Adaptation reduces vulnerability and increases resilience

Adaptation reduces vulnerability and increases resilience: This figure illustrates conceptual relationships between climate variability and change, vulnerability, and adaptation. Under a variable climate systems and organizations develop a capacity to adapt that is relatively static. As the climate changes, past capacity to adapt may not be sufficient to avoid greater vulnerability. Adaptation helps increase the resilience of systems and managing organizations facing impacts from a changing climate.

Credit: Image adapted by Joe Abraham from Climate Adaptation: Risk, Uncertainty and Decision-making, UKCIP 2003.