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Learning to adapt

This publication is part of a book which explains the dilemmas faced when converting strategies into policies.

Thomas E. Downing / Published on 15 September 2010
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Hinkel, J., S. Bisaro, T.E. Downing, M.E. Hoffman, et al. (2010). Learning to adapt. M. Hulme and H. Neufeldt (eds.) Making climate change work for us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 113-134.

The book illustrates the differences between adaptation and mitigation, offers regional and global case studies of how adaptation and mitigation are inter-linked, and suggests six different metaphors for the strategic options to make climate change work for us, rather than against us.

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