Interrogating 'effectiveness' in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

C Singh, S Iyer, MG New, R Few… - Climate and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to
ensure an 'adequate adaptation response'to the 'global temperature goal', and requires …

Transformative climate adaptation in the United States: Trends and prospects

L Shi, S Moser - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Climate disasters are on the rise, with devastating effects on communities,
built infrastructure, and ecosystems. Between 2015 and 2020, the United States has seen an …

[HTML][HTML] Adaptation interventions and their effect on vulnerability in developing countries: Help, hindrance or irrelevance?

S Eriksen, ELF Schipper, M Scoville-Simonds… - World …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at
climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions …

The dark side of transformation: latent risks in contemporary sustainability discourse

J Blythe, J Silver, L Evans, D Armitage, NJ Bennett… - Antipode, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The notion of transformation is gaining traction in contemporary sustainability debates. New
ways of theorising and supporting transformations are emerging and, so the argument goes …

[HTML][HTML] Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems

G Fedele, CI Donatti, CA Harvey, L Hannah… - Environmental Science & …, 2019 - Elsevier
In the face of major shifts in temperature and precipitation, some conventional strategies that
help people to cope or incrementally adapt to climate change may become inappropriate in …

Just transformations to sustainability

NJ Bennett, J Blythe, AM Cisneros-Montemayor… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Transformations towards sustainability are needed to address many of the earth's profound
environmental and social challenges. Yet, actions taken to deliberately shift social …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Power and politics in climate change adaptation efforts: Struggles over authority and recognition in the context of political instability

AJ Nightingale - Geoforum, 2017 - Elsevier
Throughout the world, climate change adaptation policies supported by the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have provided significant sources of …

Adaptation and transformation

M Pelling, K O'Brien, D Matyas - Climatic change, 2015 - Springer
Transformation as an adaptive response to climate change opens a range of novel policy
options. Used to describe responses that produce non-linear changes in systems or their …

One thousand ways to experience loss: A systematic analysis of climate-related intangible harm from around the world

P Tschakert, NR Ellis, C Anderson, A Kelly… - Global Environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
A situated and socially engaged science of loss arising from climate change takes people's
lived experiences with risk and harm as its fundamental starting point. It foregrounds what …