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The limits of capacity building

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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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  1. Department of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Mark Lubell

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

    Meredith T. Niles

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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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