Toward reflexive climate adaptation research

Preston, Benjamin L.; Rickards, Lauren; Fünfgeld, Hartmut; Keenan, Rodney J.

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2015.05.002

Title: Toward reflexive climate adaptation research

Journal Article · Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2015.05.002· OSTI ID:1265515

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Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Climate Change Science Inst.; Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Environmental Sciences Division
RMIT Univ., Melbourne, VIC (Australia). Centre for Urban Research. School of Global, Urban and Social Studies
Univ. of Melbourne (Australia). School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences

Climate adaptation research is expanding very quickly within an increasingly reflexive society where the relationship between academia and other social institutions is in a state of flux. Tensions exist between the two dominant research orientations of research about and research for adaptation. In particular, the research community is challenged to develop processes for successfully executing transdisciplinary research for adaptation when academic institutions and researchers are largely structured around traditional, disciplinary expertise and funding models. One tool for helping to manage this tension is a third, more reflexive, orientation toward adaptation research that is emerging in the literature. Finally, this new ‘research on adaptation research’ promises to help enhance understanding of the research enterprise itself and how it can become more adaptive.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

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Journal Information:: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, Vol. 14; ISSN 1877-3435

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