Adaptation Now: Designing for the Inevitable

Climate change is no longer a future scenario—it is a present condition. Adaptation Now: Designing for the Inevitable shifts the focus from preventing impact alone to preparing for what is already unfolding.
This book takes a design-for-reality approach. It examines how cities, infrastructure, agriculture, and public systems adapt to heat, floods, droughts, and sea-level rise when extremes become normal. Rather than framing adaptation as defeat, the book shows how thoughtful design reduces risk, protects lives, and preserves economic stability.
The emphasis is on decisions made today that shape resilience for decades. Readers learn why designing for averages fails in a volatile climate, how adaptive systems absorb shocks without collapse, and why equity matters when impacts are unevenly distributed.
This book focuses on:
• Why adaptation is as urgent as mitigation
• How infrastructure is redesigned for extremes
• Why flexibility beats permanence in a changing climate
• How communities prepare without overbuilding
• What makes adaptation strategies durable over time
This book is for planners, engineers, policymakers, and leaders who accept reality and choose preparedness over delay. If climate impacts are inevitable, this book shows how design determines whether societies endure—or struggle.