Enabling informed decisions for climate risk and crisis management. The BRACE review protocol

This article outlines a structured and replicable systematic review process (BRACE) aimed at mapping global research trends on barriers and enablers to climate change adaptation. The focus is on climate hazards-floods, droughts, and heatwaves-within the frameworks of Risk Reduction (RR) and Crisis Management (CM), with attention to governance and socioeconomic factors. Results are based on the CLEAR database, generated through the multi-phase protocol BRACE, tailored to interdisciplinary climate adaptation research.•The BRACE systematic review protocol maps global progress in climate adaptation (2000-2022).•The tailored protocol categorizes governance and socioeconomic factors under RR and CM.•It allows analyzing thematic and regional bias, governance gaps, and cross-country differences.