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Costing Adaptation discusses the various salient points on the costs of adaptation, with specific reference to India. It looks at the key areas of health, coastal zones, water, agriculture, forests, and ecosystems, and evaluates the feasible measures needed to reduce the negative impacts of climate change. The costs of these measures are enumerated in the book and compared to current and projected programmes. The book covers the various aspects involved in understanding adaptation to climate change in India, and estimating the costs of dealing with it and assessing where the expenditures have to be directed so that poor and vulnerable people are not worse off as a result of the climate change.