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Climate change is now affecting agriculture and food production in every country of the world. Here the authors present the IMPACT model results on yield, production, and net trade of major crops in China, and on daily calorie availability as an overall indicator of food security under climate...
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grouped in two categories: mitigation and adaptation. Developed countries that are better prepared to cope with climate change … should focus mainly on adaptation to cope with the consequences of climate change. This is not a recommendation that such …
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inequalities. This is likely to trigger an adaptation, the scope and mechanisms of which are hard to predict, and will undoubtedly …
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This paper analyzes the impacts of the modified needs for space heating and cooling due to global warming on the quantities of energy used for space conditioning and overall. It thereby estimates direct and total rebound effects, the latter including changes in consumption and production...
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related to climate adaptation. This paper attempts understand how global coffee companies are addressing climate change … adaptation as part of corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategies and what barriers may exist to prevent future scale-up. To … answer this question, I analyzed overall global adaptation needs and the specific needs of the coffee industry, which …
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the determinants of adaptation to climate change. Data used for this study are from both secondary and primary sources …-level climate adaptation measures using a Multinomial choice and stochastic-simulation model to investigate the effects of rapid …
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relationship between environmental change, adaptation, and migration in rural areas in sub-Saharan drylands. We show that … findings indicate that migration is often used as a complementary strategy to other forms of adaptation, which can vary … depending on situational needs. We use cluster analysis to identify adaptation clusters and show how linked response strategies …
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The purpose of this study is to compare the advancement of Poland's adaptation policy with the policy of other EU … value of the analysis is the diagnosis that indicates whether the advancement of the adaptation policy of individual … countries is appropriate for the projected climate change, together with the indication of the level of the adaptation policy in …
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change, types of adaptation strategies, factors influencing adaptation choices and barriers to adaptation in Eastern Hararghe … through their life experience. Planting trees is the major adaptation measure and 89.1 percent of the farmers took this … adaptation strategy. Most farmers (96 percent) believe that deforestation is the main cause of climate change and the choice of …
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