Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress

Zakia Sultana; Heleen L.P. Mees; Bishawjit Mallick; Ilan Kelman; J. Magnolia Gilligan; Brianna Castro; Shanawez Hossain; Peter P.J. Driessen; Ajay Bailey

doi:10.1038/s41558-026-02728-4

Bringing justice to informal adaptation to heat stress

Zakia Sultana^*
, Heleen L.P. Mees
, Bishawjit Mallick
, Ilan Kelman
, J. Magnolia Gilligan
, Brianna Castro
, Shanawez Hossain
, Peter P.J. Driessen
, Ajay Bailey

^*Corresponding author for this work

University College London
Vanderbilt University
Yale University
Independent University, Bangladesh

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Abstract

Informal adaptation can augment or replace formal adaptation with flexible and responsive actions, yet it can also reproduce and intensify existing injustices. We propose justice-oriented co-creation between informal and formal actions as a pathway for effective heat adaptation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1005-1008
Number of pages	4
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	16
Issue number	9
Early online date	19 Aug 2026
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02728-4
Publication status	Published - Sept 2026

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