Transformational processes for community-focused adaptation and social change
A Synthesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5776008 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tanya Chung Tiam Fook (University of Prince Edward Island, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-21 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Climate and Development (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1756-5529 • E-ISSN: 1756-5537 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17565529.2015.1086294 |
| OpenAlex | W1939979611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 31 |
| References cited | 72 |
In the face of coupled climate and socioeconomic changes, transformational adaptation holds both exciting possibilities and daunting challenges for climate research and policy. There is, however, limited research on how dominant societal and policy structures contribute to climate change, and also create the need for transformational shifts within local settings where climate and social vulnerability are most profoundly experienced. Drawing on nascent studies and documented examples of transformational adaptation from a community-focused perspective, this review examines processes of social learning that influence social transformation and adaptation outcomes. Rather than offering solutions within business-as-usual pathways that contribute to vulnerability, this paper argues that adaptation research would benefit from alternative paradigms and social learning processes that can enhance local capacities and reinforce resilience. Climate challenges are explored as windows of opportunity for local stakeholders to envision more progressive adaptation pathways, and initiate processes of radical change in the entrenched systems that shape those challenges. The synthesis carried out in this review suggests a deliberate approach to transformational adaptation, that is initiated proactively by local stakeholders, as the most promising option available in contexts where actors' capacities and resilience are limited by intensifying climate change, economic globalization, environmental degradation and social inequality
Transformative learning · Vulnerability · Climate change impacts on agriculture · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
Limited use of transformative adaptation in response to social-ecological shifts driven by climate change
Transformation, adaptation and development
A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information
Innovation and deadlock in governing disasters and climate change collaboratively - Lessons from the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia
Transformative learning and community resilience to cyclones and storm surges
Climate shocks and adaptation strategies in coastal Bangladesh
Health trade-offs in pursuit of livelihood security
No room to manoeuvre
Adapting climate change – how government authorities in Sweden make sense of adaptation through a network practice
Broadening the Climate–Conflict Nexus Through Social Sustainability
Increasing the Adaptation Pathways Capacity of Land Use Planning – Insights from New South Wales, Australia
Achieving climate justice
Cultivating together
Arts-based methods for just co-creation of sustainable futures
Evolutionary simulations of institutional dynamics in global climate governance
Beyond binary outcomes in climate adaptation
Integrated framework for identifying transformative adaptation in agri-food systems
Policy priorities to enable engaged and transformational adaptation on the coast
Transformative adaptation to climate change for sustainable social-ecological systems
Exploring the use of adaptation tipping points
Gender and climate change ‘through other eyes’
Understanding resilience in sustainable development
Recurring droughts or social shifts? Exploring drivers of large-scale transformations in a transformed country
Lessons from a decade of adaptive pathways studies for climate adaptation
How social movements use religious creativity to address environmental crises in Indonesian local communities
Navigating transformations
The Dark Side of Transformation
Can scenario planning catalyse transformational change? Evaluating a climate change policy case study in Mali
Climate change adaptation narratives
Building transformative capacity in southern Africa
Green transformation is a boundary object
The Economics of Climate Change
Rethinking adaptation for a 4 ° C world
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient
Adaptation to Environmental Change
Climate Change Vulnerability Assessments
Community collaboration and climate change research in the Canadian Arctic
From impacts assessment to adaptation priorities
The next generation of scenarios for climate change research and assessment
Transformational adaptation
Challenges for Community‐based Adaptation
A framework for examining adaptation readiness
Are there social limits to adaptation to climate change?
Adaptive Governance of Social-Ecological Systems
Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Routledge Handbook of the Climate Change Movement
Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation
Why We Disagree about Climate Change
Community‐based adaptation
Transformational capacity and the influence of place and identity
Responding to bushfire risk
Using adaptation tipping points to prepare for climate change and sea level rise
Resilience implications of policy responses to climate change
Nested vulnerability
Climate Change, Human Well-Being and Insecurity
Reconceptualising adaptation to climate change as part of pathways of change and response
Mapping vulnerability to multiple stressors
Climate change and sustainable development
Adaptive co-management and the paradox of learning
Community level adaptation to climate change
Maladaptation
Dynamic adaptive policy pathways
Social Vulnerability to Climate Change and Extremes in Coastal Vietnam
Exploring causal relations
Future visioning of local climate change
Déjà vu or something new? The adaptation concept in the climate change literature
The Construction of Global Warming and the Politics of Science
Informing adaptation responses to climate change through theories of transformation
Global environmental change II
Reconnecting to the Biosphere
Scale-Crossing Brokers and Network Governance of Urban Ecosystem Services
Vertical Interplay among Scale-dependent Environmental and Resource Regimes
Shooting the Rapids
From Resilience to Transformation
Monitoring Social Learning Processes in Adaptive Comanagement
Transforming Innovation for Sustainability
The Politics of Social-ecological Resilience and Sustainable Socio-technical Transitions
Resilience Thinking
Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems
Four Reasons for Concern about Adaptation to Climate Change
| Unique citing works | 31 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |