Adaptation as an area of policy intervention has risen rapidly up the international agenda
over the last decade and is now seen as a fundamental piece of any comprehensive …

The role of this chapter is to explore the origins of climate change adaptation as a research
discipline and as an emerging issue for public policy. It also explores the linkages between …

Because of the failure of the world to agree an adequate regime to limit greenhouse gas
emissions to a safe level, adaptation to climate change has risen rapidly in UN Framework …

Adaptation to climate change has long been neglected in climate and development policy
and there is an institutional deficit in addressing adaptation action. The United Nations …

Although tackling the causes of climate change through mitigation is necessary, it is also
essential to examine the effect of climate change and what international cooperation can …

Adaptation concepts............................................................................................................. 2.1
Clarifying the meaning of'adaptation'........................................................................ Current status …

Climate change adaptation is a complex policy problem. It requires action across many
policy sectors which all have different vulnerabilities and risks related to the myriad of …

Humanity has considerable capacity to adapt to the effects of climate change, but achieving
sufficient adaptation presents some serious obstacles. Whatever level of adaptation is …

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 …

Adaptation to climate change is a process by which strategies to moderate, cope with and
take advantage of the consequences of climate events are developed and implemented …