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Accepted Paper:
Rescaling rationalities: Water management and climate change adaptation program formulation in Vietnam
Lily Salloum Lindegaard
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Paper short abstract:
Water management climate change adaptation programs in Vietnam are shaped by scaled historical dynamics. Specifically, program formulation reflects rescaled, domestic(ated) rationalities rather than novel global adaptation agendas, with implications for the nature of programs implemented.
Paper long abstract:
This paper sheds light on how historical dynamics and scales inform the framing of water management climate change adaptation programs. Rather than add to the burgeoning literature on the production of scales themselves, I contribute instead to the limited literature on how scales influence the formulation of particular programs. I do this in the setting of water management in Vietnam. Based on a historical view, semi-structured interviews and document and policy reviews, I examine historical water management in Vietnam before presenting the current program of Thao Long Dam which has been presented as climate change adaptation. I consider how historical dynamics and scales have informed the framing of such programs and find that program formulation reflects domestic(ated) rationalities rather than novel global adaptation agendas. This suggests that global agendas may not easily influence sub-national program formulation unless they have been adopted through a process of rescaling, gaining traction within new scales and the programs enacted from them. The paper also highlights the inherent power implications of whose rationalities prevail in program formulation.
Governance of renewable natural resources: delivering on sustainability and improved livelihoods? [Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change SG]
Session 1