Social learning holds potential to accelerate collective understanding and action around common problems, and is a cornerstone to confronting complex problems such as climate change. Social learning, however, is not without its weaknesses, and certainly does not offer an easy solution to developing adaptation policy. By reviewing approaches to social learning in natural resource management, and reflecting on the application of the concept to date in the adaptation policy sphere, the authorsidentify an opportunity space at the nexus of deliberative and experimental models of social learning as a key area for further development. Movingforward, significant attention will need to be paid to power differences in co-production and experimentation for policy design and delivery, and investments in trialing, documenting and thoroughly assessing the outcomes of social learning in adaptation policy contexts will be necessary.
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Front Matter
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Part I: Introduction
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Part II: Theoretical Frameworks And Systems Relevant To Climate Change Adaptation Policy Research
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Part III: Understanding Adaptation Policy Development And Implementation At Different Levels And Country Contexts
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Part IV: Sectoral And Cross-Cutting Perspectives On Adaptation Policy
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Part V: Conclusions
