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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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  • Ece Kural
  • Lisa Maria Dellmuth
  • Maria-Therese Gustafsson

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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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  • Ece Kural & Lisa Maria Dellmuth & Maria-Therese Gustafsson, 2021. "International organizations and climate change adaptation: A new dataset for the social scientific study of adaptation, 1990–2017," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(9), pages 1-18, September.
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    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0257101
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