The Agriculture and Development Notes – Climate Change Adaptation (ADN-CCA) Series showcases climate change adaptation efforts and mechanisms in Southeast Asian countries in agriculture and rural development. ADN CCA aims to highlight research findings, good practices and lessons learned in climate change adaptation focused on...

This article discusses some of the fundamental key questions needed to improve adaptation policy and practice, as policy makers consider how to address future climate risks.   Read more: http://chimalaya.org/2012/06/30/is-climate-change-adaptation-feasible/ : http://chimalaya.org/2012/06/30/is-climate-change-adaptation-feasible/

  The Philippine archipelago, which has one of the longest coastlines in the world, will not be spared of the adverse impacts of sea-level rise and extreme climate events that are expected to happen in a warmer world.  This study aims to review climate change...

Planetary health is today inextricably linked to population health. Climate change, an integral part of planetary health, is foremost among the global environmental changes affecting human health. This mammoth challenge carries the potential to cripple health systems worldwide and profoundly alter disease dynamics, thereby threatening...

This publication presents a shift in the People’s Republic of China from flood control depending on structural measures to integrated flood management using both structural and non-structural measures. The core of the new concept of integrated flood management is flood risk management. Flood risk management...

An article published in Inter Press Service (IPS) is about Indian tribals reverting to their traditional farming methods of mixed cropping with traditional seeds, grain banks—with improvements—as an adaption to unpredictable monsoons in these dry lands. Tribal farmer Harish Saraka has rediscovered the key to sustainable...

People all over the world are being confronted with the reality of climate change. For some, climate change is simply a matter of changes in weather patterns: things are a bit hotter, a bit colder, and a bit more uncertain. For others, it is already...

Adaptation to climate change is growing rapidly around the world both in practice as well as in the research community. This was amply demonstrated at the recent International Conference on Adaptation Futures held at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, in the United States...

This article sets out the policy, legislative and judicial responses to coastal adaptation in the Netherlands, England, and Australia. It identifies and discusses elements of the international and domestic frameworks that are considered essential for effective adaptation. The article concludes that an integrated approach to...

Jamal Gore, Managing Director of Carbon Clear, argues that low carbon prices are a good news story, which should galvanize politicians into action: low carbon prices demonstrate that even greater emissions reductions can be achieved at manageable costs.