caa a22 4500 467918201 CHVBK 20180406152909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9093-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9093-7 Context Matters: What Shapes Adaptation to Water Stress in the Okanagan? [Elektronische Daten] [Philippa Shepherd, James Tansey, Hadi Dowlatabadi] This paper describes two case studies of demand-side water management in the Okanagan region of southern British Columbia, Canada. The case studies reveal important lessons about how local context shapes the process of adaptation; in these cases, adaptation to rising and changing water demand under a regime of increasingly limited supply in a semi-arid region. Both case studies represent examples of water meter implementation, specifically volume-based pricing in a residential area and as a compliance tool in a mainly farming district. While the initiative was successful in the residential setting, agricultural metering met with stiff resistance. These cases suggest many factors shape the character of the adaptation process, including: interpretation of the signal relative to context, newness of the approach, consumer values, and local and provincial political agendas. Although context has been explored in resource management circles, thus far climate change adaptation research has not adequately discussed the embeddedness of adaptation. In other words, how context matters and what aspects of context, unrelated to climate change, could encourage or thwart the act of adapting. This study is a simple illustration of the potential drivers, barriers and enabling factors that have influenced the adaptation process of water management decisions in the Okanagan. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Shepherd Philippa Sustainable Development Research Initiative, University of British Columbia, 1924 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut Tansey James James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Park End Street, OX1 1HP, Oxford, United Kingdom aut Dowlatabadi Hadi Sustainable Development Research Initiative, University of British Columbia, 1924 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 31-62 0165-0009 78:1<31 2006 78 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9093-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9093-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Shepherd Philippa Sustainable Development Research Initiative, University of British Columbia, 1924 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tansey James James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization, Said Business School, University of Oxford, Park End Street, OX1 1HP, Oxford, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dowlatabadi Hadi Sustainable Development Research Initiative, University of British Columbia, 1924 West Mall, V6T 1Z2, Vancouver, BC, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 31-62 0165-0009 78:1<31 2006 78 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer