Climate Services and Transformational Adaptation

Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient.

All human-environment systems adapt to climate and its natural variation. Adaptation to human-induced change in climate has largely been envisioned as increments of these adaptations intended to avoid disruptions of systems at their current locations. In some places, for some systems, however, vulnerabilities and risks may be so sizeable that they require transformational rather than incrementa...

Climate Change and Adaptation

Adaptation and Climate Change

This paper deals with the often ignored issue of adaptation to human-induced climate change. Adaptation is not only inevitable but essential to fashioning the least-social-cost strategy to addressing climate change. The urgency for limiting climate change is inversely proportional to society's adaptability. Some limitation strategies are incompatible with adaptation goals (e.g., reducing CO2 ra...

Transformational leadership and team innovation: integrating team climate principles.

Fostering team innovation is increasingly an important leadership function. However, the empirical evidence for the role of transformational leadership in engendering team innovation is scarce and mixed. To address this issue, the authors link transformational leadership theory to principles of M. A. West's (1990) team climate theory and propose an integrated model for the relationship between ...

Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation

Acknowledgements: This paper serves as background to the sixth presentation in a symposium series on Global Food Policy and Food Security hosted by the Center on Food Security and Environment at Stanford University, and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I would like to thank Wally Falcon and Michela Biasutti for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. Abstract Food ...