Beyond inputs and outputs: Process‐oriented explanation of institutional change in climate adaptation governance

摘要: Climate adaptation is a growing imperative across all scales and sectors of governance. This often requires changes in institutions, which can be difficult to realize. Explicitly process‐oriented approaches explaining how why institutional change occurs are lacking. Overcoming this gap vital move beyond either input‐oriented (e.g., capacity) or output‐oriented assessment) approaches, understand actually occur for addressing complex contested governance issues. paper analyses causal conditions mechanisms by institutions develop climate It focuses on urban through an in‐depth case study Santiago, Chile, over 12‐year period (2005–2017), drawing primary secondary data, including 26 semistructured interviews with policy, academic, civil society actors. identifies explains variety developments multiple levels (i.e., programmatic, legislative, constitutional), theory‐centric process tracing methodology. reveals multiple‐response pattern, involving several coexisting logics. Findings suggest that although may inherently protracted, nevertheless both related novel directions. Overall, the argues new research agenda theorizing analysis environmental