scholarly journals Adaptation finance archetypes: local governments’ persistent challenges of funding adaptation to climate change and ways to overcome them

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne C. Moser ◽  
Julia A. Ekstrom ◽  
Julia Kim ◽  
Samantha Heitsch
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

scholarly journals Aligning Climate Governance with Urban Water Management: Insights from Transnational City Networks

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jale Tosun ◽  
Lucas Leopold
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Urban Water ◽  
Urban Water Management ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Climate Governance ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
Transnational City

A growing number of cities in different world regions are forming transnational networks in order to mitigate and adapt to climate change. In this study, we are interested in the nexus between climate change and urban water management. How do transnational city networks for climate action perceive urban water management? What kind of activities do they adopt for improving urban water management? How effective are these in practice? This study maps 17 transnational city networks that primarily work on climate governance, assesses whether they formally embrace urban water management as a field of activity, and analyzes the extent to which they influence local climate action regarding water-related issues. Our descriptive analysis reveals that the great majority of transnational city networks has embraced goals related to urban water management, mostly framed from the perspective of adaptation to climate change. However, our in-depth analysis of two frontrunner cities in Germany shows that membership in ICLEI (Local Governments for Sustainability) has only limited influence on the initiation and implementation of water-related policy measures.

Adaptation to climate change in the eastern regions of the Czech Republic: An analysis of the measures proposed by local governments

2022 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 105949
Author(s):  
Kristýna Křištofová ◽  
Michal Lehnert ◽  
Stanislav Martinát ◽  
Vladimír Tokar ◽  
Zdeněk Opravil
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
The Czech Republic

System for supporting detailed implementation plan on measures for adaptation to climate change of local governments

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huicheul Jung ◽  
Jaeuk Kim ◽  
Insang Yu ◽  
Sung-Hun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Implementation Plan ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Implementation Plans

<p>It is mandatory to establish a detailed implementation plan on measures for adaptation to climate change of local governments, based on the Article 48 of the Framework Act on Low Carbon, Green Growth and Article 38 of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act of South Korea. However, it is difficult for local governments to establish such detailed implementation plan due to high budget spending, lack of experts in climate change field and the shift in cyclical positions of government officials. The Korea Adaptation Center for Climate Change(KACCC) has developed a system for supporting local governments to overcome the difficulties. The system provides integrated data regarding climate change adaptation, such as general information, current status and prospect of climate change, climate change impact analysis, vulnerability and risk assessment to climate change using VESTAP (Vulnerability Assessment Tool to Build Climate Change Adaptation Plan) for each region. Based on the integrated information regarding adaptation to climate change, local governments conduct a survey targeting general public, civil servants, experts, etc. using the questionnaire on adaptive awareness provided by the system. Each local government can analyze the information and inventory of adaptation measures and diagnose the policies to establish detailed implementation plans for each sector. By establishing the system, it is expected to support government officials’s task through standardization and automation of detailed implementation plans and reduce budget and time required for data collection and analysis. It is possible to improve the quality and maintain the consistency of plans by local governments. The system also supports decision making by rapid and reasonable adaptation measures leading to establishing highly effective and managed implementation plans for local governments.</p><p>※ This work was supported by Korea Environment Industry & Technology Institute(KEITI) through Climate Change Correspondence Program, funded by Korea Ministry of Environment(MOE)(2018001310004).</p>

scholarly journals Mapping evidence of human adaptation to climate change

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Berrang-Ford ◽  
A.R. Siders ◽  
Alexandra Lesnikowski ◽  
Alexandra Paige Fischer ◽  
Max Callaghan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Precipitation Variability ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Farming Practices ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Reduce Risk ◽  
Global Stocktake

