population, impacts on water availability and energy use etc. This article aims to investigate how the issue of adaptation to … climate change has been incorporated into national urban planning. For this, the Urban Adaptation Index (IAU), proposed by …

public climate adaptation. Specifically, we distinguish three dimensions of public adaptation: extent, structure (form and … voters, pressure groups, bureaucrats and politicians may bias adaptation decisions. Thus, we indicate specific barriers to … efficient public adaptation. Based on this framework, we illustrate how Germany's response to major flood disasters reflects the …

problems. In an attempt to advance in the modelling of adaptation within IAM models, we apply this methodology to shed some … light on how the optimal balance between mitigation and adaptation changes under different stochastic scenarios. We find … that stochastic technology growth hardly affects the optimal bundle of mitigation and adaptation whereas uncertainty about …

climate change. This is despite substantial adaptation having taken place in general equilibrium through R&D and agricultural …

the role of trust in fostering adaptation by facilitating collective action, and the need for targeted interventions to … support adaptation and increase resilience in low-trust societies in which collective action may be harder to achieve. …

adaptation in the United States. The analysis produces several new facts. First, the reductions in the impact of extreme heat on … and consumption related to high temperatures, a commonly-used proxy for measuring the consumption of adaptation services … magnitude larger than the private cost of adaptation associated with electricity consumption. …

in these areas, requiring prompt and effective adaptation to climate induced events –from gradual sea level rise to … of agents’ behaviour, from individual risk perceptions’ modelling to decision-making rules on the adaptation option to be …-assessment agentbased models on climate change adaptation in coastal zones, thus, is here provided to investigate the current state of the …

, population and the capacity of adaptation. In order to prove this hypothesis, I developed new intermediate tools, opening an …