Mobile Adaptation and Sticky Experiments

Circulating Best Practices and Lessons Learned in Climate Change Adaptation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5696261
AutoresSabra Webber (0000-0002-7597-4622, University of British Columbia, autor de correspondencia), Sophie Webber
Año2015
Volumen53
Número1
Páginas26-38
Fecha de publicación2015-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGeographical Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-5871.12102
OpenAlexW1686189390
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas28
Referencias citadas29

This article engages with the recent geographical literature on policy mobilities in order to examine how the World Bank mobilizes climate change adaptation 'best practices'. Drawing from the relational case study of the Kiribati Adaptation Project and the Community Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risk in Solomon Islands Project, the article explores the complex and intensive work required for mobilizing lessons and practices. The analytical work required in building the Kiribati Adaptation Project as a World Bank success story and policy model worthy of replication in new sites is demonstrated. However, heeding calls within the policy mobilities literature to avoid fetishizing mobility and attending to the contradictions between global flows and local institutional specificity, the article finds limited evidence of replication in noted sites of emulation. Instead, there is compulsive citation, publication, and circulation of experiences and successes within the World Bank, which operates to build internal and external legitimacy

Best practice · Climate change · Economic geography · Geography · Legitimacy · Mobilities · Political science · Psychological resilience · Social science · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology