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radical shift toward planning for climate change and adaptation. It inadequately addresses social planning issues that are …
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Intercropping has a strong potential to counteract the severe degradation of arable land in the North China Plain (NCP … the North China Plain. Secondly, a survey was conducted in the study region to understand the current state and future of …
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more accurate accounting of sources, their bioavailabilities and lag times is needed to direct proportioned mitigation …
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, together with mitigation options. The local nature of many of the impacts, combined with their short atmospheric lifetime and … reducing these emissions provides a highly climatically-effective mitigation option that is also appropriate to the development …
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mitigation measures to extend the surface of the wetland and provides additional habitats for various species. Wetland …
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The principles of well-known indices of sustainability—the Ecological Footprint (EF) and the Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI)—have been compared to discuss the essence of attitude, substantial differences and transferability into urban planning. An overview indicates that...
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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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