Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient

By R. Kates, W. Travis, T. Wilbanks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “A longer tradition of integrative sustainability science has looked at natural hazards, focusing on climate change within regional geographies and linking understandings of both natural and social systems (30, 31).”
How resilient are farming households and communities to a changing climate in Africa? A gender-based perspective (2015, background): “This is an open access articl 4.0/). major alterations in structure or function will be required (Kates et al., 2012; Walker and Meyers, 2004).”
Limits to adaptation to climate change: a risk approach (2013, background): “[10 ,33,34 ]).”
A typology of adaptation actions: A global look at climate adaptation actions financed through the Global Environment Facility (2014, background): “Unfortunately, given the pace and magnitude of changes underway, the measures developed in the past to cope with climate variability may, in many cases, no longer be sufficient to adapt to the unprecedented impacts of climate change (Bierbaum et al., 2013; Kates et al., 2012).”
Linking agricultural adaptation strategies, food security and vulnerability: evidence from West Africa (2016, positive): “…suggest that adaptation is progressive and that transformational adaptation happens when incremental adaptation is not sufﬁcient (Jarvis et al. 2011; Kates et al. 2012; Rickards and Howden 2012), our study shows that these types of adaptations happen simultaneously at household level as they try…”
Global rangeland production systems and livelihoods at threat under climate change and variability (2020, background): “…as projected in this modelling study, the existing suite of adaptation strategies across ecological, socioeconomic, and institutional systems and coping range that have been developed in response to existing variability may not be enough (Ash et al 2012, Kates et al 2012, Joyce et al 2013).”
Cognitive and institutional influences on farmers’ adaptive capacity: insights into barriers and opportunities for transformative change in central Arizona (2016, background): “In some cases, environmental changes provoked by climate change may be so significant that existing livelihoods and economic activities become untenable, requiring a fundamental transformation (Anderies et al. 2006; Kates et al. 2012; Olsson et al. 2004; Walker et al. 2004; Westley et al. 2011).”
The Adaptation Policy Paradox : the Implementation Deficit of Policies Framed as Climate Change Adaptation (2013, background): “Resulting from this is the view that needed policy solutions are additional (Mceldowney 1997) to existing policies and are based on new, innovative, and generally highly technical measures that are able to deal with unprecedented risks in term of scale and intensity (Kates et al. 2012).”
Transformational change: governance interventions for climate change adaptation from a continuous change perspective (2017, background): “In the context of climate change adaptation, the prevalent assumption is that incremental steps often do not create enough depth to deal with the projected climate risks (Kates, Travis, and Wilbanks 2012; Park, Howden, and Crimp 2012; Pahl-Wostl 2009; Pelling, O’Brien, and Matyas 2014).”
Contemporary forest restoration: A review emphasizing function (2014, background): “Intervention ecology goes further and seeks transformative adaptation to future conditions (Hobbs et al., 2011; Kates et al., 2012).”
Climate change adaptation and mitigation in smallholder crop–livestock systems in sub-Saharan Africa: a call for integrated impact assessments (2016, background): “Together with high investment risk, poor access to inputs, market dysfunction and land tenure insecurity, it indicates the need for transformative change rather than incremental adaptations (Kates et al. 2012, Porter et al. 2014).”
The Risk Perception Paradox—Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards (2013, background): “(33,52,56) Kates et al.(78) propose: “Many of the approaches that support such a broadening of risk management practices are relatively unthreatening to implement.”