Adapting to Climate Change: Why Adaptation Policy is More Difficult than We Think (and what to do about it) (Wisconsin Initiative on Climate Change Impacts)
Authors
William D. Walker, David S. Liebl
Keywords
climate change, adaptation, fundamental problems, evaluation, strategies, adaptation policy
This paper is an overview of the climate change adaptation literature, and it explores the nature of adaptation. It discusses three fundamental problems with adaptation which limit what society will be able to achieve through adaptation, and it suggests ways to focus adaptation. October 2010.
