‎"‎This is a thoughtful and thought‎-provoking volume‎,‎ with surprising insights‎.‎ Of the many books on climate change‎,‎ this one really hits on the essentials of ‎"‎What are we going to do about it‎?‎‎"‎ and ‎"‎Why haven‎'‎t we done anything yet‎?‎‎"‎ ‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎ This work will make readers think and realize that although addressing climate change is complicated‎,‎ achieving workable solutions is even more complicated‎.‎ Well‎-written and engaging reading for both social and physical scientists working on or interested in climate change or associated issues‎.‎ Summing Up‎:‎ Highly recommended‎.‎ Upper‎-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners‎;‎ general audiences‎.‎‎"‎ ‎- B‎.‎ Ransom‎,‎ formerly University of California‎,‎ San Diego‎,‎ in CHOICE‎,‎ June 2014 ‎"‎This is a great book‎.‎ It demonstrates clearly that success is contingent on getting the rules‎,‎ incentives and attitudes right‎.‎ The book engages in all the right ways‎:‎ with evidence‎,‎ rigour‎,‎ reflexivity‎,‎ and a sense of geography and the lived reality of climate change‎.‎‎"‎ Professor Neil Adger‎,‎ University of Exeter‎,‎ UK‎.‎ ‎"‎City leaders are searching for solutions to the massive economic‎,‎ infrastructure‎,‎ and health challenges arising from climate change‎.‎ What they need are solutions that strengthen their communities‎'‎ resilience ‎- their ability to recover and bounce back from extreme weather‎.‎ Susanne C‎.‎ Moser and Maxwell T‎.‎ Boykoff offer a critical resource with the contribution of Successful Adaptation to Climate Change‎.‎‎"‎ Michael Schmitz‎,‎ Executive Director‎,‎ ICLEI‎-Local Governments for Sustainability USA‎.‎ ‎"‎Perhaps the most striking take away for many readers is the conclusion that‎-as explicitly stated by Lisa Dilling and Rebecca Romsdahl in their chapter on ‎'‎Promoting adaptation success in natural resource management through decision support‎'‎‎-investing in people and effective institutions is likely to be as important to successful adaptation as investing in scientific data and technical tools‎.‎‎"‎ Danya Rumore‎,‎ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‎,‎ Anthem EnviroExperts Review‎,‎ USA