Responsibility for Climate Adaptation

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:

1. Knowledge about what individuals consider a legitimate distribution of responsibility for climate adaptation.
2. Knowledge about what public actors consider a legitimate distribution of responsibility for climate adaptation.
3. 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.
4. A better understanding of how to establish a cross-cutting sustainable distribution of responsibilities.

The project will use a mixed-method approach, including a survey, focus groups, interviews and ethical and value theoretical analysis.