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Although climate change is expected to increase vulnerabilities, marginalization, and sufferings of many in the Global South, impacts will be unevenly felt across social strata. Intersectionalities of social difference, especially along gender and class lines, differentiate the ways in which impacts of climate change a... | Sultana, F | Gendering Climate Change: Geographical Insights | Professional Geographer | https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2013.821730 | 2,014 |
The process of contemporary environmental change is characterized by being global, considering that for a long time, the impacts were more local.The first point is to highlight the difference between climate change and environmental change:the first is related to climate imbalances, while the second analyses not only t... | De Paula, SA; de Mello, LF | Vulnerability and human mobility: a perspective from the Global South about colonialism and history | Relaciones Internacionales-Madrid | https://doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2021.47.011 | 2,021 |
Saltwater intrusion affected seriously the livelihood of mangosteen growers in Ben Tre, a coastal province in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta in 2016. This study assesses how saltwater intrusion influenced the livelihood vulnerability of the mangosteen households and communities. This study used the United Nations' Liveli... | Truc, NTT; Thuc, LV | IMPACT OF SALTWATER INTRUSION ON RELATION TO FRUIT GROWING HOUSEHOLDS IN BEN TRE, VIETNAM | Agricultural And Resource Economics-International Scientific E-Journal | null | 2,022 |
In response to increasing environmental and social changes in the past few decades, some Inuit hunters have been turning to scientific tools to help evaluate sea ice conditions. Simultaneously, there has been more scientific interest in understanding local scale processes through Inuit knowledge in order to develop a b... | Laidler, GJ; Hirose, T; Kapfer, M; Ikummaq, T; Joamie, E; Elee, P | Evaluating the Floe Edge Service: how well can SAR imagery address Inuit community concerns around sea ice change and travel safety? | Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00347.x | 2,011 |
According to dominant narratives about adaptation to climate change, those facing worst-case scenarios, without means at their disposal to adapt in situ, face an ineluctable set of adaptation strategies that ultimately includes the permanent abandonment of geographic spaces rendered uninhabitable and unproductive for h... | Wrathall, DJ; Bury, J; Carey, M; Mark, B; McKenzie, J; Young, K; Baraer, M; French, A; Rampini, C | Migration Amidst Climate Rigidity Traps: Resource Politics and Social-Ecological Possibilism in Honduras and Peru | Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers | https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2013.873326 | 2,014 |
Coastal urban cities frequently face multiple hazards, including potentially disastrous extreme events. To combat this, vulnerability assessment is essential to developing an effective mitigation strategy. This study proposes a framework to assess the vulnerability of any densely populated urban area to disasters by co... | Sherly, MA; Karmakar, S; Parthasarathy, D; Chan, T; Rau, C | Disaster Vulnerability Mapping for a Densely Populated Coastal Urban Area: An Application to Mumbai, India | Annals Of The Association Of American Geographers | https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2015.1072792 | 2,015 |
Transdisciplinary research is a promising approach to address sustainability challenges arising from global environmental change, as it is characterized by an iterative process that brings together actors from multiple academic fields and diverse sectors of society to engage in mutual learning with the intent to co-pro... | Steger, C; Klein, JA; Reid, RS; Lavorel, S; Tucker, C; Hopping, KA; Marchant, R; Teel, T; Cuni-Sanchez, A; Dorjii, T; Greenwood, G; Huber, R; Kassam, KA; Kreuer, D; Nolinn, A; Russello, A; Sharp, JL; Hribar, MS; Thorn, JPR; Grants, G; Mahdi, M; Morenou, M; Waiswav, D | Science with society: Evidence-based guidance for best practices in environmental transdisciplinary work | Global Environmental Change-Human And Policy Dimensions | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102240 | 2,021 |
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the progresses made by the Potenza province in implementing #weResilient strategy, a risk-informed sustainable development policy-making action at territorial/local levels based on a structural combination of environmental sustainability, territorial safety and climate cha... | Attolico, A; Smaldone, R | The #weResilient strategy for downscaling local resilience and sustainable development: the Potenza province and municipalities of Potenza and Pignola case | Disaster Prevention And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2020-0130 | 2,020 |
The arid and semi-arid regions account for approximately 30% of the world total area and are inhabited by approximately 20% of the total world population. Issues of present and future climate variability and change on agriculture and forestry in the arid and semi-arid tropics of the world were examined and discussion u... | Sivakumar, MVK; Das, HP; Brunini, O | Impacts of present and future climate variability and change on agriculture and forestry in the arid and semi-arid tropics | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-5937-9 | 2,005 |
