Informing ongoing adaptation: Iterative risk management involves an ongoing cycle of assessment, action, learning and response in which M&E plays a central, enabling role . Assessing the risk reduction provided by adaptation, both planned and implemented, often requires projections of anticipated future climate, socioeconomic conditions, and the effectiveness and implications for justice of each option . Understanding the potential for maladaptation may also require such assessments . Processes, such as adaptive pathways, that involve anticipating future responses  entail monitoring to detect early warning of approaching thresholds or changes in the solution space  that suggest the need or opportunity to adjust or expand current adaptation efforts .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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