Plus ça change? The COVID-19 pandemic as continuity and change as reflected through risk theory

Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice

10.26686/wgtn.14502879 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Iain White ◽

Judith Lawrence

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Natural Hazard ◽

National Policy ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Risk Theory ◽

Climate Risks ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Significant Challenge ◽

Over Time

Abstract Climate change challenges how policy agents imagine and manage risks in space and time. The impacts are dynamic, uncertain and contested. We use riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. We identify five different national riskscapes using a historical timeline, which have changed as global risks cascade into national and sub-national governance. We find that while there has been a major effort to reflect the dynamic and systemic language of risk theory in national policy, a significant challenge remains to develop appropriate governance and implementation strategies and to shift from long-held ways of doing and knowing.

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Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice

10.26686/wgtn.14502879.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Iain White ◽

Judith Lawrence

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Natural Hazard ◽

National Policy ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Risk Theory ◽

Climate Risks ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Significant Challenge ◽

Over Time

Abstract Climate change challenges how policy agents imagine and manage risks in space and time. The impacts are dynamic, uncertain and contested. We use riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. We identify five different national riskscapes using a historical timeline, which have changed as global risks cascade into national and sub-national governance. We find that while there has been a major effort to reflect the dynamic and systemic language of risk theory in national policy, a significant challenge remains to develop appropriate governance and implementation strategies and to shift from long-held ways of doing and knowing.

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Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice

Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society ◽

10.1093/cjres/rsaa005 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (2) ◽

pp. 215-231

Author(s):

Iain White ◽

Judy Lawrence

Keyword(s):

New Zealand ◽

Natural Hazard ◽

National Policy ◽

Implementation Strategies ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Risk Theory ◽

Climate Risks ◽

Continuity And Change ◽

Significant Challenge ◽

Over Time

Abstract Climate change challenges how policy agents imagine and manage risks in space and time. The impacts are dynamic, uncertain and contested. We use riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. We identify five different national riskscapes using a historical timeline, which have changed as global risks cascade into national and sub-national governance. We find that while there has been a major effort to reflect the dynamic and systemic language of risk theory in national policy, a significant challenge remains to develop appropriate governance and implementation strategies and to shift from long-held ways of doing and knowing.

Download Full-text