‘Think global, act local’ has been linked with climate change issues for several decades and suggests a simple downscaling of ideas, tools and processes can be relatively easily achieved. Adaptation pathways, for example, are increasingly used to identify and evaluate adaptation options against a range of plausible futures. The process is applied to both large-scale infrastructure and investment decisions, as well as smaller-scale, sub-national issues associated in part, with climate change impacts and implications. Consequently, pathways are being developed in the context of multiple contested values, competing with other, more immediate, non-climate-related or indirectly related planning processes, such as freshwater management, community resilience and wellbeing, and biodiversity conservation. In this Short Communication we reflect specifically on place-based adaptation pathways constructed, presented, and implemented within limited budgets and without recourse to resource-intensive research capacities. We emphasise the need to meet criteria for local credibility, legitimacy, and relevance. Specifically, we suggest there is a need to accommodate the complexities of local conditions; establish affordable and accessible processes; and build technical and participatory capability. These considerations may assist with co-creating place-based pathways and incorporate a wider range of complex issues both political and contextual with multiple constituencies including, as necessary, where science itself is increasingly questioned or disregarded. In turn this might lead to sets of country specific, nested local hierarchical adaptation options developed through pluralist approaches.

'放眼全球，立足本地”已经与气候变化问题联系了数十年，并表明相对容易地实现思想，工具和过程的简单缩减。例如，适应途径被越来越多地用于识别和评估针对一系列可能的未来的适应选择。该过程既适用于大规模基础设施和投资决策，也适用于与气候变化影响和影响部分相关的较小规模的地方以下问题。因此，正在多种有争议的价值观的背景下开发途径，与其他更直接，与气候无关或间接相关的规划过程竞争，例如淡水管理，社区适应力和福祉以及生物多样性保护。在本简短交流中，我们专门考虑了在有限的预算内构建，呈现和实施的基于地点的适应途径，而没有依靠资源密集型研究能力的情况。我们强调必须满足当地信誉，合法性和相关性的标准。具体来说，我们建议需要适应当地条件的复杂性；建立负担得起且易于获取的流程；并建立技术和参与能力。这些考虑因素可能有助于共同创建基于场所的途径，并与多个选区合并更广泛的政治和背景复杂问题，包括在必要时对科学本身提出越来越多的质疑或无视的问题。反过来，这可能会导致针对特定国家/地区的情况，