Adapting to Climate Change: Analysing the Role of Government

There are a number of barriers that can make it challenging for people and organisations to choose the right adaptation strategy in the face of climate change: market failures; behavioural barriers; adaptive capacity; and, natural capacity. These issues are explored in more detail in the first Defra Economics and Analysis Working Paper series, 'Adapting to climate change: Analysing the role of government'. This sets out how these barriers may affect adaptation decisions, provides a framework for considering the Government's role and identifies implications for policy design. It also identifies the priority areas for future research on the economics of adaptation.
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