Paper: Regional Data Systems for Adaptation

Susannah Fisher wrote about the role of the region in adaptation.

Opening up regional ontologies for climate action is a necessary and underexplored dimension of climate change policymaking. This commentary explores how a regional lens might be integrated into the complex mosaic of climate governance, particularly in the context of resilient regions. Regional ontologies for climate policymaking could have greater analytical power if integrated into a theoretical framing of action that goes beyond the nation-state, beyond formal policy processes and beyond a strict binary between science and policy. There are opportunities at the regional scale for highlighting diverse perspectives or adaptation issues obscured through a national ontology, using existing transnational data infrastructure and community-led data systems to support the regional ontology and reframing the scale of collective future visions for a climate-adapted world.

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