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Diagnosing institutional barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change

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dc.contributor.authorOberlack, Christoph
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-24T16:50:00Z
dc.date.available2024-10-24T16:50:00Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractInstitutions are one of the decisive factors which enable, constrain and shape adaptation to the impacts of climate change, variability and extreme events. However, current understanding of institutions in adaptation situations is fragmented across the scientific community, evidence diverges, and cumulative learning beyond single studies is limited. This study adopts a diagnostic approach to elaborate a nuanced understanding of institutional barriers and opportunities in climate adaptation by means of a model-centred meta-analysis of 52 case studies of public climate adaptation in Europe. The first result is a novel taxonomy of institutional attributes in adaptation situations. It conceptually organises and decomposes the many details of institutions that empirical research has shown to shape climate adaptation. In the second step, the paper identifies archetypical patterns of institutional traps and trade-offs which hamper adaptation. Thirdly, corresponding opportunities are identified that enable actors to alleviate, prevent or overcome specific institutional traps or trade-offs. These results cast doubt on the validity of general institutional design principles for successful adaptation. In contrast to generic principles, the identified opportunities provide leverage to match institutions to specific governance problems that are encountered in specific contexts. Taken together, the results may contribute to more coherence and integration of adaptation research that we need if we are to foster learning about the role of institutions in adaptation situations in a cumulative fashion.
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dc.description.numberOfPages34
dc.description.sponsorshipCentre for Development and Environment (CDE)
dc.identifier.doi10.7892/boris.78616
dc.identifier.publisherDOI10.1007/s11027-015-9699-z
dc.identifier.urihttps://boris-portal.unibe.ch/handle/20.500.12422/139663
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.relation.ispartofMitigation and adaptation strategies for global change
dc.relation.issn1381-2386
dc.relation.organizationDCD5A442C3D8E17DE0405C82790C4DE2
dc.titleDiagnosing institutional barriers and opportunities for adaptation to climate change
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oaire.citation.volume22
oairecerif.author.affiliationCentre for Development and Environment (CDE)
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