This paper explores how experience gained from ICZM implementation can be harnessed to inform the development and implementation of climate adaptation policies, with a particular focus on the coastal zone.
Yet, the lack of reliable data on past events renders the implementation of appropriate adaptation policies a difficult task, and therefore also hampers the mitigation of future disasters.
Thus, these countries are left with the task of adapting to the possible consequences of climate change either through traditional development policies that will make them more resilient to extreme conditions or through the implementation of pure adaptation policies.
A novel framework is presented that incorporates social science insights into the formulation and implementation of adaptation activities and policies to lessen the health risks posed by climate change.
Furthermore, implementation of climate change adaptation policies at the local level is hampered by institutional inertia.
The development and implementation of adaptation strategies are important and required by the policy makers from local government and city planning departments.
Based on this reasoning, we categorized four indicators: environmental, morbidity and mortality, vulnerability, and policy (i.e., implementation of adaptation and mitigation programs and activities).
An increasing number of initiatives for adaptation to climate change are occurring at multiple scales and decision focuses (e.g., impact assessment, policy design, technology development, planning management and implementation of adaptation measures etc).
The large-scale model used in this study is suitable to identify hotspot areas and support the first step in the policy process, but the final design and implementation of adaptation options requires supporting studies at finer scales.
In a context where the implementation of adaptation measures becomes relevant to counteract the expected CC-induced travel market share losses, this paper examines the role of preference analysis in the design of CC adaptation policies.
