Presentations and Papers

I: Barriers to Municipal Adaptation (1)
II: Institutional Barriers
III: Barriers at the Science-Policy Interface
IV: Adaptation Analysis and Assessment
V: Processural Frameworks to Analyze Barriers
VI: Adaptation Mainstreaming in Policy and Planning
VII: Economics of Adaptation
VIII: Barriers to Municipal Adaptation (2)
IX: Organizational Learning

Please note: not all papers and presentations are available online.

I: Barriers to Municipal Adaptation (1)


1. A Reflection on Values-Based Approaches in Climate Change Adaptation Research: Whose Values? When, Where, and How?

Carolina Adler, SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (ZÜRICH, SWITZERLAND)

2. Cross-Scale barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Local Government:
A focus on Australia

Pierre Mukheibir, UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY (SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)

3. Bridging the Financial Gap in Climate Adaptation: Dutch Planning and Land Development Through a New Institutional Lens

Liz Root, RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN (NIJMEGEN, NETHERLANDS)

II: Institutional Barriers


1. Limiting Factors for a Robust Railway System

Maja Rotter, INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH (IÖW) (BERLIN, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 217 kb)

2. Challenges in adapting to change and uncertainty at the local level: Exploring institutional and socio-political barriers to flexible and forward-looking decision-making in three African districts

Lindsey Jones, OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM)
Presentation (PDF, 802 kb) and Paper (PDF, 1300 kb)

3. Institutional Barriers and Triggers for Adaptation to Climate Change in Europe

Christoph Oberlack, UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG (FREIBURG, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 112 kb) and Paper (PDF, 115 kb)

III: Barriers at the Science-Policy Interface


1. Negotiating the barriers between science and policy: from 'useful' to 'valuable' knowledges in climate change adaptation

Geoff Whitman, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (LEEDS, UNITED KINGDOM)
Presentation (PDF, 214 kb)

2. 3 m flood protection in the view of climate change adaptation

Johannes Klein, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF FINLAND (ESPOO, FINLAND)

3. How ‘culture’ matters? An Analysis of institutional barriers to climate change adaptation around the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia

Vikrom Mathur, INDEPENDENT RESEARCHER (INDIA)

IV: Adaptation Analysis and Assessment


1. A Framework for Analyzing Climate Change Adaptations as Actions

Klaus Eisenack, UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG (OLDENBURG, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 115 kb)

2. Which framing of adaptation is adequate?

Jochen Hinkel, POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (POTSDAM, GERMANY)

3. How costly and profitable of adaption to climate change: multi-criteria analysis of promising adaption options in the water sector in China

Ilona Otto, POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH (POTSDAM, GERMANY)

V: Processural Frameworks to Analyze Barriers


1. Identifying characteristic variables to structure processes of and barriers
to adaptation of infrastructure

Micha Steinhäuser, UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG (OLDENBURG, GERMANY)

2. Barriers revisited: analytical perspectives in the study of barriers
in the governance of climate change adaptation

Robbert Biesbroek, WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY (WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS)

3. Barriers to climate change adaptation in the Swiss tourism sector

Cecilia Matasci, ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND)

VI: Adaptation Mainstreaming in Policy and Planning


1. Barriers and guidelines in adaptation policy making:
Taking stock, analysing congruence

Andrea Prutsch, ENVIRONMENT AGENCY AUSTRIA AND UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES (WIEN, AUSTRIA)
Presentation (PDF, 3800 kb)

2. Adaptation measures for Santiago de Chile – How to overcome existing barriers?

Kerstin Krellenberg, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (LEIPZIG, GERMANY)

3. By Stealth or by Spotlight

Elisabeth Hamin, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS (AMHERST, USA)

VII: Economics of Adaptation


1. Efficient public adaptation to climate change – An investigation of drivers and barriers from a Public Choice perspective

Clemens Heuson, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (LEIPZIG, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 635 kb) and Paper (PDF, 868 kb)

2. The incentives for long-term adaptation investment in regulated network industries

Klaus Eisenack, UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG (OLDENBURG, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 232 kb)

VIII: Barriers to Municipal Adaptation (2)


1. Understanding Barriers and Drivers of Urban Climate Adaptation

Paul Lehmann, HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (LEIPZIG, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 942 kb)

2. Why tackle a far-off problem? Municipal resistance to climate change adaptation from an organisational change perspective

Maya van den Berg, UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE (ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS)

IX: Organizational Learning


1. Barriers to climate change adaptation: The development of a barrier model

Jana Herrmann, DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (DRESDEN, GERMANY)

2. Making sense of climate risks: Barriers to organizational adaptation

Esther Hoffmann, INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL ECONOMY RESEARCH (IÖW) (BERLIN, GERMANY)
Presentation (PDF, 120 kb)

3. Barriers to built asset adaptation in private service sector

Fuad Ali, UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH (LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM)
Presentation (PDF, 153 kb) and Paper (PDF, 153 kb)