The Adaptive Challenge of Climate Change

1. Climate change as an adaptive challenge Karen O'Brien and Elin Selboe 2. The intangibles of climate change adaptation: philosophy, ethics and values Bertrand Guillaume and Stijn Neuteleers 3. Urban climate change policy transitions: views from New York City and London William Solecki, Lesley Patrick and Zoe Sprigings 4. Planning for climate change adaptation in urban areas Jan Erling Klausen, Inger-Lise Saglie, Knut Bjorn Stokke and Marte Winswold 5. The challenge of governing adaptation in Australia Steven Waller and Jon Barnett 6. Emerging equity and justice concerns for climate change adaptation: a case study of New York State Peter Vancura and Robin Leichenko 7. Transforming towards or away from sustainability? How conflicting interests and aspirations influence local adaptation Siri Eriksen and Elin Selboe 8. Opportunistic adaptation: new discourses on oil, equity and environmental security Berit Kristoffersen 9. Place attachment, identity and adaptation Tare Quinn, Irene Lorenzoni and W. Neil Adger 10. Values and traditional practices in adaptation to climate change - evidence from a Q method study in two communities in Labrador, Canada Johanna Wolf, Ilana Allice and Trevor Bell 11. Exploring vulnerability and adaptation narratives among fishers, farmers and municipal planners in Northern Norway Grete K. Hovelsrud, Jennifer J. West and Halvor Dannevig 12. Changes in organizational culture, changes in adaptive capacity? Examples from the Norwegian and Swedish electricity sectors Tor Hakon Inderberg 13. From informant to actor to leader: social-ecological inventories as a catalyst for leadership development in participatory community climate change adaptation Bradley May 14. Participation and learning for climate change adaptation: a case study of the Swedish forestry sector Asa Gerger Swartling, Oskar Wallgren, Richard J. T. Klein, Johanna Ulmanen and Maja Dahlin 15. Integral GIS: widening the frame of reference for adaptation planning Lynn D. Rosentrater 16. There must be more: communication to close the cultural divide Susanne C. Moser and Carol L. Berzonsky 17. Social transformation: the real adaptive challenge Karen O'Brien and Elin Selboe.