Focus on Adaptation

Adaptation responses to climate change are expected by necessity to involve local and regional approaches. Key to these responses being effective is an understanding that they will involve:

robust decision making, that encompasses other drivers as well
an understanding of both the costs and benefits
moving away from reactive planning
the generation of new social norms
innovative technology and management systems
a shift in institutional process towards decentralised, adaptive management
efforts to link and integrate adaptation with mitigation
consideration of the limits to adaptation

This link will take you to an introduction to Canadian Approaches and this link will take you to some global assessments.

WeADAPT is an internaitonal collaboration for climate change adaptation, the site includes links for tools, datasets and an adaptation layer for Google Earth ... and while you're about it, why not take a look at wikiADAPT?

This link will take you to an Adaptation Wizard.

The links below will allow you to being to consider how some of these are being addressed. A more focused Australian approach , with links to case studies can be found here