Title
Integration in urban climate adaptation: Lessons from Rotterdam on integration between scientific disciplines and integration between scientific and stakeholder knowledge
Author
Groot, A.M.E.
Bosch, P.R.
Buijs, S.
Jacobs, C.M.J.
Moors, E.J.
Publication year
2015
Abstract
Based on the experience acquired in the Bergpolder Zuid district in the city of Rotterdam, The Netherlands, this paper presents lessons learned so far on science-policy interactions supporting the adaptation to climate change in an urban district. Two types of integration issues were considered: (1) Integration within science including integration of disciplines, methods, models and data, and (2) integration between science and the local stakeholders' society, involving a synthesis of scientific and practical knowledge, linking sectors, governance arrangements and organisations. At first sight, the issues around integration within science and beyond the science of climate change adaptation in cities resemble those generally observed in science-policy integration. However, the relative newness of urban adaptation to climate change poses specific challenges for both the scientists and the stakeholders involved in the process. The Rotterdam example discusses the use of multiple means of integration for enhancing integration between scientific disciplines and integration between scientific and stakeholder knowledge.
Subject
Earth / Environmental
CAS - Climate, Air and Sustainability
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Urban Development
Environment
Built Environment
Integration
Science-practice interaction
Urban climate adaptation research
Integration
Climate change adaptation
Policy integration
Science-practice interaction
Scientific discipline
Urban climates
Climate change
Netherlands
Rotterdam
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2014.07.023
TNO identifier
521636
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
ISSN
0360-1323
Source
Building and Environment, 83, 177-188
Document type
article