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Introduction to the special issue on adapting institutions to climate change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 February 2018

MATTEO ROGGERO ,
SERGIO VILLAMAYOR-TOMAS ,
CHRISTOPH OBERLACK ,
KLAUS EISENACK ,
ALEXANDER BISARO ,
JOCHEN HINKEL  and
ANDREAS THIEL
MATTEO ROGGERO*
Affiliation:
Resource Economics Group, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
SERGIO VILLAMAYOR-TOMAS*
Affiliation:
Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA); Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
CHRISTOPH OBERLACK*
Affiliation:
Centre for Development and Environment, and Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
KLAUS EISENACK*
Affiliation:
Resource Economics Group, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
ALEXANDER BISARO*
Affiliation:
Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany
JOCHEN HINKEL*
Affiliation:
Global Climate Forum, Berlin, Germany
ANDREAS THIEL*
Affiliation:
International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany
*
*Email: matteo.mancini.roggero@gmail.com
**Email: villamayortomas@gmail.com
***Email: christoph.oberlack@cde.unibe.ch
****Email: klaus.eisenack@hu-berlin.de
*****Email: sandy.bisaro@globalclimateforum.org
******Email: hinkel@globalclimateforum.org
*******Email: thiel@uni-kassel.de
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Abstract

This article introduces the special issue on climate adaptation and institutions. Economic accounts of climate adaptation have stressed its collective action nature and the limitations of standard economic approaches to the matter. Governance accounts, on their part, have shown that adaptation does not always happen when it is expected. Against this background, institutional economics has the potential to shed light on those societal processes and collective mechanisms leading to and shaping adaptation (or the absence of it). The selection of articles contributing to this special issue shows that climate adaptation can indeed be explored successfully through institutional economics, and that doing so fits well within the institutional economics agenda. Some recommendations for future research are provided at the end.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 14 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue on Adapting Institutions to Climate Change , June 2018 , pp. 409 - 422
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2018 

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