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The role of scale in integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation in cities
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By using a scale framework, we examine how cross-scale interactions influence the implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation actions in different urban sectors. Based on stakeholder interviews and content analysis of strategies and projects relevant to climate adaptation and mitigation in the cities of Copenhagen and Helsinki, we present empirical examples of synergies, conflicts and trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation that are driven by the cross-scale interactions. These examples show that jurisdictional and institutional scales shape the implementation of adaptation and mitigation strategies, projects and tasks at the management scale, creating benefits of integrated solutions, but also challenges. Investigating the linkages between adaptation and mitigation through a scale framework provides new knowledge for urban climate change planning and decision-making. The results increase the understanding of why adaptation and mitigation are sometimes handled as two separate policy areas and also why attempts to integrate the two policies may fail.
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Using a scale framework, this paper examines how cross-scale interactions shape the integration of climate adaptation and mitigation in Copenhagen and Helsinki. It finds that jurisdictional and institutional scales influence management-scale implementation, producing both synergies and conflicts or trade-offs, with 11 empirical examples identified.
Key findings
- Across interviews and policy documents, the authors identified 11 examples of conflicts, synergies, and trade-offs caused by cross-scale interactions in two contexts: urban densification and energy efficiency of buildings (mitigation), and surface runoff and urban heat management (adaptation); 8 examples were in Copenhagen and 3 in Helsinki.
- Jurisdictional-management and institutional-management interactions can cause trade-offs and conflicts and hinder integration; drivers include differences in perceptions and priorities among local jurisdictions and a limited institutional framework, such as narrow tenders, legal restrictions, and national climate policy priorities.
- Synergies include Copenhagen building energy efficiency tied to flood protection, green roofs and walls that delay rainwater and reduce air-conditioning needs, the Act on Municipal Cooling Systems, and the HOFOR merger of energy and water services; in Helsinki, Helen Oy’s district heating and cooling system supports energy efficiency while being prepared for extreme weather.
- Conflicts and trade-offs include Copenhagen groundwater pumps increasing energy demand and measurement difficulties due to landownership; in Helsinki, energy-efficiency requirements have been prioritized over material durability, and adaptation measures requiring physical space compete with densification for mitigation.
Methods
- Comparative case study of Copenhagen and Helsinki, selected for ambitious climate goals and similar climate risks, size, and institutional settings; populations were about 585,000 in Copenhagen and 613,000 in Helsinki, with carbon-neutral targets by 2025 and 2050 respectively.
- Semi-structured in-depth interviews with 29 stakeholders (28 face-to-face and 1 via Skype), each approximately one hour, conducted in Helsinki in May, June, and September 2013 (16 organizations) and in Copenhagen in September and October 2013 (10 organizations); interviewees came from public-sector organizations and private-sector organizations, including one local NGO and two consulting companies.
- Content analysis of policy documents and projects: Helsinki Metropolitan Area Climate Strategy to the Year 2030, Helsinki Metropolitan Area Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, and Kalasatama district; CPH 2025 Climate Plan, CPH Climate Adaptation Plan, and Skt. Kjeld’s district; material was coded with ATLAS.ti 7 using an a priori coding structure and data triangulation.
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- Stated: the study is limited to Copenhagen and Helsinki; the authors note the framework could be applied to a larger sample of cities, and a larger variation could allow comparisons between significantly different cities, such as in developing and developed countries.
- Stated: it is not feasible to analyze all possible scale interactions because there is a plurality of views on how scale and scale interactions can be understood.
- Evident from the text: the study focuses mainly on the public-sector point of view, and the interviews were conducted in 2013, so the empirical findings reflect that period.
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“In addition, further analysis reveals 'drivers' of conflicts, synergies and trade-offs that can help explain why certain factors along different scales cause challenges for integration of adaptation and mitigation.”
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“Eight of these were identified in Copenhagen and three in Helsinki.”
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“We identified two conflicts in the water sector, where the Copenhagen adaptation strategy (City of Copenhagen 2011) indicates that in practice, the increasing use of groundwater pumps by the water sector to avoid flood damage can be in conflict with mitigation efforts due to increasing demand for energy (Fig. 4, example 1).”
