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incremental adaptation: a standalone construct

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Climate impacts and adaptation

adaptation that extends existing actions and practices to maintain a system at its current scale and location, contrasted with transformational adaptation.

In climate impacts and adaptation, incremental adaptation refers to adaptation that extends existing actions and practices to maintain a system at its current scale and location, contrasted with transformational adaptation. This meaning comes from Kates (2012) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[1]

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  1. Kates, R. W., Travis, W. R., & Wilbanks, T. J. (2012). Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(19), 7156-7161. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1115521109

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