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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.01.002
	Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities
	Shaw A.; Burch S.; Kristensen F.; Robinson J.; Dale A.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	25 期号:1
英文摘要	While the focus of government climate change policy in many regions is on mitigation, research shows that integrated approaches, focusing equally on mitigation and adaptation, seen in the context of more general sustainability goals, may ultimately yield more productive outcomes. Since 2008, the province of British Columbia has mandated that local governments be carbon neutral in their own operations and has used a suite of policies, outreach and incentive tools to enable them to do so. The Meeting the Climate Change Challenge project explored eleven leading communities in B.C. to empirically examine how climate change policies and innovations are being framed and considered at the local scale. In this paper, we examine the synergies and trade-offs between adaptation, mitigation, and sustainability. Our findings suggest that, among leading communities, pursuing an integrated sustainability strategy (rather than a narrow focus on climate change) has the potential to yield benefits for both adaptation and mitigation in the majority of cases. The findings suggest that communities leading on climate innovation in the province have moved beyond a siloed approach in considering mitigation and adaptation. These findings have implications on integrated decision making at the municipal scale and multi-level governance, identifying both the challenges and the benefits inherent in pursuing multiple priorities simultaneously. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Climate innovation; Co-benefits; Integrated climate action; Local climate governance; Sustainability transition
语种	英语
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/117797
作者单位	School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University, Canada; Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability, University of British Columbia, Canada; Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shaw A.,Burch S.,Kristensen F.,et al. Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities[J],2014,25(1).
APA	Shaw A.,Burch S.,Kristensen F.,Robinson J.,&Dale A..(2014).Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities.Global Environmental Change,25(1).
MLA	Shaw A.,et al."Accelerating the sustainability transition: Exploring synergies between adaptation and mitigation in British Columbian communities".Global Environmental Change 25.1(2014).