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<strong>Applying f</strong>uel reduction treatments (FRTs) to forested landscapes can alleviate undesirable changes in wildfire benefits and costs due to climate change. A conceptual framework was developed for determining the preferred FRTs across planning periods, adapting FRTs to future climate change,...
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, collaborative solutions focused broadly on adaptation to climate change, most particularly the effects of “ecomigration”. Nations …
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of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural … resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis … of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were …
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catastrophe survivors. To address this gap in the literature, this paper discusses adaptation to and recovery from global … catastrophe. The paper begins by discussing the importance of global catastrophe adaptation and recovery, noting that successful … adaptation/recovery could have value on even astronomical scales. The paper then discusses how the adaptation/recovery could …
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short of mechanisms that promote farmers’ adaptation. As a result, smallholders are confronted with a variety of challenges … accordance with farmers’ perceptions. Smallholders use a combination of coping and adaptation strategies to respond to …-depth knowledge of climatic variability, which they use to inform their coping and adaptation strategies. Knowledge of climatic …
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-falling hurricanes. Societal adaptation is needed to reduce vulnerability from increasingly intense hurricanes. This study quantifies the … adaptation effects of potentially policy driven caps on housing densities and agricultural cover in coastal (and adjacent inland … economic damages. The evidence from this study implies that a medium to long term land use adaptation in the form of capping …
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Agroforestry practices can improve the adaptive capacity and resilience of local farming and subsistence systems while providing livelihood benefits to households. However, scaling up of agroforestry technology has often proved difficult. Many studies have been carried out to explain the lack of...
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farmers with restoration and conservation of ecosystem services, and climate change adaptation and mitigation. The Vi …
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of resilience, adaptation and innovation in the face of environmental challenges. This paper outlines how community …
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productivity, land degradation, high market prices, negative impacts on livelihoods, and increased malnutrition. Adaptation … is linked to issues of development, whereby adaptation is essential to counteract the negative impacts and improve the …
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