Russel, D, Castellari, S, Capriolo, A et al. (9 more authors) (2020) Policy Coordination for National Climate Change Adaptation in Europe: All Process, but Little Power. Sustainability, 12 (13). 5393. ISSN 2071-1050
Abstract
Climate change adaptation (CCA) is argued to require coordinated policy responses because it is a complex, long-term, knowledge intensive, cross-sectoral, and multi-level governance challenge that involves many interdependencies and actors with different perceptions, goals, and approaches. This study, therefore, examines approaches of a set of European Union (EU) member states (Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom (England)) to pursue a more coordinated approach to CCA policy. It specifically addresses the co-ordination approaches that the selected countries use for the development and implementation of their national CCA policies in the immediate period following the publication of the EU’s 2013 Adaptation Strategy. The analysis demonstrates that while useful coordination processes have been established in the analyzed EU member states, they have difficulty in challenging existing institutional hierarchies and decision rules. Consequently, longer-term opportunities for managing CCA conflicts and synergies among sectoral policies have to date been limited.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
Keywords: | climate change adaptation; policy coordination; policy integration; European union; European Union member state; adaptation strategy |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2020 16:12 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2020 16:12 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/su12135393 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:167568 |