A Review about the Research on Adaptability in Climate Change——Present Situation and Tendency

Abstract

Analyses on adaptability in climate change field emerge concurrently with the growing awareness to climate change itself.It is of important significance for reducing the vulnerability of climate change and increasing the adaptability and adaptive capability of human beings to understand the research approaches,analysis content under present situation and international tendency of research on the adaptability in climate change based on literature review in this field.In this paper,the concept of adaptability in climate change and its application as well as the relations between the adaptability and the adaptive capability,and between the response capability and the resilience are analyzed.Moreover,the four focus research fields including the effect of the assumed adaptability,specific adaptation options,relative adaptive capability of different countries,regions or communities,and practical adaptation initiatives are reviewed,and a general summary of adaptability research orientation(e.g.community-based adaptability,bottom-up approach and adaptation processes) is carried out.