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Adaptive Capacity

Adaptive Capacity is the inherent potential of a system to adjust to climate change stimuli, thereby moderating potential damages, taking advantage of opportunities, or coping with the consequences, distinguished from related concepts by its focus on the enabling conditions and resources that determine the extent and speed of adjustment.

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Resilience and Stability of Ecological Systems

C. S. Holling · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1973 · 17.8K citations · Full text

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Resilience, Adaptability and Transformability in Social-ecological Systems

Brian Walker, C. S. Holling, Stephen R. Carpenter et al. · Ecology and Society · 2004 · 7.5K citations · Full text

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Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Anson W. Mackay · Journal of Environmental Quality · 2008 · 5.6K citations

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THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

Keith P. Shine · Weather · 1990 · 5.5K citations

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Climate change 2001: synthesis report

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 5.3K citations

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  1. JD
    James D. Ford

    McGill University, Canada

    81 publications · 10K citations

    53

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  2. WN
    W. Neil Adger

    University of East Anglia, United Kingdom

    49 publications · 27.4K citations

    40

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  3. RB
    Robbert Biesbroek

    Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

    51 publications · 6.2K citations

    38

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  4. SH
    Saleemul Huq

    International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh

    37 publications · 6.5K citations

    28

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  5. LB
    Lea Berrang‐Ford

    McGill University, Canada

    31 publications · 5.4K citations

    28

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  1. Wageningen University & Research

    Wageningen, The Netherlands

    82 h-index

    387 publications

    40.5K citations

  2. University of East Anglia

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    81 h-index

    214 publications

    95.2K citations

  3. University of Leeds

    Leeds, United Kingdom

    69 h-index

    310 publications

    36.6K citations

  4. Tyndall Centre

    Norwich, United Kingdom

    68 h-index

    157 publications

    82.4K citations

  5. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    63 h-index

    223 publications

    29.9K citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    60 h-index

    256 publications

    22.6K citations

  7. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

    Canberra, Australia

    57 h-index

    235 publications

    39.3K citations

  8. Arizona State University

    Tempe, United States

    56 h-index

    146 publications

    29.5K citations

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  1. Global Environmental Change

    254 publications · 69.8K citations

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  2. Climatic Change

    332 publications · 27.7K citations

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  3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 203 publications · 23.9K citations

    79

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  4. Nature Climate Change

    124 publications · 22.9K citations

    75

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  5. Ecology and Society

    139 publications · 24.6K citations

    69

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