This paper discusses the role and relevance of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and the new scenarios that combine SSPs with representative concentration pathways (RCPs) for climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (IAV) research. It first provides an overview of uses of...

This review focuses on the role of local institutions in adaptation to climate change. It does so under the belief that climate impacts will affect disadvantaged social groups more disproportionately, and that local institutions centrally influence how different social groups gain access to and...

This report on adaptation to climate variability and change draws together the conclusions of a series of comparative case studies undertaken for the Area-Based Development and Climate Change (ABDCC) project of the Social Development Department of the World Bank. The report contributes to a...

As climate change impacts intensify globally in both frequency and magnitude, and with scientific consensus on what is yet to come if the world fails to act, the imperative to step up our collective response has never been more pressing. By providing the knowledge necessary to formulate...

Der Klimawandel betrifft in vielfältiger Weise die Strukturen, Funktionen und Nutzungen von Räumen und führt deshalb zu zusätzlichen Anforderungen an die räumliche Planung. Der vorliegende Band beschreibt einerseits die wesentlichen Wirkungszusammenhänge zwischen den erwarteten...

Klimaanpassung ist als Handlungsfeld der Raumordnung durch die Deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel sowie Beschlüsse der Ministerkonferenz für Raumordnung identifiziert. Gemäß Klimaschutzgesetz Nordrhein-Westfalen (Entwurf) sind die negativen Auswirkungen des Klimawandels durch...