Coping is a] way of responding to an experienced impact with a shorter-term vision (for example, one season), and adaptation is the process of adjusting to change (both experienced and expected), which is longer term (for example, over a decade or longer). ...

The practical difference between coping and adapting is that coping strategies of today are likely to undermine opportunities for adaptation in the future, through unplanned and unstrategic use of resources, including social networks

Thanks so much Navodita for the opinion shared...Your point is well noted and very much appreciated

Often coping is seen as an element of adapatation or vice versa (see the second article I mention below: Adaptation strategies in coping with the impacts 

Strictly speaking both are very much different what long-term well-being of people is concerned.....

The idea of coping strategies came up in the context of food security research. Then at times people's actions were called survival strategies, meaning actions that help to secure the pure survival, but don't provide lasting positive outlook. Robert Chambers used this situation to define social vulnerabiliy as the combination of external events people are exposed to and internal ability to cope with them withoiut damaging consequences (Vulnerability has thus two sides: an external side of risks, shocks, and stress to which an individual or

household is subject; and an internal side which is defencelessness, meaning a lack of means to cope without damaging loss). Chambers, thus has already in mind that coping can cause loss....). Watts / Bohle in 1993 showed how coping can undermine people's food and livelihood security in the long term. During famines people sell assets, move away from the famine area, etc in orfder to survive. Once the famine is over those who survived are more vulnerable than before the event as they lost assets, social networks were broken up. Coping helped people to survive, but at the expense of becoming weaker and less able to face another food or other crisis.

Adapation on the other side means people's action that help them to live with the changes they adapted to. This could be to move to higher grounds when you become more exposed to flooding, or build back stronger when your house has been damaged by a cyclone. To build a seawall might also help or to put more emphasis and management into the cleaning and repair of drainage stystems.

Good adaptation should minimize the need of coping....

Vincent, Katharine; Cull, Tracy; Chanika, Diana; Hamazakaza, Petan; Joubert, Alec; Macome, Eulalia; Mutonhodza-Davies, Charity

Farmers' responses to climate variability and change in southern Africa – is it coping or adaptation?

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Climate and Development

Year:2013

Month:07

Day:

Volume:5

Issue:3

First page:194

Last page:205

Ahmed, Kawser; Islam, M

Adaptation strategies in coping with the impacts of global climate change on the coastal environment and resources of Bangladesh

IOP Publishing

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science

Year:2009

Month:02

Day:01

Volume:6

Issue:41

Opiyo, Francis; Wasonga, Oliver; Nyangito, Moses; Schilling, Janpeter; Munang, Richard

Drought Adaptation and Coping Strategies Among the Turkana Pastoralists of Northern Kenya

Springer-Verlag

International Journal of Disaster Risk Science

Year:2015

Month:9

Day:

Volume:6

Issue:3

First page:295

Last page:309

Opare, Service

Adaptation to climate change impacts: coping strategies of an indigenous community in Ghana to declining water supply

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Climate and Development

Year:2016

Month:07

Day:15

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:11

Alemayehu, Arragaw; Bewket, Woldeamlak

Smallholder farmers’ coping and adaptation strategies to climate change and variability in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Local Environment

Year:2017

Month:02

Day:13

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:15

Delisle, Sarah; Turner, Sarah

‘The weather is like the game we play’: Coping and adaptation strategies for extreme weather events among ethnic minority groups in upland northern Vietnam

Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Publishing)

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Year:2016

Month:12

Day:

Volume:57

Issue:3

First page:351

Last page:364

Kihila, Jacob M.

Indigenous coping and adaptation strategies to climate change of local communities in Tanzania: a review

Informa UK (Taylor & Francis)

Climate and Development

Year:2017

Month:05

Day:02

Volume:

Issue:

First page:1

Last page:11

Alemayehu, Arragaw; Bewket, Woldeamlak

Determinants of smallholder farmers' choice of coping and adaptation strategies to climate change and variability in the central highlands of Ethiopia

Elsevier

Environmental Development

Year:2017

Month:6

Deb, Apurba Krishna; Haque, C. Emdad

Multi-dimensional coping and adaptation strategies of small-scale fishing communities of Bangladesh to climate change induced stressors

Emerald (MCB UP )

International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management

Year:2017

Month:08

Day:21

Volume:9

Issue:4

First page:446

Last page:468

https://www.idrc.ca/en/project/vulnerability-coping-and-adaptation-context-climate-change-and-hivaids-south-africa

COPING

Short-term and immediate

Oriented towards survival

Not continuous

Motivated by crisis; reactive

Often degrades the resource base

Prompted by a lack of alternatives

ADAPTATION

Practices and results are sustained

Oriented towards longer-term livelihood security

A continuous process

Involves planning

Uses resources efficiently and sustainably

Focused on finding alternatives

Combines old and new strategies and knowledge

I totally agree with Woldegebrial Zeweld you can find clear difference stated in CARE’s Climate Vulnerability and Capacity Analysis Handbook,

https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-decision-making/adaptation-versus-coping