Responsibility for Climate Adaptation Across Political Levels, Sectors and Public-Private Boundaries - ReClAd

Responsibility for climate adaptation needs to be distributed across political levels, sectors and public-private boundaries in order to be effective.

To gain legitimacy for such a distribution, it needs to be grounded in ethically defendable theories of just distribution and in what those affected by decisions see as legitimate.

The project objective is to contribute to a sustainable Swedish climate adaptation, with a just and legitimate distribution of responsibility across political levels, sectors, and public-private boundaries. The goals are:G1. Knowledge about what individuals consider a legitimate distribution of responsibility for climate adaptation.G2.

Knowledge about what public actors consider a legitimate distribution of responsibility for climate adaptation.G3.

Improved understanding of the implications of theories of just distribution of responsibility for cross-cutting climate adaptation, and of how to adapt and implement the theories in this context.G4.

A better understanding of how to establish a cross-cutting sustainable distribution of responsibilities.The project will use a survey and focus groups to reach G1, interviews with municipalities, national agencies and sector organisations to reach G2, and ethical and value theoretical analysis to reach G3.

G4 will be reached by combining the knowledge and understanding reached in G1-G3 and by a systematic analysis of how conflicts over responsibility can be managed.