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“In Copenhagen, the Act on Municipal Cooling Systems (No. 465 of 2008) tries to alleviate this conflict by increasing energy efficiency of buildings and alternative air-conditioning (e.g. district cooling).”
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“Based on stakeholder interviews and content analysis of strategies and projects relevant to climate adaptation and mitigation in the cities of Copenhagen and Helsinki, we present empirical examples of synergies, conflicts and trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation that are driven by the cross-scale interactions.”
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“First, one synergy in Copenhagen was identified in the building sector. The Copenhagen Adaptation Plan (City of Copenhagen 2011) denotes that buildings should be designed in an energy efficient way to support mitigation, and, at the same time, reduce risk of flooding by flood protection techniques such as sealed basements that function as adaptation measures to protect buildings (Fig. 2, example 1”
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“Our empirical material (interviews, documents) reveals 11 examples of conflicts, synergies and trade-offs in the two empirical contexts caused by cross-scale interactions that can help explain the inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation and reasons why integration of the policies succeed or fail.”
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“In Helsinki we identified one conflict in the context of urban densification and energy efficiency of buildings. There is a conflict caused by energy efficiency requirements (institutional scale) to reduce emissions that have to be re-considered at the jurisdictional scale since emission reduction and energy efficiency regulations for building design have been stricter so far or have had higher”
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“The third synergy is identified in the jurisdictional scale's influence on the Copenhagen adaptation strategy that appears to be the cooperation of energy and water sectors: the merger of Copenhagen's formerly separate energy service and water service organizations to HOFOR allows for the cooperation of the energy and the water sector, as HOFOR represents both adaptation and mitigation”
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“In this study, we present multiple ways how cross-scale interactions directly influence the integration of adaptation and mitigation: they hinder the possibilities for integration, force to make trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, but sometimes also enhance the integration of adaptation and mitigation by providing synergies.”
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“Furthermore, legislation or guidelines on how to consider both policy areas simultaneously are lacking (McEvoy et al. 2006), as also our results show.”
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“Innovations can be driven by other policy objectives than climate change, as our findings indicate.”
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“In this study, we present multiple ways how cross-scale interactions directly influence the integration of adaptation and mitigation: they hinder the possibilities for integration, force to make trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, but sometimes also enhance the integration of adaptation and mitigation by providing synergies.”
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“Also in Copenhagen, possibilities to integrate adaptation and mitigation are challenging when the national government or local actors focus very narrowly on one policy only, such as in Copenhagen where disciplinary silos exist:”
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“One problem is that different local jurisdictions have their own values, interests and preconceptions of what the policy priorities are (adaptation vs. mitigation), and what kinds of measures can be considered (jurisdictional scale).”
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“Further empirical evidence shows that the spatial planners in Helsinki are aware of the challenges of integrating adaptation with mitigation.”
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“Our findings support the hypothesis that the cross-scale interactions influence the implementation of adaptation and mitigation, and affect the possibilities to integrate the two policies in both cities in many different ways.”
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“As revealed by the several examples of conflicts, our study underlines that integration of adaptation and mitigation in urban areas is challenging.”
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“For example, the district heating and cooling system operated by the energy company Helen Oy, supports climate risk resilient low emission energy production (cf. Sheppard et al. 2012).”
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- Not checked yetcites Sheppard et al. 2012
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“In Helsinki, national energy policy and mitigation, driven by strict regulations for energy efficiency of building design, lead to higher priority of local administrations for mitigation measures, such as insulation, rather than adaptation measures, such as material durability improvements to protect buildings from floods.”
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“In Copenhagen, some examples of synergies between adaptation and mitigation are related to material and energy efficiency guidelines and roadmaps that encompass both energy efficiency and flood protection guidelines for building design, and indicate that especially energy policy has potential to simultaneously support both climate objectives.”
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“Although local actors in cities might be innovative in thinking, as also found in the literature (Bulkeley 2010), we found that both Nordic cities still follow the rules and regulations of national governments, which to some extent limit realization of integrated solutions.”
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“Nevertheless, common conflicts in both cities originate from differing strategic goals and priorities of the administrations between adaptation and mitigation to varying relevance of a specific policy for decision-making (Hamin and Gurran 2009), as our results show.”
