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Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns

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Communal life is characterized by the shared timing of human and environmental events. Climate change is disrupting these timings, creating mismatches in these coordinated temporal patterns and requiring adaptive governance.

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Fig. 1: The Anishinabek Nation lunar calendar is read on the segments of a snapping turtle’s (mikinaak) shell.

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Acknowledgements

This commentary emerged from the CALENDARS project, which received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme (grant agreement 804150). M.B.’s work was financed by ‘The Times of a Just Transition’ project, which received funding from the British Academy (grant number GCPS2\100005).

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  1. Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

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  2. Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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  3. Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Michelle Bastian

  4. Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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  5. Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Bremer, S., Klenk, N., Bastian, M. et al. Adaptation requires attuning to shifting temporal patterns. Nat. Clim. Chang. 14, 8–10 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01899-8

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