What enables climate change adaptation?

What is it about?

This paper seeks to understand how climate change adaptation action can be promoted. It reviews existing literature, on actual examples of climate change adaptation, and summarises the factors which are most often found to be important. It finds that most of the evidence on enabling climate change adaptation is at the local government or local community scale, but that there is significant gaps in understanding at other scales.

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Photo by Ma Ti on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Understanding how to enable or promote climate change adaptation is becoming increasingly important as communities across the globe face the impending impact of climate change and look for ways to adapt. While previous research has looked at barriers to climate change adaptation or understanding adaptive capacity, there is often questions asked about how to move beyond climate change adaptation planning to action. This review is a step in better understanding the gap between planning and action.