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“In Copenhagen, the operational rules (institutional scale) of tendering cause difficulties to find integrated solutions of mitigation and adaptation.”
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“In Helsinki, the city administration (jurisdictional scale) has to carefully balance the use of space (spatial level) in its planning activities (projects and tasks for both adaptation and mitigation at the management level): how the space is used for adaptation in a way that it will not hinder mitigation (Fig. 6, example 1):”
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“This is revealed by one trade-off that we identified: the adaptation and mitigation jurisdictions have to balance between adaptation measures that require physical space, such as some surface runoff management measures, and mitigation measures for urban densification, which reduce the possibility to increase energy efficiency.”
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“Adaptation strategy can cause increased energy use, due to need to increase in the capacity of groundwater pumps to handle floodwater more efficiently by the water sector, which should also be taken into account when implementing water sector and energy policies.”
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“One example is when some authorities would like to support green solutions, such as green roofs that are beneficial for both adaptation and mitigation, whereas others do not perceive them beneficial due to concerns related to construction and maintenance of such solutions.”
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“Strategic urban planning solutions that can help resolve competing goals have been pointed out by in the literature but were not visible in the two cities (Hamin and Gurran 2009).”
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“In Helsinki, the interview responses indicate that different goals of international climate policies, and different strategic goals of national and local governments at jurisdictional scale are particularly problematic, when considering the integration of adaptation and mitigation:”
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“But because we were also able to identify a plenty of synergies, which show that adaptation and mitigation can be addressed in an integrated manner, it can be concluded that integration does make sense - at least in the case cities Copenhagen and Helsinki.”
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“In Copenhagen, we found two instances where adaptation measures cause conflicts with mitigation measures.”
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“We also found that national climate policy priorities (adaptation vs. mitigation) can intensify the already existing 'policy' silos among the local jurisdictions.”
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“In Helsinki, the interviewees mentioned that when considering the temporal scale of investments, there are trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, which have to be negotiated at the jurisdictional scale.”
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“Our findings support the hypothesis that the cross-scale interactions influence the implementation of adaptation and mitigation, and affect the possibilities to integrate the two policies in both cities in many different ways.”
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“In urban planning practice, conflicts can emerge when flood damage and heat island effects are avoided by urban greening that in turn requires more physical space in the city. This can counteract with densification of urban structure that is undertaken to reduce emissions by reducing travel distances (ibid.).”
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“The literature review of Landauer et al. (2015) also shows that many conflicts between the two policies in cities are driven by different policy priorities or by administrative processes or limited resources, or they appear in urban planning practice due to competing use of”
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“This means that depending on the goals and priorities of adaptation or mitigation in cities, trade-offs, i.e. 'balancing' (Klein et al. 2007, 749) is required when beneficiaries and policy priorities differ between the two climate policies (Heidrich et al. 2013).”
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“Previous research has revealed trade-offs and conflicts between adaptation and mitigation policies and practices in urban areas (e.g. Ayers and Huq 2009, Hamin and Gurran 2009, Anguelowski and Carmin 2011, Sugar, Kennedy, and Hoornweg 2013, Dymén and Langlais 2013, S. Barbhuiya, S. Barbhuiya, and Salim 2013).”
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“which is not necessarily time and cost efficient especially in the long term (Walsh et al. 2011).”
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“So, the combined effect of adaptation and mitigation is greater than if adaptation or mitigation were implemented separately.”
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“This means that strategic guidelines and the framing of projects at the management scale can enhance synergies at the city administration (local level, jurisdictional scale) that is in charge of implementation (Fig. 2, example 3).”
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“This means a law (at the institutional scale) reduces the conflict between mitigation and adaptation goals that can be identified in the task to reduce indoor temperature of buildings in the city (management scale).”
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“The results show that the origins of conflicts and trade-offs, as well as synergies between adaptation and mitigation can be explained by these scale interactions.”
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“In this case, the institutional scale, by means of operating rules for evaluation, can influence the attempts to integrate adaptation and mitigation in practice.”
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“The increased use of air-conditioning as adaptation to higher temperature would be in conflict with the mitigation aim to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.”
