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ArticleiScience2023

Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake.

Nicholas P Simpson, Portia Adade Williams, Katharine J Mach, Lea Berrang-Ford, Robbert Biesbroek, Marjolijn Haasnoot, Alcade C Segnon, Donovan Campbell, Justice Issah Musah-Surugu, Elphin Tom Joe and 10 more

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Nicholas P SimpsonAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Portia Adade WilliamsCSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Accra, Ghana.
Katharine J MachDepartment of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, and Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USA.
Lea Berrang-FordPriestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
Robbert BiesbroekWageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands.
Marjolijn HaasnootDeltares, Delft, the Netherlands, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Alcade C SegnonAlliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Dakar, Senegal, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Benin.
Donovan CampbellThe University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Justice Issah Musah-SuruguUnited Nations University, Bonn, Germany.
Elphin Tom JoeEconomics Center, World Resources Institute, New Delhi, India.
Abraham Marshall NunboguDepartment of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada.
Salma SabourFaculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UK.
Andreas L S MeyerAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Talbot M AndrewsDepartment of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
Chandni SinghSchool of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, India.
A R SidersDisaster Research Center, Climate Change Science and Policy Hub, Biden School of Public Policy, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences; University of Delaware; Newark, DE, USA.
Judy LawrenceClimate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Maarten van AalstFaculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Twente, the Netherlands.
Christopher H TrisosAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Global Adaptation Mapping Initiative Team

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging conditions of compound climate events. Across 39 countries, 45 response types to compound hazards display anticipatory (9%), reactive (33%), and maladaptive (41%) characteristics, as well as hard (18%) and soft (68%) limits to adaptation. Low income, food insecurity, and access to institutional resources and finance are the most prominent of 23 vulnerabilities observed to negatively affect responses. Risk for food security, health, livelihoods, and economic outputs are commonly associated risks driving responses. Narrow geographical and sectoral foci of the literature highlight important conceptual, sectoral, and geographic areas for future research to better understand the way responses shape risk. When responses are integrated within climate risk assessment and management, there is greater potential to advance the urgency of response and safeguards for the most vulnerable.

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PMID36866045
PMCPMC9971900

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