This paper reviewed 42 studies of how local knowledge contributes to adaptation to climate and climate change in the …, physical infrastructure, livelihood strategies, and social institutions. Adaptation actions vary with time scale of interest … of scientific and local knowledge for adaptation expand. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2013 …

-change adaptation and resilience with practice. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht (outside the USA) 2014 …Activities are already underway within the development community to improve climate-change adaptation decision making …. In these and related efforts, a focus on building resilience is an important objective, one that resonates with …

(11.7%) are the most expected impacts of climate change. Analysis of adaptation behaviour responses suggest that … behaviours largely for financial or contextual reasons. Finally, support for adaptation and mitigation policy responses is … protection increasing the water tariffs (52.5%). As discussions about mitigation and adaptation become increasingly common within …

This paper presents a tailor-made scenario approach for climate change adaptation planning, which emphasises … approach facilitated the engagement of the local planning body in climate change adaptation and helped them to analyse …

We propose a generic framework to characterize climate change adaptation uncertainty according to three dimensions …. We have studied the role of uncertainty in climate change adaptation planning using examples from four Danish water … epistemic (reducible) by nature but uncertainties on adaptation measures are complex, with ambiguity often being added to impact …

land increases by 33 % from the baseline. Correspondingly, the associated economic impact due to adaptation is around −14 …

of the distributional and equity implications of SLR impacts and adaptation actions remains limited. Here, we apply a new … adaptation. We use the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) to identify socially vulnerable coastal communities, and combine this … adaptation approaches to respond to those threats. Results show that under the mid-SLR scenario (66.9 cm by 2100), approximately …