Climate, Climate Change, and Society (CLICCS II)
Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change
The project A4 – Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change examines how societies around the world prepare for the impacts of climate change, particularly in contexts where climate-related pressures fundamentally transform living conditions and spaces.
The project focuses on “extreme adaptation“ strategies, understood as radical, forward-looking, and often large-scale measures aimed at addressing climate-related risks. These include, for example, planned relocations, far-reaching transformations of cities and regions, or the deployment of emerging technological solutions. Such strategies are frequently associated with political contestation, social conflict, and questions of security, control, and the distribution of risks.
As part of the Hamburg Cluster of Excellence CLICCS II, the project team will investigate how governmental and other political actors plan and implement such measures and which conflicts emerge in the process (WP 1 Ursula Schröder and Benjamin Hofbauer). Building on IFSH’s long-standing expertise on the links between climate change and security, the project will furthermore investigate the role of military and security actors, emerging technologies, and surveillance practices in processes of extreme adaptation. (WP 3 Delf Rothe and Phd).
Project duration: 2026-2033