The increasing frequency of extreme events in West Africa, such as droughts and floods, has made populations that base their subsistence mostly on rainfed agriculture even more vulnerable to climate threats. Climate Ser-vices (CS) are largely acknowledged as effective tools for tackling climate risks in agriculture, pa... | Bacci, M; Idrissa, OA; Zini, C; Burrone, S; Sitta, AA; Tarchiani, V | Effectiveness of agrometeorological services for smallholder farmers: The case study in the regions of Dosso and Tillab?eri in Niger | Climate Services | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100360 | 2,023 |
This article calls for a stronger engagement by geographers with the concept of socionature as a vehicle for guiding adaptation thinking in development planning. Drawing on literatures from poststructuralist geographies, it argues for a relational, hybrid ontology of climate change adaptation grounded in multiple persp... | Dujardin, S | Planning with Climate Change? A Poststructuralist Approach to Climate Change Adaptation | Annals Of The American Association Of Geographers | https://doi.org/10.1080/24694452.2019.1664888 | 2,020 |
Climate change, sea-level rise, land subsidence, and rapid urbanization are likely to increase flood risk in low-lying coastal cities in the future, posing serious challenges to urban sustainability. To quantitatively assess the future trends of flood risks and to carry out effective adaptation measures are among the h... | Shan, XM; Du, SQ; Wang, LY; Zhang, M; Li, WJ; Hu, HZ; Wen, JH | Flood risk dynamics and adaptation analyses for coastal cities based on internet big data and hydrology-hydrodynamic models | Chinese Science Bulletin-Chinese | https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2020-1536 | 2,021 |
In recent decades, traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has played an increasing role in wildlife management and biodiversity conservation in Canada and elsewhere. This study examined the potential contribution that Inuit TEK (which is one aspect of Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit or Inuit traditional knowledge) could offer ... | Henri, DA; Jean-Gagnon, F; Gilchrist, HG | Using Inuit traditional ecological knowledge for detecting and monitoring avian cholera among Common Eiders in the eastern Canadian Arctic | Ecology And Society | https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09289-230122 | 2,018 |
During the last few years the world has witnessed severe climatic conditions, be it in the form of unprecedented droughts or devastating floods, tornadoes, landslides along with major earthquakes and Tsunamis. Are these natural calamities natural and normal or are these the manifestation of man's adverse impact on the ... | Kakoty, S | Ecology, sustainability and traditional wisdom | Journal Of Cleaner Production | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.11.036 | 2,018 |
Purpose This study aims to understand the mechanisms that contribute to the construction of the resilience of populations to urban flooding. It therefore proposes to analyse the strategies and attitudes developed by households subjected to floods to maintain and rebuild themselves despite the damage in the urbanised ma... | Djomekui, BLS; Yemmafouo, A | Population resilience to flooding in the urbanised mangrove of Douala, Cameroon | International Journal Of Disaster Resilience In The Built Environment | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-04-2022-0040 | 2,023 |
Indigenous Peoples in the Arctic have for millennia relied on freshwaters for drinking water and freshwater species that comprise important subsistence harvests, which promotes a strong connection to the land and unique understanding of organisms and ecosystem processes and changes. Despite the importance of freshwater... | Knopp, JA; Levenstein, B; Watson, A; Ivanova, I; Lento, J | Systematic review of documented Indigenous Knowledge of freshwater biodiversity in the circumpolar Arctic | Freshwater Biology | https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13570 | 2,022 |
China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a massive development plan in terms of scale and scope. It aims at facilitating China's connectivity with the rest of the world through trade, investment, and infrastructure projects. BRI encompasses seven economic corridors, which cover over 100 countries. Consequently, the sp... | Battamo, AY; Varis, O; Sun, PZ; Yang, YK; Oba, BT; Zhao, L | Mapping socio-ecological resilience along the seven economic corridors of the Belt and Road Initiative | Journal Of Cleaner Production | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127341 | 2,021 |
Sea level rise and floods have an important majority among the environmental problems due to global warming and climate change in the 21st century. Floods are becoming a threat to the coastal areas where physical and socio-economic focal points are mostly concentrated that may be affected by this change and has a risk ... | Ercanli, Ç; Savasir, G | Assessing adaptation strategies against flood risk in urban coastal areas through Izmir Karsiyaka coastline case | Megaron | https://doi.org/10.14744/MEGARON.2022.46666 | 2,022 |
According to the climate change projections, there will be an increase in torrential rains and related floods. In parallel with this, the risk of flood damage to the architectural heritage will increase in the future. Floods cause serious damage to the architectural heritage. Since flood risk analyses are generally mad... | Erdogan, BG; Ünal, ZG | A Model Proposal for the Flood Risk Analysis of the Architectural Heritage: Edirne Bayezid II Complex Flood Risk Analysis | Megaron | https://doi.org/10.14744/MEGARON.21331.88785 | 2,021 |
