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The impacts of climate change are primarily felt at the local level, and communities play a central role in adaptation. The RISKSEC 2.0 project studies risk governance and securitisation in four European municipalities.
2020–2024
To succeed, climate change adaptation plans must be anchored in science and local conditions. How climate change adaptation is locally framed, whether through risk or security logics, carries implications for the actors involved, tools employed, and resources mobilised.
While the securitisation of climate change is well-documented at national and international levels, the way securitisation affects local-level governance and adaptation is much less known. The RISKSEC 2.0 project seeks to bridge this gap by analysing opportunities for complementarity between international, national and local adaptation efforts. This involves both positive dynamics, such as shared understandings and coherent action, and negative dynamics like conflicting perspectives and local disempowerment.
In addition to a literature review, the RISKSEC 2.0 project examines climate change adaptation in four European municipalities: Dordrecht (the Netherlands), Halmstad (Sweden), Stavanger (Norway) and Bergen (Norway). The aim is to explore whether local strategies are driven by risk or security narratives.
With this understanding, decision-makers at all levels of governance can make more informed decisions and identify the best adaptation approaches for their community.
Feature / A RISKSEC2.0 workshop highlighted innovative local climate change adaptation strategies from four European cities.
22 February 2024 / About Adaptation, Disaster Risk, Finance and Participation
Journal article / This article explores securitization trends in Swedish climate adaptation policy from 2005-2022.
1 March 2023 / About Adaptation and Climate policy
Journal article / This article asks whether climate change adaption bears the markings of a securitized response, and if so, what type of securitization it reflects.
21 December 2023 / About Adaptation
Journal article / This paper provides a data-driven framework for identifying and mapping localized hotspots and analyzing trends in single and compound hydroclimatic hazards.
11 September 2024 / About Disaster Risk
Project / SEI is working together with Malmö on the transition to climate neutral lifestyles with reduced household consumption and how to finance the overall transition.
2023 - 2025 / About Behaviour and choice, Public policy and Sustainable lifestyles
Journal article / This study investigates compound flooding in Halmstad using a comprehensive dataset of regional climate projections.
4 September 2024 / About Disaster Risk and Water resources
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