Although adaptation to climate change is becoming increasingly recognised as an unavoidable priority, barriers are consistently encountered and reported. Identifying, analysing and overcoming these barriers is essential for ensuring that, as climate change worsens, adaptation capacities are not exceeded. Despite current studies providing a useful structuring heuristic to guide inquiry, there is a significant gap related to explanations around barrier occurrence and how to overcome them. In response, this article, based on semi‐structured stakeholder interviews, aims to provide preliminary insights into the type of barriers that exist in Laamu Atoll, the Maldives and explore any interdependencies between them. This study found that a range of resource barriers (i.e. funding, physical and human resources in outer islands and data on vulnerable groups) and social barriers (i.e. political/institutional and organisational constraints and inefficiencies, marginalisation and power differences as well as cognitive elements) were hampering adaptation. In exploring the interdependencies that exist between these barriers, the nature of their occurrence, persistence and entry points for resolution were also identified.

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适应的障碍：马尔代夫拉姆环礁的见解

尽管适应气候变化已越来越被认为是不可避免的优先事项，但始终遇到和报告了障碍。识别，分析和克服这些障碍对于确保在气候变化恶化时不超过适应能力至关重要。尽管当前的研究提供了有用的结构化启发方法来指导查询，但是与障碍发生的解释以及如何克服障碍的解释之间存在很大的差距。作为回应，本文基于半结构化的利益相关者访谈，旨在提供对马尔代夫拉姆环礁存在的障碍类型的初步见解，并探讨它们之间的任何相互依存关系。这项研究发现了一系列资源障碍（例如，外岛的物质和人力资源以及弱势群体的数据）和社会壁垒（即政治/体制和组织的约束与效率低下，边缘化和权力差异以及认知因素）阻碍了适应。在探索这些障碍之间存在的相互依存关系时，还确定了它们发生的性质，持久性和解决的切入点。