Catrien J.A.M. Termeer

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present six dimensions: Variety, learning capacity, room for autonomous change, leadership, availability of resources and fair governance to assess if institutions stimulate the adaptive capacity of society to respond to climate change from local through to national level.

TL;DR: The most frequently reported barriers relate to the institutional and social dimensions of adaptation as mentioned in this paper, where barriers are identified as configurations of climate and non-climate factors and conditions that emerge from the actor, the governance system, or the system of concern.

TL;DR: The concept of barriers is increasingly used to describe the obstacles that hinder the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation as mentioned in this paper, and there is a need for research that focuses on the interdependencies between barriers and considers the dynamic ways in which barriers develop and persist.

TL;DR: In this article, three representative approaches that address both governance and scaling: monocentric governance, multilevel governance, and adaptive governance are disentangled by analyzing the differences in underlying views on governing, assumptions about scales, dominant problem definitions regarding scales, and preferred responses for dealing with multiple scales.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define resilience of a farming system as its ability to ensure the provision of the system functions in the face of increasingly complex and accumulating economic, social, environmental and institutional shocks and stresses, through capacities of robustness, adaptability and transformability.