This is timely interdisciplinary text sheds light on key issues that arise in on-the-ground adaptation to climate change. It bridges the gap between science and practical application of successful adaptation strategies and will be of interest to both students, academics and practitioners.

Table of Contents

• List of figures
• List of tables
• Notes on contributors
• List of acronyms
• Preface
• 1 Climate change and adaptation success: the scope of the challenge - SUSANNE C. MOSER AND MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF
• PART I Changing goals, trade-offs, and synergies
• 2 Reducing the risk of maladaptation in response to sea-level rise and urban water scarcity - JON BARNETT, SAFFRON O'NEILL, STEVE WALLER, AND SARAH ROGERS
• 3 Biodiversity conservation for a climate-altered future - BRUCE A. STEIN AND M. REBECCA SHAW
• 4 Climate adaptation, moral reparation, and the baseline problem - BENJAMIN HALE, ADAM PÉROU HERMANS, AND ALEXANDER LEE
• 5 REDD+ and social justice: adaptation by way of mitigation? - HEIKE SCHROEDER AND CHUKWUMERIJE OKEREKE
• PART II Institutional arrangements, interplay, and alignment
• 6 Institutions as key element to successful climate adaptation processes: results from the San Francisco Bay Area - JULIA A. EKSTROM AND SUSANNE C. MOSER
• 7 Rapid transformation of the US electric power system: prospects and impediments - ROGER E. KASPERSON AND BONNIE RAM
• 8 Towards a binding adaptation regime: three levers and two instruments - MIZAN R. KHAN AND J. TIMMONS ROBERTS
• PART III Science-practice interactions, decision support, and supporting norms
• 9 Waters, seas, and wine: science for successful climate adaptation - BENJAMIN L. PRESTON, LAUREN RICKARDS, SURAJE DESSAI, AND RYAN MEYER
• 10 Promoting adaptation success in natural resource management through decision support: lessons from the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain regions - LISA DILLING AND REBECCA ROMSDAHL
• 11 Climate risk management: laying the groundwork for successful adaptation - ANTHONY PATT
• 12 Building climate resilience: lessons of early warning in Africa - EMILY BOYD AND ROSALIND J. CORNFORTH
• 13 Engaging science and managing scientific uncertainty in urban climate adaptation planning - JOANN CARMIN AND DAVID DODMAN
• PART IV Effective communication and engagement
• 14 Media coverage of discourse on adaptation: competing visions of “success” in the Indian context - MAXWELL T. BOYKOFF, ADITYA GHOSH, AND KANMANI VENKATESWARAN
• 15 Risk communication and adaptation in settlements on the coast and in deltas of the Mekong Region - LOUIS LEBEL, BACH TAN SINH, NGO CONG CHINH, SAKARADHORN BOONTAVEEYUWAT, AND HAM KIMKONG
• 16 Climate change visioning: effective processes for advancing the policy and practice of local adaptation - SARAH L. M. BURCH, STEPHEN R. J. SHEPPARD, ELLEN POND, AND OLAF SCHROTH
• PART V Motivations, identities, reflexivity, and personal change
• 17 Navigating the political and emotional terrain of adaptation: community engagement when climate change comes home - SUSANNE C. MOSER
• 18 The courage to change: adaptation from the inside-out - KAREN O'BRIEN