The limits of capacity building

Mark Lubell () and Meredith T. Niles
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Mark Lubell: University of California Davis
Meredith T. Niles: University of Vermont

Nature Climate Change, 2019, vol. 9, issue 8, 578-579

Abstract: Randomized control trials are a potentially useful research design for identifying the causal effects of capacity-building interventions in the context of environmental development. But new research suggests that short-term capacity-building projects do not increase the rate at which local water districts in Costa Rica adopt climate adaptation strategies.

Date: 2019
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