Adaptation to Climate Change: A Framework for Analysis with Examples from the Netherlands

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pier Vellinga ◽  
Natasha Marinova ◽  
Jantsje M Van Loon-Steensma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

scholarly journals Adaptation to climate change in the insurance sector: examples from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Carina H. Keskitalo ◽  
Gregor Vulturius ◽  
Peter Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Understanding Public Health Adaptation to Climate Change: An Explorative Study on the Development of Adaptation Strategies Relating to the Oak Processionary Moth in The Netherlands

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 3080
Author(s):  
Yvette Buist ◽  
Marleen Bekker ◽  
Lenneke Vaandrager ◽  
Maria Koelen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Solution Space ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Processionary Moth ◽  
Oak Processionary Moth

Understanding of public health adaptation (PHA) to climate change and implementation is limited. This study therefore focuses on one specific PHA issue: adaptation to the oak processionary moth (OPM). The aim is to examine the development of OPM adaptation in order to offer a problem description of the complexities involved in OPM adaptation. In this explorative case study, we investigate adaptation strategies based on semi-structured interviews with 26 actors involved in OPM adaptation in The Netherlands. The results indicate that the context of OPM adaptation is relatively complex, given the involvement of many interdependent actors. OPM adaptation was developed with limited knowledge and strategies were based on ad hoc approaches in which there was ambiguity about tasks and expertise. In addition, different actors have different perceptions and values concerning health, sustainability, risks and responsibilities influencing decision-making processes, while also posing a challenge to collaboration and the development of a coordinated approach. The generation of knowledge and its translation into practical strategies calls for interdisciplinary cooperation in knowledge development. PHA adaptation involves more than technical and organisational solutions alone. It also entails the development of a shared problem perception and solution space in which citizens are also engaged.

scholarly journals Rijkswaterstaat: Guardian of the Dutch Delta

2020 ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Margo van den Brink
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Dutch Society ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Military Organization ◽  
Social License To Operate ◽  
Social License ◽  
Dutch Delta ◽  
The Waves

AbstractFounded in 1798, Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch government’s agency for infrastructural works, brought flood security, navigable waterways and highways to the Netherlands. It is an iconic institution within Dutch society, best known for its ‘battle against the water’. The Zuiderzee Works (1920–1968) and the Delta Works (1954–1997) brought worldwide acclaim. This chapter tells the story of a humble semi-military organization that developed into a formidable institution of civil engineers with a strong technocratic mission mystique. It also recounts the institutional crisis the agency experienced in the 1970s–1990s when it was too slow to adapt to major sociocultural and political changes. To ride the waves of change, it eventually developed several proactive adaptation strategies and reinvented its mission mystique in managerial terms. Adaptation to climate change now presents another key challenge, for which Rijkswaterstaat will have to develop a new ‘social license to operate’.

Barriers to climate change adaptation in the Netherlands

Climate Law ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robbert Biesbroek ◽  
Judith Klostermann ◽  
Catrien Termeer ◽  
Pavel Kabat
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Societal Costs ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Barriers To Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Private Actors

Review of recent literature on adaptation to climate change and general literature on policy processes shows that there are a large number of barriers that hamper the development and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies. To reduce and manage the number of barriers and combine both streams of literature, we propose seven clusters of barriers to adaptation. Little is known, however, about the relative importance of these barriers to climate change adaptation policies and practices. An online survey was conducted between March 2010 and July 2010 among 264 scientists, policymakers, and private actors from different sectors and levels who are involved in climate change adaptation projects and programmes in the Netherlands. The survey aimed to gather their experiences with, and perceptions of, the barriers identified in the literature and encountered in their daily work. Both climate-related and non-climate-related barriers were included in the survey. Data were subjected to both qualitative and quantitative analysis. A survey feedback workshop was organized to discuss the results with several of the survey respondents. Results of this study revealed that respondents considered conflicting timescales as the most important cluster of barriers to adaptation. Other highly ranked barriers include conflicting interests; lack of financial resources; unclear division of tasks and responsibilities; uncertain societal costs and future benefits; and fragmentation within and between scales of governance. Furthermore, the analysis demonstrated that scales matter in understanding the barriers to adaptation: actors from lowlevels of governance seem to consider the barriers as more severe than actors from high levels of governance.

Modelling of adaptation to climate change and decision-makers behaviours for the Veluwe forest area in the Netherlands

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasoul Yousefpour ◽  
Markus Didion ◽  
Jette B. Jacobsen ◽  
Henrik Meilby ◽  
Geerten M. Hengeveld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change

scholarly journals Adapting flood management to climate change: comparing policy frames and governance practices in the Low Countries

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Crabbé ◽  
Mark Wiering ◽  
Duncan Liefferink
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Flood Management ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Policy Frames ◽  
Governance Practices ◽  
Governance Processes

Belgium and the Netherlands together form the Low Countries. Empirical research in Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) and the Netherlands proves that there are substantive differences in the organization of governance processes regarding flood management in response to climate change. This article answers the question of how Flanders and the Netherlands, confronted with universal challenges and dilemmas in the governance of adaptation to climate change – integration versus differentiation (multi-sector versus sector-based governance), the problem of scaling (multi-level governance) and the division of public and private responsibilities (multi-actor governance) – are designing and structuring their approaches. More specifically, we look at how differences in the framing of climate adaptation can explain why organizational practices differ. For this purpose, a distinction is made between diagnostic framing (what is the problem?), prognostic framing (what could be possible solutions?) and action framing (how to act?). By referring to existing policy frames, the article explains recent policy choices on climate change adaptation in flood management.

Nature Protection Organizations and Climate Change in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 238-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
William T. van Markham ◽  
C.S.A. (Kris) Koppen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Address Climate Change ◽  
The Public ◽  
Climate Change Politics

This article investigates the messages about climate change that ten nature protection organizations in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States communicate to their members and the public through their Internet sites, member magazines, and annual reports. Based on analysis of this content, we conclude that all the organizations address climate change, but to varying extents and in differing ways. All of the organizations note that climate change is a major problem, has a significant impact on nature, and should be addressed mainly via mitigation. With the partial exception of the Dutch groups, all also inform their members about domestic climate change politics. Other themes, including international dimensions of climate change, adaptation to climate change, consumer behavior, collaboration with and criticism of business, and efforts to pressure business or government received less emphasis overall. How much emphasis the organizations gave these themes was conditioned by their traditions, constituencies, national context, and international affiliations.

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