Coastal living countries are the frontline of climate change impacts presenting vulnerability to natural disasters and other climate hazards. Specially, in developing countries, there is greater vulnerability and environmental ...

We study how the local institutional context shapes local government decisions about responses to perceived threats of natural disasters and climatic change. We draw on institutional theories and field observations to ...

This research explores the institutional water governance system of irrigated agricultural producers inMendoza, Argentina in the context of a changing climate (predominantly increasing events of drought and water scarcity). ...

In the Climatic Change literature, there is a broad consensus that climate change and its effects generate significant challenges and high costs for societies and governments and that adaptation to the new scenario is ...

•We use institutional theories and field observations to develop hypotheses about the effects of municipal institutional arrangements, social capital, and multilevel governance on adaptation at municipal scale. •To test ...

Scholars and policy makers recognize that adaptation to changes in climatic and environmental conditions is critical, particularly at the local level. An increasing number of recent studies examine the conditions under ...

Marine social-ecological systems are threatened by multiple and overlapping human pressures (including overfishing, pollution, climate change) resulting in long-term trajectories of environmental degradation and decline. ...

In this chapter we review the key learnings and challenges for water management in a territory where water is severely affected by climatic variability: the Guanacaste province in Northwestern Costa Rica. In this territory ...

Integrated river basin management (IRBM) has been proposed as a means to achieve water security (WS), maximizing economic and social well-being in an equitable manner and maintaining ecosystem sustainability. IRBM is ...