Understanding the Drivers of Adaptation at the Municipal Level in CO, WY and UT
Lisa Dilling is co-leading this WWA-funded project to investigate why some local decision makers choose to adapt to climate-related stress and risk while others do not. Our idea is to systematically investigate the conditions under which local decision-makers in cities and large towns in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming decide to adapt (or not) to increased climate-related risk and hazards. The two-fold objective of the project is:
- to collect, organize, and analyze original data on the causes and consequences of local adaptation decision making
- to produce new knowledge that is relevant to the work of WWA and its key constituents
Dilling, L., E. Pizzi, J. Berggren, A. Ravikumar, and K. Andersson, 2017. Drivers of adaptation: Responses to weather- and climate-related hazards in 60 local governments in the Intermountain Western U.S.. Environment and Planning A 1-21, doi: 10.1177/0308518X16688686.
