Beyond maladaptation: structural barriers to successful adaptation

Bertana, Amanda; Clark, Brett; Benney, Tabitha M.; Quackenbush, Cameron

doi:10.1080/23251042.2022.2068224

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“…These projects often have unplanned consequences. Bertana et al (2022) provide insights into projects that fail and are even maladaptive for local people. They explain that these failed projects are driven by techno-fixes, conflate adaptation and development, attempt to quantify the non-quantifiable, and stray from adaptation interests when practitioners are distracted by other competing problems.…”

Section: Global Adaptationmentioning

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A call for a sociology of adaptation

Falzon,

Sen

2024

Sociological Forum

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Interest in examining climate change adaptation has arisen in many disciplines in the past two decades; however to date, sociologists have given only sparse attention to the issue. This is both a missed opportunity for sociologists and a detriment to the study of adaptation. In this paper, we set out the following research agenda: bringing core concerns of sociology into the critically important conversation of how society will respond to climate change. We identify five broad themes in which sociologists can begin their work on adaptation: (1) structures and resource access, (2) social cohesion and future planning, (3) constraints of social stratifications, (4) power and agency in decision‐making, and (5) justice in process and outcomes. After summarizing existing sociological work on adaptation and detailing our research agenda, we draw examples from our own work in Bangladesh to illustrate how this agenda might be taken up. In doing so, we point to several places where sociological insights come into play in questions related to development, organizations, expertise, migration, gender, and labor. We believe a robust sociological analysis can produce a clarified, reparative, and just conceptualization of adaptation that will contribute to the growing global discourse on the topic.

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A call for a sociology of adaptation

Falzon,

Sen

2024

Sociological Forum

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“…Furthermore, there is the unintentionality of such collateral damage and the issue of balancing mixed effects, which can be adaptive and maladaptive at the same time, depending on where we look and what we measure. Bertana et al (2022) identify four structural challenges that underpin maladaptation. These all speak directly to our case study in Thailand: first, a propensity to focus on technical, engineered or hard fixes rather than more 'holistic' approaches; second, the question of whether and how to draw a line between efforts that contribute to adaptation and those that drive development;…”

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From causality to blame: exploring flooding, factories and land conversion in Eastern Thailand

Lattanan,

Areeprachakun,

Patnukao

et al. 2024

Australian Geographer

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It has become common to attribute the growing frequency and severity of floods to climate change. But the factors behind flooding are many, and climate change often disappears from the equation at the local level. This study draws on interviews with key informants and community members and focus group discussions to explore the increasing incidence of flooding in two sub-districts in Eastern Thailand. To our surprise, there was little sense of community anger: flood risk had increased; the causes rooted in maladaptation linked to land conversion were recognized and uncontested; and injustice was palpable. But anger and resistance were muted. The paper seeks to make sense of this situation. Villagers accepted their complicity in creating the conditions for heightened flood risk through their willingness to sell their land for conversion. The disconnection between the identification of causality and the allocation of blame raises questions about how notions of environmental justice play out in places like Ban Thapma and Ban Nhonglalok, where justice and injustice do not fall equally across space and society.

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“…ej., comunidades de ingresos bajos a moderados, inquilinos). Dada la posibilidad de que la mala adaptación redistribuya o amplifique sustancialmente el riesgo, profesionales y responsables políticos deberían prestar mucha atención a este tema 106,107,108 .…”

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“…La mala adaptación es un concepto bien establecido en la literatura sobre adaptación y los casos de mala adaptación han sido bien documentados en numerosas ocasiones por diversos equipos de autores 106,107 , aunque los criterios exactos utilizados para determinar cuándo una acción está mal adaptada, a menudo, difieren según el contexto. Cada vez son más las investigaciones que documentan la forma en que centrar la equidad en las fases de diseño, planificación e implementación de la adaptación conduce a mejores resultados 40,113,117 .…”

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Cap. 31. Adaptación. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

2023

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Cambio institucional; cambios en la dieta y el desperdicio de alimentos; diversificación de los medios de subsistencia y las fuentes de ingresos; adaptación de las prácticas agrícolas, pesqueras o ganaderas (Recuadro 29.5); mejora de las variedades de cultivos; almacenamiento, distribución y seguridad de los alimentos; reducción del riesgo de desastres; migración permanente, retirada planificada o reubicación (KM 21.3, 24.4); movilidad estacional o temporal; redes de seguridad social y cohesión; protección social adaptativa; uso y demanda de agua; técnicas de gestión del suelo o de la tierra; almacenamiento posterior a la cosecha; recolección de agua de lluvia; ampliación de la gestión integrada de plagas; retirada estratégica de la costa (KM 9.3); protección de la tierra; cambios en los hábitos de transporte; mejora de la salud pública (KM 23.5). TecnologíaDesarrollo de tecnologías nuevas o ampliación de las existentes para permitir y avanzar en la adaptación; tecnologías de mejora del uso del agua o del acceso al agua; capacidad de energía solar; energía eólica; almacenamiento de energía; biogás; purificación del agua; producción de sal solar; microrredes; inteligencia artificial y aprendizaje automático. Número de actividades de adaptación documentadas públicamente (2018-2022)El nivel de actividad de adaptación documentada de los sectores público y privado varía mucho entre los estados y territorios estadounidenses.

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Beyond maladaptation: structural barriers to successful adaptation

Cited by 16 publications

References 32 publications

A call for a sociology of adaptation

A call for a sociology of adaptation

From causality to blame: exploring flooding, factories and land conversion in Eastern Thailand

Cap. 31. Adaptación. En: La Quinta Evaluación Nacional del Clima

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