COMMENTARY: Limits to adaptation

被引:241
作者
Dow, Kirstin [1 ]
Berkhout, Frans [2 ]
Preston, Benjamin L. [3 ]
Klein, Richard J. T. [4 ,5 ,6 ]
Midgley, Guy [7 ]
Shaw, M. Rebecca [8 ,9 ]
机构
[1] Univ S Carolina, Dept Geog, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
[2] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, Inst Environm Studies, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[4] Stockholm Environm Inst, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[5] Linkoping Univ, Ctr Climate Sci & Policy Res, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden
[6] Linkoping Univ, Dept Themat Studies, S-58183 Linkoping, Sweden
[7] South African Natl Biodivers Inst, ZA-7735 Cape Town, South Africa
[8] Univ Kwazulu Natal, Sch Agr Earth & Environm Sci, ZA-3209 Scottsville, South Africa
[9] Environm Def Fund, San Francisco, CA 94105 USA
关键词
CLIMATE-CHANGE;
D O I
10.1038/nclimate1847
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
An actor-centered, risk-based approach to defining limits to social adaptation provides a useful analytic framing for identifying and anticipating these limits and informing debates over society's responses to climate change.
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页码:305 / 307
页数:3
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