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- Title
Klimawandel und Risikomanagement im norddeutschen Küstenschutz - Eine Diskursanalyse.
- Authors
Wiesner-Steiner, Andreas; Lange, Hellmuth; Haarmann, Marion
- Abstract
Dealing with the local consequences of climate change and an accelerated sea-level rise, the political-administrative system plays a central role The following article focusses on results of a discourse analysis of the political-administrative coastal protection system at the german north sea coast and assesses the demands for longterm precautionary action. As part of the interdisciplinary research project KRIM we analyse both natural and social adaption options to extreme incidents (formulated as climate scenarios for the year 2050). Along with a summary of the discourse analysis, special attention is given to our methodological approach. Different aspects of the political-administrative risk assessment (the possibility of dike failure, the role of climate change research for coastal protection, the importance of discoursive and institutional boundary work) are brought up and wrapped to the methodological issues of our discourse analysis. The core thesis here is that the uncertainties of climate impact research get interpreted and absorbed within safety-discourses that draw on local know-how as well as on historical growing competences in coastal protection.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; ABSOLUTE sea level change; GOVERNMENT policy; SHORE protection; DISCOURSE analysis
- Publication
Historical Social Research, 2006, Vol 31, Issue 2, p132
- ISSN
0172-6404
- Publication type
Abstract