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Abstract: The implementation of climate change adaptation polices has barely occurred in developed countries. This paper examines to what extent the perceptions of political actors might hinder the development of adaptation policies. We study the Swiss case using computer aided textual analysis. Our results demonstrate that adaptation is still not perceived as an important dimension of climate change policy. Decision makers do not perceive links between adaptation, the Swiss economy and the energy supply. Adaptation is mainly considered an issue for developing countries and not as a way to reduce the impacts of climate change in Switzerland. Right‐wing parties tend to consider adaptation a secondary issue and are more likely than those to the left to object to the formulation or the implementation of public measures.

The influence of public policy, property rights and contracts on the sustainability of residential buildings remains largely unknown. This research will use the analytical framework of the housing institutional regime - the combined regulatory body composed of formal rules of private and public law and contracts between parties - to study the sustainability over time of the housing stock. Institutional regimes are supposed to have a strong influence over the behaviour of housing stock owners, who are the holders of property rights, and other user-actors, who have use rights to the various housing and non-housing related goods and services derived from the stock. These changes in behaviour can result in the sustainable or unsustainable evolution of the housing stock. This research will produce an inventory of the housing institutional regime in Switzerland, a comparison between the major features of the Swiss, German and Catalan regimes, and suggestions for better regimes to achieve a better sustainability of the housing stock. Adapted from the source document.

The influence of public policy, property rights and contracts on the sustainability of residential buildings remains largely unknown. This research will use the analytical framework of the housing institutional regime to study the sustainability over time of the housing stock. We aim to produce an inventory of the housing institutional regime in Switzerland, a comparison with the German and Catalan regimes, and policy suggestions to achieve a better sustainability of the housing stock.