Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation

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Main author: Tanner, Thomas
Other authors: Zaman, R.U.
Acharya, Sunil
Gogoi, Elizabeth
Bahadur, Aditya
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description One way to make development pathways more resilient in the face of a changing climate has been through mainstreaming adaptation into government policies, planning and sectoral decision‐making. To date, many of the transferable lessons have taken the form of technical approaches such as risk assessments and toolkits. This article instead draws on evidence from South Asia to emphasise some of the more tacit and informal approaches used to influence adaptation policy. Despite their apparent significance in policy processes, such tactics are often neither planned for nor well reported in resilience‐building projects and programme documents. Using evidence to populate a typology of influencing strategies, this article looks particularly at the role of policy entrepreneurs who navigate the political complexity of both formal and informal governance systems to promote successful adaptation mainstreaming. It concludes with recommendations for adaptation and resilience programming that can more effectively harness the breadth of influencing strategies.
format Journal Article
author Tanner, Thomas
author_facet Tanner, Thomas
Zaman, R.U.
Acharya, Sunil
Gogoi, Elizabeth
Bahadur, Aditya
authorStr Tanner, Thomas
author_letter Tanner, Thomas
author2 Zaman, R.U.
Acharya, Sunil
Gogoi, Elizabeth
Bahadur, Aditya
author2Str Zaman, R.U.
Acharya, Sunil
Gogoi, Elizabeth
Bahadur, Aditya
title Influencing resilience: The role of policy entrepreneurs in mainstreaming climate adaptation
publisher Wiley
publishDate 2019
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/31099/

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