Advancing Climate Adaptation through Citizen Engagement

The authors find a positive trend in integrating citizen engagement into climate adaptation, but note a persistent gap between theoretical good practices and real-world implementation. This gap is driven by a reliance on academic sources, lack of transparency in knowledge-sharing platforms, difficulties in tailoring general knowledge to local contexts, institutional barriers, and a lack of societal normalization of engagement.

• There is a general positive trend toward integrating citizen engagement into climate adaptation, yet a gap persists between theoretical good practices and their actual implementation in the real world.
• The application of good practices in citizen engagement is obstructed by several factors, including an over-reliance on academic knowledge sources, a lack of transparency regarding the currency of knowledge-sharing platforms, institutional obstacles, and the failure to normalize citizen engagement within society.
• General knowledge regarding citizen engagement is often difficult to adapt to specific local and individual contexts.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2026). Advancing Climate Adaptation through Citizen Engagement. https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-adaptation-through-citizen-engagement/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Advancing Climate Adaptation through Citizen Engagement. 2026. https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-adaptation-through-citizen-engagement/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=Advancing Climate Adaptation through Citizen Engagement |date=26 February 2026 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-adaptation-through-citizen-engagement/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2026advancing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Advancing Climate Adaptation through Citizen Engagement}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2026}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/advancing-climate-adaptation-through-citizen-engagement/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }