Apart from the case studies, an additional output of the Linking Climate Adaptation (LCA) Project was to identify the longer-term research agenda needed to support community-led adaptation. One aim of sharing this agenda here is to catalyse discussions among a wider group active in the climate change, development and disaster/humanitarian relief communities about how best to support community-led adaptation. As set out in the Conceptual Overview in this IDS Bulletin, one of the main conclusions of the LCA Project is to suggest strengthening research, policy and operational linkages between these three, currently quite separate, communities. The selection and formulation of research questions reflects a judgement on the part of the authors. The questions are broadly defined to allow elaboration, challenges, re-framings and add-ons, as we may have neglected issues outside our frame of focus: how community-led adaptation in vulnerable countries can be supported through the generation, dissemination and use of research. For convenience, the research agenda is structured around three overarching issues: (1) the sources, nature and dynamics of vulnerability, (2) the costs and benefits of adaptation, and (3) integration of climate change adaptation into disaster risk reduction and development. A separate concluding section sets out cross-cutting methodological issues that are particularly germane to how future adaptation research should be conducted, by whom and across what time frames.
Yamin, F; Mitchell, T; Tanner, T
Linking climate adaptation: A research agenda
Ids Bulletin-Institute Of Development Studies