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This paper reviewed 42 studies of how local knowledge contributes to adaptation to climate and climate change in the Asia-Pacific Region. Most studies focused on traditional ecological or indigenous knowledge. Three simple questions were addressed: (1) How are changes in climate recognized? (2)...
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. In these and related efforts, a focus on building resilience is an important objective, one that resonates with … development objectives. Compiling and applying indicators will help development practitioners consider resilience in projects … literature, this paper identifies factors important to understanding the evolution of resilience over time and space, and …
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To avoid dangerous changes to the climate system, the global mean temperature must not rise more than 2 °C from the 19th century level. The German Advisory Council on Global Change recommends maintaining the rate of change in temperature to within 0.2 °C per decade. This paper supposes that...
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