Fixing the Unstable
Coastal Climate Risk in Spatial Adaptation Planning

PhD defence by Mette Steyaert Juhl

Assessment Committee

• Associate professor, head of section Peter Stubkjær Andersen, IGN, University of Copenhagen (Chairperson)
• Professor Anniken Førde, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
• Associate professor Martin Lehmann, Aalborg University

Supervisors

• Associate Professor Christian Fertner
• Professor Henrik Vejre

Department

Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management

Place

Building: Common House, Room: Von Langen, Rolighedsvej 23, 1958 Frederiksberg

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Short description of the thesis

Climate risk is a continuously developing concept, which spatial adaptation planning must make operational. This thesis argues that planning does so through 'provisional fixation', where particular conceptions of climate risk are held still for a while for planning to proceed. Such decisions are never neutral. Defining the problem is part of the problem itself, and the responses considered thinkable are both shaped by and constitutive of how it is understood. Focusing on coastal flood risk, the thesis examines the IPCC climate risk determinants (hazard, exposure, vulnerability and response), from local to regional scale. The thesis draws on spatial planning, human geography, the humanities, and the arts.