Table 2.

Inclusion and exclusion criteria for country selection

Concept	Inclusion	Exclusion
Population	Any population	No geographic or social exceptions
Exposure	Climate change	No exposure to climate change, climate variability or environmental change
Outcome	Reports on what people think and do Reports on how people respond to environmental change Responses relate to adaptation Tangible/observed behavioral responses (actions, practices, improved knowledge, altered social structure) Responses arguably reduce risk or improve adaptive capacity to climate change	Reports on biological or ecological processes Limited to assessment or vulnerability or impacts (not how people respond) Responses relate to mitigation only Responses are planned or recommended (not actual/observed) Responses do not arguably reduce risk or improve adaptive capacity to climate change
Type of study	Empirical data included—from observation or experience Systematic literature review	No empirical data included Empirical data theoretical or simulated
Time frame	Published between 2013–2019 Responses are recent	Published outside this timeframe Responses are historical
Language	Articles indexed in English, even if written in another language