caa a22 4500 46791821X CHVBK 20180406152909.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10584-006-9089-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10584-006-9089-3 Learning to Adapt: Organisational Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts [Elektronische Daten] [Frans Berkhout, Julia Hertin, David Gann] Analysis of human adaptation to climate change should be based on realistic models of adaptive behaviour at the level of organisations and individuals. The paper sets out a framework for analysing adaptation to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change in business organisations with new evidence presented from empirical research into adaptation in nine case-study companies. It argues that adaptation to climate change has many similarities with processes of organisational learning. The paper suggests that business organisations face a number of obstacles in learning how to adapt to climate change impacts, especially in relation to the weakness and ambiguity of signals about climate change and the uncertainty about benefits flowing from adaptation measures. Organisations rarely adapt ‘autonomously', since their adaptive behaviour is influenced by policy and market conditions, and draws on resources external to the organisation. The paper identifies four adaptation strategies that pattern organisational adaptive behaviour. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Berkhout Frans Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherland aut Hertin Julia SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK aut Gann David Innovation Studies Centre, Tanaka Business School and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK aut Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 135-156 0165-0009 78:1<135 2006 78 10584 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9089-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-006-9089-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Berkhout Frans Institute for Environmental Studies, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hertin Julia SPRU-Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gann David Innovation Studies Centre, Tanaka Business School and Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Climatic Change Kluwer Academic Publishers 78/1(2006-09-01), 135-156 0165-0009 78:1<135 2006 78 10584 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer