Handling adaptation policy choices in Sweden, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands

Author:

Massey Eric1,Huitema Dave12,Garrelts Heiko3,Grecksch Kevin4,Mees Heleen5,Rayner Tim6,Storbjörk Sofie7,Termeer Catrien8,Winges Maik4

Affiliation:

1. VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan, 1087, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2. Open University of the Netherlands, Faculty of Management, Science and Technology, P. O. Box 2960, 6401 DL Heerlen, The Netherlands

3. University of Bremen, SFG, Enrique-Schmidt-Straße 7, 28359 Bremen, Germany

4. Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstr. 114-118, 26111 Oldenburg, Germany

5. Utrecht University, 3584 CS, Utrecht, The Netherlands

6. University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK

7. Linköping University, Temahuset D 319, Campus Valla, Linköping, Sweden

8. Wageningen University, P.O. Box 8130, 6700 EW Wageningen, The Netherlands

Abstract

Attention is increasing in academia towards the governance of adaptation, specifically how state and non-state actors are defining the adaptation ‘problematique’ and crafting public policies to address it. Adaptation is the ‘adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities’. The challenge for governments is taking this rather vague concept and turning it into viable and implementable public policies. This implies that they have to make choices as to the types of polices to create, the sectors they should cover, ministerial jurisdictions and funding. This article contributes to the discussion on the adaptation governance by presenting a conceptual framework that outlines policy choices governors need to make, by applying this framework to a number of countries, and starting the debate on which choice or choices were particularly instrumental in shaping adaptation policy in particular countries as a whole. It focuses on four countries traditionally seen to be adaptation leaders: Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Publisher

IWA Publishing

Subject

Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Atmospheric Science,Water Science and Technology,Global and Planetary Change

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