Local institutions and adaptation to climate change.

By Arun Agrawal, R. Mearns, A. Norton. 2010

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The nexus approach to water–energy–food security: an option for adaptation to climate change (2016, background): “Local adaptation approaches often prove unsustainable owing to inadequate institutional support (Agrawal, 2010).”
Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene (2014, background): “Agrawal (2010) found that civic organizations support risk pooling more often than local governments.”
Linking smallholder farmer climate change adaptation decisions to development (2016, background): “…exacerbate climate variability and extreme events and may push society past the limits of what current adaptive strategies are able to address (Agrawal, 2009; Mortimore & Adams, 2001; Schipper & Burton, 2009), the vast store of knowledge that smallholders hold from their experiences may be…”
Institutional and technological innovation: Understanding agricultural adaptation to climate change in Nepal (2012, background): “These local institutions have historically been instrumental in safeguarding resources, including the protection of forest and watersheds (Agrawal, 2010).”