The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions

Andrew P. Kythreotis and Gillian I. Bristow

Regional Studies, 2017, vol. 51, issue 10, 1530-1541

Abstract: The ‘resilience trap’: exploring the practical utility of resilience for climate change adaptation in UK city-regions. Regional Studies. This paper examines how adaptation is interpreted across different UK city-regions by governance and policy actors, finding that the discourse of adaptation is giving way to resilience. This is explained by the value of resilience as a discursive construct in mobilizing and coordinating policy actions. Resilience has greater appeal as a framing device over adaptation to such actors given its potential to enable buy-in from a wider city-regional governance network. However, this paper also highlights the ‘resilience trap’: the dangers of adopting short-term strategies, re-badging existing strategies and widening governance networks that obfuscate sub-national mobilization around adaptation. It then reflects on how governance actors may act to avoid the resilience trap.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2016.1200719

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