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Enabling Environments? Insights Into The Policy Context For Climate Change And Health Adaptation Decision-Making In Cambodia, Kathryn Bowen, Fiona Miller, Dany Va, Anthony Mcmichael, Sharon Friel

Dany Va

Changes in climatic conditions and increases in weather variability affect human health directly and indirectly, including through agricultural changes and urban warming. Adaptation to climate change is receiving increasing attention, given, now, the inevitability of further climate change and its diverse impacts. However, with increased international funding for adaptation comes challenges such as ensuring supportive national policy environments for developing and implementing effective adaptation activities. Adaptation at community and population levels is underpinned by governance processes, such as the nature by which decisions are taken and implemented by government, community and private organizations. Thus an understanding of the policy context …