13 research outputs found
Why Developing Countries Have Failed to Increase Their Exports of Agricultural Processed Products
Business Participation in Free Trade Negotiations in Chile: Impacts on Environmental and Labour Regulation
Taxation, Fiscal Decentralisation and Legitimacy: The Role of Semi-Autonomous Tax Agencies in Peru
Can Extractive Industries Promote Sustainable Development? A Net Benefits Framework and a Case Study of the Marlin Mine in Guatemala
Beyond inputs and outputs: Processâoriented explanation of institutional change in climate adaptation governance
Climate adaptation is a growing imperative across all scales and sectors of governance. This often requires changes in institutions, which can be difficult to realize. Explicitly processâoriented approaches explaining how and why institutional change occurs are lacking. Overcoming this gap is vital to move beyond either inputâoriented (e.g., capacity) or outputâoriented (e.g., assessment) approaches, to understand how changes actually occur for addressing complex and contested governance issues. This paper analyses causal conditions and mechanisms by which institutions develop in climate adaptation governance. It focuses on urban climate governance through an inâdepth case study of Santiago, Chile, over a 12âyear period (2005â2017), drawing on primary and secondary data, including 26 semistructured interviews with policy, academic, and civil society actors. It identifies and explains a variety of institutional developments across multiple levels (i.e., programmatic, legislative, and constitutional), through a theoryâcentric process tracing methodology. This reveals a multipleâresponse pattern, involving several causal mechanisms and coexisting institutional logics. Findings suggest that although adaptation may be inherently protracted, institutions can nevertheless develop in both related and novel directions. Overall, the paper argues for a new research agenda on processâoriented theorizing and analysis in climate and environmental governance