ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of my concluding reflections. Adaptive innovation is an enduring journey where diverse actors navigate collectively to make their lived environment safe and secure, mutually learn and make choices and create meaning out of these experiences. Our methods of inquiry and practice will require continuous reflection, innovation and improvisation that has its primary premise on people-centred knowledge systems and decision-making capabilities. Adaptation decisions have to take into account the social positions of vulnerable and marginalised groups and their situated knowledge-cum-practices. The ultimate outcome of adaptive innovation has to be that all involved actors are able to develop their individual and collective capacities to solve complex adaptation challenges. Spaces that nurture shared conversations and solidarity networks therefore have a crucial role in climate change adaptation.
