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{"title":"Centring Power in Climate Adaptation Politics Through Cross‐Scale Governmentalities: A Systematic Review of High‐Income Countries","authors":"Joshua Garland, Murray Scown, Emily Boyd","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70057","url":null,"abstract":"With sea‐level rise and increasingly frequent extreme weather events threatening communities, ecosystems and built infrastructure alike, climate change adaptation is pressing. This remains true in high‐income countries where research capturing power dynamics underpinning adaptation continues to develop with implications for how policy and exclusion can be understood. Through a systematic review, the state‐of‐the‐art concerning climate adaptation politics in high‐income countries is analyzed, identifying <jats:italic>n</jats:italic> = 31 articles from Scopus and Web of Science. Key literature findings include a dominance of technical‐scientific narratives with possible consequences for community exclusion and an implicit acknowledgement of actor network importance. This review expands conceptually around power dynamics relevant to narratives and inclusivity in adaptation politics through a governmentality framework that could usefully foreground the identification and analysis of cross‐scale power dynamics implicitly identified by the literature, but which remain open to more explicit development. Governmentality could thereby facilitate enhanced understandings of adaptation power, politics and networks, which research and policy have recognized as important yet been slow to address within high‐income countries possessing climate vulnerabilities. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change &gt; Institutions for Adaptation </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Policy and Governance &gt; Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge &gt; Knowledge and Practice </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147733290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women's Well‐Being and Everyday Adaptation to Heat","authors":"Sergio Jarillo, Febe De Geest","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70055","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of heatwaves worldwide, affecting people's well‐being. While much research has examined heat's health impacts, quantitative, biomedical approaches often overlook qualitative sociocultural dimensions of well‐being, which tend to be culture‐ and gender‐specific. Using a gender lens and an integrated well‐being framework, this Overview draws on examples from Africa, Asia and Oceania to highlight how heat affects three key dimensions of well‐being: place, social relations and safety. The review argues for a deeper understanding of how women's well‐being is differentially impacted. It then shows how women adapt to safeguard their well‐being at home, in the workplace and in communal spaces, as well as in their family relationships, community participation, personal recognition and safety. Extreme heat episodes erode these dimensions of well‐being, and institutional adaptation initiatives require socioculturally and gender‐grounded approaches to well‐being to avoid perpetuating systemic gender inequality. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Climate and Development &gt; Sustainability and Human Well‐Being </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change &gt; Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Assessing Impacts of Climate Change &gt; Observed Impacts of Climate Change </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"441 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147681963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Historical Evolution of “Clean” Bodies and Air in European Cultures: Implications for a “Clean” Atmosphere and Imagined Climate Futures","authors":"Léon F. Hirt, Mike Hulme","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70054","url":null,"abstract":"Amid a sense of crisis, urgency, and political inaction pertaining to climate change, a narrative of “cleaning up” the global atmosphere is emerging in scientific, political, and public discourse. It conveys the need to stabilize the climate by achieving temperature targets and net‐zero carbon dioxide (CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> ) emissions. The metaphor of “clean” is a central feature of this narrative, and it emphasizes technological interventions to reduce and remove CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> emissions from the atmosphere. Metaphors frame sustainability challenges (e.g., climate change), guide actions, and delineate possible futures. Through a historical reading of “clean” in relation to bodies and air in European cultures, the meaning of a “clean” atmosphere and how it provides order to contemporary societies is explored. Historically, the metaphor functioned in a relational sense—relationships were shaped by shared ideas of cleanliness, informed by religion, science, and, moral and civic considerations, generating practices and reflections on identity. Over time, “clean” came to be interpreted more often than not as a telos—a state of purity defined by science. Today, a “clean” atmosphere is similarly treated as a telos—a condition to be achieved to stabilize the climate, thus aligning economic growth and energy with emissions control and legitimizing human interventions, notably CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> removal. In a moment of perceived crisis and cultural plasticity, reclaiming a relational understanding of “clean” that foregrounds context, culture, and ethics, could be desirable. This relational framing could help redirect climate futures and foster more inclusive, socially sensitive, and just approaches to climate change. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Climate, History, Society, Culture &gt; Technological Aspects and Ideas </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147681962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Place, Climate Change and the Experience of Loss","authors":"Virginia De Biasio, Pablo Fernandez Velasco","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70056","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change leads to environmental transformations and destruction, which deeply affect individuals and communities living in vulnerable areas. There is a growing literature considering the ethical and political implications of climate change on people's identity and attachment to places. Separately, there is a body of research on the mental health impact of climate change, with many studies focusing on ecological grief—the grief felt in response to ecological losses. In this article, we will connect these two strands of inquiry. We will bring together insights from accounts of attachment to place and the experience of ecological grief, which will shed new light on the negative implications of climate change on places and people's connections to them. The study of ecological grief within climate research capitalizes on existing work in psychology on grief over non‐death losses. There is growing evidence that people grieve not just bereavement but also losses arising from illness, incarceration, or infertility. A recent proposal is that what unites all these experiences is a sense of losing one's life possibilities. In the case of ecological grief, the heart of the experience is the loss of possibilities that were sustained by one's place. In this article, we will connect this insight with the emerging attention given by political theorists to the significance of occupying a specific place for people's life plans, and we will investigate how climate change threatens people's ability to sustain their traditional ways of life and their stability in life projects, constituting an incommensurable loss. