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The limits of capacity building

Nature Climate Change volume 9, pages 578–579 (2019)Cite this article

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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.

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  2. Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, and Food Systems Program, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA

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Lubell, M., Niles, M.T. The limits of capacity building. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 578–579 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0541-6

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