Climate change adaptation attributes across scales and inter-institutional networks: insights from national and state level water management institutions in India

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dc.contributor.authorAzhoni, Adani
dc.contributor.authorHolman, Ian
dc.contributor.authorJude, Simon
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-23T14:09:55Z
dc.date.available2024-08-23T14:09:55Z
dc.date.freetoread2024-08-23
dc.date.issued2024-08
dc.date.pubOnline2024-08-03
dc.description.abstractEffective climate change adaptation requires cohesive inter-institutional networks across different scales, facilitating the sharing of data, information, knowledge, and practices. However, the impact of adaptation attributes across scales is poorly understood due to limited focus on these networks. Based on interviews with 26 institutions operating at the national level (ION) in India and 26 institutions operating within a state (Himachal Pradesh) (IOS), this study analysed adaptation attributes and the inter-institutional networks across the two scales to understand its implications at different scales. IONs have a greater capacity (compared to IOS) to frame guidelines, standards and regulations for practitioners along with better accessibility to resources and information. When coupled with bridging institutions, this can enhance adaptive capacities at other scales. Conversely, learnings from low regret adaptive measures being implemented by IOS are opportunities for informing national policy strategies. While national adaptation strategies and goals can inspire adaptation at lower scales, the currently fragmented inter-institutional network in India reduces the passage and accessibility of data and information, creating a bottleneck for the smooth devolution of adaptation attributes. Recruitment and deployment practices for water officials further entrench silo attitudes, impeding essential data accessibility. Adaptation needs comprehensive networks across vertical, horizontal, and diagonal institutional connections to improve climate risk perception and strategy implementation. Policy measures should consider socio-institutional factors beyond legislative prescriptions.
dc.description.journalNameMitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council
dc.description.sponsorshipWe acknowledge the Government of India (grant no. 11016/10/2010) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council, grant number NE/1022329/1 (MICCI) for sponsoring this research and the UK Irrigation Association for the Jack Wright Travel Scholarship for supporting the fieldwork. SRJ was part-funded through the EPSRC/ESRC International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) grant (EP/K012347/1).
dc.identifier.citationAzhoni A, Holman I, Jude S. (2024) Climate change adaptation attributes across scales and inter-institutional networks: insights from national and state level water management institutions in India. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, Volume 29, Issue 6, August 2024, Article number 57
dc.identifier.eissn1573-1596
dc.identifier.elementsID551767
dc.identifier.issn1381-2386
dc.identifier.issueNo6
dc.identifier.paperNo57
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-024-10156-y
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/22810
dc.identifier.volumeNo29
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.publisher.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11027-024-10156-y
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectAdaptation
dc.subjectBarriers
dc.subjectClimate change
dc.subjectCross-scale
dc.subjectInstitutions
dc.subjectWater
dc.subject4101 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
dc.subject41 Environmental Sciences
dc.subjectGeneric health relevance
dc.subject13 Climate Action
dc.subjectMeteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
dc.subject4104 Environmental management
dc.titleClimate change adaptation attributes across scales and inter-institutional networks: insights from national and state level water management institutions in India
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.subtypeJournal Article
dcterms.dateAccepted2024-07-22

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