“Migrant flows are being amplified by climate change”

Awarded the 13th Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change, Neil Adger explains how climate impacts affect human communities and how vulnerability and adaptive capacity depend on social, economic, and cultural factors. His work shows why resilience is as much a social construct as an ecological one.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Climate Change has gone in this thirteenth edition to Neil Adger, Ian Burton and Karen O’Brien for changing the paradigm of climate change action, previously confined to mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions, by folding in the concept of adaptation to unavoidable impacts.