Africa emits the lowest amounts of greenhouse gases (GHGs) into the global GHG budget. However, the continent remains the most vulnerable continent to the effects of climate change. The agricultural sector in Africa is among the most vulnerable sectors to climate change. Also, as a dominant agricultural sector, African... | Epule, TE; Chehbouni, A; Ongoma, V; Brouziyne, Y; Etongo, D; Molua, EL | A new index on agricultural land greenhouse gas emissions in Africa | Environmental Monitoring And Assessment | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-10196-4 | 2,022 |
In the past two decades, China's urbanization has advanced rapidly. In 2018, Xi'an was successfully selected as a national central city, and the Guanzhong Plain urban agglomeration (GZPUA) is emerging rapidly due to Xi'an. This study focuses on the current ecological status of the region and how to strike a balance bet... | Wei, XT; Eboy, OV; Xu, L; Yu, D | Ecological Sensitivity of Urban Agglomeration in the Guanzhong Plain, China | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su15064804 | 2,023 |
Sorghum is one of the most important cereal crops well adapted in arid and semi-arid areas of Ethiopia but yield is low as compared to its potential. The crop has been adversely affected by climate change and climate variability accompanied by low soil fertility, insects and weeds. Thus, assessment of impact of project... | Mohammed, A; Misganaw, A | Modeling future climate change impacts on sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) production with best management options in Amhara Region, Ethiopia | Cabi Agriculture & Bioscience | https://doi.org/10.1186/s43170-022-00092-9 | 2,022 |
Maize is one of the most important cereal food crops, and it can be grown all year in various agroecological zones. However, its vegetative growth and yield are susceptible to rainfall and temperature variability. As a result, the analysis of rainfall and temperature variability and trend was urgently needed in maize-g... | Zeleke, A; Tesfaye, K; Tadesse, T; Alem, T; Ademe, D; Adgo, E | Analysis of Climate Variability and Trends for Climate-Resilient Maize Farming System in Major Agroecology Zones of Ethiopia | Advances In Meteorology | https://doi.org/10.1155/2023/9562601 | 2,023 |
The presence of legacy pollutants, on-going chemical manufacturing activities, and population shifts have introduced complex, cumulative exposure risks to residents of many highly industrialized communities. These industrial corridors present unique challenges to environmental health science professionals, public and p... | Reams, MA; Irving, JK | Applying community resilience theory to engagement with residents facing cumulative environmental exposure risks: lessons from Louisiana's industrial corridor | Reviews On Environmental Health | https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2019-0022 | 2,019 |
Flood is one of the prominent hazards in the Terai region of Nepal. This study was objectively conducted to assess the livelihood vulnerability of community living in the up-stream, mid-stream and down-stream regions at southern Bagmati River corridor, Nepal. To meet the objective, primary data were collected through h... | Shreevastav, BB; Tiwari, KR; Mandal, RA; Nepal, A | Assessing flood vulnerability on livelihood of the local community: A case from southern Bagmati corridor of Nepal | Progress In Disaster Science | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pdisas.2021.100199 | 2,021 |
Although much has changed for Inuit since their social, economic, and political integration into Canada, sea ice still forms an essential part of what they call their homeland. The ways in which sea ice is understood by Inuit, however, are still little known to non-Inuit. Alongside the currently renewed political and e... | Aporta, C | Shifting perspectives on shifting ice: documenting and representing Inuit use of the sea ice | Canadian Geographer-Geographe Canadien | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0064.2010.00340.x | 2,011 |
Climate change is a reality. It is happening and posing adverse impacts globally as well as on Pakistan. To effectively respond to this ubiquitous threat, Pakistan formulated the National Climate Change Policy (NCCP) in 2012 and operationalized it in 2013. Yet it encourages further analyses and evaluations so as to ide... | Mumtaz, M | The National Climate Change Policy of Pakistan: An Evaluation of Its Impact on Institutional Change | Earth Systems And Environment | https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-018-0062-x | 2,018 |
The city has been the political unit of organization in the international system for long periods of history.As actors in international society, cities have left irreplaceable classics:Athens, Imperial Rome, the Hanseatic League or Machiavelli's Florence. However, the dominant school of thought has diminished the role ... | Manfredi Sánchez, JL | Urban cosmopolitanism:the city before the post-liberal order | Relaciones Internacionales-Madrid | https://doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2020.44.002 | 2,020 |
According to most estimates, more than one hundred million people will be permanently displaced by climate change by 2050. Among the people most at risk of displacement are American Indians. If the government does nothing, or simply does not do enough, hundreds of Indian communities across the United States will be des... | Stern, SW | Rebuilding Trust: Climate Change, Indian Communities, and a Right to Resettlement | Ecology Law Quarterly | https://doi.org/10.15779/Z38J96098X | 2,020 |
Within the last decades serious flooding events occurred in many parts of Europe and especially in 2005 the Austrian Federal Province of Tyrol was serious affected. These events in general and particularly the 2005 event have sensitised decision makers and the public. Beside discussions pertaining to protection goals a... | Huttenlau, M; Stötter, J; Stiefelmeyer, H | Risk-based damage potential and loss estimation of extreme flooding scenarios in the Austrian Federal Province of Tyrol | Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences | https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-10-2451-2010 | 2,010 |
