All you need is Act: A Comprehensive Climate change Adaptation Approach
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2024-08-28
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This study identified how local climate change adaptation (CCA) is envisioned to address vulnerability, in context of the Dutch Environmental and Planning Act (DEPA). The key findings reveal that flooding, droughts, heat stress, sea level rise and extreme weather events are envisioned as climate change impacts to the local level. These impacts lead to a variety of vulnerabilities from increased frequency of flooding that is affecting agriculture and infrastructure, o the enhancement of native species to adapt to prolonged periods of droughts. The multifaceted vulnerabilities show the need for targeted and context-specific CCA strategies. The CCA strategies can be realized by using the opportunity of implementation and integration through a comprehensive interdepartmental collaboration. The context of the DEPA offers an opportunity for local CCA to address the vulnerabilities, because of the comprehensive policy-making and decentralised framework. This decentralised framework allows municipalities to be flexible in their decision-making within their own local context. In their policy-making, the comprehensive approach of the Act allows for a more integrative collaboration between different departments in the municipality and various actors. However, effective CCA is highly dependent on resources, capacity and political contexts, which can create barriers from planning to implementation of local CCA. Therefore, the potential of DEPA, when properly deployed, can significantly advance local CCA.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen