eprintid: 13956 rev_number: 15 eprint_status: archive userid: 353 dir: disk0/00/01/39/56 datestamp: 2016-11-16 16:01:45 lastmod: 2021-08-27 17:41:38 status_changed: 2016-11-16 16:01:45 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Klein, J. creators_name: Landauer, M. creators_name: Juhola, S. creators_id: 8794 title: Local authorities and the engagement of private actors in climate change adaptation ispublished: pub divisions: prog_risk divisions: prog_rpv keywords: Climate change adaptation; local level; responsibilities; policy instruments; public and private goods abstract: The local level and private actors play an important role in the implementation of climate change adaptation. The engagement of the private sector and citizens has received increasing attention in recent years. Local authorities' choice of policy instruments, the distribution of responsibilities and the benefits of adaptation as a public or a private good have a bearing on the involvement of private actors. Based on interviews and documents from Copenhagen and Helsinki, we analyse how public authorities' choices, to whom and how they shift responsibilities, can foster transformational, participatory or market-oriented elements of adaptation. The results indicate that local authorities play a dominant role in providing adaptation. Public authorities steer where the private sector and citizens are expected to take responsibilities. This mix of top-down steering, market mechanisms and citizen involvement might reduce the advantages that a shift of responsibilities towards private actors could provide for the handling of climate change adaptation. date: 2016-11-29 date_type: published publisher: Sage id_number: 10.1177/0263774X16680819 creators_browse_id: 171 full_text_status: public publication: Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy pagerange: 1-20 refereed: TRUE issn: 1472-3425 projects: Arctic Futures Initiative (AFI) coversheets_dirty: FALSE fp7_project: no fp7_type: info:eu-repo/semantics/article citation: Klein, J., Landauer, M. , & Juhola, S. (2016). Local authorities and the engagement of private actors in climate change adaptation. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 1-20. 10.1177/0263774X16680819 . document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13956/1/Local%20authorities%20and%20the%20engagement%20of%20private%20actors%20in%20climate%20change%20adaptation.pdf document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13956/2/supplement1.pdf document_url: https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/13956/3/supplement2.pdf