In addition to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, societies worldwide have to cope with
the potential impacts of climate change. The central question of this paper is to what extent …

For the last two decades, European climate policy has focused almost exclusively on
mitigation of climate change. It was only well after the turn of the century, with impacts of …

Over the past decade, climate change adaptation has become an integral item on the
climate policy agendas of several European countries. As such, researchers have begun to …

Although mitigation of climate change dominates the climate change agenda in Finland,
adaptation to climate change is increasingly recognised as an important policy issue across …

This work largely began in 2006, at which time I was a visiting scholar at the Environmental
Change Institute at Oxford University, and had the opportunity to join in some of the UK …

Climate change adaptation strategies are emerging across Europe as societies attempt to
adapt to the challenges of a changing environment. Social constructivist analyses of …

Using a securitization lens, this article explores the climate adaptation discourse and its
impact on the making and implementation of adaptation strategies in Sweden. The main …

Local strategies for adaptation to climate change in Denmark and Norway are discussed. In
both countries, the national impetus for local adaptation is weak; it is largely left to local …

The local level and private actors play an important role in the implementation of climate
change adaptation. The engagement of the private sector and citizens has received …

Adaptation to climate change is often perceived as a local concern; yet local stakeholders
are influenced by knowledge and politics from international and national contexts. Based on …