This book provides a comparative analysis of policy instruments responding to climate change, drought and flood in relation to agricultural producers and their communities in four case study areas: Alberta, Canada, Saskatchewan, Canada, Coquimbo, Chile, and Mendoza, Argentina. Assessed through a lens of effectiveness, and adaptive governance, instruments advancing livelihood capitals of agricultural producers and identified and recommendations made to improve the suite of policy instruments are made.
Presents a unique, innovative methodology for institutional analysis of instruments impacting agricultural producers’ livelihoods
Includes a comparative case study of regions experiencing drought
Offers a novel combination of climate change, drought, and flood policy framing and instrument analysis
Margot A. Hurlbert
Climate Change response Resilience of agricultural producers Water governance Social Learning Adaptive Capacity Wheel water policy Climate change management