Handling adaptation governance choices in Sweden, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. Workpackage 6, Deliverable 6A. Knowledge for Climate, Theme 7 "The governance of Adaptation"

Abstract

This document presents an overview of climate adaptation policies in four countries: Sweden, Germany, the UK and the Netherlands. The present report presents a collection of the papers that were discussed during a workshop with the international partners under KfC theme 7 Governance. To guarantee coherence, each of the papers discussed a set of predefined themes. They all zoom in on various choices that climate governors in the countries have had to make in setting up a climate adaptation policy framework: problem definitions, levels and scales, timing and sequencing, modes of governance, costs and benefits, and implementation and enforcement (based on Jordan et al. 2010).