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Acknowledgments

This study was funded by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB955904), the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme (CLIMSAVE Project, Contract No. 244031), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (71103186).

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  1. Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), Beijing, 100081, People’s Republic of China

    Minpeng Chen, Hui Ju & Erda Lin

  2. Key Laboratory for Agricultural Environment, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, 100081, China

    Minpeng Chen & Hui Ju

  3. School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Fu Sun

  4. Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, Oxford, UK

    Pam Berry

  5. Iodine SPRL, Brussels, Belgium

    Rob Tinch

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This article is part of a Special Issue on “Regional Integrated Assessment of Cross-sectoral Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability” with Guest Editors Paula A. Harrison and Pam M. Berry

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Chen, M., Sun, F., Berry, P. et al. Integrated assessment of China’s adaptive capacity to climate change with a capital approach. Climatic Change 128, 367–380 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-014-1163-7

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