Climate Change Adaptation Costs and Finance

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change and the associated increase in the frequency and magnitude of extreme events constitute the hardest and longest-standing challenge to human wellbeing faced by societies across the globe. Adapting to climate change means mitigating natural hazards through multiple material and intangible investments, which bear a significant cost and require dealing with unique uncertainties. Scientific knowledge about the costs of adaptation and about the financing of actions to support adaptation is today extremely limited at any scale, significantly reducing our capability to support stakeholders making these crucial decisions. This Special Issue thus aims at supporting climate policies by outlining the scientific state of the art on adaptation costs and adaptation funding mechanisms.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Assessments of adaptation costs in specific industries;
• Case studies of adaptation actions, costs, and funding strategies in local communities;
• Cost function analyses of adaptation actions;
• Cost of nature-based investments in adaptation;
• Ecosystem services appropriation for adaptation;
• Urban vs. rural adaptation costs;
• Evaluations of UN adaptation fund tools and results;
• Cost/benefit analyses of climate finance tools;
• Bottlenecks and credit crunching for adaptation;
• Financial costs of adaptation;
• Market failures and missing markets in climate finance;
• Public vs. private funding mechanisms for adaptation;
• Mechanism design in climate finance;
• Systems science and complexity science approaches to adaptation;
• Methodologies and reviews for all of the above.

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Riccardo Boero
Guest Editor

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