Nordic agriculture under climate change: A systematic review of challenges, opportunities and adaptation strategies for crop production

Wiréhn, Lotten

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.04.059

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“…policy and economic liberalization (Claessens et al 2012;Feola et al 2015), as well as the changing climatic and weather conditions. Thus, adaptation decisions often imply a situation in which a decision has to be made between addressing multiple pressures and objectives (Smit and Skinner 2002), implying that there are trade-offs between individual adaptation practices or with other social, economic or environmental strategies or goals (Denton et al 2014;Wiréhn 2018). Trade-offs can be defined as balancing of factors that cannot be attained at the same time or in combination, involving, for example, pathways to achieve various social, economic and environmental goals of sustainable development (Denton et al 2014).…”

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“…Denton et al 2014;Smith et al 2014;Landauer et al 2015). While addressing that mitigation-related trade-offs is an essential challenge that has to be considered in climate actions, recent studies imply that there is a large number of important trade-offs involved in adaptation decision-making from a broader socio-ecological perspective than in relation to mitigation solely (Chelleri et al 2016;Neset et al 2018;Roy et al 2018 p. 457;Wiréhn 2018).…”

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“…Lehtonen 2015;Himanen et al 2016). Agricultural studies in relation to climate change in Finland and Sweden have rarely had adaptation as a central focus (Wiréhn 2018) even though adaptation can be considered a necessity in future Nordic agriculture. In particular, adaptation is needed in terms of reducing vulnerability to more extreme weather and warmer and wetter winters in the Nordic countries, as well as to enable gains from the climatic opportunities of higher temperatures and an extended growing season (e.g.…”

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“…Bindi and Olesen 2011;Peltonen-Sainio et al 2018). For a comprehensive overview of climate change related challenges, opportunities and associated adaptation requirements in the Nordic region, see Wiréhn (2018).…”

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Analysing trade-offs in adaptation decision-making—agricultural management under climate change in Finland and Sweden

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In light of the increased focus on climate change adaptation, there is a need to understand when and how adaptation decisionmaking generates trade-offs. This study presents a novel framework for adaptation trade-off assessments, which integrates (I) two trade-off mechanisms (direct and interactions) and (II) two types of trade-off characteristics (substantive and processual). Perspectives on adaptation trade-offs were collected from 37 Swedish and Finnish agricultural experts through semi-structured interviews supported by serious gaming and visualization. The data were thematically analysed based on the provided analytical framework. The results show that trade-offs in agricultural adaptation decision-making processes involve balancing a number of socio-ecological system aspects that are of different character and have different functions. The study identified 20 aspects generating trade-offs related to adaptation management in Swedish and Finnish agriculture, among which 'crop yield and profitability', 'farm economy', 'pest and weed robustness' and 'soil quality' were discussed as the most prominent by respondents. The framework enables an examination of complex trade-off structures that can have implications for adaptation management decisions. The results show that the identified aspects constitute different components and functions of trade-offs, including both processual and/or substantive ones. In conclusion, the 20 identified aspects and the framework together demonstrate the importance of the two types of adaptation trade-offs and the resulting complexity of climate change adaptation decisionmaking in Swedish and Finnish agriculture. Furthermore, the study asserts the potential of applying the framework for various strategic contexts-to recognize and cope with trade-offs in adaptation management.

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“…To gain insight into the impacts of climate change for agriculture and inform adaptation planning, a considerable body of research has been developed in recent years (Crane et al 2017, Panda 2018, Vermeulen et al 2018, Wiréhn 2018. Studies range from biophysical models to predict changing outcomes for production and yield, to in-depth, bottom-up qualitative explorations of stakeholders' perceptions of climate risks, capacities for adaptation, and more recently, integrated assessments which seek to combine scenarios of future change, with stakeholders' experience and insights (Challinor et al 2014, Herrero et al 2014, Cradock-Henry 2017, Ausseil et al 2019.…”

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Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: impacts, implications, decisions and actions

Cradock-Henry

Buelow

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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Climate change poses a significant challenge to primary industries and adaptation will be required to reduce detrimental impacts and realise opportunities. Despite the breadth of information to support adaptation planning however, knowledge is fragmented, obscuring information needs, hampering strategic planning and constraining decision-making capacities. In this letter, we present and apply the Adaptation Knowledge Cycle (AKC), a heuristic for rapidly evaluating and systematising adaptation research by analytical foci: Impacts, Implications, Decisions or Actions. We demonstrate its application through an assessment of ten years' climate change adaptation research for New Zealand's primary industries. The letter draws on the results of systematic review, empirical analysis, workshops, interviews, narrative analyses and pathways planning to synthesise information and identify knowledge gaps. Results show the heuristic's simplicity is valuable for cross-and transdisciplinary communication on adaptation in New Zealand's primary industries. Results also provide insight into what we know and need to know with respect to undertaking adaptation planning. With the development of tools and processes to inform decision making under conditions of uncertaintysuch as adaptation pathways-it is increasingly important to efficiently and accurately determine knowledge needs. The combination of systematic data collection techniques, and heuristics such as the AKC may provide researchers and stakeholders with an efficient, robust tool to review and synthesise existing knowledge, and identify emerging research priorities. Results can in turn support the design of targeted research and inform adaptation strategies for policy and practice.

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Climate Change and the Persistence of Weeds

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DiTommaso²

2022

Persistence Strategies of Weeds

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Nordic agriculture under climate change: A systematic review of challenges, opportunities and adaptation strategies for crop production

Cited by 100 publications

References 42 publications

Analysing trade-offs in adaptation decision-making—agricultural management under climate change in Finland and Sweden

Analysing trade-offs in adaptation decision-making—agricultural management under climate change in Finland and Sweden

Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: impacts, implications, decisions and actions

Climate Change and the Persistence of Weeds

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