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标题：Redefining climate change maladaptation using a values‐based approach in forests
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作者：Kieran Findlater ; Shannon Hagerman ; Robert Kozak 等
期刊名称：People and Nature
电子版ISSN：2575-8314
出版年度：2022
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：231-242
DOI：10.1002/pan3.10278
语种：English
出版社：Wiley
摘要：Abstract Climate change adaptation can have unexpected and detrimental effects, typically conceptualized as maladaptation and narrowly defined in relation to climatic hazards and climate vulnerability. We revisit this narrow framing of maladaptation using a deliberative risk analysis method in 16 focus groups across British Columbia, Canada, where forests are crucial to social, economic and environmental well‐being. By analysing emergent logics of support and opposition around genomics‐based assisted migration as an adaptation strategy in forests, we identify four sources of potential maladaptation in this context: technical failure, opportunity cost, path dependence and the too‐narrow framing of adaptation. Combined, these suggest that maladaptation is also too narrowly conceptualized, reflecting an obsolete definition of adaptation as rational adjustment to climatic hazards. Rather than being a failure of adaptation, per se, we argue that maladaptation comprises climate‐adaptive policies or actions that, in a broader frame, threaten the very values that decision‐makers ostensibly seek to protect and enhance. A free Plain Language Summary can be found within the Supporting Information of this article.