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“The challenges and potential of integration become manifested in the implementation of measures in practice at the local level in the form of synergies, trade-offs and conflicts (i.e. inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation) in the management scale.”
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“This provides us a broader empirical basis to test our hypothesis and answer our research questions (Seawright and Gerring 2008) rather than focusing on only one city.”
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“Implementation of climate adaptation in the management scale of the city follows the same logic, and in both cities the implementation is mainly the responsibility of local public authorities, but to some extent also of citizens and private actors (Klein et al. 2016a).”
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“We consider it more likely that the conflicts at the local level can be avoided or diminished and synergies strengthened, if the cross-scale interactions can be identified better and therefore be better understood.”
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“A trade-off between adaptation and mitigation can become manifested in any city particularly in strategic urban planning, and in building and infrastructure sectors in particular, when mitigation and adaptation goals suggest competing types of land use (adaptation or mitigation management) for a specific geographical area (spatial scale) (see McEvoy et al. 2006).”
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“Second, a synergy was identified in the energy sector with actions that require proactive planning (jurisdictional scale) and operational rules related to them (institutional scale). For instance, there is a possibility for the energy sector to integrate adaptation actions into their precautionary actions to protect energy supply from extreme weather events.”
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“However, our study also indicates that possibilities to avoid this dichotomy and enhance synergies by integrating adaptation with mitigation depend on how well these scale-interactions are understood.”
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“While, this study is limited to Copenhagen and Helsinki, we consider that the research framework could also be applied to examine a larger sample of cities.”
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“In attempts to develop proactive, synergetic climate responses in an integrated manner that are at the same time cost-efficient (Giordano 2012) and politically acceptable (Viguie and Hallegatte 2012), understanding of the cross-scale interactions and background drivers of these is advantageous.”
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- Not checked yetcites Giordano 2012
- Not checked yetcites Viguie and Hallegatte 2012
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“These results show that the dichotomy between adaptation and mitigation (cf. Goklany 2007, Biesbroek et al. 2009) can be at least partially explained by scale interactions.”
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- Not checked yetcites Goklany 2007
- Not checked yetcites Biesbroek et al. 2009
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“But because we were also able to identify a plenty of synergies, which show that adaptation and mitigation can be addressed in an integrated manner, it can be concluded that integration does make sense - at least in the case cities Copenhagen and Helsinki.”
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“The third synergy was identified in the Sankt Kjeld's project district, related to 'future-proofing' of dwellings. A number of energy improvements and green developments, such as such as solar power cells, passive sun heating and local drainage of rainwater are being promoted but further improvements are needed (The Integrated Urban Renewal in Skt. Kjeld's 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites The Integrated Urban Renewal in Skt. Kjeld's 2011
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“Also, the 'mitigation' strategy of Copenhagen (City of Copenhagen 2012, 10) denotes that when renovating homes, materials such as green roofs, can help manage rainwater and provide more comfortable indoor climate at the same time. This reduces the need to use electricity-based conventional cooling systems.”
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- Not checked yetcites City of Copenhagen 2012
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“The purpose of the Act on Municipal Cooling Systems (No. 465 of 2008) is to increase the energy efficiency of buildings and reduce the use of conventional air-conditioning, due to the urban heat island effect (Fig. 3, example 1).”
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- Not checked yetcites Act on Municipal Cooling Systems (No. 465 of 2008)
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“This kind of evaluation was done on a voluntary basis as part of the development of Kalasatama district in Helsinki and it took the form of a report (Wahlgren, Kuismanen and Makkonen 2007). The Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) together with the City Planning Department of Helsinki prepared it.”
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- Not checked yetcites Wahlgren, Kuismanen and Makkonen 2007
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“Second, the Copenhagen Adaptation Plan (City of Copenhagen 2011, 58) mentions the potential of green spaces in both surface runoff management and regulating indoor temperatures of buildings.”
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- Not checked yetcites City of Copenhagen 2011
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“Furthermore, an evaluation of measures would be important but here the landownership (property ownership) appears again problematic, leading to difficulties in measuring the impacts of adaptation on mitigation, and vice versa (jurisdictional scale) (Fig. 4, example 2):”
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“It also mentions that building regulations (institutional scale) can be applied to keep storm water away from buildings and assure good indoor temperature conditions in buildings (City of Copenhagen 2011, 77).”
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- Not checked yetcites City of Copenhagen 2011
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“These examples show that jurisdictional and institutional scales shape the implementation of adaptation and mitigation strategies, projects and tasks at the management scale, creating benefits of integrated solutions, but also challenges.”
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“The second synergy was identified as part of the city administration's climate work in Copenhagen, namely the mitigation strategy (City of Copenhagen 2012), which provides an analysis, demonstration and implementation roadmap for energy efficient buildings. The strategy states that new buildings should be constructed so that they cover both climate adaptation and low energy use requirements (Fig.”
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- Not checked yetcites City of Copenhagen 2012
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“The project Sankt Kjeld's presents examples of the synergies of green roofs and green walls that delay the water's passage to the sewer system during heavy rainfalls and also reduce the need for energy-consuming air-conditioning in the example of the urban heat island effect (The Integrated Urban Renewal in Skt. Kjeld's 2011, City of Copenhagen 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites The Integrated Urban Renewal in Skt. Kjeld's 2011
- Not checked yetcites City of Copenhagen 2013
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“An example of the current situation is that the Kalasatama smart grid system allows a testing ground for smart future energy solutions, and at the same time the district takes into account sea level rise and potential floods in all of its planning and construction, including the smart grid system (SITRA, Tekes and VTT 2011).”
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- Not checked yetcites SITRA, Tekes and VTT 2011
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“In this study, we present multiple ways how cross-scale interactions directly influence the integration of adaptation and mitigation: they hinder the possibilities for integration, force to make trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation, but sometimes also enhance the integration of adaptation and mitigation by providing synergies.”
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“Also, our findings indicate that adaptation has received less attention and is less institutionalized than mitigation in Helsinki, where the latter is still strongly driven by international agreements and steered by national government, as also found by Juhola (2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Juhola (2013)
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“Based on a draft master plan for the district, the report includes an assessment and evaluation of potential climate change impacts, suggestions for adaptation measures and calculations of greenhouse gas emissions for the district (Wahlgren, Kuismanen and Makkonen 2007) (Fig. 5, example 1).”
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- Not checked yetcites Wahlgren, Kuismanen and Makkonen 2007
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“We found two instances; one trade-off and one synergy, where adaptation affects mitigation the context of how surface runoff and urban heat management are carried out in Helsinki.”
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“From the institutional point of view, the legal framework is also not considered optimal for integrated solutions in Copenhagen, and there are legislative restrictions for integration (institutional scale) that affect the jurisdictional setting:”
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“This is a common practice of Helen Oy in Helsinki, a city-owned commercial energy provider (Fig. 7, example 1), which has been a worldwide pioneer in developing district heating and cooling (DHC) technologies (Riipinen 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Riipinen 2013
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“The whole system of DHC plants in Helsinki has been built to increase energy efficiency of the city (mitigation) but at the same time assuring that this system keeps the city energy secure, which also means that the system is prepared for climate risks (adaptation, although not because of a specific adaptation objective but rather energy policy driven), such as from extreme weather events:”
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“Based on our analysis, two issues emerge: first, differences in perceptions and priorities how policy implementation should take place, and second, limited institutional framework to integrate adaptation with mitigation.”
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“Helsinki implements proactive actions and has operating rules in place to protect energy supply (a critical function for energy efficiency) from extreme weather events, such as sea level rise or storm surges.”
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“In terms of investments, calls for tenders are sometimes considered too narrow to invest in both:”
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“Conflicts, defined by OED (2015) as 'a serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests', can appear when an attempt to find integrated solutions for adaptation and mitigation in urban planning fails, or the two climate policies are implemented in 'silos'”
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- Not checked yetcites Walsh et al. 2011
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“For example, lack of financial resources or competing policy goals of city administrations can hinder the policy integration in cities.”
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- Not checked yetcites Landauer, Juhola and Söderholm 2015
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“When dealing with climate risks in local urban contexts, adaptation reduces the city's sensitivity, while mitigation reduces to exposure to climate change impacts (Yohe and Strzebek, 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites Yohe and Strzebek, 2007
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“Previous studies have indicated that adaptation and mitigation are complementary, interlinked policy areas.”
