As climate changes due to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, agriculture will be one of the key human activities affected. Projections show that while overall global food production in the coming decades may keep pace with the food requirements of a growing world population, climate change might worsen existing regional disparities because it will reduce crop yields mo...

Attention has recently been paid to how REDD+ mitigation policies are integrated into other sectoral policies, particularly those dealing with climate adaptation at the national level. But there is less understanding of how subnational policy and local projects are able to incorporate attention to adaptation; therefore, we use a case study in Vietnam to discuss how REDD+ projects and policies a...

It is difficult to determine whether specific weather events like the storms in Washington can be definitively attributed to climate change or if they are severe storm occurrences within otherwise natural weather patterns. However, consensus in the scientific community indicates that major storms and other events including inundation of coastal roads from a rising sea level, erosion of roadways...

Global climate change consists a major overriding environmental problem and one of the most important challenges that environmental regulators are facing with not only economic but also social dimensions. As climate change impacts pose growing challenges to many aspects of life such as infrastructure facilities, agriculture, fishery, ecosystems and human health, many countries and cities are be...

Adaptation is intricately linked with non-climatic developments and takes place in a dynamic societal context. The identification of optimal and appropriate adaptation strategies is therefore fraught with difficulties. Particularly the identification and quantification of adaptation benefits faces a number of uncertainty-related and methodological caveats. This paper explores these caveats and ...

Communities are increasingly confronted with the need to identify, characterize and respond to the global challenges of climate change. Risk management is a well established tool for climate change adaptation, but critical questions about past management techniques and the emergence of ‘alternative approaches’ raise possibilities for novel new directions. This paper conceptually explores the sy...

As sustainable forest management is threatened by climate change, adaptation measures may be needed to maintain the productive capacity of tropical forests. Yet the extent to which foresters across the tropics implement adaptation actions in anticipation to climate change impacts remains largely unexplored. In this paper, an assessment of the perceptions of climate risks and the implementation ...