Between adaptive capacity and action: new insights into climate change adaptation at the household scale by Colette Mortreux, Saffron O’Neill, Jon Barnett

“…We test this assumption as it applies at the scale of households, through a study of the relationship between adaptive capacity and household actions to adapt to wildfire risk in Mount Dandenong, Australia. Here we show a weak relationship exists between adaptive capacity and adaptation, such that high adaptive capacity does not clearly result in a correspondingly high level of adaptation. …”
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