Changing the decision context to enable social learning for climate adaptation
2025
Colloff, Matthew, J | Gorddard, Russell | Munera‐roldán, Claudia | Locatelli, Bruno | Lavorel, Sandra | Allain, Sandrine | Bruley, Enora | Butler, James, R A | Dubo, Titouan | Enokenwa Baa, Ojongetakah | González‐garcía, Alberto | Lécuyer, Lou | Lo, Michaela | Loos, Jacqueline | Palomo, Ignacio | Topp, Emeline | Vallet, Améline | Walters, Gretchen | Australian National University (ANU) | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Australia] (CSIRO) | Fenner School of Environment and Society ; Australian National University (ANU) | Forêts et Sociétés (UPR Forêts et Sociétés) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Département Environnements et Sociétés (Cirad-ES) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad) | Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA) ; Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (Fédération OSUG)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | Laboratoire des EcoSystèmes et des Sociétés en Montagne (UR LESSEM) ; Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (Fédération OSUG)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | Université de Genève = University of Geneva (UNIGE) | Cawthron Institute | International Water Management Institute [CGIAR, Afrique du Sud] (IWMI) ; International Water Management Institute [CGIAR, Sri Lanka] (IWMI) ; Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR)-Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research [CGIAR] (CGIAR) | Centre de Synthèse et d’Analyse sur la Biodiversité (CESAB) ; Fondation pour la recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB) | University of Kent [Canterbury] | Leuphana University of Lüneburg | University of Applied Arts Vienna | Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP) ; Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) | University of Kassel | Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED) ; Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-AgroParisTech-École nationale des ponts et chaussées (ENPC)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | Ecologie, Société et Evolution (ex-Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution) (ESE) ; AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) | University College of London [London] (UCL) | Université de Lausanne = University of Lausanne (UNIL) | Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble | ANR-22-EXSO-0001,Pilotage et gouvernance du programme SOLU-BIOD,Pilotage et gouvernance du programme SOLU-BIOD(2022) | ANR-24-PEFO-0006,REGE-ADAPT,Forest regeneration and the adaptation and resilience of forest socio-ecosystems to climate change(2024)
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Mostrar más [+] Menos [-]Inglés. Successful adaptation often involves changes to the decision context to enable new ways of thinking and acting on climate change. Using 16 adaptation initiatives the authors were engaged with, we analysed how and why decision contexts changed to identify ways to improve adaptation as a process of collective deliberation and social learning. We used the scope of the adaptation issue and governance arrangements to classify initiatives into four types and scored changes in the decision context using three frameworks: (1) the values, rules and knowledge (VRK) perspective to identify changes to adaptation decision‐making; (2) the five dimensions of futures consciousness to identify the building of adaptation capabilities and (3) the social learning cycle to reveal evidence of reflexive learning. Initiatives using novel governance arrangements for discrete problems (‘problem governance’) or complex, systemic issues (‘systems governance’) scored highest for influences of VRK, futures consciousness and the social learning cycle on the decision context. Initiatives using existing management for discrete problems (‘problem management’) scored moderately for change in the decision context, while those using existing management for systemic issues (‘systems management’) scored low because change was often impeded by existing rules. All three frameworks influenced decision contexts in systems governance initiatives. Problem governance initiatives revealed interactions of VRK and futures consciousness but limited influence of VRK on the social learning cycle. Scope and governance arrangements differ with the adaptation issue and initiatives adapt over time: some small‐scale ones became more systemic, developed novel governance arrangements and changed the decision context. Our findings do not show that some adaptation initiatives are better or more transformative than others; just that their scope and appropriate governance arrangements are different. This questions the notion that successful adaptation requires building generic transformative adaptation approaches and capabilities. There is a diversity of arrangements that work. What is important is to align the approach to the adaptation problem. We suggest two directions for improving adaptation initiatives: first, by influencing how they can shift between problem and systems focus and between standard management and novel governance, and secondly, by using methods to diagnose and direct change in the decision context. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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