; rural households ; adaptation ; risk-coping mechanisms ; long-term effects …

Climate adaptation is today a priority for developing countries particularly LDCs. Agriculture is an important sector … Mkomazi sub-catchment, Tanzania (for example, shifts in crop production areas, crop growing patterns and type of crops grown …

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 …

each model. The framework is used to analyze the adaptation vs. mitigation dilemma and provides a simple criterion to … determine whether adaptation activities should be undertaken promptly, delayed to some future date, or avoided altogether. …