CONTEXT: The planned interventions to enhance adaptation and build resilience of predominantly rainfed and vulnerable smallholder production systems to climate change in African drylands include small-scale irrigation using rainwater harvesting reservoirs. However, the required technological improvement, participatory ... | Koide, J; Yokoyama, S; Hirouchi, S; Hirose, C; Oka, N; Oda, M; Yanagihara, S | Exploring climate-resilient and risk-efficient cropping strategies using a new pond irrigation system: An experimental study in northern Ghana | Agricultural Systems | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103149 | 2,021 |
The theory on the cyclic adaptation between society and ecosystems sheds new light on the evolution and internal structure of human-environment systems. This paper introduces the risk index (RI) and adaptation capacity index (ACI) to evaluate the rural human-environment system. An evaluation index system for the adapta... | Li, WL; Kuang, WH; Lyu, J; Zhao, ZH; Zhang, BY | Adaptive evolution of the rural human-environment system in farming and pastoral areas of northern China from 1952-2017 | Journal Of Geographical Sciences | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11442-021-1875-3 | 2,021 |
Background: Climate change influences patterns of human mobility and health outcomes. While much of the climate change and migration discourse is invested in quantitative predictions and debates about whether migration is adaptive or maladaptive, less attention has been paid to the voices of the people moving in the co... | Schwerdtle, PN; Baernighausen, K; Karim, S; Raihan, TS; Selim, S; Baernighausen, T; Danquah, I | A Risk Exchange: Health and Mobility in the Context of Climate and Environmental Change in Bangladesh-A Qualitative Study | International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health | https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052629 | 2,021 |
During the past few years two new methods, each based on the analogous region concept, have been developed to account for farmer adaptation in response to global climatic change. The first, called `Ricardian' by Mendelsohn, Nordhaus, and Shaw (1994), econometrically estimates the impact of climatic and other variables ... | Darwin, R | A farmer's view of the Ricardian approach to measuring agricultural effects of climatic change | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005421707801 | 1,999 |
Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the extent of climate change awareness among the rural farmers of Northern Cross River state, investigate the gender role analyzes of some daily routine activities carried out by these rural farmers, ascertain the difference in workload burden of the impacts of climate ch... | Eneji, CVO; Onnoghen, NU; Acha, JO; Diwa, JB | Climate change awareness, environmental education and gender role burdens among rural farmers of Northern Cross River State, Nigeria | International Journal Of Climate Change Strategies And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-06-2020-0070 | 2,021 |
Australian local governments are expected to be the frontline of climate change adaptation implementation, but existing institutional arrangements are inadequate. Institutional changes that make adaptation pathways part of land use planning policy are needed and how this might happen is assessed using New South Wales (... | McNicol, I | Increasing the Adaptation Pathways Capacity of Land Use Planning - Insights from New South Wales, Australia | Urban Policy And Research | https://doi.org/10.1080/08111146.2020.1788530 | 2,021 |
Global environmental and ecological problems such as climate change and other related issues (e.g. biodiversity losses) do not recognize state boundaries. Therefore, intentions to address these problems require a multi-actor, multi-sector and multilevel approach. The concept that enables joint effort against these prob... | Nedeljkovic, J; Stanisic, M; Nonic, D; Avdibegovic, M; Curman, M; Malovrh, SP | CLIMATE CHANGE GOVERNANCE IN FORESTRY AND NATURE CONSERVATION: INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK IN SELECTED SEE COUNTRIES | Sumarski List | https://doi.org/10.31298/sl.143.9-10.6 | 2,019 |
Background: Drawing upon multiple types of knowledge (e.g., Indigenous knowledge, local knowledge, science-based knowledge) strengthens the evidence-base for policy advice, decision making, and environmental management. While the benefits of incorporating multiple types of knowledge in environmental research and manage... | Alexander, SM; Provencher, JF; Henri, DA; Taylor, JJ; Lloren, JI; Nanayakkara, L; Johnson, JT; Cooke, SJ | Bridging Indigenous and science-based knowledge in coastal and marine research, monitoring, and management in Canada | Environmental Evidence | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13750-019-0181-3 | 2,019 |
PurposeThis paper aims to highlight the localised shelter solutions to fulfil adequate and disaster resilient housing needs of urban informal settlers of Honiara, the capital city of Solomon Islands, in a way that is sensitive to their unique challenges, values and aspirations, is gender- and disability-inclusive, and ... | Vahanvati, M; McEvoy, D; Iyer-Raniga, U | Inclusive and resilient shelter guide: accounting for the needs of informal settlements in Solomon Islands | International Journal Of Disaster Resilience In The Built Environment | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-10-2022-0098 | 2,023 |
