The 2019 report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: ensuring that the health of a child born today is not defined by a changing climate

N Watts, M Amann, N Arnell, S Ayeb-Karlsson… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Executive Summary The Lancet Countdown is an international, multidisciplinary
collaboration, dedicated to monitoring the evolving health profile of climate change, and …

Interrogating 'effectiveness' in climate change adaptation: 11 guiding principles for adaptation research and practice

C Singh, S Iyer, MG New, R Few… - Climate and …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Paris Agreement articulates a global goal on adaptation, which aims to
ensure an 'adequate adaptation response'to the 'global temperature goal', and requires …

Maladaptation: when adaptation to climate change goes very wrong

ELF Schipper - One Earth, 2020 - cell.com
Adapting to climate change is necessary to ensure that the impacts will not overwhelm
societies and ecosystems around the world. But planning adaptation is an exercise in …

Emergence of polycentric climate governance and its future prospects

AJ Jordan, D Huitema, M Hildén, H Van Asselt… - Nature Climate …, 2015 - nature.com
The international climate regime represented by the United Nations Framework Convention
on Climate Change has been widely critiqued. However,'new'dynamic forms of climate …

An assessment of community-based adaptation initiatives in the Pacific Islands

KE McNamara, R Clissold, R Westoby… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract For the Pacific Islands, community-based adaptation activities are crucial, and yet it
remains uncertain whether they are effectively promoting long-term adaptive capacity. Here …

Status of global coastal adaptation

AK Magnan, R Bell, VKE Duvat, JD Ford… - Nature climate …, 2023 - nature.com
The state of progress towards climate adaptation is currently unclear. Here we apply a
structured expert judgement to assess multiple dimensions sha** adaptation (equally …

Climate change adaptation planning in large cities: A systematic global assessment

M Araos, L Berrang-Ford, JD Ford, SE Austin… - … Science & Policy, 2016 - Elsevier
Cities globally face significant risks from climate change, and are taking an increasingly
active role in formulating and implementing climate change adaptation policy. However …

A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems

CJAM Termeer, A Dewulf - Policy and Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The evaluation of policy strategies to tackle wicked policy problems inevitably involves a
paradox of trying to judge solutions for problems that have no solutions and for which …

Tracking global climate change adaptation among governments

L Berrang-Ford, R Biesbroek, JD Ford… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
Abstract The Paris Agreement and Katowice Climate Package articulate a clear mandate for
all parties to undertake and document adaptation progress. Yet persistent challenges have …

Numerous strategies but limited implementation guidance in US local adaptation plans

SC Woodruff, M Stults - Nature Climate Change, 2016 - nature.com
Adaptation planning offers a promising approach for identifying and devising solutions to
address local climate change impacts. Yet there is little empirical understanding of the …