- Contested Values and Practices in Coastal Adaptation to Climate Change (2013)
- Adaptation to climate change requires the implementation of new and revision of existing policies in order to change collective behaviour in a way that reduces vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. At the same time, the efficiency of environmental governance has been questioned due to perceived deficiencies in implementation in the past. As a consequence, it is observed that high levels of adaptive capacity are often not used for adaptive action, and therefore communities remain vulnerable. This thesis is looking at the socio-cognitive dimension of adaptation from the perspective of socio-cultural construction of values and practices that influence risk perceptions and behavioural intentions in coastal management and adaptation to climate variability and change. The construction of values and practices is analysed through discursive fields on the respective topics in local media from three states on the US mid-Atlantic coast.
- NEWS [English Version] (2013)
- Content: Regional Activities: Schoolchildren Explore Biodiversity in a Changing Climate; Rügen in the Year 2030; RADOST Findings in the “Climate Change in Northern Germany” Dossier; International Activities: RADOST at the ECCA Conference; Adaptation in Mountain & Coastal Areas; Publications: Book Release: “Climate Change Adaptation in Practice”; Contested Values and Practices in the US; “Coastal & Marine” Magazine; International Examples of Climate Change Adaptation
- NEWS [English Version] (2011)
- Content: Regional Activities: RADOST Annual Conference 2011 in Travemünde; Research at Anchor; Stakeholder Analysis; RADOST-Workshop “Coastal Tourism”; BSSSC/BALTEX Conference “Adaptation to Climate Change on the Regional Level”; Workshop “Baltic Sea and Baltic Sea Coast between Climate Change and Climate Adaptation”; Mussel Workshop at the Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde; International Activities: Climate Change, the Science Policy Interface and Coastal Zone Management; Workshops on Regional Availability of Climate Knowledge in the Baltic Sea Region