The Adaptation Policy Paradox : the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation
By J. Dupuis, P. Knoepfel. 2013
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The implementation of adaptation policies suffers from barriers and limits; even though adaptation is now set on the political agendas of developed and developing countries, surprisingly few examples of concrete policy realizations are found in comparative assessments. We investigate how the framings of adaptation as a policy problem can relate to tractability issues in implementation. We distinguish three framings of adaptation: climate change adaptation (CCA), climate variability adaptation (CVA), and vulnerability-centered adaptation (VCA) that imply conflicting interpretations of the collective problem to be solved and the goals to be attained through policy solutions. Through the methodology of comparative case studies, we conduct an empirical analysis of three implementation processes in India and Switzerland, and examine how adaptation framings translate into formal policy design and concrete policy realizations. We find that, regardless of the adaptive capacity of the country where implementation takes place, the CCA framing meets more tractability issues than the VCA framing. Therefore, we discuss the paradox that the innovative and additional CCA types of policies, advocated by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), are more likely to face a deficit in implementation according to our analysis.
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change
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- The Right Stuff? Informing Adaptation to Climate Change in British Local Government (2015, background): “Whereas Dupuis and Knoepfel (2013) attribute the lack of local saliency of climate adaptation framings to the spatial distance between local realities and the international bodies who offer them; our findings highlight the importance of temporal immediacy to the appeal of a weather resiliency…”
- The governance of adaptation: choices, reasons, and effects. Introduction to the Special Feature (2016, methodology): “This point connects to the plea that Dupuis and Knoepfel (2013) make for a better integration of the social sciences in the debate on adaptation.”