Identification of win-win adaptation options through adaptation metrices and integrated adaptation decision making frameworks

The current status of climate change adaptation is characterized by ad-hoc decision-making mechanisms without a means to measure the progress in adaptive capacity of people and systems udner question. In order to facilitate planned adaptation, this research aims to (i) identify a set of metrices to measure the effectiveness of adaptation options; and (ii) develop an integrated decision-making framework that helps various stakeholders to take adaptation decisions in the agriculture sector in the Gangetic basin.