Leigh Glover is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Climate and Safety at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is the former Director of the Australasian Centre for the Governance & Management of Urban Transport (GAMUT) at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Mikael Granberg is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre forSocietal Risk Research at Karlstad University, Sweden, and a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Natural Hazards and Disaster Science (CNDS) at UppsalaUniversity, Sweden. He is also Honorary Professor at the Centre for UrbanResearch (CUR), RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.

• Part 1: Adaptation as a Phenomenon.- Chapter 1: The politics of adapting to climate change.- Chapter 2: Climate change adaptation as an idea and a practice.- Chapter 3: Emerging political considerations in climate change adaptation.- Part 2: Adaptation as Politics.- Chapter 4: Adaptation politics in context: Governance and sustainability.- Chapter 5: Political themes in adaptation.- Chapter 6: Political analyses of adaptation.- Chapter 7: Discussion and conclusions.