Gustavo Bernal Torres
'Maladaptation': How Not To Cope With Climate Change
Maladaptation happens when you try to solve one problem and wind up creating another.
"We're finding that there are many cases in which adaptation projects don't work," said Clark University professor Ed Carr, lead author of a chapter in the IPCC report on climate resilient development. "Some have actually made things worse."
A study of more than 300 initiatives for coping with climate change cited in the IPCC report found that one-third may have unintended and negative consequences.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2022-03-maladaptation-cope-climate.html