ABSTRACT
This chapter explores ethical aspects of ecological and social adaptation to climate change, with particular emphasis on climate change adaptation planning. Adaptation planning is a collective process that is closely tied to environmental law and governance, economic production and distribution, and cultural and social imaginaries or worldviews. If adaptation planning is conceptualized and conducted narrowly, as a matter of technical expertise, then it is likely that only technical questions will get attention. But if it is conceptualized more broadly as a civic practice, as a matter of inclusive participatory democracy, then questions of equity, justice, and civic responsibility may receive explicit attention.
