Editorial: The governance of adaptation to climate change as a multi-level, multi-sector and multi-actor challenge: a European comparative perspective

摘要: There is increasing recognition of the need for society to adapt impacts climate change, especially in water sector. Adaptation climatic involves both infrastructural adjustments, such as reinforcing dykes or creating storage capacity, and broader processes societal adjusting land use planning, more efficient agricultural transitions. Because many uncertainties surrounding change issues, actors are facing challenge developing implementing adjustments transitions, adaptive capacity deal with unexpected future changes. Although ‘mitigation’ has traditionally received bulk European media policy attention; since, a number years, countries have been national adaptation strategies concrete policies cope (Biesbroek et al. 2010). More recently, Union launched its strategy package on April 2013. Different taken different inroads into governing this relatively new issue over past decade, so it seems timely relevant take stock assess what can be learned from comparing ways which EU approached governance change. The aim special not ‘assess’ current state play Europe (e.g. by evaluating terms progress outcomes). This addressed other studies 2010; Environment Agency 2014; Massey 2014), ambition. Our interest facets adaptation, referring interactions arrangements between public and/or private that aimed at purposefully steering …