Understanding public health adaptation to climate change : An explorative study on the development of adaptation strategies relating to the oak processionary moth in the Netherlands

Understanding of public health adaptation (PHA) to climate change and implementation is limited. This study therefore focuses on one specific PHA issue: adaptation to the oak procession-ary moth (OPM). The aim is to examine the development of OPM adaptation in order to offer a problem description of the complexities involved in OPM adaptation. In this explorative case study, we investigate adaptation strategies based on semi-structured interviews with 26 actors involved in OPM adaptation in the Netherlands. The results indicate that the context of OPM adaptation is rel-atively complex, given t... Mehr ...