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transformational adaptation: a standalone construct

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Climate adaptation

large-scale, new or relocating adaptation that changes systems fundamentally when incremental adjustments are not enough.

In climate adaptation, transformational adaptation refers to large-scale, new or relocating adaptation that changes systems fundamentally when incremental adjustments are not enough. 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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