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change &gt; Values‐Based Approach to Vulnerability and Adaptation </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Policy and Governance &gt; Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Institutional Barriers to Sea Level Rise Adaptation in Australia's Coastal Towns: A Systematic Review of Academic Literature","authors":"Elham Kazeminia, Colette Mortreux","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70053","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change and rising sea levels pose significant challenges to coastal communities worldwide, requiring effective institutional adaptation strategies. Australia is particularly exposed to sea level rise risks, with more than 85% of its population living in coastal areas. As a wealthy nation with stable public institutions, there is an expectation that Australia is adapting effectively; however, significant challenges persist. This study presents findings from a systematic literature review of academic studies to examine the institutional barriers that hinder adaptation to sea level rise in Australia's coastal settlements. The findings highlight a lack of clear and consistent guidance at national and state levels, and weak stakeholder coordination that contributes to institutional inertia in adaptation efforts. The research underscores the urgent need for integrated governance models, enhanced inter‐agency communication, and comprehensive, coordinated policies so that Australia can begin to close the adaptation gap. The research outlines the gap identified in the literature and suggests areas for further study. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change &gt; Institutions for Adaptation </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Policy and Governance &gt; Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> The Social Status of Climate Change Knowledge &gt; Climate Science and Decision Making </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147655656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Multi‐Stability of the Present‐Day Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation","authors":"Henk A. Dijkstra, René M. van Westen, Amber A. Boot, Emma Smolders, Elian Vanderborght, Ayako Abe‐Ouchi, Cristina Arumí‐Planas, Maya Ben‐Yami, Niklas Boers, Kristin Burmeister, Paola Cessi, Peter Ditlevsen, Johannes Lohmann, Sybren Drijfhout, Matthew H. England, Caroline Katsman, Jennifer Mecking, Stefan Rahmstorf, Meric Srokosz, Wilbert Weijer, Richard Wood, Jelle Soon","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70049","url":null,"abstract":"The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) plays a key role in the climate system, especially in the global meridional heat transport. Historical reconstructions indicate that the AMOC has weakened by about 15% since the mid‐20th century. Paleoclimate records, ocean theory, as well as a hierarchy of climate models suggest that the AMOC is a tipping element, sensitive to changes in buoyancy fluxes at the air‐sea interface, and could transition into a substantially weaker or fully collapsed state. Such a transition would have significant climate impacts on decadal to centennial timescales, potentially exceeding societal adaptability. Assessing the probability of such a transition, particularly before 2100, requires evaluating whether a collapsed AMOC state is possible under current forcing conditions. While conceptual and intermediate‐complexity models have long identified collapsed states, comprehensive global climate models have only recently done so. Based on integrating model diagnostics with observations and current AMOC theory this review article critically evaluates the current arguments for and against the evidence of a multi‐stable AMOC regime. We conclude that the evidence base in favor of such a regime has broadened over the last years and that the present‐day AMOC is in such a regime. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Paleoclimates and Current Trends &gt; Modern Climate Change </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Paleoclimates and Current Trends &gt; Earth System Behavior </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Climate Models and Modeling &gt; Knowledge Generation with Models </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Addressing Vulnerability to Urban Heat Stress Through Community Engagement: A Systematic Scoping Review","authors":"Xiaolin Lao, Aura‐Luciana Istrate","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70052","url":null,"abstract":"Urban heat disproportionately affects communities with pre‐existing vulnerabilities, while their engagement in decision‐making remains scarce. This systematic scoping review defines a theoretical framework (considering vulnerability factors, adaptation options, engagement levels and community stances) to examine challenges in addressing heat stress through community engagement. While emphasizing the Global South, the review also includes exemplary Global North studies with transferable insights. Findings show that only one‐third of studies moved beyond the ‘Consulting’ level or a ‘Reactive’ stance. Although the community sample size showed no consistent link to engagement effectiveness, higher engagement, particularly fostering ‘Interactive/Participative’ stances, was associated with more context‐sensitive and inclusive outcomes. Substandard housing, chronic poverty, and inadequate adaptation funding emerged as compounding vulnerability factors linked to systemic neglect and weak institutional responses. The limited access to decision‐making structures further constrained meaningful engagement. While behavioral (often self‐initiated) adaptations were the most common, institutional adaptation options (governmental programmes, regulatory frameworks, economic mechanisms) emerged as indispensable in addressing structural barriers and enabling long‐term resilience. Framed through a climate justice lens, this review proposes a Community‐Based Adaptation Planning Process that embeds engagement across all planning stages. By aligning recognitional, procedural, distributive, and corrective justice, the staged process offers a practical pathway toward more equitable urban heat adaptation and contributes timely evidence to IPCC AR7 priorities. