development goals . For example, a study in Bangladesh revealed how local elites and donors used adaptation projects as a lever to push vulnerable populations away from their agrarian livelihoods and into uncertain urban wage labour . These types of outcomes are categorised as maladaptation, interventions that increase rather than decrease vulnerability, and/ or undermine or eradicate future opportunities for adaptation and development . This inadvertent impact on equity appears to fundamentally contradict a benevolent understanding of transformative adaptation that also champions social justice , thus posing long-term maladaptation in opposition to transformative adaptation .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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