in these areas, requiring prompt and effective adaptation to climate induced events –from gradual sea level rise to … of agents’ behaviour, from individual risk perceptions’ modelling to decision-making rules on the adaptation option to be …-assessment agentbased models on climate change adaptation in coastal zones, thus, is here provided to investigate the current state of the …

The economic implications of adaptation to climate change are crucial for the design of a distinctive adaptation policy … climate adaptation policy. First, the justified interventions of the public authorities are identified from the economic … theory point of view. These public interventions include actions aimed at the elimination of private and public adaptation …

Climate change adaptation in Germany is performed on several policy levels. Based on the economic theory of adaptation … policy, this paper analyses shortcomings of the German adaptation policy approach. These were found in the following areas …: ambiguous distinction between justified government interventions and private autonomous adaptation responsibilities, non …

This paper studies the impact of adaptation on the stability of an international emission agreement. To address this … levels of emissions. Finally, in the third stage, each country decides on its level of adaptation non co-operatively. We … that emissions are strategic complements in the second stage of the game. However, for the first model adaptation reduces …

This paper studies how the investment in adaptation can influence the participation in an international environmental … agreement (IEA) when countries decide in adaptation before they choose their levels of emissions. Two types of agreements are … studied, a complete agreement for which countries coordinate their decisions on adaptation and emissions, and an adaptation …

Commission adopted a new Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change aiming to reinforce the adaptive capacity and minimize … with respect to both the intertemporal consumption and the mix between an insurance (adaptation) against the magnitude of …