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2023-08-01
Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Climate change looms, with many communities already suffering from worsening impacts. Despite ample research into how to adapt, attempts have been slow and often inadequate in practice. As exposure to climate impacts magnifies, we ask: Why are communities underprepared? Adaptations often consist...
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Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
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Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not...
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The influence of governance structure on local resilience: Enabling and constraining factors for climate change adaptation in practice
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Birchall, S. Jeff, Bonnett, Nicole, Kehler, Sarah
Across the globe, the need to adapt is urgent. Coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to climate stressors such as rising sea levels and erosion, while more extreme and variable weather events interact to accentuate risk. While local governments are increasingly recognized as a central...