Structural and Psycho-Social Limits to Climate Change Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef Region.

ABSTRACT: Adaptation, as a strategy to respond to climate change, has limits: there are conditions under which adaptation strategies fail to alleviate impacts from climate change. Research has primarily focused on identifying absolute bio-physical limits. This paper contributes empirical insight to an emerging literature on the social limits to adaptation. Such limits arise from the ways in which societies perceive, experience and respond to climate change. Using qualitative data from multi-stakeholder workshops and key-informant interviews with representatives of the fisheries and tourism sectors of the Great Barrier Reef region, we identify psycho-social and structural limits associated with key adaptation strategies, and examine how these are perceived as more or less absolute across levels of or

SUBMITTER: Evans LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4784939 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature