There is a growing recognition that adaptation to climate change requires an understanding
of social processes that unfold across extended temporal trajectories. Yet, despite a move to …

Resilience is currently infusing policy debates and public discourses, widely promoted as a
normative goal in fields as diverse as the economy, national security, personal development …

A variety of model-based approaches for supporting decision-making under deep
uncertainty have been suggested, but they are rarely compared and contrasted. In this …

Worldwide, an increase in flood damage is observed. Governments are looking for effective
ways to protect lives, buildings, and infrastructure. At the same time, a large investment gap …

Cities in the Global South are quintessential sites for climate adaptation; many are rapidly
expanding, struggle with increasing inequalities and experience unprecedented harm from …

Even though real options analysis (ROA) is often thought as the best tool available for
evaluating flexible strategies, there are profound problems with the assumptions …

Adaptation pathways have been conventionally viewed as an approach for planning and
identifying different adaptation options and the ways in which they can be realized …

Despite significant progress in understanding climate risks, adaptation efforts in biodiversity
conservation remain limited. Adaptation requires addressing immediate conservation threats …

An emerging planning framework for climate adaptation focuses on interactions among
societal values, institutional rules and scientific and experiential knowledge about …

There is an assumption that land use planning policies are a central enabler of coastal
climate change adaptation in vulnerable localities. Such assumptions presume benefits in …