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The Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Change

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dc.contributor.authorAgrawal, Arun
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-11T14:46:54Z
dc.date.available2017-09-11T14:46:54Z
dc.date.issued2008-03-05
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234591468331456170/The-role-of-local-institutions-in-adaptation-to-climate-change
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/28274
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/28274
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectACCOUNTABILITY
dc.subjectADAPTATION
dc.subjectADAPTATION ACTIONS
dc.subjectADAPTATION CHOICES
dc.subjectADAPTATION COSTS
dc.subjectADAPTATION EFFORTS
dc.subjectADAPTATION INTERVENTIONS
dc.subjectADAPTATION MEASURES
dc.subjectADAPTATION OPTIONS
dc.subjectADAPTATION POLICIES
dc.subjectADAPTATION PRACTICE
dc.subjectADAPTATION PRACTICES
dc.subjectADAPTATION PROJECTS
dc.subjectADAPTATION RESPONSES
dc.subjectADAPTATION STRATEGIES
dc.subjectADAPTATION STRATEGY
dc.subjectADAPTATION TO CLIMATE
dc.subjectADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectADAPTING
dc.subjectADAPTIVE CAPACITY
dc.subjectADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectADAPTIVE RESPONSES
dc.subjectADAPTIVE STRATEGIES
dc.subjectADVERSE CLIMATE
dc.subjectADVERSE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectALLOCATION
dc.subjectATMOSPHERIC SCIENTISTS
dc.subjectCAPACITY BUILDING
dc.subjectCARBON
dc.subjectCARBON SEQUESTRATION
dc.subjectCARBON SINKS
dc.subjectCIVIL LIBERTIES
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS
dc.subjectCLIMATE ADAPTATION
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE DAMAGE
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGE RISKS
dc.subjectCLIMATE CHANGES
dc.subjectCLIMATE EVENTS
dc.subjectCLIMATE HAZARD
dc.subjectCLIMATE HAZARDS
dc.subjectCLIMATE IMPACT
dc.subjectCLIMATE IMPACTS
dc.subjectCLIMATE MODELING
dc.subjectCLIMATE RISK
dc.subjectCLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectCLIMATE SENSITIVITY
dc.subjectCLIMATE VARIABILITY
dc.subjectCLIMATE VULNERABILITY
dc.subjectCLIMATE-RELATED RISKS
dc.subjectCLIMATIC CHANGE
dc.subjectCLIMATIC RISK
dc.subjectCLIMATIC STRESSES
dc.subjectCLIMATIC VARIABILITY
dc.subjectCLIMATIC VARIABLES
dc.subjectCOLLECTIVE ACTION
dc.subjectCOMMUNITY MEMBERS
dc.subjectCONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCOSTS OF ADAPTATION
dc.subjectCOSTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectCROP INSURANCE
dc.subjectDATA COLLECTION
dc.subjectDECISION MAKING
dc.subjectDESTRUCTION OF FORESTS
dc.subjectDISASTER RELIEF
dc.subjectDISASTERS
dc.subjectDROUGHT
dc.subjectDROUGHT EVENTS
dc.subjectDRY REGIONS
dc.subjectDRY SEASONS
dc.subjectECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
dc.subjectECOSYSTEM
dc.subjectEFFECTIVE ADAPTATION
dc.subjectEMISSIONS
dc.subjectEXPOSURE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectEXTREME EVENTS
dc.subjectFINANCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subjectFINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
dc.subjectFLOOD
dc.subjectFLOODING
dc.subjectFLOODS
dc.subjectFLUCTUATIONS IN RAINFALL
dc.subjectFOREST
dc.subjectFOREST GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectFRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectFUTURE CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectGLACIERS
dc.subjectGLOBAL EMISSIONS
dc.subjectGLOBAL MEAN TEMPERATURES
dc.subjectGOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectGOVERNMENT EFFECTIVENESS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS
dc.subjectGREENHOUSE GAS LEVELS
dc.subjectHEAT
dc.subjectHEAT STRESS
dc.subjectHEAT WAVES
dc.subjectIMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectIMPACTS OF CLIMATE RISKS
dc.subjectIMPLICATIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINEQUALITY
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS
dc.subjectINSTITUTIONAL PERFORMANCE
dc.subjectINSURANCE
dc.subjectINSURANCE CONTRACTS
dc.subjectINSURANCE INSTRUMENTS
dc.subjectINSURANCE MARKETS
dc.subjectINSURANCE PRODUCT
dc.subjectINSURANCE PRODUCTS
dc.subjectINSURANCE SCHEME
dc.subjectINSURANCE SCHEMES
dc.subjectINTENSE STORMS
dc.subjectINTENSITY OF DROUGHT
dc.subjectIPCC
dc.subjectLAND DEGRADATION
dc.subjectLAND USE
dc.subjectLIVESTOCK INSURANCE
dc.subjectLOCAL ADAPTATION
dc.subjectLOCAL ADAPTATIONS
dc.subjectLOCAL ADAPTIVE CAPACITY
dc.subjectLOCAL COMMUNITIES
dc.subjectLOCAL GOVERNANCE
dc.subjectLOCAL INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectLOCAL KNOWLEDGE
dc.subjectLOCAL LEVELS
dc.subjectLOWER COSTS
dc.subjectLOWER RAINFALL
dc.subjectMALADAPTATION
dc.subjectMARKET FAILURES
dc.subjectMITIGATION
dc.subjectMITIGATION EFFORTS
dc.subjectNATIONAL ADAPTATION
dc.subjectNATIONAL LEVEL
dc.subjectNATURAL RESOURCES
dc.subjectPET
dc.subjectPOLICY MAKERS
dc.subjectPOLITICAL RIGHTS
dc.subjectPOVERTY ALLEVIATION
dc.subjectPRECIPITATION
dc.subjectPROPERTY RIGHTS
dc.subjectPUBLIC INSTITUTIONS
dc.subjectRAIN
dc.subjectRAINFALL
dc.subjectRAINFALL LEVELS
dc.subjectRISKS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectSCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS
dc.subjectSEA LEVEL RISE
dc.subjectSEA WALLS
dc.subjectSEA-LEVEL
dc.subjectSEA-LEVEL RISE
dc.subjectSOCIAL ACTION
dc.subjectSOCIAL CHANGE
dc.subjectSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectSOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectSOCIAL GROUPS
dc.subjectSTORM SURGES
dc.subjectSTORMS
dc.subjectSUCCESS OF ADAPTATION
dc.subjectSUCCESSFUL ADAPTATION
dc.subjectTECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
dc.subjectTEMPERATURE
dc.subjectTEMPERATURES
dc.subjectTEMPORAL STRUCTURE
dc.subjectTEMPORAL VARIABILITY
dc.subjectTEMPORAL VARIATIONS
dc.subjectTOTAL BENEFITS
dc.subjectTRANSACTIONS COSTS
dc.subjectUNCERTAINTIES
dc.subjectVARIABILITY OF RAINFALL
dc.subjectVULNERABILITY INDICATORS
dc.subjectVULNERABILITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE
dc.subjectWEATHER PATTERNS
dc.titleThe Role of Local Institutions in Adaptation to Climate Changeen
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okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/234591468331456170/The-role-of-local-institutions-in-adaptation-to-climate-change
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okr.topicEnvironment::Adaptation to Climate Change
okr.topicEnvironment::Climate Change Mitigation and Green House Gases
okr.topicGovernance::Governance Indicators
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Climate Change Economics
okr.topicScience and Technology Development::Science of Climate Change
okr.unitSocial Development Department (SDV)
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