Introduction | |
Adaptation now | |
Adapting to Thresholds in Physical and Ecological Systems: | |
Ecological limits of adaptation to climate change | |
Adapting to the effects of climate change on water supply reliability | |
Protecting London from tidal flooding: limits to engineering adaptation | |
Climate prediction: a limit to adaptation? | |
Learning to crawl: how to use seasonal climate forecasts to build adaptive capacity | |
Norse Greenland settlement and limits to adaptation | |
Sea ice change in Arctic Canada: are there limits to Inuit adaptation? | |
The Role of Value and Culture in Adaptation: | |
The past, present and some possible futures of adaptation | |
Do values subjectively define the limits to climate change adaptation? | |
Conceptual and practical barriers to adaptation: vulnerability and responses to heat waves in the UK | |
Values and cost-benefit analysis: economic efficiency criteria in adaptation | |
Hidden costs and disparate uncertainties: trade-offs in approaches to climate policy | |
Community based adaptation and culture in theory and practice | |
Exploring the invisibility of local knowledge in decision-making: the Boscastle harbour flood disaster | |
Adaptation and conflict within fisheries: insights for living with climate change | |
Exploring cultural dimensions of adaptation to climate change | |
Adapting to an uncertain climate on the great plains: testing hypotheses on historical populations | |
Climate change and adaptive human migration: lessons from rural North America | |
Governance, Knowledge and Technologies for Adaptation: | |
Are our levers long and our fulcra strong enough? Exploring the soft underbelly of adaptation decisions and actions | |
Decentralized planning and climate adaptation: toward transparent governance | |
Climate adaptation, local institutions and rural livelihoods | |
Adaptive governance for a changing coastline: science, policy and publics in search of a sustainable future | |
Climate change, international cooperation and adaptation in transboundary water management | |
Decentralization: a window of opportunity for successful adaptation to climate change? | |
Adapting to climate change: the nation-state as problem and solution | |
Limits to adaptation: analysing institutional constraints | |
Accessing diversification, networks and traditional resource management as adaptations to climate extremes | |
Governance limits to effective global financial support for adaptation | |
Organizational learning and governance in adaptation in urban development | |
Conclusions: transforming the world | |
Index | |
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