Explaining and Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation

This research paper examines the current state of scientific knowledge regarding obstacles that hinder the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation, noting a lack of explanation for why these barriers exist and persist.

• The existing literature on climate change adaptation barriers identifies common obstacles and conflicting evidence, but provides few explanations regarding why these barriers exist or how they change over time.
• There is a requirement for new research that is actor-centred and comparative, focusing on the interdependencies between barriers and the dynamic processes of their development and persistence to better understand how to overcome them.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2014). Explaining and Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation. https://www.sei.org/publications/explaining-and-overcoming-barriers-to-climate-change-adaptation/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Explaining and Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation. 2014. https://www.sei.org/publications/explaining-and-overcoming-barriers-to-climate-change-adaptation/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2014explaining, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Explaining and Overcoming Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2014}, month = sep, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/explaining-and-overcoming-barriers-to-climate-change-adaptation/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }