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Politics, values, and reflexivity: the case of adaptation to climate change in Hampton roads, Virginia

Haverkamp, Jamie AR·2017·Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
DOI 10.1177/0308518x17707525
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Climate adaptation planning is said to be a necessary and inevitable facet of future societies, and is rapidly occurring across a range of geopolitical scales. Previous scholarship suggests that a democratic decentralized approach, one that fosters inclusive participation and representation, is central to achieving equitable and sustainable outcomes of adaptation. However, recent studies frequently characterize the adaptation process as dominated by a techoscientific approach, among expert and elite actors, that tends to obscure or neglect the perceptions and desires of more marginalized members of society. This paper employs a values-based approach to better understand motivational factors for a closed and non-inclusive adaptation process. Through a case study of early, yet formidable stages of adaptation planning in the urban, coastal region of Hampton Roads, Virginia, empirical data among the epistemic community were gathered by interviews and participant observation at de facto adaptation planning forums. Research results document an exclusionary process favoring the participation and representation of technocratic elites and the exclusion of elected officials and local citizens. When linking these case study findings to value theory, inferences are made that adaptation planning in Hampton Roads is motivated by dominant institutional actor values of power and security, those that are theorized to be in opposition to values fostering social and environmental justice. In light of these research results, this paper calls for a critically reflexive adaptation practice, thereby challenging values, assumptions, and beliefs of the self, as well as social structures and power relations that shape adaptation planning.

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  • Adaptation planning and decision-making processes are often still dominated by technocentric approaches that perpetuate adaptation as the exclusive domain of experts and elite actors, while neglecting local needs, traditional knowledge, and historical struggles.

    “which are often still dominated by technocentric approaches that perpetuate adaptation as the exclusive domain of experts and elite actors, while neglecting local needs, traditional knowledge, and historical struggles (Anguelovski et al., 2019;Haverkamp, 2017).”

    From Intersectional climate justice: A conceptual pathway for bridging adaptation planning, transformative action, and social equity (2022) · cites this paper as Haverkamp, 2017

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Authors
Haverkamp, J. A.
Affiliations
University of Maine (US)
Corresponding author
Haverkamp, Jamie AR
ORCID
Haverkamp, Jamie AR
Venue
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2017-05-11
Volume
49
Issue
11
Pages
2673-2692
ISSN
  • 0308-518X (ISSN-L)
  • 1472-3409
DOI
10.1177/0308518x17707525
OpenAlex
W2613065767
Cited by
32
References
47
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1
FWCI
1.71
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Disaster Management and Resilience
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
Keywords
climate change adaptation, adaptation planning, Hampton Roads, technocratic elites, epistemic communities, values-based approach, socio-environmental justice, reflexivity, democratic decentralization, coastal cities, elected officials

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