Re-thinking the present: the role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research

GCD Adamson, MJ Hannaford, EJ Rohland - Global environmental change, 2018 - Elsevier
There is a growing recognition that adaptation to climate change requires an understanding
of social processes that unfold across extended temporal trajectories. Yet, despite a move to …

Rediscovering lessons of adaptation from the past

RC Jackson, AJ Dugmore, F Riede - Global Environmental Change, 2018 - Elsevier
We argue that the deep time perspectives offered by historical disciplines, such as
archaeology and history, provide important human-scale data about climate-adaptation over …

Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation

SH Eriksen, AJ Nightingale, H Eakin - Global environmental change, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper is motivated by a concern that adaptation and vulnerability research suffer from
an under-theorization of the political mechanisms of social change and the processes that …

[图书][B] The adaptive challenge of climate change

K O'Brien, E Selboe - 2015 - books.google.com
This book presents a new perspective on adaptation to climate change. It considers climate
change as more than a problem that can be addressed solely through technical expertise …

Adaptation--genuine and spurious: demystifying adaptation processes in relation to climate change

TF Thornton, N Manasfi - Environment and Society, 2010 - berghahnjournals.com
In climate change discourse and policy, adaptation has become a critical byword and frame
of reference. An implicit assumption in much of the strategizing is the notion that adaptation …

Adaptation now

WN Adger, I Lorenzoni, KL O'Brien - Adapting to climate change …, 2009 - cambridge.org
Introduction look out the window and assess the weather. if it is hot, change into a lighter
shirt. if it is raining, take an umbrella. this is adaptation to changing weather. Adaptation to …

[HTML][HTML] Adapting to climate change: perspectives across scales

WN Adger, NW Arnell… - Global Environmental …, 2005 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
There has been an explosion of interest in adaptation to climate change over the past five
years. Since initial work for the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (Smit and Pilifosova …

[PDF][PDF] Climate change adaptation and development: Exploring the linkages

ELF Schipper - Tyndall centre for climate change research …, 2007 - researchgate.net
Successful human societies are characterised by their adaptability, evidenced throughout
human existence. However, climate change introduces a new challenge, not only because …

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

TJ Bassett, C Fogelman - Geoforum, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reflects on the resurgence and meaning of the adaptation concept in the current
climate change literature. We explore the extent to which the early political economic critique …

[PDF][PDF] Vulnerability before adaptation: Toward transformative climate action

J Ribot - Global environmental change, 2011 - academia.edu
By affirmative remedies for injustice I mean remedies aimed at correcting inequitable
outcomes of social arrangements without disturbing the underlying framework that …