Global adaptation governance: how intergovernmental organizations mainstream climate change adaptation

Effective Governance of Climate Change Adaptation

Climate change adaptation (CCA) requires the design of institutions and policies that integrate efficiency, equity, and effectiveness (EEE) objectives of systems at national and sub-national levels. Multi-level and multi-sectoral perspectives are offered in this paper incorporating the following dimensions: normative aspects of institutions, mechanisms for resource allocation, role of transacti...

Adaptation to climate change by organizations

Organizations will be central actors in societal adaptation to climate variability and change. But highly simplified assumptions are often made about the response of organizations to the stimulus of perceived or experienced climate change. This paper reviews recent literature, arguing that three approaches are applied in studies of organizational adaptation: utility-maximizing, behavioral, and ...

Climate Change and Adaptation

Adaptation to Climate Change

We investigate the effect of climate change on population growth in 18th and 19th century Iceland. We find that annual temperature changes help determine the population growth rate in preindustrial Iceland: a year 1◦C cooler than average drives down population growth rates by 0.57% in each of the next two years, for a total effect of 1.14%. We also find that 18th and 19th century Icelanders ada...

Financing climate change adaptation.

This paper examines the topic of financing adaptation in future climate change policies. A major question is whether adaptation in developing countries should be financed under the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or whether funding should come from other sources. We present an overview of financial resources and propose the employment of a two-track approach...