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Beyond binary outcomes in climate adaptation: The illustrative case of desalination
WIREs Climate Change ( IF 9.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-10 , DOI: 10.1002/wcc.695
Amit Tubi ₁ , Joe Williams ₂

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This article develops an integrated approach to understanding adaptation outcomes. Current debates tend to consider actions to respond to climate change as either adaptive or maladaptive, leading to binary framings of outcomes as either successful or harmful. To address this, our article considers the vast space that exists between success and failure in climate change adaptation, highlighting the importance of applying the concepts of successful adaptation and maladaptation jointly in analyses of such outcomes. To this end, we develop an integrated framework to examine the major adaptive and maladaptive effects induced by large‐scale seawater desalination. Now a major component of water supply in cities and regions around the world, desalination is increasingly viewed as an adaptation to water challenges linked with climate change. Based on a comprehensive review of the (successful/mal)adaptation literature, we present a matrix that will help academics and practitioners think through the complex and overlapping outcomes of adaptation via desalination in the water sector. We then discuss the insights concerning the configurations of desalination's adaptive and maladaptive outcomes. Overall, we present a threefold argument: (1) that examining successful outcomes alongside maladaptive ones enables a more complete and nuanced understanding of the overall effects of adaptation actions and their spatial and temporal distribution; (2) that a consideration of this can help to highlight the tradeoffs and constraints that are inherent in adaptation in order to support decision‐making; and (3) that a more complex approach to adaptation outcomes can assist in problematizing the social‐political drivers and consequences of adaptation.

中文翻译：

在气候适应方面超越二元结果：海水淡化的说明性案例

本文开发了一种用于理解适应结果的综合方法。当前的辩论倾向于将应对气候变化的行动视为适应性的或适应不良的，导致结果的二元框架是成功的还是有害的。为了解决这个问题，我们的文章考虑了气候变化适应成功与失败之间存在的巨大空间，强调了将成功适应和适应不良的概念联合应用于此类结果分析的重要性。为此，我们开发了一个集成框架来检查大规模海水淡化引起的主要适应性和适应不良性影响。如今，海水淡化已成为全球城市和地区供水的主要组成部分，越来越多地被视为适应气候变化带来的水资源挑战的一种手段。在对（成功/不良）适应文献进行全面回顾的基础上，我们提出了一个矩阵，该矩阵将帮助学者和从业人员通过水领域淡化对复杂而重叠的适应结果进行思考。然后，我们讨论有关淡化适应性和适应不良结果的配置的见解。总的来说，我们提出一个三方面的论点：（1）检验成功的结果和适应不良的结果可以使人们对适应行动及其时空分布的总体影响有一个更完整和细微的了解；（2）考虑这一点有助于突出适应中固有的权衡和约束，以支持决策；

更新日期：2021-02-12

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