Global environmental change II: From adaptation to deliberate transformation
Abstract
This progress report considers the need for developing a critical body of research on deliberate transformation as a response to global environmental change. Although there is a rapidly growing literature on adaptation to environmental change, including both incremental and transformational adaptation, this often focuses on accommodating change, rather than contesting it and creating alternatives. Given increasing calls from scientists and activists for transformative actions to avoid dangerous changes in the earth system, and the likelihood that ‘urgent’ solutions will be imposed by various interests, many new and important questions are emerging about individual and collective capacities to deliberately transform systems and structures in a manner that is both ethical and sustainable. This presents a transformative challenge to global change science itself that calls for new approaches to transdisciplinary research.
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An intersectional pivot in climate adaptation can pave the way for more concrete strategies of urban transformation that challenge social power imbalances and break away from dominant political economic interests.
“Thus, an intersectional pivot in climate adaptation can pave the way for more concrete strategies of urban transformation that challenge social power imbalances and break away from dominant political economic interests (Devereux and Sabates-Wheeler, 2004;Kates et al., 2012;O'Brien, 2012;Pelling, 2010).”
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- Authors
- O’Brien, K.
- Affiliations
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Corresponding author
- O’Brien, Karen
- ORCID
- O’Brien, Karen
- Venue
- Progress in Human Geography
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-11-10
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 667-676
- ISSN
- 0309-1325 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0288
- OpenAlex
- W2127643778
- Cited by
- 1,079
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
- 2026: 59 · 2025: 79 · 2024: 69 · 2023: 66 · 2022: 81 · 2021: 105 · 2020: 103 · 2019: 104 · 2018: 132 · 2017: 56 · 2016: 65 · 2015: 59 · 2014: 55 · 2013: 32 · 2012: 11
- FWCI
- 26.80
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Progress in Human Geography (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies
- Keywords
- global change, transformative adaptation, incremental adaptation, ethics, transdisciplinary research, planetary boundaries
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