development should address proximate and systemic drivers of vulnerability , while remaining flexible and reversable to avoid the lock-in of undesirable or maladaptive trajectories . Such goals require critical reflection on processes for decision making and learning. In the AR5, more inclusive, participatory adaptation processes were presumed to benefit development planning by including a wider set of actors in discussions of future goals . The post-AR5 literature expands on these critical perspectives to provide context regarding when participation is most effective. For example,  emphasise the need to build participatory adaptation processes to avoid subsuming adaptation goals to development-as-usual, while  argues that this practice is most effective when it is focused on development efforts and considers how climate change will challenge the goals of those efforts. Adaptation, while presenting an opportunity to foster transformations needed to address the impacts of climate change on human well-being, is also a contested process that is inherently political  . How adaptation can challenge development and create a situation where CRD effectively becomes transformative adaptation, adaptation that generates transformation of broader aspects of development, remains unclear  .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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