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International organizations and climate change adaptation: A new dataset for the social scientific study of adaptation, 1990–2017

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Kural, Ece, Dellmuth, Lisa Maria, Gustafsson, Maria-Therese·2021·PLOS ONE
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0257101PMC PMC8432833
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This article introduces a new dataset on the climate change adaptation activities of international organizations (IOs). While climate change adaptation has been studied at the local level and in the context of major climate organizations, such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, we provide a first quantitative dataset on non-environmental IOs that can be linked to different social scientific datasets relevant for adaptation. Our new dataset contains information on the governance activities of 30 IOs from 1990 to 2017. Based on this dataset, we introduce different types of adaptation-related activities and develop a quantitative measure of IOs’ climate adaptation engagement. We map the adaptation engagement of the 30 IOs across organizations, across issue areas, and over time. This dataset can be used to compare adaptation activities across and within IOs, but also as an empirical foundation for the emerging research field of global adaptation governance, for which IO climate change adaptation activities are relevant.

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  • International organisations are increasingly at the forefront of action on climate change.

    “International organisations (eg, UN agencies, international and regional financial institutions, and supranational bodies such as the EU and African Union) are increasingly at the forefront of action on climate change.355–357”

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    The Introduction reports growing engagement by international organisations with climate adaptation, and the Conclusion describes increasing adaptation engagement across the organisations studied. The paper does not establish that they are at the forefront of climate-change action generally; its findings concern adaptation and show substantial variation among organisations. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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Authors
Kural, E., Dellmuth, L. M., & Gustafsson, M.-T.
Affiliations
Stockholm University (SE)
Corresponding author
Dellmuth, Lisa Maria
ORCID
Venue
PLOS ONE
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Published
2021-09-10
Volume
16
Issue
9
Pages
e0257101
ISSN
1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0257101
PMC
PMC8432833
OpenAlex
W3197286197
Cited by
11
References
73
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2
FWCI
0.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
  • Svenska Forskningsrådet Formas (2018- 01705)
  • Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (2016/11 #5)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
  • Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Climate Change Policy and Economics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate Change and Sustainable Development
Keywords
climate change adaptation, international organizations, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, international governance
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Physiological, Social Sciences, Databases as Topic, Internationality, Climate Change

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