ABSTRACT
In this chapter I seek to understand the evidence needs of policy players engaged in climate adaptation and to discuss an alternative conceptual framework for the development of ex ante policy evidence. I outline a simple typology for categorising adaptation issues in a way that highlights some of the important variables involved in understanding policy problems. I then investigate a resilience-based framework of policy evidence development as a means to reduce the worst excesses of the prevailing linear-technocratic heuristic and that, I argue, provides an intriguing alternative to risk-based methods (see Chapter 7).
