Sammanfattning

The two latest IPCC assessment reports have concluded that knowledge is not sufficient for inducing action on climate change. This study problematizes the issue of going beyond business-as-usual through a study of the forestry sector in Sweden, which is a large economic sector and could be expected to be an early adapter, given that newly planted forest may stand some 70-90 years into the future. Therefore resources, economic motivation in the longer term and environmental foundations for early adaptation action could be expected to exist. This study draws upon the Foucauldian conceptualization of governmentality to explain the particular institutional logics that nevertheless lead to business-as-usual arguments dominating discussion on adaptation in the case of Swedish forestry. The study emphasizes that adaptation must be seen as steered and limited by existing institutional, social system logics, rather than by externally defined "rational" motivations. Efforts on adaptation to climate change must thus be considered in relation to, and seek to change, existing institutionally based motivational and incentive structures, and must thus be conceived through social rather than environmental logics. In fact, social logics may even define the types of actions that may be regarded as adaptations.

Nyckelord

Policy; Implementation; Forestry; Governmentality; Rationality; Sweden

Publicerad i

Global Environmental Change
2018, Volym: 48, sidor: 76-85

SLU författare

• Andersson, Elias

  • Institutionen för skoglig resurshushållning, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Associerade SLU-program

Framtidens skogar (tom Jan 2017)
SLU Future Forests


Globala målen

SDG13 Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser


UKÄ forskningsämne

Tvärvetenskapliga studier
Statsvetenskap (exklusive studier av offentlig förvaltning och globaliseringsstudier)


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.11.004

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/94273