Background.Climate change and climate variability interact with political, economic, social, demographic, and other environmental drivers to change the scale and patterns of human migration(5). In the context of accelerating climate change and breaches to other planetary boundaries, there is an urgent need to better un... | Schwerdtle, PN; McMichael, C; Mank, I; Sauerborn, R; Danquah, I; Bowen, KJ | Health and migration in the context of a changing climate: a systematic literature assessment | Environmental Research Letters | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab9ece | 2,020 |
This study investigates the synoptic aspects of two heavy rainfall events that occurred in the southern half of Iran during the period 2019-2020. To this end, daily precipitation data from 114 synoptic stations scattered over southern, southwestern, and southeastern Iran were used to characterize the 24-h total precipi... | Miri, M; Raziei, T; Zand, M; Kousari, MR | Synoptic aspects of two flash flood-inducing heavy rainfalls in southern Iran during 2019-2020 | Natural Hazards | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-022-05658-4 | 2,023 |
Climate-induced waterlogging has been significantly affecting the lives and livelihood of people in the south-west coastal region of Bangladesh for a couple of decades. The objective of this study is to investigate the waterlogging hazards of Tala, a south-western coastal Upazila of Bangladesh by analyzing satellite im... | Tareq, SM; Rahman, MTU; Islam, AZMZ; Baddruzzaman, ABM; Ali, MA | Evaluation of climate-induced waterlogging hazards in the south-west coast of Bangladesh using Geoinformatics | Environmental Monitoring And Assessment | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-6591-9 | 2,018 |
To meet the future food demand, supply should be increased. Crop production in Africa is projected to increase in the future. However, can the crop production trends guarantee future food security? For illustrative analyses, cereal was used on theassumption, following a recent study, that the changes in its production ... | Onyutha, C | African crop production trends are insufficient to guarantee food security in the sub-Saharan region by 2050 owing to persistent poverty | Food Security | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-018-0839-7 | 2,018 |
This study was aimed at analyzing time-series trends and variability analysis of observed rainfall and temperature records from 16 stations during the 1985-2015 period. Besides, it focused on the smallholders' perceptions, including the analysis of their response strate-gies to both observed and perceived climate varia... | Tofu, DA; Mengistu, M | Observed time series trend analysis of climate variability and smallholder adoption of new agricultural technologies in west Shewa, Ethiopia | Scientific African | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sciaf.2022.e01448 | 2,023 |
Purpose The decision of livelihood based on the embankment characters is essentially multivariate. Making an effort to do the bivariate modelling may eliminate the useful socio-economic information in the interdependent and simultaneous adaptation choices (Dorfman, 1996). Hence, the more appropriate method is multiple-... | Saha, S; Hazra, S; Ghosh, T | How embankment influences coastal livelihood in the context of climate adaptation - a case study of Indian Sundarban Delta | International Journal Of Disaster Resilience In The Built Environment | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-08-2021-0119 | 2,022 |
Coastal floods are the most prominent natural disaster causing severe damages to the local communities regarding food security, economy and shelter. Risks can be defined by physiographical sensitivity and vulnerability associated with socio-economic, demographic and infrastructure aspects of the region. Population with... | Narendr, A; Vinay, S; Aithal, BH; Das, S | Multi-dimensional parametric coastal flood risk assessment at a regional scale using GIS | Environment Development And Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-021-01839-6 | 2,022 |
Robust decision-making for climate change adaptation under deep uncertainty is a common challenge faced by policymakers and scientists in the world. In recent years, the limitations of risk assessment and adaptation planning based on the prediction results of climate models have become increasingly acknowledged. The un... | Tian, Z; Wu, WX; Liu, JG; Sun, LX | A review of decision-making methods for climate change adaptation under deep uncertainty: With a focus on flooding control in coastal cities | Chinese Science Bulletin-Chinese | https://doi.org/10.1360/TB-2021-1218 | 2,022 |
Adaptation to climate change raises important governance issues in terms of governance structures and mechanisms, stakeholders' involvement, and links with the existing and wider-scale strategies. Notwithstanding the increasing attention at the global and European level, precise recommendations for the governance of cl... | Cattivelli, V | Climate Adaptation Strategies and Associated Governance Structures in Mountain Areas. The Case of the Alpine Regions | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052810 | 2,021 |
This study focused on assessing agricultural land use practices and livelihood changes as affected by long-term erratic rainfall patterns characterized by flood and drought cycles in the Bhungroo Irrigation Technology (BIT) piloted sites, West Mamprusi upper and lower catchment area in Ghana. The study defined environm... | Nkpeebo, AY; Mavimbela, SSW | Analyzing changes in land use practices and livelihoods in the Bhungroo irrigation technology Volta basin piloted sites, West Mamprusi District, Ghana | Heliyon | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14907 | 2,023 |
