Responsibility for meeting the costs of adaptation

摘要: Climate change is no longer a distant possibility. Potentially harmful climatic changes are already underway. If we want to or believe ought minimize the harmfulness of eventual climate impacts it will therefore be necessary for us adapt our changing climate. As people differentially affected by depending on when, where, and in what circumstances they live, adaptive measures have vary with context. It turns out that those least causally responsible predicted suffer most from impacts. these disproportionally world's poor their vulnerability partly due poverty, adaptation often intersect development. Determining who should held meeting costs adaptation, topic this review, difficult task. After reviewing relevant literature, review identifies need further work conceptual practical issues arise when thinking about ethics adaptation. WIREs Clim Change 2011 2 687–700 DOI: 10.1002/wcc.132 For resources related article, please visit website