Risks from Human Responses to Climate Change

Human responses to climate change are diverse and evolving. Our group seeks to clarify our understanding of how adaptation and mitigation responses affect specific climate change risks (reduce, avoid, displace or increase), how they affect other responses (eg. how adaptation and mitigation affect each other) or where they are making risks worse (eg. maladaptation or malmitigation, and more extreme responses such as Solar Radiation Management).

The initial focus of the group includes human mobility and immobility in the context of climate change, education, wellbeing and health. This working group draws on extreme and compound events to unpack the multifaceted ways in which people and nature are impacted by responses.