The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change

This review focuses on the role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change. It does so under the belief that climate impacts will affect disadvantaged social groups more disproportionately, and that local institutions centrally influence...

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Main Author:	Agrawal, Arun
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	ACCOUNTABILITY ADAPTATION ADAPTATION ACTIONS ADAPTATION CHOICES ADAPTATION COSTS ADAPTATION EFFORTS ADAPTATION INTERVENTIONS ADAPTATION MEASURES ADAPTATION OPTIONS ADAPTATION POLICIES ADAPTATION PRACTICE ADAPTATION PRACTICES ADAPTATION PROJECTS ADAPTATION RESPONSES ADAPTATION STRATEGIES ADAPTATION STRATEGY ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTING ADAPTIVE CAPACITY ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITIES ADAPTIVE RESPONSES ADAPTIVE STRATEGIES ADVERSE CLIMATE ADVERSE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ALLOCATION ATMOSPHERIC SCIENTISTS CAPACITY BUILDING CARBON CARBON SEQUESTRATION CARBON SINKS CIVIL LIBERTIES CIVIL SOCIETY CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS CLIMATE ADAPTATION CLIMATE CHANGE DAMAGE CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS CLIMATE CHANGE RISKS CLIMATE CHANGES CLIMATE EVENTS CLIMATE HAZARD CLIMATE HAZARDS CLIMATE IMPACT CLIMATE IMPACTS CLIMATE MODELING CLIMATE RISK CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT CLIMATE SENSITIVITY CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VULNERABILITY CLIMATE-RELATED RISKS CLIMATIC CHANGE CLIMATIC RISK CLIMATIC STRESSES CLIMATIC VARIABILITY CLIMATIC VARIABLES COLLECTIVE ACTION COMMUNITY MEMBERS CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE COSTS OF ADAPTATION COSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE CROP INSURANCE DATA COLLECTION DECISION MAKING DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS DISASTER RELIEF DISASTERS DROUGHT DROUGHT EVENTS DRY REGIONS DRY SEASONS ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOSYSTEM EFFECTIVE ADAPTATION EMISSIONS EXPOSURE TO CLIMATE CHANGE EXTREME EVENTS FINANCIAL CAPITAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FLOOD FLOODING FLOODS FLUCTUATIONS IN RAINFALL FOREST FOREST GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE FUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE GLACIERS GLOBAL EMISSIONS GLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURES GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GAS GREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS HEAT HEAT STRESS HEAT WAVES IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE RISKS IMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE INCOME INEQUALITY INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS INSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE CONTRACTS INSURANCE INSTRUMENTS INSURANCE MARKETS INSURANCE PRODUCT INSURANCE PRODUCTS INSURANCE SCHEME INSURANCE SCHEMES INTENSE STORMS INTENSITY OF DROUGHT IPCC LAND DEGRADATION LAND USE LIVESTOCK INSURANCE LOCAL ADAPTATION LOCAL ADAPTATIONS LOCAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITY LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL GOVERNANCE LOCAL INSTITUTIONS LOCAL KNOWLEDGE LOCAL LEVELS LOWER COSTS LOWER RAINFALL MALADAPTATION MARKET FAILURES MITIGATION MITIGATION EFFORTS NATIONAL ADAPTATION NATIONAL LEVEL NATURAL RESOURCES PET POLICY MAKERS POLITICAL RIGHTS POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRECIPITATION PROPERTY RIGHTS PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS RAIN RAINFALL RAINFALL LEVELS RISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS SEA LEVEL RISE SEA WALLS SEA-LEVEL SEA-LEVEL RISE SOCIAL ACTION SOCIAL CHANGE SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE SOCIAL GROUPS STORM SURGES STORMS SUCCESS OF ADAPTATION SUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TEMPERATURE TEMPERATURES TEMPORAL STRUCTURE TEMPORAL VARIABILITY TEMPORAL VARIATIONS TOTAL BENEFITS TRANSACTIONS COSTS UNCERTAINTIES VARIABILITY OF RAINFALL VULNERABILITY INDICATORS VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE WEATHER PATTERNS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234591468331456170/The-role-of-local-institutions-in-adaptation-to-climate-change http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28274

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Summary:	This review focuses on the role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change. It does so under the belief that climate impacts will affect disadvantaged social groups more disproportionately, and that local institutions centrally influence how different social groups gain access to and are able to use assets and resources. It suggests that adaptation to climate change is inevitably local and that institutions influence adaptation and climate vulnerability in three critical ways: a) they structure impacts and vulnerability, b) they mediate between individual and collective responses to climate impacts and thereby shape outcomes of adaptation, and c) they act as the means of delivery of external resources to facilitate adaptation, and thus govern access to such resources. In focusing on local institutions, the review fills two glaring gaps in the existing understanding about institutions and climate change: the lack of middle-range theories of adaptation practices to help frame policy debates, and the absence of comparative empirical studies of adaptation to support policy interventions. To contribute to middle-range theoretical knowledge about climate change the review develops a conceptual framework to understand and classify the adaptation practices of the rural poor, view the institutional structuring of adaptation, and examine the types of external support interventions that local institutions inevitably channel. The review proposes a focus on different forms of mobility, storage, diversification, communal pooling, and market exchange in rural settings as the basic mechanisms through which households address riskiness of livelihoods. Using the familiar typology of public, private, and civil society institutions the review proposes an institutional linkages framework that highlights the role of institutional partnerships in facilitating adaptation and drawing from social network analysis it presents a conceptual toolkit to analyze institutional partnerships and their impacts on resource access of vulnerable social groups. In examining the role of institutions in channeling financial, information and technological, leadership, and policy interventions into rural areas, the review highlights that institutions are critical leverage points through which to determine the direction and magnitude of flows of resources to different social groups.

The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change

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