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dc.contributor.authorBarr, SW
dc.contributor.authorWoodley, E
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-05T13:19:20Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-21
dc.description.abstractThe last ten years have witnessed increasing levels of concern and public debate about the risks associated with environmental hazards such as flooding in the UK and the likelihood that these will increase in frequency due to anthropogenic climate change. In this paper, we argue that attempts to mitigate this process through a focus on individualised risk communication and behavioural change are unlikely to be successful, given the epistemic conflicts surrounding climate change knowledges in public discourse. In response, we argue for an alternative framework for developing environmental knowledges using social learning to promote both epistemic re-alignment and a re-scaling of environmental governance that promotes enablement. We use insights from research on flooding in South West England to highlight the ways in which traditional policy approaches such as behavioural change have come to be so overbearing in public debate on environmental hazards management. In contrast, we demonstrate the potential for a re-scaling of environmental governance to reconfigure climate change knowledge and build new spaces for enablement to reduce hazard vulnerability at the place-based community scale. We argue that this has major epistemological and practical implications for the ways that researchers and policy makers work with publics to reduce hazard risk under a changing climate.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipEconomic and Social Research Council (ESRC)en_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 100, pp. 116-127.en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.02.007
dc.identifier.grantnumberES/L009234/1en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/35732
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherElsevieren_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 21 February 2021 in compliance with publisher policy.
dc.rights© 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
dc.titleEnabling Communities for a changing climate: re-configuring spaces of hazard governanceen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2019-02-05T13:19:20Z
dc.identifier.issn0016-7185
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record .en_GB
dc.identifier.journalGeoforumen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/  en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-02-04
exeter.funder::Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)en_GB
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-02-04
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2019-02-04T13:15:44Z
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