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acceptability of the adaptation strategies. Recommendations based on the experience of the initiative are provided that can … adaptation options mean that local governments must address the need for adaptation planning within a context of scientific … demonstrates a process to model, visualize and evaluate potential flood impacts and adaptation options for the community of Delta …
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Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio … introduce the concept of an “adaptation frontier”, which is defined as a socio-ecological system’s transitional adaptive … of systems on the frontier. These include path dependence, adaptation/development deficits, values conflicts and …
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of resilience, adaptation and innovation in the face of environmental challenges. This paper outlines how community … development experiments and its relationship to resilience, applied specifically to community development. …
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method can help identify options for increasing survivor resilience and promoting successful adaptation and recovery. A key … 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 …
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In the United States, direct losses from natural hazards are on the rise with hurricanes, flooding, and severe storms contributing about three quarters of the total damages. While losses from severe storms have been stable over the past fifty years, hurricane and flood losses have tripled. Per...
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Global climate change increases heat loads in urban areas causing health and productivity risks for millions of people. Inhabitants in tropical and subtropical urban areas are at especial risk due to high population density, already high temperatures, and temperature increases due to climate...
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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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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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As the Small Island Developing States of the Caribbean prepare to take climate change adaptation measures, there is a … and coastal communities are at risk of being marginalized. It is necessary to take into consideration the adaptation needs … this paper we focus on the need to ensure inclusion and social equity in adaptation planning as climate change issues …
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Florida, a series of Action Teams were created to plan for adaptation to impending environmental changes. As the 26th largest … by a regional government that anticipates the need for stringent adaptation. …
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