Diffusion of climate change adaptation policies among local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptual review

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_4" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_4</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_4" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-72874-2_4</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Diffusion of climate change adaptation policies among local governments in Sub-Saharan Africa: Conceptual review

Original language description

Many studies have confirmed the diffusion of climate change adaptation mainstreaming related policies and innovations across local governments (LGs).However, it is not clear under what conditions these policies get transferred, implemented or subsequently abandoned, especially in developing countries where LGs&apos; capacity to mainstream adaptation barely exist.Based on retrospective literature analysis, this article adduces theoretical and empirical evidence to analyze the factors likely to influence the mainstreaming of adaptation into local governance in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).The outcome of the article is expected to help policy practitioners and academics to comprehend the preconditions that enhance or frustrate the adoption of adaptation policy innovations across LGs in SSA where adaptation remains critical developmental concerns.The preponderance of literature suggests that multiple factors, including those, outside the control of LGs affect their capacity and urgency to adopt adaptation policies.The chapter concludes that it is worthwhile to adopt multiple diffusion perfectives that reflect the complex web of factors conspicuously affecting the transfer of climate policy innovations at the micro level to explain the adoption of adaptation policies.The chapter argues that, by doing so, one is able to portray the nature of climate change policy diffusion in local governance in a more sophisticated, comprehensive and logical manner.The chapter therefore makes useful contributions to the emerging field of climate policy and provides useful lessons for practitioners on the factors that influence the adoption of adaptation policies.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Theory and Practice of Climate Adaptation

ISBN

978-3-319-72873-5

Number of pages of the result

21

Pages from-to

65-85

Number of pages of the book

589

Publisher name

Springer International Publishing AG

Place of publication

Cham

UT code for WoS chapter

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