Climate change Adaptation in Dutch Municipalities: Risk Perception and Institutional Capacity

Maya Marieke van den Berg

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-0785-6_27

Climate change Adaptation in Dutch Municipalities: Risk Perception and Institutional Capacity

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Abstract

This contribution presents case studies of nine Dutch municipalities. Interview-based data show that the drivers of local climate adaptation in these cases are determined more by local contextual factors than by past experience with flooding or an expected increase of climate change risk. The presence of larger institutional capacity did not prove to be determinative of the level of action in climate change adaptation policies. Only in urban cases where a green party administrator was responsible for environmental affairs was a high level of ‘adaptation action’ observed. Another mediating factor appeared to be the variation in quality of climate change information

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference Proceedings of Resilient Cities 2010 Congress
Editors	Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
Publisher	Springer
Pages	-
ISBN (Print)	9789400707856
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0785-6_27
Publication status	Published - 28 May 2010

Publication series

Name	Local sustainability
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Volume	1
ISSN (Print)	2211-2782

Keywords

Adaptation
Climate Change
Local government
Risk Perception
IR-78188
METIS-273122
Adaptive capacity

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Climate change Adaptation in Dutch Municipalities: Risk Perception and Institutional Capacity. / van den Berg, Maya Marieke.

Conference Proceedings of Resilient Cities 2010 Congress. ed. / Konrad Otto-Zimmermann. Springer, 2010. p. - (Local sustainability; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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