TY - JOUR
T1 - A systematic global stocktake of evidence on human adaptation to climate change
AU - Berrang-Ford, Lea
AU - Siders, A. R.
AU - Lesnikowski, Alexandra
AU - Fischer, Alexandra Paige
AU - Callaghan, Max W.
AU - Haddaway, Neal R.
AU - Mach, Katharine J.
AU - Araos, Malcolm
AU - Shah, Mohammad Aminur Rahman
AU - Wannewitz, Mia
AU - Doshi, Deepal
AU - Leiter, Timo
AU - Matavel, Custodio
AU - Musah-Surugu, Justice Issah
AU - Wong-Parodi, Gabrielle
AU - Antwi-Agyei, Philip
AU - Ajibade, Idowu
AU - Chauhan, Neha
AU - Kakenmaster, William
AU - Grady, Caitlin
AU - Chalastani, Vasiliki I.
AU - Jagannathan, Kripa
AU - Galappaththi, Eranga K.
AU - Sitati, Asha
AU - Scarpa, Giulia
AU - Totin, Edmond
AU - Davis, Katy
AU - Hamilton, Nikita Charles
AU - Kirchhoff, Christine J.
AU - Kumar, Praveen
AU - Pentz, Brian
AU - Simpson, Nicholas P.
AU - Theokritoff, Emily
AU - Deryng, Delphine
AU - Reckien, D.
AU - Zavaleta-Cortijo, Carol
AU - Ulibarri, Nicola
AU - Segnon, Alcade C.
AU - Khavhagali, V.
AU - Shang, Yuanyuan
AU - Zvobgo, Luckson
AU - Zommers, Zinta
AU - Xu, Jiren
AU - Williams, Portia Adade
AU - Canosa, Ivan Villaverde
AU - van Maanen, Nicole
AU - van Bavel, Bianca
AU - van Aalst, M.
AU - Turek-Hankins, Lynée L.
AU - Haasnoot, Marjolijn
AU - GAMI Team
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the following individuals for contributions to various stages of this initiative: C. Abbey, C. Alarconr, S. Arowolo, K. Christopher, R. Cremades, E. Cremin, K. Dave, S. Davis, D. Die, S. D’haen, S. Gruza, T. Harrison, D. Heinrich, F. I. Hoefsloot, M. Hothman, K. Hou, J. Kumar, R. Lama, A. Mahanti, C. McOmber, A. Mukjerji, N. Nnebe, M. North, C. Ofeogbu, H. Panchal, S. Pandey, A. Pasha, J. Pathak, P. Shrestha, D. Singini, A. Srinidhi, C. Thangata, V. Thimmaiah, A. Welles, K. Wroten, A. Yue and K. Zhu. We thank T. Leuchtefeld and the SysRev team for extensive technical and design support in partnering with this initiative. This work was supported by the following funding grants: Agence Française de Développement (A.K.M.), UK Government Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada (109419–001, N.P.S.), Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (French National Research Agency, ANR-10-LABX-14-01, A.K.M.), Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (French National Research Agency, ANR-15-CE03-0003, A.K.M.), Studienstiftung des Deutsches Volkes (P.N.S.), UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership (ES/P000622/1, project reference 2098296, T.L.), National Science Foundation, Directorate for Geosciences (no. 1935961, E.A.G.), Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (756-2021-0037, E.K.G.), China Scholarship Council, Australian National University—Climate Change Institute Supplementary Scholarship (Y.S.), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN) (BIO-ARID PID2020-115770RB-I, J.S.), European Research Council (grant ERC-SyG-2013-610028, IMBALANCE-P, J. Petzold), Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MICINN) (ELEMENTALSHIFT PID2019-110521GB-100, J. Penuelas), UGC-JRF scholarship, University Grants Commission, Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India (3643/(SC)(NET-DEC. 2015, P.K.), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) (using the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) Funding) and Wellcome under the NIHR–Wellcome Partnership for Global Health Research (218743/Z/19/Z, C.Z.-C), The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (G.W.P.), International Development Research Centre Canada (L.S.S.C.), Agricultural Experiment Station Hatch projects (CA-R-A-6689-H and CA-D-LAW-2352-H, R.R.H.), German Ministry for Education and Research—ARIADNE project and IPCC-AR6-III-2 project (03SFK5J0 and 01LG1910A, J.M.), German Ministry for Education and Research— ARIADNE project (03SFK5J0, M.W.C.), NSF-CNH2-LRUI-ROA Grant, Equitable and Resilience Urban Socio-ecological Systems (no. 245531, I.A.-R.) and Portland State University Vision 2025 Grant (I.A.-R.).
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PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority. Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known about the actual extent of implementation. We systematically screened >48,000 articles using machine learning methods and a global network of 126 researchers. Our synthesis of the resulting 1,682 articles presents a systematic and comprehensive global stocktake of implemented human adaptation to climate change. Documented adaptations were largely fragmented, local and incremental, with limited evidence of transformational adaptation and negligible evidence of risk reduction outcomes. We identify eight priorities for global adaptation research: assess the effectiveness of adaptation responses, enhance the understanding of limits to adaptation, enable individuals and civil society to adapt, include missing places, scholars and scholarship, understand private sector responses, improve methods for synthesizing different forms of evidence, assess the adaptation at different temperature thresholds, and improve the inclusion of timescale and the dynamics of responses.
AB - Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority. Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known about the actual extent of implementation. We systematically screened >48,000 articles using machine learning methods and a global network of 126 researchers. Our synthesis of the resulting 1,682 articles presents a systematic and comprehensive global stocktake of implemented human adaptation to climate change. Documented adaptations were largely fragmented, local and incremental, with limited evidence of transformational adaptation and negligible evidence of risk reduction outcomes. We identify eight priorities for global adaptation research: assess the effectiveness of adaptation responses, enhance the understanding of limits to adaptation, enable individuals and civil society to adapt, include missing places, scholars and scholarship, understand private sector responses, improve methods for synthesizing different forms of evidence, assess the adaptation at different temperature thresholds, and improve the inclusion of timescale and the dynamics of responses.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y
DO - 10.1038/s41558-021-01170-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85118175179
VL - 11
SP - 989
EP - 1000
JO - Nature climate change
JF - Nature climate change
SN - 1758-678X
IS - 11
ER -