ABSTRACT Climate adaptation is a complex policy domain, spanning multiple sectors, scales and actors, and wherein those most at risk have the least power. The influence of linear positivist models of science uptake are proving ineffective in a world with increasingly concentrated wealth and power, institutional barriers, and rapidly growing risks facing the many. A plurality of approaches is needed to better examine those dynamics of climate adaptation which are often invisible in models of science uptake – equity, the value of contestation, path dependency – and to consider how to empower communities to find solutions. In this conceptual paper, we argue that bridging existing positivist and interpretivist methods with insights from post-foundational theory so as to underpin pluralism and re-orient ethical principles of justice, strengthens the capacity of social research to support transformative climate adaptation. Principles are proposed to facilitate such bridging.

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变革性气候变化适应：将现有方法与关于正义的后基础见解联系起来

摘要 气候适应是一个复杂的政策领域，跨越多个部门、规模和参与者，其中风险最大的人拥有的权力最小。在财富和权力日益集中、制度障碍以及许多人面临的风险迅速增长的世界中，线性实证主义科学吸收模型的影响被证明是无效的。需要采用多种方法来更好地研究那些在科学应用模型中通常不可见的气候适应动态——公平、争论的价值、路径依赖——并考虑如何赋予社区以找到解决方案的能力。在这篇概念性论文中，我们认为，将现有的实证主义和解释主义方法与后基础理论的见解联系起来，以支持多元主义并重新定位正义的伦理原则，加强社会研究支持变革性气候适应的能力。提出了一些原则来促进这种桥接。