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Christine Wamsler

Professor, Docent, appointed Excellent Teaching Practitioner (ETP)

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Mainstreaming climate adaptation : taking stock about “what works” from empirical research worldwide

Author

  • Hens Runhaar
  • Bettina Wilk
  • Åsa Persson
  • Caroline Uittenbroek
  • Christine Wamsler

Summary, in English

Adaptation to a changing climate is unavoidable. Mainstreaming climate adaptation objectives into existing policies, as opposed to developing dedicated adaptation policy, is widely advocated for public action. However, knowledge on what makes mainstreaming effective is scarce and fragmented. Against this background, this paper takes stock of peer-reviewed empirical analyses of climate adaptation mainstreaming, in order to assess current achievements and identify the critical factors that render mainstreaming effective. The results show that although in most cases adaptation policy outputs are identified, only in a minority of cases this translates into policy outcomes. This “implementation gap” is most strongly seen in developing countries. However, when it comes to the effectiveness of outcomes, we found no difference across countries. We conclude that more explicit definitions and unified frameworks for adaptation mainstreaming research are required to allow for future research syntheses and well-informed policy recommendations.

Department/s

  • LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies)

Publishing year

2018-04

Language

English

Pages

1201-1210

Publication/Series

Regional Environmental Change

Volume

18

Issue

4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Human Geography
  • Climate Research

Keywords

  • Climate change adaptation
  • Climate policy integration
  • Mainstreaming
  • State-of-the-art
  • Systematic literature review

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1436-3798