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- Not checked yetcites Yohe and Strzebek, 2007
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“It has further been argued that governance systems are currently unable to address the role that the scale interactions might have (Termeer and Dewulf 2014), leading to inadequate responses to environmental and socio-economic threats, such as climate change.”
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- Not checked yetcites Termeer and Dewulf 2014
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“Despite this interest, it is argued that the concept of scale itself and its implications has been an understudied area, in social sciences in particular (Gibson et al. 2000, Padt et al. 2014) and a persistent issue of conceptual ambiguity and imprecision (Padt and Arts, 2014).”
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- Not checked yetcites Gibson et al. 2000
- Not checked yetcites Padt et al. 2014
- Not checked yetcites Padt and Arts, 2014
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“Differences in policy objectives across multiple scales have been frequently noted as a reason for the dichotomy between adaptation and mitigation when these two policies are being implemented (Goklany 2007, Biesbroek, Swart and van der Knaap Wim 2009).”
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- Not checked yetcites Goklany 2007
- Not checked yetcites Biesbroek, Swart and van der Knaap Wim 2009
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“The results increase the understanding of why adaptation and mitigation are sometimes handled as two separate policy areas and also why attempts to integrate the two policies may fail.”
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“Thus, the two case cities are fairly similar with respect to climate risks, size of the cities, and institutional settings.”
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“Additionally, considering the temporal scale, greenhouse gases have a long residence time in the atmosphere and the benefits of mitigation will be evidenced after several decades, although co-benefits such as air pollution reduction can be observed in the short run.”
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- Not checked yetcites IPCC 2007
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“The coding structure was developed a priori.”
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“In both Copenhagen and Helsinki, the climate objectives and motivation are not solely the result of national or international requirements (top-down), but these cities have been very active in initiating and developing their own climate agendas, and are part of some climate networks (bottom-up), such as many other cities (see Bulkeley 2005, Bulkeley and Betsill 2005, Betsill and Bulke”
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- Not checked yetcites Bulkeley 2005
- Not checked yetcites Bulkeley and Betsill 2005
- Not checked yetcites Betsill and Bulkeley 2006
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“Nevertheless, in many Nordic cities the implementation of climate change related measures happens within the framework of national policy and regulations, a trend also observed elsewhere (cf. Jordan, Wurzel, and Zito 2005, Peters 2014).”
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- Not checked yetcites Jordan, Wurzel, and Zito 2005
- Not checked yetcites Peters 2014
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“This means that climate change initiatives of city networks can drive local adaptation and bypass the state. This makes cities to 'translocal sites' rather than a level embedded in a hierarchical structure of city and state (Bulkeley 2005, p. 887, Bulkeley and Betsill 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Bulkeley 2005
- Not checked yetcites Bulkeley and Betsill 2013
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“The audio-recordings were transcribed and responses verified (following Guion, Diehl, and McDonald 2011, 2).”
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- Not checked yetcites Guion, Diehl, and McDonald 2011
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“Considering the spatial scale, adaptation actions are mainly beneficial at the local level. Adaptation measures can reduce vulnerability to climate variability in the long term also, but the effectiveness of adaptation measures can become 'visible' immediately (IPCC 2007).”
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- Not checked yetcites IPCC 2007
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“The interview question format was open-ended and an interview guide helped the interviewers to focus on the key topics, to maintain consistency, and to 'stay on track'.”
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“Thus, the Copenhagen's adaptation strategy ties together the two otherwise unrelated legal requirements for energy efficiency and flood protection and reveals how synergies can be created.”
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“For example, IPCC (2007) states that mitigation efforts are mainly a global responsibility and provide global benefits.”
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- Not checked yetcites IPCC 2007
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“Although mitigation is still quite often better institutionalized than adaptation (cf. Anguelowski and Carmen 2011), especially Copenhagen is investing heavily in adaptation actions, partially due to the past flood events, such as a cloudburst event in 2011.”
