Editor’s choice
Numerous climate change adaptation programs are currently underway. However, most current adaptation responses are fragmented and uneven and risk contributing to maladaptation, which occurs when adaptation efforts produce unintended negative consequences on people and environments, especially vulnerable groups such as women. Yet, linkages between climate change adaptation, dispossession, displacement and its gendered dimensions are under-researched.
2024–2028
We will consider several CCA strategies in coastal regions in Bangladesh, Ghana, and the Philippines to see impacts in various contexts, follow different implementation timelines, and capture similarities and differences as well as transnational solutions.
Canada
Norway
United Kingdom
Bangladesh
Ghana
Philippines
This project receives funding from the Canada Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, The Research Council of Norway (RCN), and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
SEI report / How do adaptation policies and governance acknowledge and respond to the systemic nature of climate change?
29 May 2026 / About Adaptation
Past event / The SEI-hosted Adaptation Research Alliance will lead the knowledge nexus theme at the Community-based Adaptation (CBA20) conference in Manila.
11 May 2026 / About Adaptation
Project / This project aims to scale a satellite-based Wetland Monitoring Tool across the country’s Ramsar Sites and nationally important wetlands.
2026 / About Adaptation and Planning and modelling