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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.07.012
	The art of adaptation: Living with climate change in the rural American Southwest
	Brugger J.; Crimmins M.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:6
英文摘要	As adaptation has come to the forefront in climate change discourse, research, and policy, it is crucial to consider the effects of how we interpret the concept. This paper draws attention to the need for interpretations that foster policies and institutions with the breadth and flexibility to recognize and support a wide range of locally relevant adaptation strategies. Social scientists have argued that, in practice, the standard definition of adaptation tends to prioritize economic over other values and technical over social responses, draw attention away from underlying causes of vulnerability and from the broader context in which adaptive responses take place, and exclude discussions of inequality, justice, and transformation. In this paper, we discuss an alternate understanding of adaptation, which we label "living with climate change," that emerged from an ethnographic study of how rural residents of the U.S. Southwest understand, respond to, and plan for weather and climate in their daily lives, and we consider how it might inform efforts to develop a more comprehensive definition. The discussion brings into focus several underlying features of this lay conception of adaptation, which are crucial for understanding how adaptation actually unfolds on the ground: an ontology based on nature-society mutuality; an epistemology based on situated knowledge; practice based on performatively adjusting human activities to a dynamic biophysical and social environment; and a placed-based system of values. We suggest that these features help point the way toward a more comprehensive understanding of climate change adaptation, and one more fully informed by the understanding that we are living in the Anthropocene. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Adaptation; American Southwest; Anthropocene; Case study; Climate change; Nature-society mutuality
学科领域	adaptive management; climate change; economic analysis; nature-society relations; policy making; prioritization; rural area; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; economic analysis; nature-society relations; policy making; prioritization; rural area; United States
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/117877
作者单位	University of Arizona, Climate Assessment for the Southwest, Institute of the Environment, 715 North Park Ave., P.O. Box 210156, Tucson, AZ 85719-0330, United States; University of Arizona, Dept. of Soil, Water, Environmental Science, PO Box 210038, Tucson, AZ 85721-0038, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Brugger J.,Crimmins M.. The art of adaptation: Living with climate change in the rural American Southwest[J],2013,23(6).
APA	Brugger J.,&Crimmins M..(2013).The art of adaptation: Living with climate change in the rural American Southwest.Global Environmental Change,23(6).
MLA	Brugger J.,et al."The art of adaptation: Living with climate change in the rural American Southwest".Global Environmental Change 23.6(2013).