Breathing life into climate change adaptation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19468903 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Stadler (0000-0002-9158-2792, Department of Business Strategy and Innovation Griffith Business School Griffith University Gold Coast Queensland Australia, corresponding author), Luke Houghton (0000-0002-7461-6591, Department of Business Strategy and Innovation Griffith Business School Griffith University Gold Coast Queensland Australia) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 400-409 |
| Publication date | 2020-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Industrial Ecology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-1980 • E-ISSN: 1530-9290 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jiec.12922 |
| OpenAlex | W2955723002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 51 |
The exploration of evolutionary biology and biological adaptation can inform society's adaptation to climate change, particularly the mechanisms that bring about adaptability, such as phenotypic plasticity, epigenetics, and horizontal gene transfer. Learning from unplanned autonomous biological adaptation may be considered undesirable and incompatible with human endeavor. However, it is argued that there is no need for agency, and planned adaptation is not necessarily preferable over autonomous adaptation. What matters is the efficacy of adaptive mechanisms and their capacity to increase societal resilience to current and future impacts. In addition, there is great scope for industrial ecology (IE) to contribute approaches to climate change adaptation that generate system models and baseline data to inform decision making. The problem of “uncertainty” was chosen as an example of a challenge that is shared by biological systems, IE, and climate change adaptation to show how biological adaptation might contribute solutions. Finally, the Coastal Climate Adaptation Decision Support tool was used to demonstrate how IE and biological adaptation approaches may be mainstreamed in climate change adaptation planning and practice. In conclusion, there is close conceptual alignment between evolutionary biology and IE. The integration of biological adaptation thinking can enrich IE, add new perspectives to climate change adaptation science, and support IE's engagement with climate change adaptation. There should be no major obstacles regarding the collaboration of industrial ecologists with the climate change adaptation community, but mainstreaming of biological adaptation solutions depends greatly on successful knowledge transfer and the engagement of open‐minded and informed adaptation stakeholders
Adaptability · Adaptive capacity · Biology · Climate change · Ecological forecasting · Environmental resource management · Global warming · Human systems engineering · Maladaptation · Psychological resilience · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Environmental Science · Innovation, Sustainability, Human-Machine Systems · Psychology · Sustainable Industrial Ecology · Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |