292 research outputs found
sj-docx-2-sgo-10.1177_21582440241228019 – Supplemental material for Across the Great Divide: A Systematic Literature Review to Address the Gap Between Theory and Practice
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-sgo-10.1177_21582440241228019 for Across the Great Divide: A Systematic Literature Review to Address the Gap Between Theory and Practice by Estefania Arteaga, Robbert Biesbroek, Johanna Nalau and Michael Howes in SAGE Open</p
sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440241228019 – Supplemental material for Across the Great Divide: A Systematic Literature Review to Address the Gap Between Theory and Practice
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-sgo-10.1177_21582440241228019 for Across the Great Divide: A Systematic Literature Review to Address the Gap Between Theory and Practice by Estefania Arteaga, Robbert Biesbroek, Johanna Nalau and Michael Howes in SAGE Open</p
Adapting cultural heritage to climate change impacts in the Netherlands: barriers, interdependencies, and strategies for overcoming them
No full textClimate change is currently impacting cultural heritage globally. Despite advances in the understanding of the relationship between climate change impacts and cultural heritage, there are significant barriers that hamper adaptation of cultural heritage to current and projected climate risks. This paper aims to advance the empirical understanding of barriers to adapting cultural heritage to climate-related impacts in the Netherlands by identifying different barriers, their interdependencies, and possible strategies to overcome these barriers. Using a web-based questionnaire with 57 experts, we find that the most frequently reported barriers are a lack of climate change adaptation policy for cultural heritage, and lack of climate vulnerability and risk assessments for diverse cultural heritage types. Our study finds that barriers are perceived to be interdependent and conjointly constrain adapting cultural heritage to climate change. Six actionable strategies are identified to navigate these barriers.History, Form & Aesthetic
Comparing apples and oranges
No full textComparing apples and oranges: The dependent variable problem in comparing and evaluating climate change adaptation policies / Johann Dupuy & Robbert Biesbroek (Wageningen University, the Netherlands). Global Environmental Change, Available online 23 August 2013. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378013001283 Authors's abstract : The article responds to the growing tendency to indistinctively label policy actions as climate change adaptation, which has hampered comparative ..
Comparing apples and oranges
No full textComparing apples and oranges: The dependent variable problem in comparing and evaluating climate change adaptation policies / Johann Dupuy & Robbert Biesbroek (Wageningen University, the Netherlands). Global Environmental Change, Available online 23 August 2013. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378013001283 Authors's abstract : The article responds to the growing tendency to indistinctively label policy actions as climate change adaptation, which has hampered comparative ..
Unpacking the Theory-Practice Gap in Climate Adaptation
No full textClimate change adaptation (CCA) is an urgent global challenge that requires transdisciplinary efforts to deliver effective, aligned, useful, and sustainable outcomes. Current approaches and tools have been slow to translate into robust action, however, leading to a widening gap between adaptation theory and actual on the ground implementation. This theory–practice gap is a fundamental factor that is causing significant challenges to adaptation, yet it has seldom been directly defined or addressed. A better understanding of how this gap emerges, what drives it, and how it could be solved contributes to improving the way both adaptation theory and practice develop. This study critically examines the existence of this gap through a novel framework via a series of workshops with experts engaged in adaptation science, planning and implementation. The findings show that there are multiple gaps that interact with each other, generating a complex and challenging process of adaptation. There are diverse drivers such as motivation and values, knowledge, capacity, language, and funding, that shape the gap. Overall, we show that the gap can be tackled by integrating multiple solutions utilising the diverse sources of knowledge compiled in the framework. Possible solutions include improving knowledge creation and accessibility, enabling collaboration and communication between stakeholders, developing skills and capacity, improving context or circumstances, and introducing new roles and tools. These findings will be useful for scientists, practitioners and policymakers who are interested in developing more integrated theory–practice solutions for robust and effective climate adaptation.Full Tex
Climate Change Adaptation in European Mountain Systems : A Systematic Mapping of Academic Research
No full textEuropean mountain regions have already been impacted by climate change, and this is projected to increase in the future. These mountain regions experience rapid changes, which influence social-ecological systems in the lower-mountain and floodplain regions of Europe. There is scattered evidence across different strands of academic literature on the ways in which the impacts of changing climate in mountain regions are addressed and adaptive capacity is enhanced. Using a systematic mapping review, we mapped English-language scientific journal articles that analyzed the climate change adaptation options that are planned or implemented in European mountain regions. Our understanding of how academic literature has investigated climate change adaptation is critical to identifying key knowledge gaps and research foci. Following the Reporting Standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses in environmental research protocol, 72 scientific articles published between January 2011 and August 2019 were identified from a total of 702 scientific articles. Our findings show that existing academic literature has a strong focus on the western and southern European mountains: the European Alps (n = 24), Pyrenees (n = 11), and Sierra Nevada (n = 4). Key climate impacts reported for the biophysical systems include reduction in forest carbon, soil erosion, changes in vegetation patterns, and changes in plant population and tree heights; in human systems, these include water availability, agricultural production, changes in viticulture, and impacts on tourism. Key adaptation options reported in this article are wetland conservation options, changing cropping and cultivation cycles, tree species management strategies, and snow-making technology. We found very few articles analyzing governance responses to planning and implementing adaptation; these had a strong bias toward techno-managerial responses. We conclude that, while climate impacts are substantial in European mountain regions, there are knowledge gaps in academic literature that need to be addressed
Addressing the theory and practice gap to improve climate change adaptation
No full textAdaptation to climate change in practice has been limited despite worldwide political attention and the availability of multiple tools to support mainstreaming. The latest IPCC reports show limited progress in adaptation, where efforts are primarily incremental, reactive and slow in responding effectively to current impacts or near-term risks. Despite the more than 380 guidelines, frameworks, tools, and methodologies available in the UNFCCC database that are designed to support climate adaptation, there remains limited evidence of their translation into practice leading to effective adaptation. The central starting point of this thesis is that there is a clear gap between theory and practice requiring urgent action, yet specific research on understanding and addressing the factors creating this gap is still lacking. This thesis aims to understand and conceptualise the theory-practice gap in climate adaptation and to identify drivers and solutions to address it. It makes a substantial contribution to the field of adaptation science and practice by laying the foundation for addressing the gap and, in doing so, improving adaptation efforts. [...]Thesis (PhD Doctorate)Doctor of PhilosophySchool of Environment and ScGriffith SciencesFull Tex
Putting food on the table : the European Union governance of the wicked problem of food security
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