Adaptation to changing conditions

Adaptation changes practices or infrastructure to cope with current or expected conditions. A response can reduce one vulnerability while creating costs or dependencies elsewhere.

Evaluate its useful lifetime, distribution of benefits and conditions under which it fails. Completion of a project does not establish all intended outcomes.

Put the concept to work

Source evaluation · Contours and relief

• Permafrost thaw and Denali’s park road
• Adapting livelihoods in the Mekong Delta