Financing for adaptation is a core element in the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. This has … motivated a number of recent global estimates of adaptation costs. While important from an agenda setting perspective, many of …), do not differentiate between investments in various types of adaptation or quantify the resulting benefits, and are …

of adaptation. We divide the literature into two broad areas of research. First, we examine the studies that analyse … adaptation from a bottom-up perspective. Second, we introduce the studies that examine adaptation using a top-down approach. The … first group of studies investigates cost and benefits of adaptation at the sectoral, regional and global level. The second …

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the … recent 2009 “Copenhagen Accord”, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to … both cases uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When …

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 …

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 …

Nowadays, as stressed by important strategic documents like for instance the 2009 EU White Paper on Adaptation or the … recent 2009 Copenhagen Accord, it is amply recognized that both mitigation and adaptation strategies are necessary to combat … uncertainty works in the direction to make mitigation a more attractive strategy than adaptation. When catastrophic uncertainty is …

The climate change impacts on sea level rise and coastal disasters, and the possible adaptation responses have been …

policy measures, adaptation will be needed to address climate-related damages. What is the role of adaptation in this setting … adaptation and mitigation expenditures in a cost-effective setting in which countries cooperate to achieve a long … different adaptation modes (reactive and anticipatory), mitigation, and capacity-building to analyse the optimal portfolio of …

addresses this issue by carrying out an integrated analysis of both optimal mitigation and adaptation at the global and regional … level. Adaptation responses are disentangled into three different modes: reactive adaptation, proactive (or anticipatory …) adaptation, and investments in innovation for adaptation purposes. The size, the timing, the relative contribution to total …