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[EN] Climate change requires a high adaptive capacity from Utiel-Requena's winegrowers, in which institutions play an important role. This research analyzes the influence of two specific institutions, the Denominación de Origen Protegida and the irrigation communities, on the adaptive capacity of winegrowers in Utiel-Requena. Interviews were conducted and analyzed by using the Adaptive Capacity Framework consisting of 25 indicators. Results show that both institutions scored high on equity and clear board structures. Weaknesses are the low response to winegrower's needs, limited knowledge transfer, and lack of clear plans for extreme situations. Both institutions did not seem to acknowledge the importance of climate change adaptation and their role in enhancing it. Overall, the sector seems to lack engagement in terms of wine quality, technical support and stakeholder communication. The results imply that the area has little climate change awareness. ; Kool, EWM.; Compes López, R.; Werners, SE. (2018). The influence of institutions on the climate change adaptative capacity of winegrowers in Utiel-Requena. Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros. 251:79-99. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/124226 ; S ; 79 ; 99 ; 251

79 99 251 ; S ; [EN] Climate change requires a high adaptive capacity from Utiel-Requena's winegrowers, in which institutions play an important role. This research analyzes the influence of two specific institutions, the Denominación de Origen Protegida and the irrigation communities, on the adaptive capacity of winegrowers in Utiel-Requena. Interviews were conducted and analyzed by using the Adaptive Capacity Framework consisting of 25 indicators. Results show that both institutions scored high on equity and clear board structures. Weaknesses are the low response to winegrower's needs, limited knowledge transfer, and lack of clear plans for extreme situations. Both institutions did not seem to acknowledge the importance of climate change adaptation and their role in enhancing it. Overall, the sector seems to lack engagement in terms of wine quality, technical support and stakeholder communication. The results imply that the area has little climate change awareness. Kool, EWM.; Compes López, R.; Werners, SE. (2018). The influence of institutions on the climate change adaptative capacity of winegrowers in Utiel-Requena. Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros. 251:79-99. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/124226

This paper analyses and assesses how existing policies and approaches in South Asia consider long-term climate change adaptation. Presently, it is unclear what approaches are used in the existing policies to cope with the future climatic changes. Our research framework consists of two components. First, we identify and define key characteristics of adaptation policy approaches based on a review of scientific journal articles. The key characteristics identified are institutional flexibility, adaptive nature, scalability and reflexivity. Second, we analyse the presence of these characteristics in the climate change adaptation policies of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. Our findings show that the four South Asian countries contribute to only 8% of the total journal articles on adaptation policy, with least papers representing Pakistan and Nepal. Reviewing the adaptation policies, we find that except for the Climate Change Policy of Nepal, none of the policies discusses transboundary scale adaptation approaches. The identified adaptation policies lack focus on shared transboundary resources between the countries, and instead focus at national or sub-national scale. This is reflected by relatively low scores for the scalability characteristic. All the countries show high scores for institutional flexibility, suggesting that changing roles and responsibilities between government agencies for adaptation planning and implementation is accepted in the four countries. We conclude that to prevent a loss of flexibility and to promote scalability of shared transboundary resources, policy approaches such as anticipatory governance, robust decision-making, and adaptation pathways can be useful for long-term climate change adaptation.