Learning to adapt: Organisational adaptation to climate change impacts
Learning to adapt: Organisational adaptation to climate change impacts
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DOI：
10.1007/s10584-006-9089-3
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发表时间：
2006-09-01
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影响因子：
4.8
通讯作者：
Gann, David M.
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作者：
Berkhout, Frans;Hertin, Julia;Gann, David M.
人类对气候变化的适应分析应基于组织和个人层面的适应行为的现实模型。该论文提出了一个框架，用于分析商业组织对气候变化直接和间接影响的适应能力，并利用九个案例研究公司的适应实证研究提供的新证据。它认为适应气候变化与组织学习过程有许多相似之处。该文件表明，商业组织在学习如何适应气候变化影响方面面临着许多障碍，特别是与气候变化信号的弱点和模糊性以及适应措施带来的效益的不确定性有关。组织很少“自主”适应，因为它们的适应行为受到政策和市场条件的影响，并利用组织外部的资源。该论文确定了四种适应组织适应行为的适应策略。
Analysis of human adaptation to climate change should be based on realistic models of adaptive behaviour at the level of organisations and individuals. The paper sets out a framework for analysing adaptation to the direct and indirect impacts of climate change in business organisations with new evidence presented from empirical research into adaptation in nine case-study companies. It argues that adaptation to climate change has many similarities with processes of organisational learning. The paper suggests that business organisations face a number of obstacles in learning how to adapt to climate change impacts, especially in relation to the weakness and ambiguity of signals about climate change and the uncertainty about benefits flowing from adaptation measures. Organisations rarely adapt 'autonomously', since their adaptive behaviour is influenced by policy and market conditions, and draws on resources external to the organisation. The paper identifies four adaptation strategies that pattern organisational adaptive behaviour.