Lee, S, Paavola, J orcid.org/0000-0001-5720-466X and Dessai, S (2023) Causal mechanisms of common barriers to national adaptation policy processes and practical solutions in South Korea and the UK. Global Sustainability, 6. e11. ISSN 2059-4798
Abstract
Non-technical Summary
As adaptation deficits become increasingly evident and widespread, barriers to adaptation draw more attention as a key reason. However, the current understanding of the barriers is limited, making it challenging to provide practical solutions for real-world adaptation policy processes. This study aims to identify the origins, influences, and relationships of common barriers to national adaptation policy processes, and to analyse their causal mechanisms. The findings present a barrier map that illustrates potential causal mechanisms of common barriers to national adaptation policy processes and, based on it, suggest a systematic approach for practical solutions.
Technical Summary
Despite progress in national adaptation policies in the last two decades, the adaptation deficit is getting wider and barriers to adaptation are regarded as a key reason for it. However, our understanding of barriers to adaptation does not help improve real adaptation processes. Based on South Korean and UK cases, this study identified 17 common barriers to national adaptation policy processes and placed them in four categories. It also identified the barriers' origins and influences, drew a common barrier map underlying national adaptation policy processes and identified causal mechanisms of the common barriers, which were limitedly addressed in the earlier literature. The results highlight that understanding the causal mechanisms of barriers to national adaptation policy processes is important to devise practical solutions to overcome barriers and improve the effectiveness of real adaptation processes. The findings also offer a practical understanding of common barriers to national adaptation policy, which can help adaptation policy stakeholders and practitioners to diagnose policy problems, analyse what barriers and origins are related to the problems, decide what should be addressed first to solve the problems, and ultimately make efforts to reduce the current adaptation deficit.
Social Media Summary
New study identifies causal mechanisms of 17 common barriers to national adaptation policy processes & suggests a systematic approach to overcome the barriers.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. |
Keywords: | adaptation; barrier; causal mechanism; national adaptation policy; South Korea; The UK |
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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) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/R009708/1 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/LK006576/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 07 Jun 2023 11:41 |
Last Modified: | 04 Aug 2023 12:55 |
Published Version: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sus... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/sus.2023.10 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200051 |