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REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
Volume 15, Issue 5, Pages 815-824Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-014-0715-8
Keywords
Adaptation policy; Climate change; Deltas; Vulnerability; Africa; South Asia; Systematic review
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- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci [1229429] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in scholarship on adaptation to climate change. Peer-reviewed literature, governmental communiqu,s and reports are increasingly reporting formulated and implemented climate change adaptation policies, strategies and plans of action. A large part of this literature describes general policy strategies, while there is limited published work on adaptation interventions at the local scale. The generality of adaptation is not only limited to strategies but also in terms of coverage of regions believed to be highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Among such climate change hotspots where understanding on adaptation is limited are river deltas. Herein, this paper synthesizes selected literature on adaptation policy and practice in river deltas located in Africa and South Asia. A systematic review methodology was used to scan online knowledge portals for published papers and also unpublished government documents. The review characterizes the state of adaptation policy in African and South Asian deltas and identifies future research priorities targeting climate change adaptation in large delta regions.
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