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Thinking about vulnerability and adaptive capacity

Thinking about vulnerability and adaptive capacity. Scale of analysis (and action). Adaptation research has scaled up to the community level Systems research Structural parameters/slow variables What does community level illuminate? Articulation and linkages Obscures heterogeneity.

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Thinking about vulnerability and adaptive capacity

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  1. Thinking about vulnerability and adaptive capacity

  2. Scale of analysis (and action) Adaptation research has scaled up to the community level Systems research Structural parameters/slow variables What does community level illuminate? Articulation and linkages Obscures heterogeneity

  3. Current challenges to AC as an analytical concept Is more than assets How do people mobilize AC? Institutions are key Measure vs. characterize ACs do not exist in isolation Synergies and trade-offs Generic and specific ACs Identify specific risks What are the priority investments? AC can be enhanced and eroded

  4. Adger et. al 2011 AC implications of policy responses Ecological and social AC Constrain local responses Mask feedbacks Problem framing

  5. Methods - Trajectories -

  6. Value of past as analogue Tensions between history and unknown future Cultural logic of adaptation

  7. Trajectories Directionality Historical depth Inflection points

  8. NE Brazil Characterizing risk Measuring trends Explaining trends

  9. Value of understanding trajectories Identify what works/inflection points Measure adaptive capacities Determine clustering of ACs

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