Multiple adaptation types with mitigation: A framework for policy analysis

Felgenhauer, Tyler; Webster, Mort

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.09.018

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“…The ability to modify investment decisions is referred to as 'managerial flexibility' [40]. Incorporation of flexibility with respect to implementation of climate adaptation measures is provided in various ways: such as allowing midterm adjustments and modifications of structure [41,42]; keeping investment or implementation measures open for future adaptation [43,44]; postponing adaptation until the time when the cost of further delay would be more than the benefits [45].…”

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Structuring Climate Adaptation through Multiple Perspectives

Radhakrishnan

Pathirana

Ashley

et al. 2017

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Adaptation to climate change is being addressed in many domains. This means that there are multiple perspectives on adaptation; often with differing visions resulting in disconnected responses and outcomes. Combining singular perspectives into coherent, combined perspectives that include multiple needs and visions can help to deepen the understanding of various aspects of adaptation and provide more effective responses. Such combinations of perspectives can help to increase the range and variety of adaptation measures available for implementation or avoid maladaptation compared with adaptations derived from a singular perspective. The objective of this paper is to present and demonstrate a framework for structuring the local adaptation responses using the inputs from multiple perspectives. The adaptation response framing has been done by: (i) contextualizing climate change adaptation needs; (ii) analyzing drivers of change; (iii) characterizing measures of adaptation; and (iv) establishing links between the measures with a particular emphasis on taking account of multiple perspectives. This framework was demonstrated with reference to the management of flood risks in a case study Can Tho, Vietnam. The results from the case study show that multiple perspective framing of adaptation responses enhance the understanding of various aspects of adaptation measures, thereby leading to flexible implementation practices.

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Section: Gap Between Adaptation Planning and Implementationmentioning

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Structuring Climate Adaptation through Multiple Perspectives

Radhakrishnan

Pathirana

Ashley

et al. 2017

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“…One of major strategic issues of environmental economics is to understand how to deal with environmental damages caused by production pollution: to decrease (mitigate) the pollution or to adapt to its damage [11]. In reality, countries and separate firms invest in both mitigation and adaptation activities [4,19,22], although the optimal balance between them is not clear.…”

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Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Analytic Models for Policy Assessment

Hritonenko

Yatsenko

2016

Environ Model Assess

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We suggest analytic economic-environmental models that aim to investigate the multi-faced interplay between economic production, industrial pollution, and environmental protection. The considered static and dynamic optimization problems assess a country's sustainable environmental policy that involves the optimal combination of adaptation and mitigation strategies. A qualitative analysis of obtained solutions leads to relevant conclusions about the ranges of economic-environmental parameters, in which the adaptation and mitigation are viable policy options.

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“…improve welfare, do not change the climate as the goal, and would not have been taken were the climate not changing (Felgenhauer and Webster 2013). The global climate policy with the lowest total societal losses will be a portfolio of these two responses, simultaneously implemented and with tradeoffs and interactions between them.…”

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“…Thus, unlike mitigation, adaptation allows for targeted responses to specific damages for as long as it is cost effective. It follows that using a single policy variable within an IAM to represent adaptation measures with varying lifetimes and constraints may not accurately portray the tradeoffs between mitigation and adaptation, particularly under uncertainty (Felgenhauer and Webster 2013). As one step towards representing this heterogeneity, adaptation can be disaggregated into two sub-types, flow and stock adaptation, which represent two points along a range of adaptation lifetimes.…”

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Modeling adaptation as a flow and stock decision with mitigation

Felgenhauer

Webster

2013

Climatic Change

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An effective policy response to climate change will include, among other things, investments in lowering greenhouse gas emissions (mitigation), as well as short-term temporary (flow) and long-lived capital-intensive (stock) adaptation to climate change. A critical near-term question is how investments in reducing climate damages should be allocated across these elements of a climate policy portfolio, especially in the face of uncertainty in both future climate damages and also the effectiveness of yet-untested adaptation efforts. We build on recent efforts in DICE-based integrated assessment modeling approaches that include two types of adaptation-short-lived flow spending and long-lived depreciable adaptation stock investments-along with mitigation, and we identify and explore the uncertainties that impact the relative proportions of policies within a response portfolio. We demonstrate that the relative ratio of flow adaptation, stock adaptation, and mitigation depend critically on interactions among: 1) the relative effectiveness in the baseline of stock versus flow adaptation, 2) the degree of substitutability between stock and flow adaptation types, and 3) whether there exist physical limits on the amount of damages that can be reduced by flow-type adaptation investments. The results indicate where more empirical research on adaptation could focus to best inform near-term policy decisions, and provide a first step towards considering nearterm policies that are flexible in the face of uncertainty.

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Multiple adaptation types with mitigation: A framework for policy analysis

Cited by 42 publications

References 28 publications

Structuring Climate Adaptation through Multiple Perspectives

Structuring Climate Adaptation through Multiple Perspectives

Mitigation vs. Adaptation: Analytic Models for Policy Assessment

Modeling adaptation as a flow and stock decision with mitigation

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