Recent controversy has led to calls for increased standardization and transparency in the
methods used to synthesize climate change research. Though these debates have focused …

This paper reviews the concept of adaptive capacity and various approaches to assessing it,
particularly with respect to climate variability and change. I find that adaptive capacity is a …

From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a
concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions …

As experiences of implementation of climate change adaptation are accumulating, there is a
need to increase the understanding of the potential negative consequences of adaptation …

Abstract Scope, Delineations, and Definitions: Livelihoods, Poverty, and Inequality
Understanding the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and poverty requires examining …

This article presents a systematic framework to identify barriers that may impede the process
of adaptation to climate change. The framework targets the process of planned adaptation …

Compound extremes correspond to events with multiple concurrent or consecutive drivers
(eg, ocean and fluvial flooding, drought, and heat waves) leading to substantial impacts …

Building societal resilience to climate change depends on increased adaptation. In this
Review of scholarship on behavioural adaptation, we find that most empirical studies focus …

This article takes stock of the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (UNFCCC) through the prism of three recent shifts: the move away from …

Human systems will have to adapt to climate change. Understanding of the magnitude of the
adaptation challenge at a global scale, however, is incomplete, constrained by a limited …