Teaching Climate Change Adaptation (Journal Article)

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Abstract: The earth is a risky place, and a steadily increasing population has pushed more and more people to live in locations close to faults and flood and fire zones. In a period of accelerating climatic transition, which is very likely to be manifested as severe weather events and insidious changes such as sea level rise, vulnerabilities are compounded. This is especially likely if mitigation strategies to reduce the planetary carbon footprint remain weak (Zheng et al. 2019). Consequently, communities will be under growing pressure to adapt to these threats, which may range from designing new infrastructure to creating different building codes but could extend to out-migration in some extreme instances. This paper will focus on how communities can respond to the impacts of a more dangerous world but will emphasize that there exist powerful barriers to climate change adaptation (CCA).