Papers presented at two ADBI workshops on Climate change adaptation, held at Tokyo in 2009 and Colombo in 2010 …

adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated … adaptation needs to be taken into account by a pure welfarist government, which aims at internalizing an intertemporal …

The strategy of adaptation to climate change has become a central topic within the UNFCCC negotiations in recent years …. On the national level, adaptation plans are elaborated, and on the international level, the need for funding adaptation … in developing countries is discussed. This tendency shows that adaptation is likely to be advanced relative to mitigation …