期刊
SUSTAINABILITY
卷 5, 期 3, 页码 1011-1035出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su5031011
关键词
climate change; adaptation; limits; sustainability; adaptive capacity; resilience
资金
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program
- US Department of Energy [DE-AC05-00OR22725]
Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio-ecological systems within the boundaries of a safe operating space. Yet, there are limits to the ability of systems to adapt. Here, we introduce the concept of an. adaptation frontier., which is defined as a socio-ecological system's transitional adaptive operating space between safe and unsafe domains. A number of driving forces are responsible for determining the sustainability of systems on the frontier. These include path dependence, adaptation/development deficits, values conflicts and discounting of future loss and damage. The cumulative implications of these driving forces are highly uncertain. Nevertheless, the fact that a broad range of systems already persist at the edge of their frontiers suggests a high likelihood that some limits will eventually be exceeded. The resulting system transformation is likely to manifest as anticipatory modification of management objectives or loss and damage. These outcomes vary significantly with respect to their ethical implications. Successful navigation of the adaptation frontier will necessitate new paradigms of risk governance to elicit knowledge that encourages reflexive reevaluation of societal values that enable or constrain sustainability.
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