TY - JOUR

T1 - An integrative research framework for enabling transformative adaptation

AU - Colloff, Matthew J.

AU - Martín-López, Berta

AU - Lavorel, Sandra

AU - Locatelli, Bruno

AU - Gorddard, Russell

AU - Longaretti, Pierre Yves

AU - Walters, Gretchen

AU - van Kerkhoff, Lorrae

AU - Wyborn, Carina

AU - Coreau, Audrey

AU - Wise, Russell M.

AU - Dunlop, Michael

AU - Degeorges, Patrick

AU - Grantham, Hedley

AU - Overton, Ian C.

AU - Williams, Rachel D.

AU - Doherty, Michael D.

AU - Capon, Tim

AU - Sanderson, Todd

AU - Murphy, Helen T.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 The Authors

PY - 2017/2/1

Y1 - 2017/2/1

N2 - Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that sub-set of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-knowledge perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.

AB - Transformative adaptation will be increasingly important to effectively address the impacts of climate change and other global drivers on social-ecological systems. Enabling transformative adaptation requires new ways to evaluate and adaptively manage trade-offs between maintaining desirable aspects of current social-ecological systems and adapting to major biophysical changes to those systems. We outline such an approach, based on three elements developed by the Transformative Adaptation Research Alliance (TARA): (1) the benefits of adaptation services; that sub-set of ecosystem services that help people adapt to environmental change; (2) The values-rules-knowledge perspective (vrk) for identifying those aspects of societal decision-making contexts that enable or constrain adaptation and (3) the adaptation pathways approach for implementing adaptation, that builds on and integrates adaptation services and the vrk perspective. Together, these elements provide a future-oriented approach to evaluation and use of ecosystem services, a dynamic, grounded understanding of governance and decision-making and a logical, sequential approach that connects decisions over time. The TARA approach represents a means for achieving changes in institutions and governance needed to support transformative adaptation.

KW - Adaptation pathways

KW - Adaptation services

KW - Adaptive governance

KW - Agency

KW - Co-production

KW - Decsion making

KW - Global change

KW - Learning

KW - Power relations

KW - Transformation

KW - Values-rules-knowledge

KW - Sustainability Science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85007247467&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.11.007

DO - 10.1016/j.envsci.2016.11.007

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 68

SP - 87

EP - 96

JO - Environmental Science & Policy

JF - Environmental Science & Policy

SN - 1462-9011

ER -