Beyond Adapting to Climate Change

Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8375145
AutoresThomas J Wilbanks (Oak Ridge National Laboratory), Robert W Kates (Film Independent)
Ano2010
Volume100
Fascículo4
Páginas719-728
Data de publicação2010-08-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnnals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00045608.2010.500200
OpenAlexW2039504589
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas37
Referências citadas7

Climate change impacts are already being experienced in every region of the United States and every part of the world—most severely in Arctic regions—and adaptation is needed now. Although climate change adaptation research is still in its infancy, significant adaptation planning in the United States has already begun in a number of localities. This article seeks to broaden the adaptation effort by integrating it with broader frameworks of hazards research, sustainability science, and community and regional resilience. To extend the range of experience, we draw from ongoing case studies in the Southeastern United States and the environmental history of New Orleans to consider the multiple threats and stresses that all communities and regions experience. Embedding climate adaptation in responses to multiple threats and stresses helps us to understand climate change impacts, themselves often products of multiple stresses, to achieve community acceptance of needed adaptations as cobenefits of addressing multiple threats, and to mainstream the process of climate adaptation through the larger envelope of social relationships, communication channels, and broad-based awareness of needs for risk management that accompany community resilience

Adaptation (eye) · Climate change · Community resilience · Environmental planning · Environmental resource management · Geography · Mainstream · Political science · Psychological resilience · Resilience (materials science) · Sustainability · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Ecology · Environmental Science · Psychology · Social Psychology · Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research