DIGITAL CLIMATE FUTURES – A decolonial and justice perspective on digitalised climate change adaptation was a 3-year research project, completed in March 2026, based at Lancaster University and Bath Spa University, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust (grant number RPG-2022-200).
The project investigated how the digital has been entering climate adaptation – a theme that is surprisingly underexplored and under-theorised.
To fill this gap, the project developed a novel theoretically-driven and empirically grounded research programme that for the first time combines a justice angle on ‘smart’ climate adaptation with decolonial approaches to the digital.
See our findings!
A visual explainer tracing the emergence of smart climate adaptation Dr. Shakthi Nataraj, who illustrates as The Artful Anthropologist.
Read more →Browse our Decolonial Toolkit
Drawing on our research findings, we have produced a toolkit for academics and practitioners working on digital climate adaptation.
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Posts From Bihar
Dr Vidya Pancholi shares findings from our fieldwork in Bihar in two recent blog posts: mapping the dense landscape of digital agriculture initiatives across the state, and documenting the remarkable forms of resistance to digital coloniality emerging from local communities.
Read more →Article published in EPE
Smart adaptation or data colonialism? In this peer-reviewed article, published in Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, we interrogate the role of digital technologies in climate adaptation, making the case for a critical engagement with the ever-expanding territory of ‘smart adaptation’.
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