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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.12.003
	Re-thinking the present: The role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research
	Adamson G.C.D.; Hannaford M.J.; Rohland E.J.
发表日期	2018
ISSN	0959-3780
起始页码	195
结束页码	205
卷号	48
英文摘要	There is a growing recognition that adaptation to climate change requires an understanding of social processes that unfold across extended temporal trajectories. Yet, despite a move to reconceptualise adaptation as ‘pathways of change and response’ with a deeper temporal dimension, the past generally remains poorly integrated into adaptation studies. This is related to a disavowal of environmental determinism within the academic field of history, which has caused the past to be addressed from other disciplinary perspectives within climate change literature, leading to accusations of over-simplification and neo-determinism. Conversely, whilst a relatively small amount of research within the subdiscipline of historical climatology has engaged with theories from mainstream adaptation to understand societies in the past, there has been little influence in the other direction. Building on a comprehensive review and critique of existing approaches to historical climate-society research, we argue for three important areas where historians should engage with climate change adaptation. The first area we call particularizing adaptation; this is the development of long-term empirical studies that uncover societal relations to climate in a particular place – including climate's cultural dimensions – which can provide a baseline and contextualisation for climate change adaptation options. The second, institutional path dependency and memory, argues for a focus on the evolution of formal institutions with a responsibility for adaptation, to understand how historical events and decisions inform and constrain practices today. Our third argument is for an appreciation of the history of ideas and concepts that underpin climate change adaptation. We call for a second-order observation – observation of the observers – within climate change research, to ensure that adaptation does not perpetuate historically-grown power structures. © 2017 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Adaptation; Culture; Determinism; Development; History; Path-dependency
学科领域	adaptive management; climate change; conceptual framework; culture; dependency; empirical analysis; environmental factor; interdisciplinary approach; nature-society relations; recognition; research work; temporal analysis
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; conceptual framework; culture; dependency; empirical analysis; environmental factor; interdisciplinary approach; nature-society relations; recognition; research work; temporal analysis
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/117177
作者单位	Department of Geography, King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom; Department of History, Utrecht University, Drift 6, Utrecht, BS 3512, Netherlands; Department of Iberian and Latin American History, Centre for InterAmerian Studies (CIAS), Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology, Bielefeld University, Universitätsstraße 25, Bielefeld, 33615, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Adamson G.C.D.,Hannaford M.J.,Rohland E.J.. Re-thinking the present: The role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research[J],2018,48.
APA	Adamson G.C.D.,Hannaford M.J.,&Rohland E.J..(2018).Re-thinking the present: The role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research.Global Environmental change,48.
MLA	Adamson G.C.D.,et al."Re-thinking the present: The role of a historical focus in climate change adaptation research".Global Environmental change 48(2018).