This site is about climate change adaptation, because I think there is a need for a space to express ideas and thoughts about policy and research on adaptation.
This site is intended also as a resource on all types of documentation, case studies, links and events that relate to adaptation.
The main focus of this site is adaptation in the context of development, but it follows the theoretical discussion about adaptation, vulnerability, resilience, risk, and disasters (among others) as well.
Over the last decade, adaptation to climate change has risen to the top of the agenda for researchers, practitioners and decision makers concerned with environmental change and development worldwide. In addition to the recognition that adaptation research and policy action had been given less priority than mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions until the beginning of the decade, the enhanced prominence of adaptation is also a reflection of the broadening awareness of its role as a necessary part of the response to climate change that needs to be supported through explicit policy, not just left to happen on its own.
So what is adaptation? Browse these pages to find out, or jump to the definitions discussion and add some of your own explanation of your favourite concepts.