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dc.contributor.authorStadler, Frank
dc.contributor.authorHoughton, Luke
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-09T22:25:54Z
dc.date.available2020-08-09T22:25:54Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn1088-1980
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/jiec.12922
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/396326
dc.description.abstractThe exploration of evolutionary biology and biological adaptation can inform society's adaptation to climate change, particularly the mechanisms that bring about adaptability, such as phenotypic plasticity, epigenetics, and horizontal gene transfer. Learning from unplanned autonomous biological adaptation may be considered undesirable and incompatible with human endeavor. However, it is argued that there is no need for agency, and planned adaptation is not necessarily preferable over autonomous adaptation. What matters is the efficacy of adaptive mechanisms and their capacity to increase societal resilience to current and future impacts. In addition, there is great scope for industrial ecology (IE) to contribute approaches to climate change adaptation that generate system models and baseline data to inform decision making. The problem of “uncertainty” was chosen as an example of a challenge that is shared by biological systems, IE, and climate change adaptation to show how biological adaptation might contribute solutions. Finally, the Coastal Climate Adaptation Decision Support tool was used to demonstrate how IE and biological adaptation approaches may be mainstreamed in climate change adaptation planning and practice. In conclusion, there is close conceptual alignment between evolutionary biology and IE. The integration of biological adaptation thinking can enrich IE, add new perspectives to climate change adaptation science, and support IE's engagement with climate change adaptation. There should be no major obstacles regarding the collaboration of industrial ecologists with the climate change adaptation community, but mainstreaming of biological adaptation solutions depends greatly on successful knowledge transfer and the engagement of open-minded and informed adaptation stakeholders.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.sponsorshipUS Department of State
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom400
dc.relation.ispartofpageto409
dc.relation.ispartofissue2
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Industrial Ecology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume24
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLife cycle assessment and industrial ecology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClimate change impacts and adaptation
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode401105
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4101
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsTechnology
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicine
dc.subject.keywordsGreen & Sustainable Science & Technology
dc.subject.keywordsEngineering, Environmental
dc.titleBreathing life into climate change adaptation
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dcterms.bibliographicCitationStadler, F; Houghton, L, Breathing life into climate change adaptation, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 2019, 24 (2), pp. 400-409
dc.date.updated2020-08-07T04:02:19Z
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript (AM)
gro.rights.copyright© 2019 Yale University. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Breathing life into climate change adaptation, Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 24, Iss. 2, April 2020, Pages 400-409, which has been published in final form at 10.1111/jiec.12922. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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gro.griffith.authorHoughton, Luke
gro.griffith.authorStadler, Frank


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