Institutional Dependencies Shape Adaptation Pathways for Local Service Providers: A Study of US Water Utilities Responding to Climatic Stressors

• In Event: Water, Health, and Environmental Justice

Brief Overview

Local service providers do not have full autonomy over their adaptation decisions. Institutional dependencies influence adaptive actions. Inward, resource, upward, lateral, and downward dependencies constrain decision-making in critical ways.

Authors

• Alexandra Maria Smialek, University of Massachusetts

• Tamee R. Albrecht, Colorado State University-Fort Collins

• Anita Milman, University of Massachusetts