| dc.description.abstract | Climate change adaptation has, over the last decade, become an increasingly important topic in international policy discussions. In the research community, considerable work has
been devoted to adaptation, and especially to understanding the factors that determine
an individual, community, organization or nation’s ability to adapt to the effects
of climate variability and change. This research has produced important insights
into the nature of adaptive capacity, and yet the concept remains difficult to bound and
measure. Here we suggest that knowledge, broadly defined, represents both an
important determinant and indicator of adaptive capacity. In addition to making
this case, we propose some strategies for measuring and assessing knowledge in
this context. | en_US |
