Aprendizagem social em políticas públicaso caso de adaptação à mudança do clima em Glasgow

Resumo

This thesis discusses the application of Social Learning (SL) for public policies on climate change adaptation and resilience strengthening in cities. Considered a ‘wicked problem’, adaptation challenges traditional public policies and management. In this context, SL is assumed to be indispensable in the planning and implementation of instruments and projects that deal with the complexity of this agenda. However, critical perspectives on the approach point out limitations in relation to the theory that underlies it and gaps in regard to its practice. In line with these critical perspectives, this thesis argues that SL processes, although fundamental, are not sufficient for the strengthening and (re)distribution of adaptive and transformative capacities in the urban sociotechnical system, especially among the social groups in major situations of vulnerability. Thus, a first gap addressed in this thesis refers to the integration of SL processes into the politicalinstitutional context, recognising them essentially as political dynamics, enhanced or limited by institutional arrangements while affecting those. Another gap relates to the qualification of the central components to the practice of AS in terms of procedures and roles to be guaranteed in their design and conduction. In light of this, this research develops a case study on policies related to adaptation and resilience in Glasgow, Scotland (United Kingdom), based on which the following questions are discussed: How do the processes of SL relate to the political-institutional context and how do these relationships affect the SL's potential to reverberate and promote changes in the sociotechnical system? What are the characteristics and components necessary for these processes to contribute to the strengthening and distribution of adaptive capacities and resilience? How should procedures and roles be guaranteed? For the analysis of the case's findings, this work articulates the SL to the approaches of Convergence and Integrality. It is concluded that SL processes must be combined with the promotion of public action, the creation of formal and informal spaces for daily social interaction, the displacement of government agents to the neighbourhoods and communities’ spaces and the strengthening of local and grassroots organisations. In addition, participation for AS is described as a continuous process of scenarios negotiation, ideally laying upon the equitable representation of the realities that make up the situation in focus, and that should encompass the formulation of problems and be facilitated by a third party. Knowledge for SL is understood as transdisciplinary. Network arrangements, partnerships and coalitions, as well as policy convergence, are factors that support the implementation capacity, at the same time that they must be thought critically in view of the risk of excluding counter-hegemonic voices. Finally, two paths for strategies for institutionalising the adaptation agenda are systematised and five axes of recommendations are proposed for planning and implementing adaptation policies at the local level.

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Tipo

Tese

Ano

2021

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/30316

Temas

Políticas PúblicasAdministração PúblicaMeio Ambiente

Palavras-chave

Adaptation to climate changeEvolutionary resilienceUrban public policiesSocial learningSocial participationAdaptação à mudança do climaResiliência evolucionáriaPolíticas públicas urbanasAprendizagem socialParticipação socialAdministração públicaPolíticas públicasMudanças climáticas