The majority of vulnerability and adaptation scholarship, policies and programs focus
exclusively on climate change or global environmental change. Yet, individuals …

Policy interest in the cost of adaptation is growing, but compared to the mitigation literature
adaptation cost research is still in its infancy. Global adaptation cost estimates from more …

This book provides the first systematic critique of the concept of climate change adaptation
within the field of international development. Drawing on a reworked political ecology …

Institution-oriented, top-down and community-oriented, bottom-up stakeholder approaches
are evaluated for their ability to enable or constrain the implementation of adaptation in …

Adaptation was a core concept of twentieth-century cultural ecology. It is having a new life in
the context of debates over climate change, particularly as it becomes more significant in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to advance the dialogue between the disaster risk
reduction (DRR) and adaptation community by investigating their differences, similarities …

This paper interrogates the framings and priorities of adaptation in Tanzania's climate policy
and examines the implications for the role of local institutions and differentiated rural …

Background This study, commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation, set out to identify and
understand the extent to which, and ways in which, information from climate change models …

Concerns over climate change and climatic variability are growing in South Asia because of
the potential detrimental impacts of these phenomena on livelihoods. Such growing …

The changing environment is expected to intensify the challenges that people in developing
countries are facing, particularly among the groups whose livelihoods depend on natural …