Highlights•Recent calls for risk-based approaches to climate assessments and discussions
of adaptation limits relate to each other in little explored ways.•A novel risk-based approach …

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Concerned decision makers increasingly pose questions as to whether current management
practices are able to cope with climate change and increased climate variability. This …

Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in
maintaining socio-ecological systems within the boundaries of a safe operating space. Yet …

Recent reports and scholarship suggest that adapting to current climate variability may
represent a 'no regrets' strategy for adapting to climate change. Addressing 'adaptation …

The two principal policy approaches to global climate change include mitigation and
adaption. In recent years, the interest in adaptation and “resilience” has increased …

Climate change impacts and responses are presently observed in physical and ecological
systems. Adaptation to these impacts is increasingly being observed in both physical and …

Climate related changes are already affecting every area of our world and will increasingly
do so as global warming increases, resulting in compounding and cascading risks across …

There has been an explosion of interest in adaptation to climate change over the past five
years. Since initial work for the Third Assessment Report of the IPCC (Smit and Pilifosova …

The need to track climate change adaptation progress is being increasingly recognized but
our ability to do the tracking is constrained by the complex nature of adaptation and the …