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What is the difference between climate change adaptation and resilience? - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment

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‘Adaptation’ and ‘resilience’ are often used interchangeably in policy and academic discourse, and while they are complementary concepts, there are important differences in these terms. At its most basic, adaptation refers to a process or action that changes a living thing so that it is better able to survive in a new environment, whereas resilience describes the capacity or ability to anticipate and cope with shocks, and to recover from their impacts in a timely and efficient manner. However, in practice, the distinctions and relationships between resilience and adaptation are more complicated and less easily defined. In the context of climate change, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) defines adaptation as the process taken to “adjust to the actual or expected climate and its effects ”. Discussions on adaptation often advocate taking specific urgent actions before it is no longer reasonably possible to adapt to, minimise, or avoid harm from climate change. Such m

What is the difference between climate change adaptation and resilience? 12 September, 2022 River Hull tidal barrier in Yorkshire, England. Photo: Wikimedia Commons 'Adaptation' and 'resilience' are often used interchangeably in policy and academic discourse, and while they are complementary concepts, there are important differences in these terms. At its most basic, adaptation refers to a process or action that changes a living thing so that it is better able to survive in a new environment, whereas resilience describes the capacity or ability to anticipate and cope with shocks, and t

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