The agricultural sector is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in Ethiopia, as it is the basis of the economy and the primary source of employment. This study investigated the implementation of mitigation and adaptation practices in smallholder farms in Ethiopia, estimated GHG emissions associated wit... | Feliciano, D; Recha, J; Ambaw, G; MacSween, K; Solomon, D; Wollenberg, E | Assessment of agricultural emissions, climate change mitigation and adaptation practices in Ethiopia | Climate Policy | https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2028597 | 2,022 |
Flooding is a major natural hazard in many parts of the world, and its frequency and magnitude are projected to increase with global warming. With increased concern over ongoing climate change, more detailed and precise information about climate-change risks is required for formulating local-scale countermeasures. Howe... | Kimura, Y; Hirabayashi, Y; Kita, Y; Zhou, XD; Yamazaki, D | Methodology for constructing a flood-hazard map for a future climate | Hydrology And Earth System Sciences | https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-1627-2023 | 2,023 |
Low-income producers and consumers of food in Africa are more vulnerable to climate change, owing to their comparatively limited ability to invest in more adapted institutions and technologies under increasing climatic risks. Therefore, the way we manage our food systems needs to be urgently changed if the goal is to a... | Zougmoré, RB; Läderach, P; Campbell, BM | Transforming Food Systems in Africa under Climate Change Pressure: Role of Climate-Smart Agriculture | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084305 | 2,021 |
This study aims at assessing the vulnerability of six key crops (maize, beans, cassava, millet, groundnuts, and sweet potatoes) to variations in growing season precipitation at both the national and regional scale (southwest) in Uganda.To achieve this objective, a vulnerability model that is a function of sensitivity, ... | Epule, TE; New, MG | Vulnerability of crop yields to variations in growing season precipitation in Uganda | Sn Applied Sciences | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42452-019-0912-7 | 2,019 |
The Paris Agreement aims to limit global mean temperature rise this century to well below 2 degrees C above pre-industrial levels. This target has wide-ranging implications for Europe and its cities, which are the source of substantial greenhouse gas emissions. This paper reports the state of local planning for climate... | Reckien, D; Salvia, M; Heidrich, O; Church, JM; Pietrapertosa, F; De Gregorio-Hurtado, S; D'Alonzo, V; Foley, A; Simoes, SG; Lorencová, EK; Orru, H; Orru, K; Wejs, A; Flacke, J; Olazabal, M; Geneletti, D; Feliu, E; Vasilie, S; Nador, C; Krook-Riekkola, A; Matosovic, M; Fokaides, PA; Ioannou, BI; Flamos, A; Spyridaki, N... | How are cities planning to respond to climate change? Assessment of local climate plans from 885 cities in the EU-28 | Journal Of Cleaner Production | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.03.220 | 2,018 |
As the impact of climate change on the agricultural sector has begun to manifest itself in its severity, adaptation planning has come under scrutiny for favoring the preservation of status-quo conditions over more substantial changes. The uptake of transformational adaptations, involving a significant re-structuring of... | Zagaria, C; Schulp, CJE; Zavalloni, M; Viaggi, D; Verburg, PH | Modelling transformational adaptation to climate change among crop farming systems in Romagna, Italy | Agricultural Systems | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103024 | 2,021 |
A defining characteristic of many rainfed tropical agricultural systems is their vulnerability to weather variability. There is now increased attention paid to climate-agriculture links as the world is focused on climate change. This has shown the need for it understanding of current and future climate and the links to... | Coe, R; Stern, RD | ASSESSING AND ADDRESSING CLIMATE-INDUCED RISK IN SUB-SAHARAN RAINFED AGRICULTURE: LESSONS LEARNED | Experimental Agriculture | https://doi.org/10.1017/S001447971100010X | 2,011 |
This paper reviews research on African climate from the major Sahel droughts in the early 1970s to current interest in improving the use of climate science within societal decision-making processes. During the last decade, and particularly since the mid-2000s, the development community has begun to engage seriously wit... | Conway, D | Adapting climate research for development in Africa | Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Climate Change | https://doi.org/10.1002/wcc.115 | 2,011 |
Purpose - The purpose of the instrument is to favour and strengthen, in a timely and relevant manner, the processes of design, planning, investment, execution and evaluation of various public and private initiatives in the territory, thereby strengthening the preventive, responsive and adaptive capacities of the commun... | Silva, N; Mena, C | Identifying the underlying risk factors of local communities in Chile | Disaster Prevention And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-04-2020-0105 | 2,020 |
Tropical small islands are particularly vulnerable to environmental impacts. In the small islands of the Western Indian Ocean (WIO), multiple stressors of environmental and socio-economic change interact and intensify at reduced spatial scales. Actors and institutions need to respond to these changes through responses ... | Poti, M; Huge, J; Shanker, K; Koedam, N; Dahdouh-Guebas, F | Learning from small islands in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO): A systematic review of responses to environmental change | Ocean & Coastal Management | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106268 | 2,022 |
