relevant to building resilience: (1) learning to live with change and uncertainty, (2) nurturing various types of ecological …Vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone; it also resides in the resilience of the system … experiencing the hazard. Resilience (the capacity of a system to absorb recurrent disturbances, such as natural disasters, so as to …

-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 …

option to increase resilience against climate change. …

acceptability of the adaptation strategies. Recommendations based on the experience of the initiative are provided that can … adaptation options mean that local governments must address the need for adaptation planning within a context of scientific … demonstrates a process to model, visualize and evaluate potential flood impacts and adaptation options for the community of Delta …

Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio … introduce the concept of an “adaptation frontier”, which is defined as a socio-ecological system’s transitional adaptive … of systems on the frontier. These include path dependence, adaptation/development deficits, values conflicts and …

smallholder producers in Kenya. Several practices emerge as triple wins in terms of climate adaptation, GHG mitigation, and …-win strategies will have the greatest payoff in terms of increased resilience of farm and pastoralist households to climate change …

, particularly in the developed world, address resilience building but practice is top-down and reactive. Effective resilience … as a vehicle, this article posits that, without a shift in public policy, effective resilience could be jeopardised. Key … to successful adaptation has been the willingness to learn how to develop a coherent set of principles that can inform a …