framework to diagnose barriers to climate change adaptation

• Author: Moser, Susanne C ; Ekstrom, Julia A
• Subjects: Agricultural management ; Agriculture ; Climate Change ; Climate change adaptation ; Climate change policy ; Climate science ; Decision making ; Decision Support Techniques ; Economic resources ; Ecosystem studies ; Environmental studies ; Governance ; Humans ; International environmental cooperation ; Models, Theoretical ; Normativity ; Signal detection ; Signals ; Social Sciences
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, 2010-12, Vol.107 (51), p.22026-22031
• Description: This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriers that may impede the process of adaptation to climate change. The framework targets the process of planned adaptation and focuses on potentially challenging but malleable barriers. Three key sets of components create the architecture for the framework. First, a staged depiction of an idealized, rational approach to adaptation decision-making makes up the process component. Second, a set of interconnected structural elements includes the actors, the larger context in which they function (e.g., governance), and the object on which they act (the system of concern that is exposed to climate change). At each of these stages, we ask (i) what could impede the adaptation process and (ii) how do the actors, context, and system of concern contribute to the barrier. To facilitate the identification of barriers, we provide a series of diagnostic questions. Third, the framework is completed by a simple matrix to help locate points of intervention to overcome a given barrier. It provides a systematic starting point for answering critical questions about how to support climate change adaptation at all levels of decision-making.
  
• Publisher: United States: National Academy of Sciences
  
• Language: English
  
• Identifier: ISSN: 0027-8424
  EISSN: 1091-6490
  DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1007887107
  PMID: 21135232
  
• Source: Geneva Foundation Free Medical Journals at publisher websites
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