Articulations and enactments of climate adaptation citizenship: How citizens in small remote communities in the Nordics engage with climate change-related hazards

As climate change-related hazards intensify, enhanced adaptation efforts that extend beyond technological solutions and include active roles for citizens are required. We introduce the novel concept of climate adaptation citizenship, defined through the three dimensions of awareness, action, and political engagement, to explore how citizens in small, remote Nordic communities engage with different climate change-related hazards. Our study illustrates diverse articulations and enactments of climate adaptation citizenship, with the most prevalent being awareness of local climate change effects, action through everyday material practices, and political engagement in the form of local place-protective advocacy. These enactments differ significantly from climate mitigation citizenship, underscoring the value of conceptualizing adaptation and mitigation citizenship as distinct yet interconnected. Our findings highlight the relevance of issue-oriented and practice-based approaches to citizenship for understanding existing forms of, and exploring potential avenues for, citizen engagement in transformative socio-technical adaptation.