Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change. Edited byW. Neil Adger, Jouni Paavola, Saleemul Huq, and M. J. Mace.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 319p. $62.00 cloth, $25.00paper.

Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change moves awayfrom the scientific debate on the environmental impacts of climatechange and mitigation strategies to an acceptance of the fact thatcountries and even localities within countries will have to adapt tochanges in their climate. The authors also acknowledge that therewill be both winners and losers, again, sometimes within countriesas well as across international borders. They also note that thereare relative winners and losers, and that losses of life, health,and species must be treated differently from economic losses.Although equity has been an important part of the internationaldebate on climate change policy, previous texts have focused on thequestion of mitigation and whether developing nations should beallowed to continue emitting greenhouse gasses in order to improvetheir economic conditions, while developed nations are required toreduce emissions.