Another characteristic of recent adaptation research is a stronger focus on ethics, justice and power . Researchers and practitioners are increasingly impatient to address the root causes of vulnerability and use inclusive climate adaptation processes to generate effective adaptation responses for marginalised and misrecognised groups . Increasingly ambitious, normative adaptation research often challenges technological solutions that simply reinforce the existing status quo  and calls for 'socially just pathways for change'. Here work on adaptation overlaps with mitigation, transitions and other large-scale social change, encouraging the move towards more systemic, integrated approaches that discern between options according to multiple criteria .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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