Multi-year insurance has been proposed as a tool to incentivise policy-holders to invest in property-level adaptation … general retail insurance market. For adaptation, we conclude that other tools, such as risk-based premiums and loans for … adaptation tied to the property, have greater potential. …

We look for evidence of adaptation in wellbeing to major life events using eighteen waves of British panel data …. Adaptation to marriage, divorce, birth of child and widowhood appears to be rapid and complete; this is not so for unemployment … phenomenon of adaptation may be a general one, rather than being found only in German data or using single-item wellbeing …

The concept of autonomous adaptation is widely used to describe spontaneous acts of reducing risks posed by resource … scarcity is linked to adaptive responses including livelihood diversification. The paper argues that autonomous adaptation is … driven by how environmental change and scarcity present livelihood risks, rather than physical risks alone. Adaptation …

competition that makes adaptation more important can favor centralization rather than decentralization. …

from the British Household Panel Survey to study the process of adaptation based on the individual’s own previous … adaptation over the short term. Over a longer period, those who have experienced falling incomes are less satisfied than those … had constant incomes. This suggests that over a longer period, adaptation to changes in income is asymmetric: people adapt …

multi-peril crop insurance. There is widespread support for index insurance as a means of climate change adaptation but … Network approach, weather index insurance as an adaptation measure and climate simulations as a source of quantitative …

of the reasons for this is the so-called adaptation deficit, that is, limits in the ability of poorer countries to adapt …. This paper analyses the link between income and adaptation to climate events theoretically and empirically. We postulate … that the adaptation deficit may be due to two factors: A demand effect, whereby the demand for the good “climate security …

We consider the link between poverty and subjective well-being, and focus in particular on potential adaptation to … of adaptation within a poverty spell: poverty starts bad and stays bad in terms of subjective well-being. We cannot … identify any cause of poverty entry which explains the overall lack of poverty adaptation. …