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Climate change impacts are already being experienced in every region of the United States and every part of the world—most severely in Arctic regions—and adaptation is needed now. Although climate change adaptation research is still in its infancy, significant adaptation planning in the United States has already begun in a number of localities. This article seeks to broaden the adaptation effort by integrating it with broader frameworks of hazards research, sustainability science, and community and regional resilience. To extend the range of experience, we draw from ongoing case studies in the Southeastern United States and the environmental history of New Orleans to consider the multiple threats and stresses that all communities and regions experience. Embedding climate adaptation in responses to multiple threats and stresses helps us to understand climate change impacts, themselves often products of multiple stresses, to achieve community acceptance of needed adaptations as cobenefits of addressing multiple threats, and to mainstream the process of climate adaptation through the larger envelope of social relationships, communication channels, and broad-based awareness of needs for risk management that accompany community resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an obituary for geographer Gilbert F. White.

The article reviews the article “Going to Extremes: Propositions on Social Response to Severe Climate Change,” by William R. Travis that appears within the issue.

A review of the article "Differences Between Tight and Loose Cultures," by Michele J. Gelfand et al, which appeared in volume 332 of the journal "Science" in the year 2011, is presented.