Challenges associated with implementing climate adaptation policy
Publication Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
3-2019
Abstract
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s(IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report argued that organizations are transitioning from adaptation planning to implementation. This chapter therefore focuses on problematizing adaptation implementation processes. Why are plans not implemented or codified through legal instruments? Why are laws not enforced or reversed? What factors determine why some nations or sub-national governments have moved successfully toward the implementation of adaptation policy while others have stalled?And what role do policy and agenda setting dynamics, political positions and political uncertainty play in enabling or constraining implementation?
Discipline
Environmental Policy | Environmental Sciences
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Research handbook on climate change adaptation policy
Editor
Carina Kestikalo and Benjamin Preston
First Page
50
Last Page
68
ISBN
9781786432513
Identifier
10.4337/9781786432520.00010
Publisher
Edward Elgar
City or Country
Cheltenham
Citation
HOWLETT, Michael, MUKHERJEE, Ishani, & FRITZEN, Scott. (2019). Challenges associated with implementing climate adaptation policy. In Research handbook on climate change adaptation policy (pp. 50-68). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3088
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786432520.00010