Redefining climate change maladaptation using a values-based approach in forests

People and Nature

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Kieran Findlater¹  Shannon Hagerman¹  Robert Kozak¹  Veronika Gukova¹ 

[1] Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia;Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, University of British Columbia;School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, University of British Columbia

关键词: British Columbia;    climate change adaptation;    forests;    genomics-based assisted migration;    judgement and decision-making;    maladaptation;    risk analysis;    stakeholders;   

DOI  :  10.1002/pan3.10278

学科分类：护理学

来源: Wiley

【 摘 要 】

Climate change adaptation can have unexpected and detrimental effects, typically conceptualized as maladaptation and narrowly defined in relation to climatic hazards and climate vulnerability. We revisit this narrow framing of maladaptation using a deliberative risk analysis method in 16 focus groups across British Columbia, Canada, where forests are crucial to social, economic and environmental well-being. By analysing emergent logics of support and opposition around genomics-based assisted migration as an adaptation strategy in forests, we identify four sources of potential maladaptation in this context: technical failure, opportunity cost, path dependence and the too-narrow framing of adaptation. Combined, these suggest that maladaptation is also too narrowly conceptualized, reflecting an obsolete definition of adaptation as rational adjustment to climatic hazards. Rather than being a failure of adaptation, per se, we argue that maladaptation comprises climate-adaptive policies or actions that, in a broader frame, threaten the very values that decision-makers ostensibly seek to protect and enhance. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.

【 授权许可】

CC BY