Abstract We present the first systematic, global stocktake of the academic literature on human adaptation. We screen 48,316 documents and identify 1,682 articles that present empirical research documenting human efforts to reduce risk from climate change and associated hazards. Coding and synthesizing this literature highlights that the overall extent of adaptation across global regions and sectors is low. Adaptations are largely local and incremental rather than transformative. Behavioural adjustments by individuals and households are more prevalent than any other type of response, largely motivated by drought and precipitation variability. Local governments and civil society are engaging in risk reduction across all sectors and regions, particularly in response to flooding. Urban technological and infrastructural adaptations to flood risk are prevalent in Europe, while shifts in farming practices dominate reporting from Africa and Asia. Despite increasing evidence of adaptation responses, evidence that these responses are reducing risks (observed and projected) remains limited.

scholarly journals Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S.

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 2628-2648 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Dilling ◽  
Elise Pizzi ◽  
John Berggren ◽  
Ashwin Ravikumar ◽  
Krister Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Climate Extreme ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Related Risk ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
The Face ◽  
Key Sites ◽  
Sites Of Action

Cities are key sites of action for adaptation to climate change. However, there are a wide variety of responses to hazards at the municipal level. Why do communities take adaptive action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk? We studied what cities are doing in response to existing natural hazards, such as floods, droughts, and blizzards as an analog for understanding the drivers of adaptive behavior toward climate change risks. We conducted a survey of 60 U.S. municipalities followed by six in-depth case studies in the intermountain west states of Colorado, Wyoming and Utah that regularly experience weather and climate extreme events. Our analysis shows that perception of risk and external factors such as planning requirements and availability of funding stand out as important drivers. Nevertheless, political action is rarely driven by a single factor or event. Overall, our results suggest that multiple factors interact or act in combination to produce an enabling environment for action in the face of weather- and climate-related risk.

scholarly journals Enabling local adaptation to climate change: towards collective action in Flagler Beach, Florida, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 157 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 631-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad Stephen Boda ◽  
Anne Jerneck
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Action Strategy ◽  
Process Theories ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Action Strategies ◽  
Context Specific

AbstractLocal communities around the world are directly exposed to impacts of climate change. It is also clear that many local governments are politically and economically constrained in their capacity to implement needed adaptations. These constraints can restrict adaptation options to incremental, or even maladaptive, practices. At the same time, necessary transformational actions may remain out of reach for local actors. Building on five years of collaborative research with the city of Flagler Beach (FL, USA), we draw on political process theories to describe how incremental adaptation activities that are possible within current constraints can serve to build local capacity for instigating reforms at higher scales of social organization. We use the concept of a collective action strategy to conceptualize how context-specific barriers to adaptation can be overcome. From our analysis, an idealized multi-step process for designing collective action strategies is presented. The study advances scholarship on limits to adaptation beyond the diagnosis of barriers to action by taking steps towards developing context-specific strategies for overcoming these barriers.

scholarly journals Framing the challenge of climate change adaptation for Victorian local governments

2013 ◽  
Vol 125 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Hartmut Fünfgeld
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Climatic Trends ◽  
Government Sector ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Response Measures

Climate change adaptation, although dependent on our understanding of current and future climatic trends, is predominantly a social and institutional process. This becomes evident when studying how organisations actually respond to and prepare for climate change impacts. This paper explores the notion of framing climate change adaptation as a process of organisational development and change in the local government sector. Local governments, as the tier of government closest to the community, provide a raft of services to residents and businesses, many of which may be affected by the impacts of a changing climate. Local governments in Victoria and elsewhere have been at the forefront of assessing climatic risks and opportunities, as well as devising strategies and response measures to address these risks. The growing evidence of adaptation planning in the local government sector suggests that adaptation can be framed in many different ways, although a risk management perspective is frequently applied. Increasingly, adaptation to climate change is conceptualised as an ongoing, flexible process that needs to be fully embedded in the local and organisational context. This paper discusses the conceptual and organisational framing of climate change adaptation, illustrated by examples of the diversity of adaptation approaches taken by local governments in Victoria.

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