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Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice

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Transdisciplinary research is increasingly seen as critical for advancing climate change adaptation. Operationalizing transdisciplinary research in the global South, however, confronts ingrained cultural and systemic barriers to participatory research.

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Fig. 1: Inundation of the waterfront on a sunny day in Santos, São Paulo.

Santos Civil Defence.

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Acknowledgements

M.D.F., F.A.M. and G.M.D.G. acknowledge funding from FAPESP – São Paulo Research Foundation (proc. 2018/21362-1, proc. 2018/21249-0 and proc. 2017/50423-6). G.M.D.G. acknowledges funding from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq (441267/2020-3 and 311503/2020-9).

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  1. Environmental Planning Programme, School of Social Sciences, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Silvia Serrao-Neumann

  2. School of Public Health, University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil

    Fabiano de Araújo Moreira, Michele Dalla Fontana & Gabriela Marques Di Giulio

  3. Natural Resources Institute, Federal University of Itajubá (UNIFEI), Itajubá, Brazil

    Roger Rodrigues Torres

  4. Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

    David Montenegro Lapola

  5. Department of Geography, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil

    Lucí Hidalgo Nunes

  6. National Centre for Monitoring and Early Warning of Natural Disasters - CEMADEN, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jose Antonio Marengo

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S.S-N., F.A.M., M.D.F. and G.M.D.G. developed the ideas for this Comment. F.A.M. and M.D.F. collated authors’ experiences from their research projects. S.S-N., F.A.M., M.D.F. and G.M.D.G. drafted the manuscript. All authors contributed to the editing and reviewing of the manuscript.

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Serrao-Neumann, S., Moreira, F.d.A., Dalla Fontana, M. et al. Advancing transdisciplinary adaptation research practice. Nat. Clim. Chang. 11, 1006–1008 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-021-01221-4

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