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Anguelowski and Carmen 2011
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“Cities across the world are now managing both climate adaptation and mitigation to prepare for risks and impacts (Rosenzweig et al. 2017 in press ) with their own initiatives and by means of networks, such as the Cities for Climate Protection (CCP) (Betsill and Bulkeley 2006).”
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- Not checked yetcites Rosenzweig et al. 2017 in press
- Not checked yetcites Betsill and Bulkeley 2006
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“However, this often takes place without proper coordination or available resources from the state for adaptation and mitigation and their implementation would still quite often require state involvement and public policy-making (Juhola and Westerhoff 2011, Dannevik, Rauken, and Hovelsrud 2012, Dymén and Langlais 2013).”
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- Not checked yetcites Juhola and Westerhoff 2011
- Not checked yetcites Dannevik, Rauken, and Hovelsrud 2012
- Not checked yetcites Dymén and Langlais 2013
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“We found the combination of interviews and policy document analysis useful in identifying scale interactions.”
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“Application of this scale framework improves understanding of the inter-relationships between adaptation and mitigation.”
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“These different perceptions 'drive' a conflict on the ground, while hindering such an integrated action to be implemented, and instead, could support an alternative option to be realized, which is only beneficial for one of the two policy objectives.”
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“Based on the findings, we conclude that an empirical examination of linkages between adaptation and mitigation through the scale framework provides new knowledge for urban climate change planning and decision-making to better understand the scales at which the two climate policies overlap, interplay and influence the decisions and practices of adaptation and mitigation.”
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The public sector still plays an important role in implementing climate policies and practices in Nordic countries.
“Understanding the role of public sector is important because the public sector still plays an important role in implementing climate policies and practices in Nordic countries.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The translation of global climate policies into regional and local level management practices is not a straightforward process.
“However, the translation of global climate policies into regional and local level management practices is not a straightforward process.”
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“Synergies have been discovered in Copenhagen between energy efficiency and flood protection criteria for building design.”
From Strategies to achieve a carbon neutral society: a review (2022) · cites this paper as Landauer et al. 2018
In the citing paper
“Furthermore, the study discovered a contradiction in which a higher capacity of groundwater pumps was necessary to regulate floodwater, resulting in increased energy consumption.”
From Strategies to achieve a carbon neutral society: a review (2022) · cites this paper as Landauer et al. 2018
In the citing paper
“In Helsinki, strong national policies on energy-efficient building design compelled municipal governments to prioritize mitigation measures such as building insulation over adaptation measures such as using durable materials to safeguard buildings from flooding.”
From Strategies to achieve a carbon neutral society: a review (2022) · cites this paper as Landauer et al. 2018
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Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
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§ 2.2. Cross-scale interaction · p. 7
“In the two empirical contexts - how mitigation affects adaptation and how adaptation affects adaptation, the scale framework helps considering whether the implementation of adaptation and mitigation should be done separately or in an integrated manner.”
§ 2.2. Cross-scale interaction · p. 8
“In this study, we present the results of adaptation and mitigation inter-relationships and scale interactions in the case cities in two empirical contexts in the case cities: (1) mitigation affecting adaptation (2) adaptation affecting mitigation.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Landauer, M., Juhola, S., & Klein, J.
- Affiliations
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (AT)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- Geological Survey of Finland (FI)
- Corresponding author
- Landauer, Mia
- Venue
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2018-04-03
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 741-765
- ISSN
- 0964-0568 (ISSN-L)
- 1360-0559
- OpenAlex
- W2783728736
- Semantic Scholar
- 1a1e0258d4fb1bea584df68a0fcab10d97b4676c
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 83
- Citations by year
- 2026: 13 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 19 · 2022: 27 · 2021: 29 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 1
- FWCI
- 6.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- Journal of Environmental Planning and Management (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- IIASA PURE (International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Aaltodoc (Aalto University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Työväentutkimus Vuosikirja (submittedVersion)
- LaCRIS (University of Lapland) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- Funders
- Norden Top-level Research Initiative sub-programme ‘Effect Studies and Adaptation to Climate Change’.
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Keywords
- climate change adaptation, climate change mitigation, cross-scale interactions, urban climate policy, institutional scale, urban climate planning, Copenhagen, Helsinki, stakeholder perspectives
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