Insights for Building Institutional Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation: Evidence from Mexico Abril Cid, Dulce Cano, Vania Montalvo, Karina Ruíz-Bedolla, Marina Romero-Cazares, Alejandro Ismael Monterroso-Rivas, Margarita Caso, and Paola Massyel García-Meneses Contents Introduction ....................................................................................... 2 Theoretical Basis on Institutional Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation ................... 4 Adaptive Capacity Analytical Approach ......................................................... 5 Institutional Capacity in the Context of Climate Change Adaptation ........................... 6 Operationalizing the Hybrid Approach .......................................................... 7 Conceptualization of Institutional Capacity in Terms of Specific and Generic Capacities for Climate Change Adaptation .................................................................. 7 Construction of Institutional Capacity Indicators Regarding Specific and Generic Capacities ...................................................................................... 8 Integration of Institutional Capacity Indices in Terms of Specific and Generic Capacities ...................................................................................... 10 A. Cid (*) · P. M. García-Meneses (*) Laboratorio Nacional de Ciencias de la Sostenibilidad (LANCIS), Instituto de Ecología (IE), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: paola.garcia@ecologia.unam.mx D. Cano · K. Ruíz-Bedolla Independent Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: karina.ruiz@inecc.gob.mx V. Montalvo Transparencia Mexicana, Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: vmontalvo@tm.org.mx M. Romero-Cazares Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: marina.romero@inecc.gob.mx A. I. Monterroso-Rivas Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: aimrivas@correo.chapingo.mx M. Caso Instituto Nacional de Ecología y Cambio Climático, Mexico City, Mexico e-mail: margarita.caso@inecc.gob.mx © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Handbook of Climate Change Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22759-3_246-1 1