
英文摘要	Climate change necessitates major changes in infrastructure siting, design, and operations. Successful adaptation of infrastructure management requires overcoming thorny institutional challenges including path dependency and isomorphic pressures that inhibit major shifts in norms and practices. Hazards have been posited as a potential trigger for changing long-standing institutions because they can upend stable system states. However, research on the ability of hazards to shift norms and practices is still nascent and focuses on rapid-onset disasters like floods, hurricanes, or fires. This paper uses the 2012–2016 California drought to assess the potential for slow-onset hazards to lead to institutional change. We assess whether it yielded a shift in institutional norms, namely agency application of existing regulations toward enhanced socio-ecological resilience in the face of climate change. We focus on the environmental impact assessment process under the National Environmental Policy Act and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's process for licensing hydropower dams. Using computational text analysis of Environmental Impact Statements and participant observation of infrastructure licensing negotiations, we assess whether, over the years of the drought, agencies placed more emphasis on drought issues or climate resilience in analyzing infrastructure siting and design. In EIS documents, we observe a short-term spike in consideration of drought-related impacts and a longer-term increase in water security, suggesting some shifts in institutional practice; however, consideration of climate impacts decreased over the time period. In FERC licensing, there was no consideration of future climate impacts, despite managers’ recognition that this posed a problem for projects’ future operations. Although these results do not preclude the ability of slow-onset hazards to shift institutional norms, they suggest that doing so is challenging. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Adaptive governance; Climate change; Drought; Environmental impact analysis; Infrastructure management; Institutional change
学科领域	adaptation; adaptive management; climate change; disaster management; drought; drought stress; environmental impact assessment; environmental management; environmental monitoring; governance approach; institutional framework; California; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; adaptive management; climate change; disaster management; drought; drought stress; environmental impact assessment; environmental management; environmental monitoring; governance approach; institutional framework; California; United States
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/116993
作者单位	Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy, University of California, Irvine, 300 Social Ecology I, Irvine, CA 92697, United States; Department of Environmental Science & Policy, University of California, Davis, CA 95818, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ulibarri N.,Scott T.A.. Environmental hazards, rigid institutions, and transformative change: How drought affects the consideration of water and climate impacts in infrastructure management[J],2019,59.
APA	Ulibarri N.,&Scott T.A..(2019).Environmental hazards, rigid institutions, and transformative change: How drought affects the consideration of water and climate impacts in infrastructure management.Global Environmental change,59.
MLA	Ulibarri N.,et al."Environmental hazards, rigid institutions, and transformative change: How drought affects the consideration of water and climate impacts in infrastructure management".Global Environmental change 59(2019).