Welcome to your saved resources, here you can view research papers, briefings, videos, and podcasts that you have saved during your journey through the Healthy Adaptation Hub. To give you a headstart we’ve cherry picked some key resources – our must reads – and pre-saved these for you.
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As one interviewee in Ireland explained, MCA enables better integration of “quantified but non-monetised impacts and benefits of flood relief across economic, social and environmental criteria”. However, this still appeared constrained in terms of the impact wider criteria were ultimately having on decision-making and did not appear to open-up spaces for consideration of approaches to adaptation that might be positive for wellbeing if it were more strongly foregrounded. For example, one interviewee in the UK discussed how the allocation of funding prioritises the focus of data collection on defensive/infrastructural approaches to adaptation, limiting the ability to monitor anything that falls outside of direct flood defences.
A review of literature incorporating public participation and citizen engagement in climate change adaptation since 1992 reveals lexical, temporal, and spatial distribution dynamics of research on the topic.
We look into how three cases of community-led adaptation to extremes of weather are responding to climate impacts. Each community-led organisation faces challenging funding scarcity but still provide their surrounding communities distinct health and well being benefits. We argue this is not an excuse to do more with less but a undesirable and unnecessary limit on the work these cases do to help communities adapt to the climate crisis.
Date: 09/07/26
We review global community-led examples of adaptation to climate-related extremes of weather. We find that communities around the world are adapting to weather extremes and providing support. However, the academic evidence is patchy and neither focuses on community leadership or all or compounding weather extremes that characterise the climate crisis. These two under explored areas are focuses of our ongoing project. .
Date: 09/07/26
This video explores the economic, social, and health impacts of planned relocation for communities in Ghana. It showcases the need for early and equitable inclusion of individuals and communities in the adaptation planning process.
Date: 13/03/26
Find definitions for terms that are frequently used in the Healthy Adaptations Hub.
| Terminology | Definition |
|---|---|
| Affect | People’s emotional evaluation of experiences of everyday life. Affective responses to flood interventions are important for understanding the social consequences of adaptations and how these are distributed. Affective responses are also important for galvanising support for adaptation policies because of the way people can influence how they interpret social situations and their intended and actual behaviours. |
| Affective wellbeing | People’s emotional evaluation of everyday life experiences in terms of their preferences versus reality. |
| Place making | [Definition to come] |
The Healthy Adaptations Hub showcases research from a range of projects that have been undertaken by social scientists, health economists, demographers, epidemiologists, and hydrologists across multiple universities (see Underpinning Research for details on who’s been involved).
The Hub showcases a series of resources to support sustainable, health-focused climate risk adaptation, addressing mortality risk and other multi-faceted health impacts.
The Hub has been informed by underpinning research carried out as part of multiple projects addressing different aspects of these issues.
Get in touch with the Healthy Adaptations Team at:
Catherine Butler (University of Exeter) c.butler@exeter.ac.uk | Neil Adger (University of Exeter) n.adger@exeter.ac.uk | Stacey Heath (Open University) stacey.heath@open.ac.uk