The promise of resistance: A new lens for climate change adaptation research and practice

M Mills‐Novoa, M Mikulewicz - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Over the years, thousands of climate change adaptation projects have been implemented
globally. While there has been substantial scholarship on the extent and nature of …

Accumulation by adaptation

KA Thomas - Geography Compass, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accumulation by adaptation names the phenomenon by which political and economic elites
profit from climate adaptation efforts. As with the notion of 'accumulation by …

Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development

JJ Cousins - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer pathways towards climate resilient development. For
cities, these pathways translate to a host of benefits to address the climate crisis, including …

Intervention: The invisible labor of climate change adaptation

L Johnson, M Mikulewicz, P Bigger… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
While adapting to the impacts of climate change will require massive human efforts across
landscapes, economies, and everyday social life, adaptation is rarely conceptualized as …

[HTML][HTML] Measuring the contribution of nature-based solutions beyond climate adaptation in cities

S Goodwin, M Olazabal, AJ Castro… - Global Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Measuring the contribution of urban nature-based solutions (NbS) to climate change
adaptation is an essential, though complex, step towards understanding who benefits from …

[HTML][HTML] The living legacies of mega water-development projects: Power, politics, and the afterlives of Sri Lanka's Mahaweli Development Project

HM Quealy, K Paranage - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
While the uneven consequences of mega water-development projects are well documented,
less is known about how their legacies continue to evolve over time. This paper offers new …

[HTML][HTML] Drought threatens agroforestry landscapes and dryland livelihoods in a North African hotspot of environmental change

L Kmoch, A Bou-Lahriss, T Plieninger - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2024 - Elsevier
Dryland agroforestry is often hailed as a nature-based solution for rural people's water-and
climate-related struggles, yet appraisals of traditional agroforestry practices and …

Three injustices of adaptation finance-a relational egalitarian analysis

A Schulan, JC Heilinger - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2024 - Springer
This primarily diagnostic paper offers, from the perspective of relational egalitarianism, a
normative analysis of three major injustices in the context of adaptation finance. Adaptation …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating power, justice and reflexivity into transformative climate change adaptation

M Taylor, S Eriksen, K Vincent… - Global Environmental …, 2025 - Elsevier
Transformative adaptation requires transformation among those who fund, plan, implement
and evaluate interventions. In response, we emphasise the need for donor and …

Resisting Post‐Political Adaptation to Climate Change: How a Small Community Stood Up to Big Development

M Mikulewicz - Antipode, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent critical scholarship has brought attention to local resistance in the spaces of
adaptation, with reported instances of local communities rejecting planned adaptation …