Biber, Jonathan (2015) The Governance Capacity of Southeast Florida to Adapt to Sea Level Rise. Master thesis.
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Abstract
This research will examine how organizations and political institutions respond to sea level rise and whether the current regional governance has the capacity to adapt to it in Southeast Florida. Through an in-depth study of the governance of climate change adaptation, a framework of analysis was developed to assess the governance capacity, and its four sub-capacities: managerial, political, resource and learning capacity. The overall conclusion from the analysis of policy and academic documents and nine in-depth semi-structured interviews is that the political capacity seems to appear to be the most important component for adapting Southeast Florida to sea level rise. Based on findings from respondents and several links drawn from theory discussed in this thesis, Southeast Florida, in its current state, is not able to adapt to sea level rise given the barriers stemming from the current top-down political leadership.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Degree programme: | Environmental & Infrastructure Planning |
| Supervisor: | Forrest, S |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2020 05:23 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Apr 2020 05:23 |
| URI: | https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1063 |
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