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June 14, 2026Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate ChangeOpen Access

How Do Adaptation Practices Become Climate Maladaptive? A Scoping Review of Empirical Scholarship

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SSSameer H. ShahCGCelina Balderas GuzmánMCMeagan Carmack

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Overview

Scoping review evaluates drivers of climate maladaptation and decision-support measures across diverse sectors.

Key Points

  • This research examines the drivers of climate maladaptation and proposed decision-support measures related to it.
  • Conducted a scoping review of 89 peer-reviewed articles from 21 adaptation sectors across 64 geographic areas.
  • Analyzed imbalances in geographical focus and authorship affiliation within the literature.
  • Identified multi-level and multi-causal explanations for climate maladaptation.
  • Highlighted complementary frameworks for understanding climate maladaptation.
  • Identified multiple, simultaneous drivers contributing to maladaptation.
  • Emphasized the need for both incremental and transformative redressal measures.

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Shah et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2e4608b1cc60ccdea8ae93https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.70074
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