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Managing private and public adaptation to climate change

Managing private and public adaptation to climate change
Managing private and public adaptation to climate change
Adaptation to climate change is already being delivered by public and private actors, yet there has been little analysis of the relationships between the providers and beneficiaries of adaptation. This paper reviews the type of actors that are supplying adaptation services and their motivations. We then focus on a specific, under-explored case of adaptation: that of privately provided adaptation public goods and services, the realization of which is contingent on the individual management of private goods and private risks. Following the work of Olson (1965) we find that the benefits of the privately provided adaptation public good do not necessarily accrue back to the (same) individuals who are the providers. The characteristics of this particular form of public good pose specific institutional challenges. In this paper we: 1) explore the characteristics and defining features of these privately provided adaptation public goods; 2) argue that this form of adaptation provisioning is increasingly recognised as a feature in climate change adaptation (and/or social transformation) problems; 3) review existing cases of effective/ineffective management of these public goods; and 4) outline the institutions that may be required to facilitate the management of these public goods for adaptation.
resilience, externalities, public goods, property rights, adaptation, private sector, motivation, supply, regulation, compensation, social contracts, olson, climate change
0959-3780
3-11
Tompkins, Emma L.
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Eakin, Hallie
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Tompkins, Emma L.
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Eakin, Hallie
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Tompkins, Emma L. and Eakin, Hallie (2012) Managing private and public adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change, 22 (1), 3-11. (doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.09.010).

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Adaptation to climate change is already being delivered by public and private actors, yet there has been little analysis of the relationships between the providers and beneficiaries of adaptation. This paper reviews the type of actors that are supplying adaptation services and their motivations. We then focus on a specific, under-explored case of adaptation: that of privately provided adaptation public goods and services, the realization of which is contingent on the individual management of private goods and private risks. Following the work of Olson (1965) we find that the benefits of the privately provided adaptation public good do not necessarily accrue back to the (same) individuals who are the providers. The characteristics of this particular form of public good pose specific institutional challenges. In this paper we: 1) explore the characteristics and defining features of these privately provided adaptation public goods; 2) argue that this form of adaptation provisioning is increasingly recognised as a feature in climate change adaptation (and/or social transformation) problems; 3) review existing cases of effective/ineffective management of these public goods; and 4) outline the institutions that may be required to facilitate the management of these public goods for adaptation.

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Published date: February 2012
Keywords: resilience, externalities, public goods, property rights, adaptation, private sector, motivation, supply, regulation, compensation, social contracts, olson, climate change
Organisations: Global Env Change & Earth Observation

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Local EPrints ID: 199971
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/199971
ISSN: 0959-3780
PURE UUID: 57451a95-cdc6-4181-ba81-533037edd6cb
ORCID for Emma L. Tompkins: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-4825-9797

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Date deposited: 17 Oct 2011 15:58
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:39

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Author: Hallie Eakin

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