1 Overview. - Rapporteur's Statement. - An Overview of Adaptation to Climate Change. - Past Changes in Climate and Societal Adaptations. - Assessing Climate Change Adaptations: The IPCC Guidelines. - Adapting to Climate Variations in Developing Regions: A Planning Framework. - The Growth of Adaptation Capacity: Practice and Policy. - Using a Decision Matrix to Assess Climate Change Options. - The Potential Costs of Climate Change Adaptation. - Malawi: How Climate Change Adaptation Options Fit within the UNFCCC National Communication and National Development Plans. - 2 Agriculture. - Rapporteur's Statement. - Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Change in Egypt. - Adaptive Measures for Zimbabwe's Agricultural Sector. - Model-Based Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment for Wheat Yields in Kazakhstan. - The Impact of Climate Change on Spring Wheat Yield in Mongolia and Its Adaptability. - Some Adaptations of the Tea Plant to Dry Environments. - Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Global Food Production: Options for Adaptive Strategies. - 3 Water Resources. - Rapporteur's Statement. - Water Resources Adaptation Strategy in an Uncertain Environment. - Anthropogenic Climate Change and Reduction of Water Resources: Adaptation Issues Related to the Economy in Kazakhstan. - Adaptation of Hydropower Generation in Costa Rica and Panama to Climate Change. - Managing Water Resources for Climate Change Adaptation. - Potential Effects of Sea-Level Rise in the Pearl River Delta Area: Preliminary Study Results and a Comprehensive Adaptation Strategy. - 4 Coastal Resources. - Rapporteur's Statement. - Sea-Level Rise Along the Lima Coastal Zone Perú as a Result of Global Warming: Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures. - Response Strategies and Adaptive Measures to PotentialSea-Level Rise in The Gambia. - Climate Change Adaptation Strategies: A Challenge for Small Island Nations. - Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment of Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise in the Coastal Zone: A Perspective from the Netherlands and Bangladesh. - Adaptation to Climate Change in the Coastal Resources Sector of Bangladesh: Some Issues and Problems. - 5 Ecosystems and Forests. - Rapporteur's Statement. - A Study of Climate Change Impacts on the Forests of Venezuela. - Global Climate Change Adaptation: Examples from Russian Boreal Forests. - Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments of Forest Vegetation in Bulgaria. - Biodiversity and Wildlife: Adaptation to Climate Change. - 6 Fisheries. - Rapporteur's Statement. - Forecasting by Analogy: Local Responses to Global Climate Change. - Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Commercial Pelagic and Artisanal Coastal Fisheries in the Federated States of Micronesia. - 7 Human Settlements. - Rapporteur's Statement. - Permafrost and Global Warming: Strategies of Adaptation. - Health Adaptations to Climate Change: Need for Far-Sighted Integrated Approaches. Language: English