Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature

Bassett, Thomas J.; Fogelman, Charles

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2013.04.010

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“…There are clear deficiencies in current policy and practice in Ireland, despite well intentioned attempts to implement a paradigm shift in flood hazards management. Similar deficiencies are evident in wider approaches to climate change adaptation in many countries which has focused on quantifying physical exposure and attempting to model future risk with the social dimensions of climate hazards often limited to an impacts based approach (Ribot, 2011;Bassett and Fogelman, 2013). This paper proposes that a more extensive historical analysis of both physical exposure and socio-economic vulnerability that draws on the expertise of a range of researchers including geographers and historians can provide a broader understanding of current and future hazards.…”

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Environmental knowledge and human experience: using a historical analysis of flooding in Ireland to challenge contemporary risk narratives and develop creative policy alternatives

Jeffers¹

2014

Environmental Hazards

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Environmental knowledge and human experience: using a historical analysis of flooding in Ireland to challenge contemporary risk narratives and develop creative policy alternatives

Jeffers¹

2014

Environmental Hazards

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“…Adaptation is closely associated with climate change vulnerability and how we speak of their entwinement will affect how we act [68]. IPCC sees climate impacts as a main source of vulnerability and calls for adaptation as adjustment; others locate risks not only in nature but also in society itself as a source of vulnerability and thus call for adaptation as development or reform to reduce vulnerability within prevailing systems; but little research explores the underlying social drivers of vulnerability or the need to understand and implement climate change responses as transformative climate action [69,70] or as profound political-economic transformation [68].…”

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What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Jerneck

2018

Sustainability

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Adaptation and mitigation are two key responses to climate change. In the global South they prompt many questions: what is the direction and degree of change needed? How can new climate change policies be aligned with existing development initiatives? How are core social relations such as gender understood and prioritized in relation to technical and other solutions? In search of synergies between adaptation, development and mitigation, this article asks a pertinent question for sub-Saharan small-scale agriculture in particular: what can adaptation and mitigation learn from development debates on social goal setting, institutional change and gender equality? From the perspective of sustainability science and feminist literature, three main findings emerge. First, as regards social goal setting, adaptation and mitigation should, like development, support the escape out of poverty, ill-health and food-insecurity. Second, as regards institutions, adaptation and mitigation should address how gender regulates access to, use of and control over resources in terms of labor, land and strategic decision-making power. Third, as regards gender equality, adaptation and mitigation should learn from how development in theory and practice has addressed gender, women, nature and the environment. At its core, the analysis contributes twelve salient themes that can significantly inform adaptation and mitigation in research, policy and practice, thus serving as inspiration for a critical debate on much needed synergetic trajectories.

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“…In recent times, adaptation to climate change has emerged as a key topic of scientific inquiry, with a growing body of literature demonstrating the importance of adaptation for managing the now unavoidable impacts of climate change (Bassett and Fogelman 2013). The rapid development of adaptation as a mainstream strategy to manage the risks of climate change has also resulted in the emergence of a broad range of adaptation policies and management strategies, from local to global scales.…”

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Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change

Cvitanovic¹,

Marshall²,

Wilson³

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. 2014. Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change. ABSTRACT. The rapid development of adaptation as a mainstream strategy for managing the risks of climate change has led to the emergence of a broad range of adaptation policies and management strategies globally. However, the success of such policies or management interventions depends on the effective integration of new scientific research into the decision-making process. Ineffective communication between scientists and environmental decision makers represents one of the key barriers limiting the integration of science into the decision-making process in many areas of natural resource management. This can be overcome by understanding the perceptions of end users, so as to identify knowledge gaps and develop improved and targeted strategies for communication and engagement. We assessed what one group of environmental decision makers, Australian marine protected area (MPA) managers, viewed as the major risks associated with climate change, and their perceptions regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing these risks. We also assessed what these managers perceived as the role of science in managing the risks from climate change, and identified the factors that increased their trust in scientific information. We do so by quantitatively surveying 30 MPA managers across 3 Australian management agencies. We found that although MPA managers have a very strong awareness of the range and severity of risks posed by climate change, their understanding of adaptation as an option for managing these risks is less comprehensive. We also found that although MPA managers view science as a critical source of information for informing the decision-making process, it should be considered in context with other knowledge types such as community and cultural knowledge, and be impartial, evidence based, and pragmatic in outlining policy and management recommendations that are realistically achievable.

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Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature

Cited by 335 publications

References 37 publications

Environmental knowledge and human experience: using a historical analysis of flooding in Ireland to challenge contemporary risk narratives and develop creative policy alternatives

Environmental knowledge and human experience: using a historical analysis of flooding in Ireland to challenge contemporary risk narratives and develop creative policy alternatives

What about Gender in Climate Change? Twelve Feminist Lessons from Development

Perceptions of Australian marine protected area managers regarding the role, importance, and achievability of adaptation for managing the risks of climate change

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