This policy brief offers a methodological framework and a new vocabulary for local professionals and interested policy makers to consider more explicitly consider the different ways case studies can be used to inform policy processes.
There has been a recent burgeoning of government interest in promoting and learning from local climate change adaptation. Most popular approaches to mainstreaming of climate adaptation into sectoral policies rely on an ‘upscaling’ model in which lessons learned from local change processes are used to inform decision making at higher administrative levels.
This political approach necessitates a dialogue between regulatory policy, principally concerned with drawing generalised conclusions based on local lessons, and research projects, which examine examples of community-based climate adaptation in different contexts. This prompts researchers and their partners involved in discrete case studies of local climate adaptation to consider both how best to use their data, experiences and insights to inform policy processes:
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