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The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity

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This chapter reviews the methods and challenges for the assessment of adaptive capacity. It presents and discusses the ranges of governance determinants of adaptive capacity as they have developed out of the different discourses such as good governance, adaptive governance, adaptive management, vulnerability and resilience. It concludes that the relative paucity of deep empirical examples exploring adaptive actions in periods that might be representative of a future warmer world remains a challenge in the operationalisation and characterisation of adaptive capacity as well as in the development in understanding how to mobilise it as climate change impacts take hold.

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Hill, M. (2013). The Assessment of Adaptive Capacity. In: Climate Change and Water Governance. Advances in Global Change Research, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5796-7_4

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