Mapping expert consensus on transformational adaptation
Explore how a global Delphi panel maps agreement and structured disagreement on the defining elements of transformational climate adaptation.
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Adaptive capacity
Global adaptation data gaps
Explore how global datasets fail to track adaptation action, revealing a mismatch between risk measurement and policy progress under the GGA.
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Adaptation Research: Policy Outputs Versus Outcomes
Explore how large-n adaptation studies measure reporting artifacts rather than outcomes, and why policy alignment offers a better evaluative path.
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Climate volatility and poverty vulnerability
Explore how climate extremes alter staple-grain productivity and food prices, disproportionately pushing urban wage earners into poverty.
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Decoupling vulnerability and resilience post-disaster
Explore how vulnerability and resilience decouple post-disaster, showing poorer households achieve faster relative recovery despite higher damage.
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Social-ecological resilience and coastal disaster risk
Explore how social-ecological resilience, ecological memory, and multilevel governance shape coastal disaster risk and recovery.
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When society defines the limits to climate adaptation
Explore how values, uncertainty, risk perception, and cultural loss shape socially constructed limits to climate adaptation.
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How institutions connect social and ecological resilience
Explore how Neil Adger links social and ecological resilience through institutions, resource dependence, property rights, and collective action.
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Vulnerability as a social-ecological systems problem
Explore how Neil Adger links vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience through exposure, adaptive capacity, institutions, and risk distribution.
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