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We are encouraged by the fact that our recent Perspective on the new frontiers of adaptation barriers research1 is generating academic debate. We hope that others will engage and thus help to advance a scientifically rigorous and practically relevant research agenda. Here we would like to respond to the Correspondence from Biesbroek and colleagues2. We see as their main points that research on adaptation barriers unavoidably implies a 'functionalist', simplistic view of adaptation processes, and that 'barrier thinking' (and presumably all research on barriers) should be discarded altogether.

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  1. Department of Economics, Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Ammerländer Heerstraβe 114-118, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany

    Klaus Eisenack & Anna Pechan

  2. Susanne Moser Research & Consulting, Santa Cruz, 95060, California, USA

    Susanne C. Moser

  3. Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Potsdamer Strasse 105, Berlin, 10785, Germany

    Esther Hoffmann

  4. Stockholm Environment Institute, Linnégatan 87D, Box 24218, Stockholm, 104 51, Sweden

    Richard J. T. Klein

  5. Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research and Department of Thematic Studies, Linköping University, SE-581 83, Linköping, Sweden

    Richard J. T. Klein

  6. Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern, Hallerstrasse 10, Bern, 3012, Switzerland

    Christoph Oberlack

  7. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Programme for Sustainable Economic Development (PSED) Office Accra, PO Box 9698, KIA, Accra, Ghana

    Maja Rotter

  8. Public Administration and Policy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, Wageningen, 6700 EW, the Netherlands

    Catrien J. A. M. Termeer

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