Maladaptation in Nordic agriculture

Neset, Tina-Simone; Wiréhn, Lotten; Klein, Natacha; Käyhkö, Janina; Juhola, Sirkku

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2018.12.003

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“…In general, the reviewed literature seldom addressed climate change adaptation, even though this may involve effects related to all the included dimensions [110]. In addition, the included studies related to the environment more often concerned eutrophication than effects on biodiversity, despite the fact that biodiversity is important [111] and that agriculture can have a large impact on it [14].…”

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Synergies and Trade-Offs for Sustainable Food Production in Sweden: An Integrated Approach

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The production of food can have large impacts on sustainable development in relation to various socio-ecological dimensions, like climate change, the environment, animal welfare, livestock epidemiology, and the economy. To achieve a sustainable food production system in Sweden, an integrated approach that considers all five of these dimensions, and all parts of the food production chain, is necessary. This paper systematically reviewed the literature related to food production in Sweden, especially in association with resource distribution and recycling logistics, and identified potential sustainability interventions and assessed their effects according to the five dimensions. Participation of stakeholders across the food production chain contributed with the focus of the literature search and subsequent synthesis. In general, there were synergies between the sustainability interventions and their effect on climate change and the environment, while there often were trade-offs between effects on the economy and the other dimensions. Few interventions considered effects on animal welfare or livestock epidemiology and few studies dealt with resource distribution and recycling logistics. This indicates that there is a need for future research that considers this in particular, as well as research that considers the whole food production chain and all dimensions at once, and investigates effects across multiple scales.

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“…The Maladaptation Game was designed for use in a moderated focus group session and with the explicit purpose of studying the reasoning of agricultural stakeholders concerning potential maladaptive outcomes of agricultural climate adaptation measures (Neset et al 2018;Asplund et al forthcoming). As the game does not by default capture any wider sense-making aspects related to this process, this study merged serious gaming with focus group methodology to capture perceptions, sense-making processes and the participants' reasoning about maladaptation.…”

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Making sense of maladaptation: Nordic agriculture stakeholders’ perspectives

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The need for climate change adaptation has been widely recognised and examples of successful adaptation are increasingly reported in the literature, but little attention has so far been paid to the potential negative impacts of implemented adaptation measures. As the agricultural sector is implementing measures to adapt to or cope with climatic variability and change, the potential negative consequences of these measures need to be explored in order to avoid increased vulnerability or (unintended) environmental impacts. This paper employs serious gaming and focus group methodology to study how agricultural stakeholders in Sweden and Finland frame and negotiate the unintended negative impacts of adaptation measures. The results of our interactional frame analysis suggest that the participants negotiated the potential maladaptive outcomes depending on: (1) whether they agreed that this was indeed a potential consequence of an adaptation measure, (2) whether they considered this to be a negative outcome, and if so whether it was (3) a negative outcome which they could adapt to, (4) a negative outcome that would make it preferable not to adapt at all (5) negotiable in terms of a trade-off with alternative outcomes. While it may be obvious that adaptation options

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“…It is designed as an online game that sets the player to make choices between different adaptation measures and their potential negative consequences in four climate-related challenges (Neset et al fc). The climate change challenges and adaptation measures included in the game are based on a literature review (Wiréhn 2018) and stakeholder interviews in two Nordic agricultural regions (Neset et al 2018). For a complete list of the adaptation measures included in t he game, see Online Resource 2.…”

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“…Denton et al 2014;Smith et al 2014;Landauer et al 2015). While addressing that mitigation-related trade-offs is an essential challenge that has to be considered in climate actions, recent studies imply that there is a large number of important trade-offs involved in adaptation decision-making from a broader socio-ecological perspective than in relation to mitigation solely (Chelleri et al 2016;Neset et al 2018;Roy et al 2018 p. 457;Wiréhn 2018).…”

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“…Another example is the rising need for new or improved drainage systems as a response to the increased precipitation in Finland and Sweden. Depending on context, implementation of these improvements can involve economic, environmental and social trade-offs in terms of investment costs, impact on nearby wetlands and shifting flooded areas to neighbour's fields, respectively (Neset et al 2018).…”

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Analysing trade-offs in adaptation decision-making—agricultural management under climate change in Finland and Sweden

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In light of the increased focus on climate change adaptation, there is a need to understand when and how adaptation decisionmaking generates trade-offs. This study presents a novel framework for adaptation trade-off assessments, which integrates (I) two trade-off mechanisms (direct and interactions) and (II) two types of trade-off characteristics (substantive and processual). Perspectives on adaptation trade-offs were collected from 37 Swedish and Finnish agricultural experts through semi-structured interviews supported by serious gaming and visualization. The data were thematically analysed based on the provided analytical framework. The results show that trade-offs in agricultural adaptation decision-making processes involve balancing a number of socio-ecological system aspects that are of different character and have different functions. The study identified 20 aspects generating trade-offs related to adaptation management in Swedish and Finnish agriculture, among which 'crop yield and profitability', 'farm economy', 'pest and weed robustness' and 'soil quality' were discussed as the most prominent by respondents. The framework enables an examination of complex trade-off structures that can have implications for adaptation management decisions. The results show that the identified aspects constitute different components and functions of trade-offs, including both processual and/or substantive ones. In conclusion, the 20 identified aspects and the framework together demonstrate the importance of the two types of adaptation trade-offs and the resulting complexity of climate change adaptation decisionmaking in Swedish and Finnish agriculture. Furthermore, the study asserts the potential of applying the framework for various strategic contexts-to recognize and cope with trade-offs in adaptation management.

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Maladaptation in Nordic agriculture

Cited by 50 publications

References 32 publications

Synergies and Trade-Offs for Sustainable Food Production in Sweden: An Integrated Approach

Synergies and Trade-Offs for Sustainable Food Production in Sweden: An Integrated Approach

Making sense of maladaptation: Nordic agriculture stakeholders’ perspectives

Analysing trade-offs in adaptation decision-making—agricultural management under climate change in Finland and Sweden

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