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This paper presents the results of an exploratory study working with two Amazonian communities in Peru to identify key climate-related health risks from the perspective of local residents, and characterize how these risks are experienced and managed. The work adopts a vulnerability-based...
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(11.7%) are the most expected impacts of climate change. Analysis of adaptation behaviour responses suggest that … behaviours largely for financial or contextual reasons. Finally, support for adaptation and mitigation policy responses is … protection increasing the water tariffs (52.5%). As discussions about mitigation and adaptation become increasingly common within …
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This paper presents a tailor-made scenario approach for climate change adaptation planning, which emphasises … approach facilitated the engagement of the local planning body in climate change adaptation and helped them to analyse …
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We propose a generic framework to characterize climate change adaptation uncertainty according to three dimensions …. We have studied the role of uncertainty in climate change adaptation planning using examples from four Danish water … epistemic (reducible) by nature but uncertainties on adaptation measures are complex, with ambiguity often being added to impact …
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land increases by 33 % from the baseline. Correspondingly, the associated economic impact due to adaptation is around −14 …
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of the distributional and equity implications of SLR impacts and adaptation actions remains limited. Here, we apply a new … adaptation. We use the Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) to identify socially vulnerable coastal communities, and combine this … adaptation approaches to respond to those threats. Results show that under the mid-SLR scenario (66.9 cm by 2100), approximately …
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using a water withdrawals-to-availability ratio for river basins. Our evaluation shows that, if no adaptation options are …, India, Other South Asia, China and Southeast Asia. The key adaptation options differ by region, depending on dominant crops …, respectively. The worldwide implementation of adaptation options could decrease the water-stressed population by about 5 % and 7 …
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iii) identifying organisations influential in the development of climate change mitigation and adaptation strategies and …
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