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JDR Vol.10 No.3 pp. 404-419
(2015)
doi: 10.20965/jdr.2015.p0404

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Challenges of Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction – Implications from Framing Gap Among Stakeholders and the General Public –

Kenshi Baba* and Mitsuru Tanaka**

*Center for Regional Research, Hosei University
2-17-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8160, Japan

**Faculty of Social Sciences, Hosei University
4342 Aihara, Machida, Tokyo 194-0298, Japan

Received:
December 26, 2014
Accepted:
May 22, 2015
Published:
June 1, 2015
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Keywords:
consensus building, risk communication, website-based questionnaire, stakeholder analysis
Abstract
Local governments are expected to play a significant role in making cities resilient, especially in reducing disaster risks and adapting to climate change. To obtain the relevant actors’ understanding and cooperation in implementing adaptation measures, it is essential that the potential framing gaps which may arise between them in terms of the impacts and risks of climate change be filled in. In this study, we have identified the framing gaps between stakeholders and the general public. We analyzed the questionnaire data obtained from the general public and the stakeholder data obtained by means of a case study carried out in Tokyo. We then integrated the results and derived three implications: i) it is effective to implement climate change adaptation policy that local governments obtain an understanding of multi-benefit of the the policy as well as climate change risk from the public through community-based groups, avocational groups and other organizations in the local community. ii) as for a firmly locked-in view of climate change policy that the policy means just reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, communication strategies for accurately explaining the relationship between adaptation measures and mitigation measures is required, and iii) as for the challenges of agenda setting for incorporating climate change risk into administrative plans, the department of the environment who is in charge of climate change policy is required to take a leadership in a coordinating function, for example, raising the awareness of other departments in terms of adaptation measures and providing them with scientific knowledge of climate change risk.
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K. Baba and M. Tanaka, “Challenges of Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Policy for Disaster Risk Reduction – Implications from Framing Gap Among Stakeholders and the General Public –,” J. Disaster Res., Vol.10 No.3, pp. 404-419, 2015.
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