TY - JOUR
T1 - Interrogating ‘effectiveness’ in climate change adaptation
T2 - 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice
AU - Singh, Chandni
AU - Iyer, Soundarya
AU - New, Mark G.
AU - Few, Roger
AU - Kuchimanchi, Bhavana
AU - Segnon, Alcade C.
AU - Morchain, Daniel
PY - 2022/8/9
Y1 - 2022/8/9
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Adaptation
KW - climate justice
KW - effectiveness
KW - monitoring and evaluation
KW - transformation
UR - https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16435208
U2 - 10.1080/17565529.2021.1964937
DO - 10.1080/17565529.2021.1964937
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85113389789
SN - 1756-5529
VL - 14
SP - 650
EP - 664
JO - Climate and Development
JF - Climate and Development
IS - 7
ER -