Contrasting perspectives on barriers to adaptation in Australian climate change policy
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2014-01-01
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Climatic Change
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Waters, E., Barnett, J. & Puleston, A. (2014). Contrasting perspectives on barriers to adaptation in Australian climate change policy. Climatic Change, 124 (4), pp.691-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1138-8.
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Barriers to adaptation have emerged as key concerns in climate change theory and practice, however there remains little consensus about which barriers are the most significant to different groups and how competing concerns may be addressed. We investigate the significance of different barriers to adaptation for governments, the private sector, and civil society in Australia through a systematic analysis of submissions to the Australian Productivity Commission’s inquiry into barriers to adaptation. Our results show that respondents prioritise barriers differently according to their respective sectors, and that there are competing concerns about which barriers should be addressed first. Nevertheless, some barriers are more persistent in the submissions than others, with governance and policy seen by most groups as being the major impediments to adaptation. We explain the implications of our analysis for adaptation politics and policy.