The local government should preferentially develop a comprehensive adaptation strategy to improve people's adaptive capacity on heat waves.
Therefore, more resources should be allocated to the northern inland regions with higher vulnerability, and a comprehensive adaptation plan should be developed by the local government to improve people's adaptive capacity.
We also introduce a comprehensive adaptation approach that involves content adaptation and presentation adaptation inline with the adaptation of the core services of applications.
Furthermore, at the time being, a fully comprehensive adaptation plan has yet to be developed, which is urgent considering that even those respondents who recognise the need to adjust their forest management practices to meet the needs for adaptation for climate change, do not know how to adapt to these changes.
When climate adaptation is advanced with a focus on learning, awareness, and capacity building, the process will likely lead to more sustained, legitimate, and comprehensive adaptation plans and policies that enhance the resilience of the most affected urban areas and residents.
Currently, most of the impact assessments rely heavily on (modelling) techniques that cannot take into account extreme events and pests and diseases and cannot address all crops, and are thus not suited as input for a comprehensive adaptation strategy at the farm level.
Naturally, plug-ins for existing clinical information systems are rather environment-specific and require comprehensive adaptation when implementing into another IT environment.
The steps undertaken in this study can be considered to represent a comprehensive adaptation of an English questionnaire and the study gives results for different groups of possible respondents as well as assesses missing data.
Addressing potential impacts both in the near term (the next 20 years) and the long term (up to 2050 or 2080) is advisable because a near-term focus provides relevant information within the usual planning horizon of health agencies, and an estimate of impacts in the longer term is needed to develop a comprehensive adaptation strategy.
It is also worth noting that a 2010 European Environment Agency report also refers to an intention to publish a Communication on Mainstreaming Adaptation and Mitigation in 2011 and a comprehensive EU adaptation strategy to be developed by 2013 [ 3].
