Adaptation pathways in planning for uncertain climate change: Applications in Portugal, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2017.08.017" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.envsci.2017.08.017</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Adaptation pathways in planning for uncertain climate change: Applications in Portugal, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands

Original language description

Adaptation pathways are developed to design adaptive policies to handle climate change uncertainty. Use of this tool varies across planning practices and adaptation challenges and adjusting the tool to particular practices can foster its adequate use. To gain insight into the use of adaptation pathways, we compared four initiatives (one each in Portugal and the Czech Republic and two in the Netherlands) with regard to design choices made. We found six design choices which need to be considered when adjusting adaptation pathways. Design choices about the geographic scale, inclusion of sectors, the generation and delineation of adaptation options, specification of possible pathways, the related performance metrics and the type of assessment are interdependent, but they are also influenced by contextual aspects. Analysis of the institutional diversity, planning culture and framing shows that the use of adaptation pathways is flexible enough to be adjusted for diverging planning practices. However, the tool is best suited to deliver local adaptation solutions, and adequate use depends on consensus about the adaptation problem, setting objective thresholds and determining uncertainty about future change. We conclude that understanding the customised use of tools for local planning practices is essential for adaptive policy design.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10511 - Environmental sciences (social aspects to be 5.7)

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Environmental Science & Policy

ISSN

1462-9011

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

78

Issue of the periodical within the volume

dec

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

18-26

UT code for WoS article

000415909600003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85029498424