The Governance of Adaptation to Climate Change: Taking Stock and Providing Guidance
Abstract
Go-Adapt is a 2-year research project that focuses on the governance of climate change adaptation, i.e. on the ways in which adaptation policies and instruments are developed and implemented by governments in selected developed countries. The project aims to provide insights on how governments address key governance challenges in the context of climate change adaptation, such as improving (i) horizontal and (ii) vertical policy inte-gration, (iii) coping with uncertainties, and (iv) involving stakeholders. In more detail, Go-Adapt aims to: (a) provide an overview of adaptation governance approaches in 10 OECD countries (stock taking survey); (b) show how the surveyed approaches actually function in selected adap-tation policies (case studies); (c) draw lessons from experiences with similar governance ap-proaches in related policy fields such as climate change mitigation and sustainable development (extended literature review), and, (d), provide guidance on how to advance the governance of climate change adaptation (in particular in countries that are at early stages of establishing respective policy frameworks, such as Austria).
keywords Adaptation to climate change Climate policy Governance
Publikationen
The governance of climate change adaptation in 10 OECD countries: challenges and institutional arrangements
Autoren: Bauer, A.; Feichtinger, J.; Steurer, Reinhard Jahr: 2010
Conference & Workshop proceedings, paper, abstract
The role of governments in adaptation: A comparison across Europe
Autoren: Steurer, R; Bauer, A Jahr: 2014
Chapter in collected volumes
Project staff
Reinhard Steurer
Assoc. Prof. Mag. Dr. Reinhard Steurer
reinhard.steurer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73218
Project Leader
01.02.2010 - 31.12.2012
Judith Feichtinger
Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Judith Feichtinger
judith.feichtinger@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.02.2010 - 31.12.2012
BOKU partners
External partners
Federal Environment Agency
none
partner