Jones, Roger ORCID: 0000-0001-6970-2797 and Preston, Benjamin L (2011) Adaptation and Risk Management. WIREs Climate Change, 2 (2). pp. 296-308. ISSN 1757-7799

Abstract

Many of the existing tensions about the application of risk management are between simplicity and complexity, and between predictability and uncertainty. Users undertaking adaptation assessments want access to simple and clear methods. However, simple methods are criticized as being unable to manage the range of situations in which they may be used. On the other hand, risk management guidance that tries to be flexible and comprehensive can become too complex. This is because the adaptation assessments themselves can range from being simple to encompassing the general class of wicked problems, 70 characterized by multiple drivers of stress, significant uncertainties and contested values that cannot easily be resolved.

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