Explanation:
societies (robust evidence, high agreement). The combined efforts of a broad range of international organizations, scientific reports, and
media coverage have raised awareness of the importance of adaptation to climate change, fostering a growing number of adaptation responses
in developed and developing countries. This represents major progress since the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). The literature illustrates
heterogeneity in adaptation planning related to the context specific nature of adaptation, but also to the differences in resources, values,
needs, and perceptions among and within societies. However, it is not yet clear how effective these responses currently are and will be in the
future. Few adaptation plans have been monitored and evaluated. There is a tendency in the literature to consider adaptation planning a problem-
free process capable of delivering positive outcomes, underestimating the complexity of adaptation as a social process, creating unrealistic
expectations in societies, and perhaps overestimating the capacity of planning to deliver the intended outcome of adapt
