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We comment on the recent comprehensive review 'Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in Canadian forest management' by Williamson and Nelson (2017, Can. J. For. Res. 47: 1567-1576, doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0252). They employ the popular barriers analysis approach and present a synthesis highlighting the numerous barriers facing Canadian forest managers. The underlying functionalist assumptions of such an approach are highly problematic from both a scholarly and a practical policy perspective. We argue that social scientists engaged in climate change research who want to influence policy-making should understand and then empirically apply causal mechanisms. Methods such as process tracing and qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) are promising tools that can be employed in national- or local-level assessments. Key words: adaptation, climate change, mechanisms, mitigation, policy. Nous reagissons a la revue de litterature recente et exhaustive <> de Williamson et Nelson (2017, Can. J. For. Res. 47: 1567-1576, doi:10.1139/cjfr-2017-0252). Ils utilisent une methode populaire d'analyse des barrieres et presentent une synthese qui met en evidence les nombreux obstacles auxquels font face les gestionnaires des forets au Canada. Les hypotheses fonctionnalistes sous-jacentes d'une telle approche sont tres problematiques d'un point de vue politique, tant theoriquement qu'en pratique. Nous soutenons que les chercheurs en sciences sociales qui s'interessent aux changements climatiques et qui souhaitent influencer l'elaboration des politiques devraient comprendre et ensuite appliquer empiriquement les mecanismes causals. Les methodes telles que la reconstitution de processus et l'analyse comparative qualitative sont des outils prometteurs qui peuvent etre utilises pour les evaluations a l'echelle nationale ou locale. [Traduit par la Redaction] Mots-cles: adaptation, changement climatique, mecanismes, attenuation, politique., Introduction Recently in this Journal, Tim Williamson and Harry Nelson, two well-known Canadian forest economists, published the comprehensive review 'Barriers to enhanced and integrated climate change adaptation and mitigation in [...]

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