Shadow Spaces for Social Learning
A Relational Understanding of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change within Organisations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4140901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret Pelling (0000-0002-6472-9875, Department of Geography, Kings College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, England, corresponding author), Mark Pelling, Chris High (Centre for Complexity and Change, Open University, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England, corresponding author), John Dearing (University of Liverpool), John A Dearing (0000-0002-1466-9640, University of Liverpool, corresponding author), Denis Smith (0000-0003-3155-6709, University of Glasgow, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 867-884 |
| Publication date | 2008-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning A Economy and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-518X • E-ISSN: 1472-3409 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1068/a39148 |
| OpenAlex | W1981409404 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 162 |
| References cited | 29 |
Recent UK government policy on climate change, and wider policy movement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, emphasise the building of adaptive capacity. But what are the institutional constraints that shape capacity to build adaptive organisations? The authors synthesise theory from social learning and institutional aspects of multilevel environmental governance to help unpack the patterns of individual and collective action within organisations that can enhance or restrict organisational adaptive capacity in the face of abrupt climate change. Theoretical synthesis is grounded by empirical work with a local dairy farmers group and two supporting public sector bodies that are both local actors in their own rights and which also shape the operating environment for other local actors (the Environment Agency and the Welsh Assembly and Assembly-sponsored public bodies). Providing space within and between local organisations for individuals to develop private as well as officially sanctioned social relationships is supported as a pathway to enable social learning. It is also a resource for adaptation that requires little financial investment but does call for a rethinking of the personal skills and working routines that are incentivised within organisations
Adaptive capacity · Business · Capacity building · Climate change · Collective action · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Knowledge management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social learning · Sociology · Rural development and sustainability · Social Capital and Networks · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
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Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems
Risk management for global environmental change
Successful adaptation to climate change across scales
What drives environmental policy
Planning for climate change in small islands
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Are we missing the point? Global environmental change as an issue of human security
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Institutional adaptation to climate change
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