A framework for assessing the potential effectiveness of adaptation policies: Coastal risks and sea-level rise in the Maldives
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 115, S. 35-42
ISSN: 1462-9011
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 115, S. 35-42
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 13, Heft 7, S. 637-647
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 13, Heft 7, S. 648-659
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Risk analysis: an international journal, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 629-646
ISSN: 1539-6924
Evidence‐based information on household‐level adaptation is an important element of integrated management of vulnerable coastal regions. A growing number of empirical studies deal with household‐level adaptation at the coast in different regions. This article provides a systematic review of these studies. We analyze studies according to how households in different parts of the world are currently adapting, or how they are intending to adapt, and identify explanatory factors for adaptation behavior and intention. We find that households implement a broad range of adaptation measures and that adaptation behavior is explained by individual factors such as socioeconomic and cognitive variables, experience, and perceived responsibilities. Nonpersonal characteristics have also been used to explain adaptation behavior and intention but have not been extensively investigated. Few studies employ qualitative research methods and use inductive approaches as well as models stemming from behavioral economics. Our findings suggest that coastal risk management policies should communicate the efficacy of household‐level adaptation, in addition to information about flood risk, in order to encourage coastal households in their adaptation activities. In this context, we discuss the role of resources and responsibility of households for their adaptation behavior. We describe the lessons learnt and formulate a research agenda on household‐level adaptation to coastal flood risk. In practice, coastal risk management policies should further promote individually driven adaptation by integrating it in adaptation strategies and processes.
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 19, Heft 3
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 19, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 8745
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In: PNAS, 2020
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Working paper
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 18, Heft 4
ISSN: 1708-3087
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In: Environmental science & policy, Band 112, S. 203-212
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Ecology and society: E&S ; a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability, Band 20, Heft 1
ISSN: 1708-3087
In: Journal of institutional economics, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 409-422
ISSN: 1744-1382
AbstractThis article introduces the special issue on climate adaptation and institutions. Economic accounts of climate adaptation have stressed its collective action nature and the limitations of standard economic approaches to the matter. Governance accounts, on their part, have shown that adaptation does not always happen when it is expected. Against this background, institutional economics has the potential to shed light on those societal processes and collective mechanisms leading to and shaping adaptation (or the absence of it). The selection of articles contributing to this special issue shows that climate adaptation can indeed be explored successfully through institutional economics, and that doing so fits well within the institutional economics agenda. Some recommendations for future research are provided at the end.
In: CLRM-D-23-00127
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