Shadow Spaces for Social Learning: A Relational Understanding of Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change within Organisations

By M. Pelling, Chris High, J. Dearing, Denis D. Smith. 2008

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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The Learning Dimension of Adaptive Capacity: Untangling the Multi-level Connections (2010, methodology): “ Pelling et al. (2008) and Crossan et al. (1999) offer valuable frameworks and excellent entry points, but more work needs to be done in accounting for network and societal levels of analysis, assessing promising linking institutions such as communitybased social marketing and adaptive co-managemen”
Smallholder farmer cropping decisions related to climate variability across multiple regions (2014, background): “Local institutions can also be effective at aiding knowledge generation that may be important for adaptive capacity (Pelling et al., 2008) and in the diffusion of information and technologies (Isaac, 2012).”
Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient (2012, background): “Supportive social contexts are those that respond to stresses of all types with broad-based participative problem-solving and vulnerability assessment, combining adaptive institutions (62, 63) with supportive public attitudes (64, 65) to facilitate the consideration of a wide variety of risks and re”
Evaluating sustainability transitions pathways: Bridging analytical approaches to address governance challenges (2015, unknown): “It is concerned with more granular changes, theorised as shared visions and plans, the coordination of known and engaged actor networks (Seyfang et al., 2014), and the development of innovative practices and routines (Pelling et al., 2008).”
The Adaptive Capacity Wheel: a method to assess the inherent characteristics of institutions to enable the adaptive capacity of society (2010, background): “In the literature, some authors have discussed adaptive capacity specifically (Tol and Yohe, 2006; Eriksen and Lind, 2009; Pelling et al., 2008; Gallopı́n, 2006), others use the term resilience (Nelson et al., 2007; Folke et al., 2005; Milman and Short, 2008).”
The role of knowledge and power in climate change adaptation governance: a systematic literature review (2013, background): “2 (Pelling et al. 2008) Not explicitly addressed, cases are at a national level Theoretical underpinned by a single case study Organized power in form of CCAG organizations are dealing with unorganized knowledge (learning) through individual le rning and collective learning at different levels.”
Tipping Toward Sustainability: Emerging Pathways of Transformation (2011, background): “Pelling et al. (2008) discuss the role of shadow spaces and organizations in fostering innovation and experimentation for social learning and adaptation to climate change.”
Mitigation and adaptation in polycentric systems: sources of power in the pursuit of collective goals (2017, background): “Shadow and dormant networks of pragmatic power-brokers can mobilize pragmatic power very rapidly when necessary.(82) Indeed, one key element of polycentric governance systems is that in order to function properly, the various governance sites and levels need to be connected.”
Transformational change: governance interventions for climate change adaptation from a continuous change perspective (2017, background): “Much has been written about enhancing the necessary conditions, such as providing psychological safety or organising a culture that encourages non-conformity or shadow spaces (Boonstra 2004; Pelling et al. 2008).”
Navigating the adaptive cycle: an approach to managing the resilience of social systems (2015, background): “Within social organizations, to be successful, managers must clarify the goal or direction or focus of the system (Scheffer et al. 2002, Pelling et al. 2008, Henry and Ramierez-Marquéz 2012) because resilience lies in the ability to move out of the α-stage and into a new r-stage trajectory while…”