into being. The international community must work together to enhance security and stability, promote sustainability, and …, collaborative solutions focused broadly on adaptation to climate change, most particularly the effects of “ecomigration”. Nations …

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 … operating space between safe and unsafe domains. A number of driving forces are responsible for determining the sustainability …

the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners’ “adaptation … turn” is recent and still ongoing. This paper presents a meta-evaluation of Swedish municipal adaptation approaches, and … being put into the identification of barriers to adaptation planning, in contrast, there is little assessment or …

framework for assessing city plans based on the idea of sustainability and planning countering climate change. It applies this … concepts that were identified through conceptual analyses of the planning and interdisciplinary literature on sustainability … radical shift toward planning for climate change and adaptation. It inadequately addresses social planning issues that are …

of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were … of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural … resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis …

short of mechanisms that promote farmers’ adaptation. As a result, smallholders are confronted with a variety of challenges … accordance with farmers’ perceptions. Smallholders use a combination of coping and adaptation strategies to respond to …-depth knowledge of climatic variability, which they use to inform their coping and adaptation strategies. Knowledge of climatic …

-falling hurricanes. Societal adaptation is needed to reduce vulnerability from increasingly intense hurricanes. This study quantifies the … adaptation effects of potentially policy driven caps on housing densities and agricultural cover in coastal (and adjacent inland … economic damages. The evidence from this study implies that a medium to long term land use adaptation in the form of capping …

productivity, land degradation, high market prices, negative impacts on livelihoods, and increased malnutrition. Adaptation … is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the …

As the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean prepare to take climate change adaptation measures, there is a … and coastal communities are at risk of being marginalized. It is necessary to take into consideration the adaptation needs … this paper we focus on the need to ensure inclusion and social equity in adaptation planning as climate change issues …