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Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

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Title Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice
 
Creator Singh, Chandni
Iyer, Soundarya
New, Mark G
Few, Roger
Kuchimanchi, Bhavana
Segnon, Alcade C
Morchain, Daniel
 
Subject climate change adaptation
agriculture
food security
climate change
adaptation
 
Description The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to ensure an ‘adequate adaptation response’ to the ‘global temperature goal’, and requires countries to report progress through periodic global stocktakes. However, there remain conceptual and methodological challenges in defining an adaptation goal and mixed evidence on what effective adaptation looks like and how it can be enabled. In this review, we demonstrate how different normative views on adaptation outcomes, arising from different epistemological and disciplinary entry points, can lead to very different interpretations of adaptation effectiveness. We argue that how effectiveness is framed will significantly impact adaptation implementation and outcomes. This, furthermore, represents a way of exercising influence in adaptation decision-making. Eleven principles of effective adaptation are distilled as a way to pluralize guidance in international processes such as the Global Stocktake as well as national and sub-national exercises on tracking and monitoring adaptation.
 
Date 2022-08-09
2021-08-27T18:59:23Z
2021-08-27T18:59:23Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Singh C, Iyer S, New MG, Few R, Kuchimanchi B, Segnon AC, Morchain D. 2021. Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice. Climate and Development
1756-5529
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/114779
https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2021.1964937
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 16 p.
 
Publisher Informa UK Limited
 
Source Climate and Development