It is becoming clear that increasingly complex global challenges cannot simply be solved by new technology or governments alone. We also need to develop new social practices and encourage a broader cultural shift towards sustainability. Against this background, this paper explores the role of mindfulness in adapting to increasing risk and climate change. Based on a literature review, it assesses current research on ‘mindful climate adaptation’, and explores how individual mindfulness is linked to climate adaptation. While in practice mindfulness-based approaches to climate adaptation have gained widespread recognition (e.g., by the United Nations), the results show that related research is scarce and fragmented. There is almost no research into the role of mindfulness in climate adaptation. At the same time, new scientific domains are opening up in cognate fields that illuminate the mindfulness–adaptation nexus from certain perspectives. These fields include: (1) disaster management; (2) individual well-being; (3) organisational management; (4) environmental behaviour; (5) social justice; and (6) knowledge production. As new concepts and approaches emerge, they require critical construct validation and empirical testing. The importance of further investigation is supported by a complementary empirical study, which shows that individual mindfulness disposition coincides with increased motivation to take (or support) climate adaptation actions. The paper concludes that mindfulness has the potential to facilitate adaptation at all scales (through cognitive, managerial, structural, ontological, and epistemological change processes) and should, therefore, become a core element in climate and associated sustainability research. Finally, it sketches the conceptual trajectories of the mindfulness–adaptation nexus and presents a pioneering, comprehensive framework for ‘mindful climate adaptation’.

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注意差距：正念在适应日益增加的风险和气候变化方面的作用。

越来越明显的是，日益复杂的全球挑战不能仅靠新技术或政府来解决。我们还需要开发新的社会实践并鼓励更广泛的可持续文化转变。在此背景下，本文探讨了正念在适应日益增加的风险和气候变化方面的作用。基于文献综述，它评估了当前关于“正念气候适应”的研究，并探讨了个人正念如何与气候适应联系起来。虽然在实践中基于正念的气候适应方法已获得广泛认可（例如联合国），但结果表明相关研究稀缺且分散。几乎没有关于正念在气候适应中的作用的研究。与此同时，同源领域中正在开辟新的科学领域，从某些角度阐明正念与适应之间的关系。这些领域包括：（1）灾害管理；(2) 个人福祉；（三）组织管理；(4)环境行为；(5)社会正义；(6)知识生产。随着新概念和方法的出现，它们需要关键的构造验证和实证测试。进一步调查的重要性得到了补充实证研究的支持，该研究表明，个人正念倾向与采取（或支持）气候适应行动的动机增强相一致。该论文的结论是，正念有潜力促进各个层面的适应（通过认知、管理、结构、本体论和认识论变化过程），因此应该成为气候和相关可持续性研究的核心要素。最后，它概述了正念与适应关系的概念轨迹，并提出了“正念气候适应”的开创性的综合框架。