Showing 1 - 10 of 181
The aim of this paper is to gain insights from studying adaptation to natural disasters in the past in order to analyze … optimal adaptation in Switzerland in the future. Most adaptation measures already undertaken in Switzerland are so … measures to combat market damages in an ecient way. We come up with modeling adaptation as a cumulative stock in a computable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372563
This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on … source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for purpose? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693578
The extinction of polar bears by the end of the 21st century has been predicted and calls have been made to list them as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The decision on whether or not to list rests upon forecasts of what will happen to the bears over the 21st Century....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836045
Adaptation Plans of Action in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change but implementation of … those programmes and strategic links to resourcing actions are often lacking. Adaptation in the agricultural sector can be … term adaptation strategy. Organic agriculture is believed to be the most sustainable approach against climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756493
Some recent papers by Dell et al. (2009) and Dell et al. (2012) (DJO) relating weather and economic outcomes, have delivered meaningful messages with clear implications to the effects of a changing climate. In a nutshell, the authors claim that a 1°C increase in global average temperatures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130323
continuously. This time adaptation is getting more and more attention to reduce the socio economic vulnerability and risks … associated with the climate change. Adaptation is unavoidable. This paper enumerates the literature review of Adaptation … why adaptation is necessary and its implications in coping the climate change challenges and what progress has been made …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108126
human mobility as seen by the population, as well as some of the other adaptation strategies used by households to cope with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108741
, including extreme weather events. Other coping and adaptation strategies include changing the household’s sources of livelihood … a burgeoning literature on climate change and migration and other adaptation strategies worldwide, the evidence … climate change and extreme weather events, migration, other household coping and adaptation strategies, and government and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108922
A large part of this study is based on data collected in 2011 in five focus countries of the MENA region. In addition, other existing data sources were used as well, as documented in the various chapters that follow, but this need not be discussed in this chapter. This chapter documents the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110413
What are the coping mechanisms and adaptation strategies (apart from migration which is discussed in part III of the … in 2011 in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Syria, and Yemen, documents the coping and adaptation strategies of households as … that coping and adaptation strategies used by households to deal with shocks are diverse, but still limited, as are the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111615