Adaptation actions frequently include deliberate, coordinated, proactive policy decisions based on the awareness that conditions have changed or will change and that action is required to avert impacts or return to, maintain or achieve a desired state . Governance provides an important contextual framing, particularly in contexts where it is weak or contested . In these cases, it can mean that adaptation options stem largely from the local level. Adaptation processes can be categorised as individual, collective, proactive, reactive, autonomous, coordinated or natural . Apart from governments, other actors, organisations and institutions  also play an important part in adaptation processes, and consequently the discussion of enabling environments for sustainable or successful adaptation has to consider these different scales and actors. For example, while autonomous adaptations are mainly undertaken by private actors, triggered by climate change-induced market or welfare changes, planned adaptations can be carried out by both private and public actors. Natural adaptations appear within ecosystems as a reaction to climate change, as well as other factors, and incorporate innumerable possible actions that are context specific, ranging from managerial approaches to technological innovations and ecosystem- based approaches . Sanchez et al.  draws attention to preconceived ideas about some adaptation measures that are either considered good or bad without proper evaluation. It is argued that the association 'hard-bad' and 'soft-good' is not necessarily true; the impacts of adaptation can only be established through a case-by-case assessment. The decision to select a more or less
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