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Applying a Multi-pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity

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The chapter explains the methodological approach for the research presented in this book that aims to contribute to both theory and practice for developing climate adaptive water governance regimes. The chapter presents how suitable proxies and indicators for adaptive capacity were identified and developed through in depth empirical assessment of institutional adaptations and reactions to extreme events and stresses across the highly contrasting case areas. It details the multi-scale empirical approach taken in the context of recent extreme events to address some of the weaknesses from previous, often normatively driven, research on adaptive capacity that has often been focused either at national or local levels, but rarely across different jurisdictional, administrative and political levels.

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Hill, M. (2013). Applying a Multi-pronged Approach to Assessing Adaptive Capacity. In: Climate Change and Water Governance. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7_5

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