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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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gap between evolutionary biology, and the social sciences study of sustainability. …
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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 … collaboratively, together with future adaptation scenarios assessed against quantitative and qualitative indicators. This ‘visioning …
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Tropical highland regions are experiencing rapid climate change. In these regions the adaptation challenge is … enhanced climate resilience and adaptation to climate change. To support development of locally appropriate climate resilience … appropriate unit for defining adaptation strategies in these primarily subsistence agriculture communities. To this end, we …
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Most climate related hazards in Bangladesh are linked to water. The climate vulnerable poor—the poorest and most marginalized communities living in remote villages along Bangladesh’s coastal zone that are vulnerable to climate change impacts and who possess low adaptive capacity are most...
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The Great Green Wall (GGW) has been advocated as a means of reducing desertification in the Sahel through the planting of a broad continuous band of trees from Senegal to Djibouti. Initially proposed in the 1980s, the plan has received renewed impetus in light of the potential of climate change...
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focus on ecosystems and their interaction with people is essential for climate change adaptation. Increasingly, ecosystem …-based adaptation (EbA) approaches are being highlighted as an approach to address climate change impacts. Specifically, EbA encourages … the use of local and external knowledge about ecosystems to identify climate change adaptation approaches. This paper …
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This essay is an initial exploration of the dimensions of the equity/sustainability linkage from the perspective of … public goods analysis. Sustainability requires an abundance of public goods. Where these commons lack governance …, sustainability is at risk. Equity is a critical component of sustainability that can itself be viewed as a public good, subject to …
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Researchers and responsible officials have made considerable progress in recent years in efforts to anticipate, plan for, and respond to drought. Some of those efforts are beginning to shift from purely reactive, relief-oriented measures to programs designed to prevent or to mitigate drought...
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In four focus group exercises involving both forecasting and backcasting approaches, we gave approximately 100 Australian citizens the opportunity to discuss likely, desirable and feared futures to 2050. The image they paint is both coherent and consistent. Education, governance, personal...
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