The pull vs push approach to building climate change adaptive capacity: does innovation matter

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https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2024.2366420

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Dina M. Abdelzaher, Angie Abdel Zaher, Silvana Chambers

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Research Article

Publication Title

Climate and Development

Publication Date

1-1-2024

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10.1080/17565529.2024.2366420

Abstract

Good governance and innovation have been identified as important contributors towards the achievement of climate change goals but without an empirical cross-examination of their impact on climate adaptive capacity. Using panel data for 138 countries from 1998 to 2020, we utilize a mixed-effects linear regression model to predict adaptive capacity to climate change as a function of government effectiveness (governance push), voice and accountability (governance pull), and their interactions with innovation. Our results reveal that governance push (government effectiveness) positively impacted climate change adaptive capacity and that innovation moderated this relationship. Interestingly, we found no significant main effect of the governance pull (voice and accountability) dimension on climate change adaptive capacity, while controlling for other governance factors. Our findings seek to draw policymakers' attention to government effectiveness (governance push) as the most impactful governance in building adaptive capacity and how innovation can be leveraged as a mechanism for enhancing the impact of the governance push dimension (government effectiveness) on adaptive capacity.

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