Although the public governance of climate change adaptation gained increasing attention
among both policy-makers and researchers in recent years, it is still largely unclear how …

Adaptation tracking seeks to characterize, monitor, and compare general trends in climate
change adaptation over time and across nations. Recognized as essential for evaluating …

Climate change poses a serious threat to sustainable urban development, placing many
cities at risk. As a consequence, city authorities are increasingly facing the challenge of …

An increasing number of studies have compared climate change adaptation policies within
and between different countries. In this paper we show that these comparative studies suffer …

Climate change adaptation governance is in flux. Adaptation policies are being adopted by
governments at a rapid pace, particularly in Europe. In the period 2005–2010, the total …

Climate Change is happening. Even if global emission reductions and mitigation efforts over
the next decades prove to be successful, a signifi cant amount of human-induced climate …

Climate change is expected to have negative impacts but also to bring potential
opportunities for agriculture and crop productivity in the Nordic countries. Little research has …

Attention toward climate adaptation has been growing among governments over the past
decade. In the European Union (EU) alone, nine countries have national plans for …

Complex environmental challenges cut horizontally across sectors and vertically across
levels of government. To address them in coordinated and integrated ways, governments …

Climate change is widely recognised as a 'wicked'policy problem. Agreeing and
implementing governance responses is proving extremely difficult. Policy makers in many …