Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience
Faced with the global climate crisis and the inevitability of future climate shocks, enhancing social-ecological resilience has become an urgent area for research and policy internationally. Research to better understand the impacts of, and response to, climate shocks is critical to improve the resi...
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| description | Faced with the global climate crisis and the inevitability of future climate shocks, enhancing social-ecological resilience has become an urgent area for research and policy internationally. Research to better understand the impacts of, and response to, climate shocks is critical to improve the resilience and well-being of affected people and places. This paper builds on the findings of a focus collection on this topic to provide a concluding and forward-looking perspective on the future of social-ecological research on climate resilience. Drawing on an expert workshop to identify research gaps, we distinguish 20 priorities for future research on climate resilience. These span four key themes: Systems and Scales, Governance and Knowledge, Climate Resilience and Development, and Sectoral Concerns. Given the need and urgency for evidence-based policies to address the climate crisis, the analysis considers the importance of understanding how findings on social-ecological resilience are used in policy, rather than solely focusing on how it is generated. Many of the priorities emphasise the governance systems within which climate research is produced, understood and used. We further reflect on the state of current evidence generation processes, emphasising that the involvement of a wider range of voices in the design, implementation and dissemination of climate resilience research is critical to developing the efficient and fair interventions it is meant to support. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-377a80a6ec854b639586110b08cbbd8b2023-08-09T14:55:02ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262020-01-01151010500610.1088/1748-9326/abb157Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilienceEmilie Beauchamp0Mark Hirons1Katrina Brown2EJ Milner-Gulland3International Institute for Environment and Development , 80-86 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8NH, United Kingdom; Department of Zoology, University of Oxford , 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, United Kingdom; Author to whom any correspondence should be addressed.Environmental Change Institute, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford , United KingdomGeography, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter , Exeter EX4 4RJ, United KingdomDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford , 11a Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3SZ, United KingdomFaced with the global climate crisis and the inevitability of future climate shocks, enhancing social-ecological resilience has become an urgent area for research and policy internationally. Research to better understand the impacts of, and response to, climate shocks is critical to improve the resilience and well-being of affected people and places. This paper builds on the findings of a focus collection on this topic to provide a concluding and forward-looking perspective on the future of social-ecological research on climate resilience. Drawing on an expert workshop to identify research gaps, we distinguish 20 priorities for future research on climate resilience. These span four key themes: Systems and Scales, Governance and Knowledge, Climate Resilience and Development, and Sectoral Concerns. Given the need and urgency for evidence-based policies to address the climate crisis, the analysis considers the importance of understanding how findings on social-ecological resilience are used in policy, rather than solely focusing on how it is generated. Many of the priorities emphasise the governance systems within which climate research is produced, understood and used. We further reflect on the state of current evidence generation processes, emphasising that the involvement of a wider range of voices in the design, implementation and dissemination of climate resilience research is critical to developing the efficient and fair interventions it is meant to support.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abb157research prioritiesclimate adaptationclimate governanceevidence generationresilient developmentsocial-ecological resilience |
| spellingShingle | Emilie Beauchamp Mark Hirons Katrina Brown EJ Milner-Gulland Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience Environmental Research Letters research priorities climate adaptation climate governance evidence generation resilient development social-ecological resilience |
| title | Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience |
| title_full | Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience |
| title_fullStr | Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience |
| title_short | Twenty priorities for future social-ecological research on climate resilience |
| title_sort | twenty priorities for future social ecological research on climate resilience |
| topic | research priorities climate adaptation climate governance evidence generation resilient development social-ecological resilience |
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