Considerable barriers can emerge in developing and implementing climate change
adaptation strategies. Understanding the nature of barriers to adaptation is important so as …

As adaptation have received increasing attention, national adaptation policies and plans
have been substantially developed. Despite the significant roles of national policy for …

The concept of barriers is increasingly used to describe the obstacles that hinder the
planning and implementation of climate change adaptation. The growing literature on …

Research on climate change adaptation has increased in number and significance since the
1970s. Yet, the volume of information on adaptation is now difficult to manage given its vast …

It is now widely accepted that adaptation will be necessary if we are to manage the risks
posed by climate change. What we know about adaptation, however, is limited. While there …

Research on the barriers and limits to climate change adaptation identifies many factors, but
describes few processes whereby adaptation is constrained or may indeed fail to avoid …

We develop and apply a systematic mixed-methods literature review methodology to identify
and characterize how climate change adaptation is taking place in developed nations. We …

Climate change adaptation reduces adverse effects of climate change but may also have
undesirable environmental impacts. However, these impacts are yet poorly defined and …

This paper reviews the current theoretical scholarship on maladaptation and provides some
specific case studies—in the Maldives, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Bangladesh—to advance …

Review of recent literature on adaptation to climate change and general literature on policy
processes shows that there are a large number of barriers that hamper the development and …