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. They provide valuable links between probable management adaptation responses and capacity for mitigating greenhouse gas …
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rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasing extreme events. Without attention to adaptation, the …
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in all the simulations after 2025. In a second part of the paper a cost effectiveness analysis of adaptation in Nigeria … agriculture is conducted. Adaptation practices considered are a mix of cheaper “soft measures” and more costly “hard” irrigation … adaptation exploiting low cost opportunities. In this case all climate change damages can be offset with a benefit cost ration …
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adaptation strategy. Investigation on how climatic variability influences irrigation adoption was performed as well as whether … this adaptation measure actually reduces producers’ vulnerability to climate change. We used matching methods to analyze … period. These conclusions confirm the need to invest in adaptation strategies in order to make Brazil ready to cope with the …
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interdisciplinary framework of limits and barriers to agricultural climate change adaptation. In: Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R …
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The Kingdom of Swaziland covers an area of 17,364 square kilometers bordered on the north, west, and south by the Republic of South Africa and on the east by Mozambique. The two major towns or cities are Mbabane, the capital city, and Manzini. The 2007 census put the population at 1.02 million,...
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According to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (Le Treut et al. 2007, 96), climate is defined as average weather over a period of time, ranging from months to millions of years. Climate is usually described in terms of the mean and variability...
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data over a 32-year period. The panel data model and time series region model with/without adaptation are applied at the … effect is crop-specific, not general. With adaptation, the economic impacts of warming on grain production are always … provinces, such as Shandong and Hebei, are very vulnerable. However, this study finds that the adaptation by irrigation is not …
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