ABSTRACT
There are two main stages in risk management. The first – identifying and evaluating risks through risk assessment – is discussed in Chapter 5. This chapter concentrates on the second stage: coping with the risks. This second stage is often termed ‘risk treatment’ or ‘risk control’. Coping with risks posed by climate change is generally known as ‘adaptation’. Sometimes the phrase ‘risk mitigation’ is used in risk management to refer to the treatment of risk, but in the climate change context this can be confusing because the term ‘mitigation’ here means reducing emissions of greenhouse gases to slow the rate of climate change, rather than coping with change that does occur.
