Nature Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation ...
assessment report (AR5) by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2014:4) indicated that the number of scientific publications available for assessing climate-change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability more than doubled between 2005 and 2010, with a rapid increase in published resources related to adaptation in particular.
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