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dc.contributor.authorOlazabal, Marta
dc.contributor.authorRuiz de Gopegui, María
dc.contributor.authorTompkins, Emma, L
dc.contributor.authorVenner, Kayin
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Rachel
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-18T11:03:16Z
dc.date.available2020-06-18T11:03:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationEnvironmental Research Letters 14(12): 124056 (2019)
dc.identifier.issn1748-9318
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/44028
dc.description.abstractThe Paris Agreement requires measurement of the progress made on adaptation. Tracking the progress made by governments through analysis of policies provides insight into the goals and means to achieve adaptation targets. Here we show the current state-of-the-art in public adaptation planning affecting 136 of the largest coastal port urban agglomerations, covering 68 countries. We identify 226 adaptation policies: 88 at national level, 57 at regional/state level and 81 at city/metropolitan level. This set of adaptation policies can be considered the latest, most up-to-date database of governmental and public-led adaptations. Our analyses show that (1) in one half of cases, there is no evidence of policy implementation, (2) in almost 85% of cases, planned adaptation actions are not driven by present or future climatic impacts or risks, and (3) formal adaptation planning is relatively recent and is concentrated in more developed areas and countries.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis study is part of the project CLIC (Are cities prepared for climate change? http://clic.bc3research.org/) supported by AXA Research Fund (Grant Agreement No. 4771) and the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) (Grant Agreement No. IJCI-2016-28835). KV and RS acknowledge the support of the European Union programme Erasmus+.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherIOP Publishing
dc.relationinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/IJCI-2016-28835
dc.relationES/6PN/IJCI-2016-28835
dc.relation.urihttps://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab5532
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/es/
dc.titleA cross-scale worldwide analysis of coastal adaptation planning
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.rights.holder(c) 2019 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/ab5532


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