The interplay between social learning and adaptive capacity in climate change adaptation: A systematic review

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Le Thi Hong Phuong , G. Robbert Biesbroek , Arjen E.J. Wals
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Abstract

Successful implementation climate change adaptation depends to a large extent on the capabilities of individuals, organizations, and communities to create and mobilize the adaptive capacity (AC) of their socio-ecological system. Creating and mobilizing AC is a continuous process that requires social learning (SL). Although rich with empirical cases, the literature theorizing and empirically investigating the relationship between AC and SL is highly fragmented. This paper aims to critically examine the peer-reviewed literature that focusses on SL and AC in the context of climate change adaptation (CCA). Special attention is paid to the interplay between the two. Understanding this interplay can help improve our understanding of how CCA takes place in practice and advances theoretical debates on CCA. Systematic review methods are used to analyse 43 papers (1997–2016). Our findings reveal three perspectives that each play an important role in different contexts: an AC-focused perspective, a SL-focused perspective, and a hybrid perspective. These differences in conceptualizations of the relationship between SL and AC may seem trivial at first, but they have consequences for the design of learning-based interventions aimed at helping communities respond to climate change. It appears that such interventions need to be preceded by an analysis of the climate change context in order to decide whether to emphasize AC, SL or both simultaneously.

气候变化适应中社会学习与适应能力的相互作用:系统综述
气候变化适应的成功实施在很大程度上取决于个人、组织和社区创造和调动其社会生态系统适应能力的能力。创造和调动交流是一个持续的过程,需要社会学习(SL)。虽然有丰富的经验案例,但理论化和实证研究交流与语言学习关系的文献是高度碎片化的。本文旨在对气候变化适应(CCA)背景下关注SL和AC的同行评议文献进行批判性研究。特别注意两者之间的相互作用。理解这种相互作用可以帮助我们更好地理解CCA在实践中是如何发生的,并推进关于CCA的理论辩论。系统综述方法用于分析43篇论文(1997-2016)。我们的研究结果揭示了三种视角,每种视角在不同的背景下都发挥着重要作用:以交流为中心的视角、以语言为中心的视角和混合视角。在SL和AC之间关系的概念上的这些差异乍一看似乎微不足道,但它们对旨在帮助社区应对气候变化的基于学习的干预措施的设计产生了影响。在进行此类干预之前,似乎需要对气候变化背景进行分析,以决定是强调AC,还是强调SL,还是同时强调两者。
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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合
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期刊介绍: The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.
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