Metrics and Measurement of Adaptation: Advances in Water Research in the Arid Americas

This meeting brought together a group of 27 researchers and water resources policymakers working to understand adaptation in water-short regions of the Americas and other arid-semiarid areas of the world, including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and the southwestern U.S. The goals of the meeting were to share research experiences from distinct contexts; begin to synthesize common or related findings from across the region; develop a special issue on the metrics of adaptation for submission to a high-impact journal (e.g., Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, COSUST); and discuss potential future collaboration on metrics and measuring adaptation.