Including 6 closely related terms such as change adaptation, adaptation action, and adaptation actions.
… change adaptation and resilience in all policies • Priority 2 – Increasing the resilience of and investment in our critical infrastructure • Priority 3 – Implementing a prioritised programme of nature-based climate adaptation actions • Priority 4 – Improving monitoring and reporting 12 SECTION 3: ACTION PLAN FRAMEWORK AND DEVELOPMENT 13 Wigan Council’s Outline Climate Change Strategy…
… sustainability and conservation tend to focus on preserving our environment, resilience and adaptation will focus on protecting our people and place from the changes that will come from a changing climate. Our climate change adaptation will be centred on the process of taking actions that aim to support and enable our residents and our place to adjust to the effects of current or expected climate…
…. FOREWORD KEITH BENSON Chair of the Our Resilience and Adaptation Working Group Our climate change adaptation will be centred on the process of taking actions that aim to support and enable our residents and our place to adjust to the effects of current or expected climate change. 5 ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS BEIS ............................................................Business…
… the possibility that societies may encounter weather event’s that previous experience has not prepared them for. These impacts put huge pressures on the economy, society and the environment and risk affecting our ambitions to make Wigan borough a cleaner, greener place that we are proud of, and we are safe within. In the context of climate change, adaptation refers to those crucial actions or plans…
… that a community, business, household or individual will employ against a current or anticipated impact of climate change. Whereas resilience refers to the ability to recover (bounce back to the original state before the exposure to shock) from the effect of climate change. Adaptation and resilience measures can be planned or put in place spontaneously in response to a local event. Measures could…