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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2015.09.014
	Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation
	Eriksen S.H.; Nightingale A.J.; Eakin H.
发表日期	2015
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	35
英文摘要	This paper is motivated by a concern that adaptation and vulnerability research suffer from an under-theorization of the political mechanisms of social change and the processes that serve to reproduce vulnerability over time and space. We argue that adaptation is a socio-political process that mediates how individuals and collectives deal with multiple and concurrent environmental and social changes. We propose that applying concepts of subjectivity, knowledges and authority to the analysis of adaptation focuses attention on this socio-political process. Drawing from vulnerability, adaptation, political ecology and social theory literatures, we explain how power is reproduced or contested in adaptation practice through these three concepts. We assert that climate change adaptation processes have the potential to constitute as well as contest authority, subjectivity and knowledge, thereby opening up or closing down space for transformational adaptation. We expand on this assertion through four key propositions about how adaptation processes can be understood and outline an emergent empirical research agenda, which aims to explicitly examine these propositions in specific social and environmental contexts. We describe how the articles in this special issue are contributing to this nascent research agenda, providing an empirical basis from which to theorize the politics of adaptation. The final section concludes by describing the need for a reframing of adaptation policy, practice and analysis to engage with multiple adaptation knowledges, to question subjectivities inherent in discourses and problem understandings, and to identify how emancipatory subjectivities - and thus the potential for transformational adaptation - can be supported. © 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Authority; Climate change adaptation; Knowledges; Politics; Power; Subjectivity
学科领域	authoritarianism; planning theory; political power; research work; social change; social theory; vulnerability
语种	英语
scopus关键词	authoritarianism; planning theory; political power; research work; social change; social theory; vulnerability
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117425
作者单位	Department of International Environment and Development Studies (Noragric), Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, Ås, 1432, Norway; Department of Urban and Rural Development, Swedish University for Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Ulls väg 28, P.O. Box 7012, Uppsala, SE-750 07, Sweden; School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, P.O. Box 875502, Tempe, AZ 85287-5502, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Eriksen S.H.,Nightingale A.J.,Eakin H.. Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation[J],2015,35.
APA	Eriksen S.H.,Nightingale A.J.,&Eakin H..(2015).Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation.Global Environmental Change,35.
MLA	Eriksen S.H.,et al."Reframing adaptation: The political nature of climate change adaptation".Global Environmental Change 35(2015).