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Numerous policy and funding mechanisms have recently emerged to support adaptation, and together the largest funds are expected to channel hundreds of millions of dollars to adaptation activities over the coming decades. However, the allocation of these funds remains controversial, in part because of the diversity of possible interventions.
Successfully supporting adaptation and setting priorities for adaptation funding will demand extraordinary new approaches to:
- synthesizing data on projected climate impacts,
- integrating this information with data on adaptation responses on-the-ground,
- disseminating data widely and supporting outreach at multiple scales,
- and monitoring and evaluating interventions to help set priorities for the future.
Dialogues at the recent United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP 14) in Poland, underscored that adaptation policy design is a fundamentally spatial problem. Geography is one of the few common threads connecting climate impact science to programs designed to promote adaptation. Therefore, mapping can play a central role in building and maintaining the essential linkages among science, policy, and on‐the‐ground practice. Because adaptation is both a global and a local problem affecting populations and ecosystems around the world, it is natural that responses will be sector-, site-, and population-specific. Success depends on real-time coordination of impacts and actions.
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