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标题：The Adaptation Policy Paradox: the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation
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作者：Johann Dupuis ; Peter Knoepfel
期刊名称：Ecology and Society
印刷版ISSN：1708-3087
电子版ISSN：1708-3087
出版年度：2013
卷号：18
期号：4
出版社：The Resilience Alliance
摘要：The implementation of adaptation policies suffers from barriers and limits; even though adaptation is now set onthe political agendas of developed and developing countries, surprisingly few examples of concrete policy realizations are foundin comparative assessments. We investigate how the framings of adaptation as a policy problem can relate to tractability issuesin implementation. We distinguish three framings of adaptation: climate change adaptation (CCA), climate variability adaptation(CVA), and vulnerability-centered adaptation (VCA) that imply conflicting interpretations of the collective problem to be solvedand the goals to be attained through policy solutions. Through the methodology of comparative case studies, we conduct anempirical analysis of three implementation processes in India and Switzerland, and examine how adaptation framings translateinto formal policy design and concrete policy realizations. We find that, regardless of the adaptive capacity of the country whereimplementation takes place, the CCA framing meets more tractability issues than the VCA framing. Therefore, we discuss theparadox that the innovative and additional CCA types of policies, advocated by the United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change (UNFCCC), are more likely to face a deficit in implementation according to our analysis
关键词：adaptation; adaptive capacity; barriers; climate change; framing; implementation; policy coordination; policy;design; political sciences; public policy; tractability