highlights the necessity to combine efforts to minimise damage and to integrate adaptation strategies in a broad "Integrated …

Much of the current policy debate on adaptation to climate change has focussed on estimation of adaptation costs, ways … to raise and to scale-up funding for adaptation, and the design of the international institutional architecture for … adaptation financing. There is however little or no emphasis so far on actual delivery mechanisms to channel these resources at …

The paper deals with the social and economic dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation in Italy. The ultimate … operational tools for dealing with climate change impacts and adaptation from an economic perspective. In order to do so, first a … impacts and adaptation challenges that are likely to be implied by climate change in the next decades. The analysis of the …

in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper soft measures and more costly hard irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …

to coastal resources will depend strongly on adaptation, society's response to cope with the impacts. This paper presents … between very detailed local studies and aggregate global estimates. The Coastal Impact and Adaptation Model (CIAM) determines … the optimal strategy for adaptation at the local level, evaluating over 12,000 coastal segments, as described in the DIVA …

induced by climate change in the next decades. Autonomous adaptation induced by changes in relative prices and in stocks of …

The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the … Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all …-based adaptation should: exploit its strong local grounding and synergies with development; help connect local initiatives to higher …

costs, hide the presence of a third category, namely adaptation costs. This dodges the determination of an appropriate level … for them. Including adaptation costs explicitly in the total environmental cost function allows one to characterize the … for cost benefit analysis of adaptation expenditures. …