Research Directions and Learning Agendas
The World Adaptation Science Programme (WASP) aspires to greater integration among the WASP products while addressing the intersecting states of science, action, and the broader context and ‘Research Directions’ can be taken as signposting big questions facing adaptation practice and policy. Our emphasis will be on formulating the forward-looking Learning Agenda and Research Directions, rather than looking back at how the field has progressed over the past decade.
In terms of the overall product, to link recent advances and remaining gaps to articulate a Learning Agenda that responds to big questions in the adaptation field, identifying for whom and how that knowledge can be used, WASP intends to produce:
- Commentary or perspectives article for a peer-reviewed journal
- Adaptation Futures Outcomes Document that presents and refines the Research Directions and Learning Agenda
- Side Event at climate COP to elaborate the Research Directions and facilitate stakeholder engagement
Engagement will be vital to this work, including an online survey for WASP members to identify references and elicit comments and further questions. Inputs from all WASP members and broader adaptation communities would add value to refining our preliminary work to date. Most importantly, we would like to work with WASP members and partners to convene our co-sponsors to probe their demands: what they need to know and why. We welcome colleagues' and peers' input, especially open our survey to the early career researchers.
