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 …

gap between evolutionary biology, and the social sciences study of sustainability. …

adaptation options mean that local governments must address the need for adaptation planning within a context of scientific … demonstrates a process to model, visualize and evaluate potential flood impacts and adaptation options for the community of Delta … collaboratively, together with future adaptation scenarios assessed against quantitative and qualitative indicators. This ‘visioning …

Tropical highland regions are experiencing rapid climate change. In these regions the adaptation challenge is … enhanced climate resilience and adaptation to climate change. To support development of locally appropriate climate resilience … appropriate unit for defining adaptation strategies in these primarily subsistence agriculture communities. To this end, we …

focus on ecosystems and their interaction with people is essential for climate change adaptation. Increasingly, ecosystem …-based adaptation (EbA) approaches are being highlighted as an approach to address climate change impacts. Specifically, EbA encourages … the use of local and external knowledge about ecosystems to identify climate change adaptation approaches. This paper …