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Something borrowed, everything new: innovation and institutionalization in urban climate governance
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The traditional view of climate governance is that local action is shaped by international agreements and national policies, the priorities of funders, and ideas advanced by nongovernmental organizations and transnational networks as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 410 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Climate governance & Action (philosophy).read more
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Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response
Russell M. Wise,Ioan Fazey,M. Stafford Smith,Sarah Park,Hallie Eakin,E. Archer Van Garderen,E. Archer Van Garderen,Bruce M. Campbell +7 more
TL;DR: This paper explored a broader conceptualisation of adaptation pathways that draws on path-thinking in the sustainable development domain to consider the implications of path dependency, interactions between adaptation plans, vested interests and global change, and situations where values, interests or institutions constrain societal responses to change.
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Revisiting the urban politics of climate change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors make a case for the increasing significance of climate change in the urban politics of sustainability, and examine their validity in the light of the rapidly changing landscape of urban responses to climate change and the growing academic literature in this field.
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A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States: more than before, but less than needed
Rosina Bierbaum,Joel B. Smith,Arthur Lee,Maria Blair,Lynne Carter,F. Stuart Chapin,Paul Fleming,Susan Ruffo,Missy Stults,Shannon M. McNeeley,Emily Wasley,Laura Verduzco +11 more
TL;DR: The authors reviewed existing and planned adaptation activities of federal, tribal, state, and local governments and the private sector in the United States (U.S.) to understand what types of adaptation activities are underway across different sectors and scales throughout the country.
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Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South
Isabelle Anguelovski,Linda Shi,Eric Chu,Daniel Gallagher,Kian Goh,Zachary Lamb,Kara Reeve,Hannah Teicher +7 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that urban adaptation injustices fall into two categories: acts of commission, when interventions negatively affect or displace poor communities, and acts of omission, when they protect and prioritize elite groups at the expense of the urban poor.
Climate Change Impacts in the United States
TL;DR: The report summarizes the science of climate change and the impacts in the United States, now and in the future as discussed by the authors, and concludes that climate change is a major threat to the US.
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Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance
TL;DR: Douglass C. North as discussed by the authors developed an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time.
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Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance
Douglass C. North,John Alt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role that institutions, defined as the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction, play in economic performance and how those institutions change and how a model of dynamic institutions explains the differential performance of economies through time.
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Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action
TL;DR: In this paper, an institutional approach to the study of self-organization and self-governance in CPR situations is presented, along with a framework for analysis of selforganizing and selfgoverning CPRs.
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Successful adaptation to climate change across scales
TL;DR: In this article, the authors outline a set of normative evaluative criteria for judging the success of adaptation at different scales and argue that elements of effectiveness, efficiency, equity and legitimacy are important in judging success in terms of the sustainability of development pathways into an uncertain future.