Climate adaptation planning in practice: an evaluation of adaptation plans from three developed nations |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Benjamin?L?PrestonEmail author Richard?M?Westaway Emma?J?Yuen |
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Institution: | (1) Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, One Bethel Valley Road, PO Box 2008, MS-6301, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6253, USA;(2) IMS Consulting, Bristol, UK;(3) CSIRO Climate Adaptation Flagship, Aspendale, Victoria, Australia |
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Abstract: | Formal planning for climate change adaptation is emerging rapidly at a range of geo-political scales. This first generation
of adaptation plans provides useful information regarding how institutions are framing the issue of adaptation and the range
of processes that are recognized as being part of an adaptation response. To better understand adaptation planning among developed
nations, a set of 57 adaptation plans from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States was evaluated against a suite
of 19 planning processes identified from existing guidance instruments for adaptation planning. Total scores among evaluated
plans ranged from 16% of the maximum possible score to 61%, with an average of 37%. These results suggest adaptation plans
are largely under-developed. Critical weaknesses in adaptation planning are related to limited consideration for non-climatic
factors as well as neglect for issues of adaptive capacity including entitlements to various forms of capital needed for effective
adaptation. Such gaps in planning suggest there are opportunities for institutions to make better use of existing guidance
for adaptation planning and the need to consider the broader governance context in which adaptation will occur. In addition,
the adaptation options prescribed by adaptation plans reflect a preferential bias toward low-risk capacity-building (72% of
identified options) over the delivery of specific actions to reduce vulnerability. To the extent these findings are representative
of the state of developed nation adaptation planning, there appear to be significant deficiencies in climate change preparedness,
even among those nations often assumed to have the greatest adaptive capacity. |
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