The coastal zone of The Gambia consists of 70 km open ocean coast and 200 km sheltered coast. Only about 20 km of the open coastline is significantly developed and this includes Banjul (the capital city), Bakau and Cape St. Mary, Fajara and the Tourism Development Area (TDA). Tourism is the most important economic sect... | Jallow, BP; Barrow, MKA; Leatherman, SP | Vulnerability of the coastal zone of The Gambia to sea level rise and development of response strategies and adaptation options | Climate Research | https://doi.org/10.3354/cr006165 | 1,996 |
Purpose Despite Bangladesh's great strides in formulating disaster management policies following the principles of good governance, the degree to which these policies have successfully been implemented at the local level remains largely unknown. The objectives of this study were two-fold: (1) to examine the roles and e... | Uddin, MS; Haque, CE; Khan, MN | Good governance and local level policy implementation for disaster-risk-reduction: actual, perceptual and contested perspectives in coastal communities in Bangladesh | Disaster Prevention And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2020-0069 | 2,021 |
Introduction: Food insecurity is a chronic problem affecting Inuit communities. The most comprehensive assessment of Inuit food security to-date, the Inuit Health Survey, reported that 70% of Inuit pre-school children lived in 'food insecure' households. Food banks and soup kitchens are relatively new in the Arctic but... | Lardeau, MP; Healey, G; Ford, J | The use of Photovoice to document and characterize the food security of users of community food programs in Iqaluit, Nunavut | Rural And Remote Health | null | 2,011 |
CONTEXT: The development of methods for improving the assessment of resilience of socio-ecological systems has become increasingly important as the severity and variability of global climate patterns continue to compound and intensify.OBJECTIVE: The present study was conducted with the aim of using a dynamically-couple... | Carper, JM; Alizadeh, MR; Adamowski, JF; Inam, A | Climate variability in agroecosystems: A quantitative assessment of stakeholder-defined policies for enhanced socio-ecological resilience | Agricultural Systems | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2022.103416 | 2,022 |
with farm size, leasehold/individual land ownership, age of cocoa farm, income, farm management training, and government support. Also, cocoa productivity increases with income, association membership, farm management training, access to agricultural information, and soil fertility, but reduces with farm size. SIGNIFIC... | Amfo, B; Ali, EB; Atinga, D | Climate change, soil water conservation, and productivity: Evidence from cocoa farmers in Ghana | Agricultural Systems | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103172 | 2,021 |
A Decision Support System (DSS) is a highly efficient concept for managing complex objects in nature or humanmade phenomena. The main purpose of the present study is related to designing and implementation of real-time monitoring, prediction, and control system for flood disaster management as a DSS. Likewise, the prob... | Akbarian, H; Gheibi, M; Hajiaghaei-Keshteli, M; Rahmani, M | A hybrid novel framework for flood disaster risk control in developing countries based on smart prediction systems and prioritized scenarios | Journal Of Environmental Management | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114939 | 2,022 |
Background: Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans, Louisiana as a Category 3 storm in August 2005. Storm surges, levee failures, and the low-lying nature of New Orleans led to widespread flooding, damage to over 70% of occupied housing, and evacuation of 80-90% of city residents. Only 57% of the city's black p... | Aune, KT; Gesch, D; Smith, GS | A spatial analysis of climate gentrification in Orleans Parish, Louisiana post-Hurricane Katrina | Environmental Research | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109384 | 2,020 |
In recent years, the frequency of catastrophes induced by natural hazards has increased, and flood events in particular have been recognized as one of the most threatening water-related disasters. Severe floods have occurred in Europe over the last decade, causing loss of life, displacement of people and heavy economic... | Ronco, P; Gallina, V; Torresan, S; Zabeo, A; Semenzin, E; Critto, A; Marcomini, A | The KULTURisk Regional Risk Assessment methodology for water-related natural hazards - Part 1: Physical-environmental assessment | Hydrology And Earth System Sciences | https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-5399-2014 | 2,014 |
The Bering Strait region is undergoing rapid environmental change linked to reductions in the extent and seasonal availability of sea ice. The goal of the present study was to assess the impacts that environmental change and loss of sea ice has had on marine subsistence resources and resource users in the communities o... | Tempel, JTL; Wise, S; Osborne, TQ; Sparks, K; Atkinson, S | Life without ice: Perceptions of environmental impacts on marine resources and subsistence users of St. Lawrence Island | Ocean & Coastal Management | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2021.105819 | 2,021 |
Owning to the losses incurred from the occurrence of certain events at Cultural Heritage Sites (CHS's), conservation of its Cultural Heritage (CH) assets is reported to be threatened. The losses while qualifying for disasters to an affected CHS have necessitated proactive measures in the conservation of CH assets (indi... | Mansir, D; Kasim, N; Mat Radzuan, IS | AN EXPLORATION OF DISASTER RISK TO CULTURAL HERITAGE ASSETS: TOWARDS EFFECTIVE CONSERVATION | International Journal Of Conservation Science | null | 2,018 |
