Posted on June 26, 2012 by suzall Abstract: How current coping
capacity could be transformed into longer term adaptive capacity
is a crucial question for those involved in adaptation planning,
especially to enhance sustainability. To shed light on this
question, this manuscript will review how coping capacity and
adaptive capacity have been conceptualised in resilience and
vulnerability approaches to climate change adaptation. The four
key challenges to understand the transformation of coping to
adaptive capacity include (1) the concealed nature of adaptive
capacity; (2) the temporal trade-offs between coping and
adaptive capacity; (3) the limited focus to date on rural
communities, and; (4) the lack of empirical evidence. The
manuscript suggests that institutions play a key role in
mediating the transformation of coping capacity into adaptive
capacity and that its role can be best researched by combining
vulnerability and resilience approaches to climate change
adaptation. Full Citation: Berman, R., Quinn, C