Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been
addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts …

Human systems will have to adapt to climate change. Understanding of the magnitude of the
adaptation challenge at a global scale, however, is incomplete, constrained by a limited …

Efforts to reduce suffering have habitually focused on control and repair of individual bodies.
The social origins of suffering and distress, including poverty and discrimination, even if …

As experiences of implementation of climate change adaptation are accumulating, there is a
need to increase the understanding of the potential negative consequences of adaptation …

The coastal region of Bangladesh is highly vulnerable due to its low adaptive capacity,
dense population, flat topography and exposure to various natural disasters such as …

How communities respond to and recover from damaging hazard events could be
contextualized in terms of their disaster resilience. Although numerous efforts have sought to …

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the
challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate …

There is considerable research interest on the meaning and measurement of resilience from
a variety of research perspectives including those from the hazards/disasters and global …

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 adaptation has become a pressing issue. Yet little attention has been paid to the
consequences of adaptation policies and practices for sustainability. Recognition that not …