Adaptive capacity
Exploring the research frontier
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12929313 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colette Mortreux (0000-0001-6855-4139, University of Exeter, corresponding author), Jon Barnett (0000-0002-0862-0808, The University of Melbourne) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1757-7780 • E-ISSN: 1757-7799 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/wcc.467 |
| OpenAlex | W2618585332 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 76 |
| References cited | 111 |
In the past 15 years there has been rapid growth in research on adaptive capacity. This article critically reviews this literature, describing changes in the field over time, and highlighting the new frontiers in research. It explains how research on adaptive capacity began and remains heavily influenced by a one‐size‐fits‐all assets‐based theory that assumes that adaptation action is commensurate with the possession of capitals. It explains how this theory has been unable to explain how adaptation is actually practiced across diverse contexts and scales. The article then highlights new research, particularly that which extends analysis to include psycho‐social and institutional dimensions applied at smaller scales of analysis. This shift recognizes and helps overcome the limits of traditional approaches to adaptive capacity, but the field still lacks theories that can explain the relationship between adaptive capacity and adaptation outcomes. Drawing on findings from disaster risk reduction and behavioral science literatures, this article outlines a framework comprised of six factors that better explain how capacity is translated and mobilized into action, namely: risk attitudes, personal experience, trust in and expectations of authorities, place attachment, competing concerns, and household composition and dynamics. WIREs Clim Change 2017, 8:e467. doi: 10.1002/wcc.467 This article is categorized under: Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change > Institutions for Adaptation
Action (physics · Adaptation (eye · Adaptive capacity · Climate change · Economics · Field (mathematics · Frontier · Political science · Positive economics · Psychological resilience · Social vulnerability · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Computer Science · Disaster Management and Resilience · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Psychology · Social Psychology · Ecology
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Observations, perceptions and concerns of the American lobster industry regarding the range-expansion of Black Sea Bass
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The compounding effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Hurricane Dorian displaced households in the Bahamas
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Decisions from Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice
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Feeling secure or being secure? Why it can seem better not to protect yourself against a natural hazard
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“It's just a natural way of life…” an investigation of wildfire preparedness in rural Australia
Transformational capacity and the influence of place and identity
Floating oil-covered debris from Deepwater Horizon
Responding to bushfire risk
Disaster preparedness
The human development index
Towards characterizing the adaptive capacity of farmer-managed irrigation systems
Vulnerability assessment within climate change and natural hazard contexts
Behavioral dimensions of climate change
Australian bushfire fatalities 1900–2008
Factors of influence on flood damage mitigation behaviour by households
The Adaptive Capacity Wheel
The vulnerability of Australian rural communities to climate variability and change
Coping with risk
The future that may (or may not) come
Understanding the causes and consequences of differential decision-making in adaptation research
Adapting to environmental change in artisanal fisheries—Insights from a South Indian Lagoon
Indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity”
Indicators for social and economic coping capacity—moving toward a working definition of adaptive capacity
Social identity, perception and motivation in adaptation to climate risk in the coffee sector of Chiapas, Mexico
Mental preparation for climate adaptation
Ranking the adaptive capacity of nations to climate change when socio-political goals are explicit
Observed adaptation to climate change
Insights into the composition of household vulnerability from multicriteria decision analysis
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Social capital, individual responses to heat waves and climate change adaptation
The weakest link hypothesis for adaptive capacity
A socio-psychological model for analyzing climate change adaptation
Think global, act local? The relevance of place attachments and place identities in a climate changed world
Vulnerability
Data and processes linking vulnerability assessment to adaptation decision-making on climate change in Norway
Cultural barriers to climate change adaptation
Adaptive capacity in evolving peri-urban spaces
A conceptual framework for analysing adaptive capacity and multi-level learning processes in resource governance regimes
Are we adapting to climate change
Using expert judgment to assess adaptive capacity to climate change
Place, well-being, and fairness shape priorities for adaptation to climate change
Climate change, migration and adaptation in Funafuti, Tuvalu
The determinants of vulnerability and adaptive capacity at the national level and the implications for adaptation
Institutional adaptation to climate change
Adaptive capacity and human cognition
Insights Into Wildfire Mitigation Decisions Among Wildland–Urban Interface Residents
An Examination of the Influence of Hazard Experience on Wildfire Risk Perceptions and Adoption of Mitigation Measures
Homeowner Perspectives on Fire Hazard, Responsibility, and Management Strategies at the Wildland-Urban Interface
Thinking of Wildfire as a Natural Hazard
The Look of the Land
The gendered dimensions of bushfire in changing rural landscapes in Australia
Understanding disaster warning responses
The human development index
Mainstreaming Adaptation in Development
Household vulnerability to climate change
Questioning Complacency
The Hazards of Indicators
Preferences for separating or combining events
Adaptive capacity and its assessment
This Must Be the Place
Uncertainty in adaptive capacity and the importance of scale
Bushfire and everyday life
Place Attachment
Understanding adaptation
Making Women Visible in Disasters
Measuring the dimensions of adaptive capacity
Land tenure, disasters and vulnerability
Understanding Place Attachment Among Second Home Owners
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| Unique citing works | 76 |
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| Citations per year | 9,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 74 |