Managing adaptation: linking theory and practice

This guidance aims to provide organisations with better guidance on how to initiate their assessments in a way that will enable them to go beyond raising awareness, to undertaking assessments that will lead to the implementation of practical adaptation actions and decisions. It incorporates UKCIP’s experience in applying the UKCIP Risk Framework since 2003. It is aimed specifically at those undertaking a systematic climate change risk based assessment as part of an adaptation work programme and emphasises, in particular, the importance of the assumptions made in the scoping phase of assessment. This document can be read as a stand-alone piece, or in conjunction with Stages 1 and 2 of UKCIP’s Risk Framework.