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Climate, Nature, and Ethics &gt; Climate Change and Global Justice </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Integrated Assessment of Climate Change &gt; Assessing Climate Change in the Context of Other Issues </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Climate and Development &gt; Urbanization, Development, and Climate Change </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147586217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 8.2 Ka Abrupt Climate Event: Causes, Impacts and Future Implications","authors":"Yama Dixit, Aakanksha Kumari","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70050","url":null,"abstract":"The 8.2 ka abrupt event is now recognized as an ideal analogue to test model sensitivity to future North Atlantic freshwater forcing, due to its short, century‐long duration that happened in the current interglacial period under boundary conditions that were close to pre‐industrial conditions. Previously described anomaly patterns that emerge in this review are cooling around the North Atlantic and drier conditions in the Northern Hemisphere tropics. With newer reconstructions from the Southern Hemisphere, a clear picture of drying and the popular interhemispheric bipolar seesaw is confirmed. Most anomalies around the North Atlantic spanned ~100–200 years, whereas the impact on the hydrological cycle in monsoon tropics lasted for up to 400 years. Longer monsoon anomalies and a lag in response to North Atlantic cooling are possibly due to the role of atmosphere‐surface ocean teleconnection underlining its crucial importance in high‐to‐low latitude teleconnections. Unresolved questions remain about the seasonality of the climate response to freshwater forcing and the lag observed in the onset of anomalies in the monsoon tropics. The 8.2 ka event has been proposed as an analogue for future ocean circulation changes due to the future Greenland ice sheet melting; it is therefore crucial to refine the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation response to the 8.2 ka freshwater forcing and estimates of changes due to topography and albedo changes over Greenland, which is still debated in the scientific community. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Climate, History, Society, Culture &gt; Disciplinary Perspectives </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Climate, History, Society, Culture &gt; Ideas and Knowledge </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147492806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Best Practice in Climate Change Adaptation","authors":"Jon Barnett, Tia Brullo, Sarah Boulter, Navam Niles","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70051","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change adaptation has become a core business for international organizations, firms, and all levels of government in almost every country. Practitioners seek to implement adaptation in the face of myriad barriers and uncertainties and so seek guidance as to what constitutes best practice. Such guidance is diffused across publications on adaptation decision making, effectiveness, evaluation, justice, governance, monitoring, pathways, and planning, which propose a mix of process‐based and normative criteria. All of these have value but taken together do not provide succinct guidance for practitioners. Here we suggest that for practitioners, best practice is a pragmatic matter of doing the best with the knowledge and resources available at any given time to initiate a process most likely to lead to a reduction in vulnerability. We propose seven elements for best practice adaptation based on common findings from these diverse literatures, suggesting that it requires processes that are: evidence‐based, intentional, well‐governed, inclusive, iterative, well‐timed, and sustained. We explain each of these elements and provide references for further information. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change &gt; Institutions for Adaptation </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Policy and Governance &gt; Governing Climate Change in Communities, Cities, and Regions </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147478062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Uncertainty Representation and Propagation in Flood Risk Modeling Under Climate Change: A Systematic Review","authors":"Villy Mik‐Meyer, Emma E H Doyle, Morten Andreas Dahl Larsen, Rick Kool, Martin Drews","doi":"10.1002/wcc.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70045","url":null,"abstract":"This systematic review examines how uncertainty is sampled and propagated through interconnected model chains in climate‐induced flood risk assessments. We focus on top‐down modeling frameworks, where greenhouse gas scenarios drive global and regional climate models, followed by downscaling, bias adjustment, and impact modeling. This sequential approach leads to cumulative uncertainty, also known as uncertainty cascades, that complicate decision‐making in disaster risk management and climate change adaptation. Our review of 143 studies reveals significant variation in model selection and propagation approaches, with no consensus on best practices. While climate model uncertainty is widely sampled, uncertainty in impact, damage, and adaptation models is often less explored. We find that selective sampling and propagation choices can unintentionally increase deep uncertainty, particularly when low‐probability, high‐impact events are excluded. Disciplinary differences in uncertainty treatment further hinder transparency and comparability of model results. We argue that without improved transparency of modeling decisions, ensemble‐based studies risk amplifying uncertainty rather than reducing it. To support robust adaptation planning and improve traceability and confidence in climate impact assessments, we propose a checklist to guide the modeling process. This article is categorized under: <jats:list list-type=\"simple\"> <jats:list-item> Assessing Impacts of Climate Change &gt; Representing Uncertainty </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Assessing Impacts of Climate Change &gt; Evaluating Future Impacts of Climate Change </jats:list-item> <jats:list-item> Climate Models and Modeling &gt; Knowledge Generation with Models </jats:list-item> </jats:list>","PeriodicalId":501019,"journal":{"name":"WIREs Climate Change","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147470953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}