Adaptive development mitigates climate change risks without negatively influencing the well-being of human subjects and ecosystems by using incentives, institutions, and information-based policy interventions to address different components of climate risks.
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Agrawal, A., Carmen Lemos, M. Adaptive development. Nature Clim Change 5, 185–187 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2501
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