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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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annually by 2020. The Accords’ specification that adaptation must be addressed with the same priority as mitigation is not … adaptation finance of 95:5. In this paper, we investigate potential reasons for this bias. In our framework, we distinguish … the low priority of adaptation in international finance. The identification of obstacles for international adaptation …
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adaptation planning. This paper presents an approach for selecting climate change scenarios to provide a focal point for engaging … with stakeholders to evaluate adaptation options and communicate assessment outcomes. We illustrate how scenarios selected … with the approach can be used by evaluating climate change impacts and an adaptation option for livestock industries in the …
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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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We applied two methods to assess vulnerability to climate change in Mexico’s agricultural sector. The first one was a principal component analysis (PCA) that weighted each variable separately. For the second one, we integrated the variables in a linear array in which all variables were...
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adaptation capacity are needed to mitigate climate change impacts and to maintain regional stability of food production. The … dates as adaptation strategies to decrease the climate change impacts on maize production in Khorasan Razavi province, Iran … seems that management of irrigation water and planting dates can be beneficial for adaptation of maize to climate change in …
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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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