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Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-473-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-80-473-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 80, issue 4
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26 Nov 2025
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Small towns taking different climate change adaptation paths: challenging the dominant leadership paradigm

Wolfgang Haupt, Nicole Mitchell, Carolin Herdtle, and Julia Teebken

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Drawing on case study research in Germany, our study shows that climate change adaptation activities of peripheral small towns differ substantially from those of larger, more well-resourced cities. The lack of institutional capacities fosters creative policy approaches that focus on creating and maintaining links between municipal administration and civil society and thus aim to establish adaptation as a shared societal task.
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