摘要：A shift is taking place within environmental governance that draws attention to modes and instruments that respondto system dynamics, uncertainty, and contested values. Adaptive comanagement is one process being advanced to makegovernance operational as it emphasizes collaboration among diverse actors, functions across scales and levels, and fosterslearning though iterative feedback. Although extensive experience with adaptive comanagement has been gained in relation toother environmental and resource issues, its potential contribution to the governance of adaption is largely unexplored. Thispaper probes how adaptive comanagement might offer support to climate change adaptation and identifies gaps in knowledgerequiring attention. In drawing upon existing literature and applied experiences, it is argued that adaptive comanagement maycontribute to climate change adaptation by building generalized adaptive capacity as well as providing a novel institutionalarrangement to generate adaptive responses. At the same time, several questions emerge about adaptive comanagement in thiscontext. Considerations are thus discussed for adaptive comanagement scholarship and application in addressing the challengeof climate change adaptation
