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MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Governing in a Multi-Scale World: Exploring alignment in climate adaptation policy

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Governing climate change adaptation is affected by various challenges relating to the multifaceted, interconnected and uncertain character of climate change. The characteristics of climate change ask for an approach incorporating more than just one scale. In a multi-scale world of governing climate adaptation, alignment has become increasingly important as a means to achieve policy coherence and policy integration.
In this research, alignment is defined as the process of linking policy-related means such as ambitions, frames or policy outcomes. Despite the extensive alignment activities in practice, limited research on alignment has been done. However, further insights on alignment are necessary for successful adaptation to climate change.
This research aimed to explore in what way multi-scale interactions influence the alignment. Amsterdam and its adaptation to pluvial flooding were used as a case study to identify how the current process of alignment is established and influenced by multi-scale interactions. Hereby, the study aimed to contribute to the literature by providing more insights in alignment. Next to this, the aim was to show the importance of looking at not just the jurisdictional scale for alignment but at multiple scales.

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Author: Amy Kurver 

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