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Understanding the impact of policy lock-ins on climate change adaptation
Project overview
Preparing for and coping with the accelerating impacts of climate change requires adaptation in a wide range of policy areas. Yet, despite increasing calls for action, policy change to allow this is often slow. A range of counteracting forces and barriers can make it difficult to embed adaptation objectives into important policies and move them away from ‘business-as-usual’. However, deeper dynamics are also at play, where self-reinforcing mechanisms, feedbacks and path dependencies interact across different spatio-temporal scales and coalesce to establish policy lock-ins.
The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to uncover these lock-in dynamics and examine the extent to which they account for varying levels of climate change adaptation in Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. (England).
Project duration
June 2019 – May 2022
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.