Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: impacts, implications, decisions and actions

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dc.contributor.authorCradock-Henry, Nicholas A.
dc.contributor.authorBuelow, Franca
dc.contributor.authorFlood, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorBlackett, Paula
dc.contributor.authorWreford, Anita
dc.contributor.funderMinistry for Primary Industriesen
dc.contributor.funderRoyal Society of New Zealanden
dc.contributor.funderMarsden Funden
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-23T10:09:08Z
dc.date.available2019-09-23T10:09:08Z
dc.date.issued2019-08-23
dc.description.abstractClimate change poses a significant challenge to primary industries and adaptation will be required to reduce detrimental impacts and realise opportunities. Despite the breadth of information to support adaptation planning however, knowledge is fragmented, obscuring information needs, hampering strategic planning and constraining decision-making capacities. In this letter, we present and apply the Adaptation Knowledge Cycle (AKC), a heuristic for rapidly evaluating and systematising adaptation research by analytical foci: Impacts, Implications, Decisions or Actions. We demonstrate its application through an assessment of ten years’ climate change adaptation research for New Zealand’s primary industries. The letter draws on the results of systematic review, empirical analysis, workshops, interviews, narrative analyses and pathways planning to synthesise information and identify knowledge gaps. Results show the heuristic’s simplicity is valuable for cross- and transdisciplinary communication on adaptation in New Zealand’s primary industries. Results also provide insight into what we know and need to know with respect to undertaking adaptation planning. With the development of tools and processes to inform decision making under conditions of uncertainty—such as adaptation pathways—it is increasingly important to efficiently and accurately determine knowledge needs. The combination of systematic data collection techniques, and heuristics such as the AKC may provide researchers and stakeholders with an efficient, robust tool to review and synthesise existing knowledge, and identify emerging research priorities. Results can in turn support the design of targeted research and inform adaptation strategies for policy and practice.en
dc.description.sponsorshipMinistry for Primary Industries ( Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change program (LC3238)); Royal Society of New Zealand (Marsden Fund)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid093002en
dc.identifier.citationCradock-Henry, N. A., Buelow, F., Flood, S., Blackett, P. and Wreford, A. (2019) 'Towards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: impacts, implications, decisions and actions', Environmental Research Letters, 14(9), 093002. (17pp.) DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab370cen
dc.identifier.doi10.1088/1748-9326/ab370cen
dc.identifier.eissn1748-9326
dc.identifier.endpage17en
dc.identifier.issued9en
dc.identifier.journaltitleEnvironmental Research Lettersen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8595
dc.identifier.volume14en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen
dc.relation.urihttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab370c
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2019. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0en
dc.subjectClimate changeen
dc.subjectAdaptationen
dc.subjectKnowledgeen
dc.subjectPathways planningen
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectImpactsen
dc.titleTowards a heuristic for assessing adaptation knowledge: impacts, implications, decisions and actionsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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