Efforts on adaptation to climate change must thus be considered in relation to, and seek to change, existing institutionally based motivational and incentive structures, and must thus be conceived through social rather than environmental logics. In fact, social logics may even define the types of ...
Both the scientific and the policy communities will have to devote more attention to the issue of adaptation in the coming years. In this special issue, we focus on the tools and approaches that will be needed to meet the challenge of adaptation to climate change. This special issue is ...
Olson Climate change 1. Introduction We know that the management of private capital can have negative externalities. There are many examples of private actions that create negative public externalities in relation to climate change. Individuals buying air-conditioners for homes, offices or cars to keep...
Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority. Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known about the actual extent of implementation. We systematically screened >
A lesson from the study is that adaptation to climate change is not primarily a technical issue, but a question of how to organize complex social processes in an efficient manner and, that this requires both horizontal and vertical coordination and use of different governance modes. This edition...
He urged the developed countries to fulfill their promise of providing 100 billion U.S. dollars to the developing countries in climate finance per year, and draw a road map for doubling the adaptation fund. On the issue of loss and damage caused by climate change, Zhao said that it is a...
–Climate change is perhaps the most serious environmental threat to agriculture in Africa, because of its impact on pre- and post-harvest agricultural productivity. The purpose of this study is to provide empirical information on the challenges of cassava post-harvest adaptation to climate change. ...
In this paper we explore why adaptation to climate change is such a critical issue to the commercial success of the private insurance industry. We highlight both the risks arising from inadequate adaptation to the impacts of climate change, and the opportunities presented by playing a role in th...
Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority. Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known about the actual extent of implementation. We systematically screened >
Issue DateJuly 2019 DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0502-0 Subjects Climate-change adaptation Climate-change impacts Developing world This article is cited by The use of multiple evidence base methods to enrich climate change research and knowledge in the Arctic ...