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Climate Change Adaptation as a New Global Norm in the Water Sector? Between Symbolism and Dilution

Year: 2017

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Climate change impacts on societies and ecosystems are relatively new concerns in the water sector. A steadily growing literature emphasizes the need to reform water governance in order to make it more adaptive. In this contribution, I ask whether climate change adaptation can be considered as a new norm of policymaking and what this is implying for the governance of water. Building on the literature and on empirical material gathered from case studies, this chapter emphasizes the complex and erratic nature of adaptation policy processes, which may result in outputs that highly diverge from the positive expectations held in the literature and in international fora. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks

Parent work: A Critical Approach to International Water Management Trends

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-60086-8_8

Author: Johann Dupuis

Institution: University of Lausanne

Language: English

Topic: Sustainability and Climate Change Governance

Subfield: Global and Planetary Change

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Climate action, Clean water and sanitation

Open Access status: green