however it can also inadvertently increase vulnerability for example by concentrating assets in highrisk areas integrating climate into these choices can enhance resilience thereby supporting development in a changing climate as well as climateproofing existing development objectives this may require changes in the objectives themselves climateresilient development thus implies a continuous and integrated process of addressing risks from current climate and preparing for future changes sperling et al thus adaptation is understood as a process while climate resilience describes the outcome of adaptation and other often unrelated socioeconomic trends and policy choices