Seasonal climate forecasts (SCFs) can be used to identify appropriate risk management strategies and to reduce the sensitivity of rural industries and communities to climate risk. However, these forecasts have low utility among farmers in agricultural decision making, unless translated into a more understood portfolio ... | Nidumolu, UB; Lubbers, M; Kanellopoulos, A; van Ittersum, MK; Kadiyala, DM; Sreenivas, G | Engaging farmers on climate risk through targeted integration of bio-economic modelling and seasonal climate forecasts | Agricultural Systems | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2016.09.011 | 2,016 |
During periods of drought, coping mechanisms employed by society differ based on gender, and are related to socio-cultural implications. This study is premised on the gendered approach to drought-coping mechanisms by focusing on the manner in which communities undergoing drought adapt to the adversities experienced and... | Myeni, S; Wentink, GJ | A gendered approach to drought-coping mechanisms: A case of the Lubombo region, Eswatini | Td-The Journal For Transdisciplinary Research In Southern Africa | https://doi.org/10.4102/td.v17i1.744 | 2,021 |
The role of adaptation in impact assessment and integrated assessment of climate policy is briefly reviewed. Agriculture in the US is taken as exemplary of this issue. Historic studies in which no adaptation is assumed (so-called dumb farmer) versus farmer-agents blessed with perfect foresight (so-called clairvoyant fa... | Schneider, SH; Easterling, WE; Mearns, LO | Adaptation: Sensitivity to natural variability, agent assumptions and dynamic climate changes | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005657421149 | 2,000 |
It has been reported that flood events in Namibia and Zambia will increase, due to the variability and changes in the climate, thus increasing the number of people that are exposed to flooding disasters. This exposure will negatively impact the livelihoods of rural households if no interventions are implemented to stre... | Mabuku, MP; Senzanje, A; Mudhara, M; Jewitt, GPW; Mulwafu, WO | Strategies for coping and adapting to flooding and their determinants: A comparative study of cases from Namibia and Zambia | Physics And Chemistry Of The Earth | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2018.12.009 | 2,019 |
Floods, natural disasters that occur worldwide, have become more and more frequent in recent decades. Flooding is often unavoidable and unexpected; however, it can be controlled through appropriate measures to minimize losses and damage. Flood hazard risk assessment, a holistic approach that involves numerous evaluatio... | Wang, ZL; Lai, CG; Chen, XH; Yang, B; Zhao, SW; Bai, XY | Flood hazard risk assessment model based on random forest | Journal Of Hydrology | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.06.008 | 2,015 |
Purpose Tropical storms Urduja and Vinta battered the Philippines in December 2017. Despite advances in disaster risk reduction efforts of the country, the twin December storms caused numerous deaths in the Visayas and Mindanao regions. Analysis of these events shows that alerts raised during the Pre-Disaster Risk Asse... | Lagmay, M; Racoma, BA | Lessons from tropical storms Urduja and Vinta disasters in the Philippines | Disaster Prevention And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/DPM-03-2018-0077 | 2,019 |
Purpose The coastal zone of Bangladesh that is in the front line of the battle against climate change faced over 200 natural disasters in the past 40 years, and most of the disasters were cyclones. The inevitable cyclone shelter (CS), the backbone of disaster management (DM), provides short-term safety for the disaster... | Shahin, M; Billah, M; Islam, MM; Parvez, A; Zaman, AKMM | Cyclone shelters need sustainable development | International Journal Of Disaster Resilience In The Built Environment | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJDRBE-12-2015-0061 | 2,020 |
Agricultural systems are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of extreme climate events. Yet strategies to reduce risk and vulnerability have not been greatly explored. Here, we examine the vulnerability of coffee agroforestry systems varying in management intensity (e.g. land use) and topographic features to disturb... | Philpott, SM; Lin, BB; Jha, S; Brines, SJ | A multi-scale assessment of hurricane impacts on agricultural landscapes based on land use and topographic features | Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2008.04.016 | 2,008 |
In the past few years, the number and intensity of natural disasters has increased significantly. In particular, the Latin American countries have been seriously affected given their high degree of vulnerability. Such natural events cause not only human losses, but also put in risk the sustainability of efforts being i... | Arias, D | Management of Weather and Ecosystem Risks in Latin America: the New Financial Instruments of Transfer | Revista Del Clad Reforma Y Democracia | null | 2,013 |
An extensive narrative review approach is adopted to present existing information on the consumptive and non-consumptive uses and their related issues, such as floods and droughts, climate and the environment in Ghana. Total annual rainfall in the country ranges between 800 mm/y (south-east coat) and 2,000 mm/y (south-... | Agodzo, SK; Bessah, E; Nyatuame, M | A review of the water resources of Ghana in a changing climate and anthropogenic stresses | Frontiers In Water | https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2022.973825 | 2,023 |
Purpose. The paper's purpose is to analyze and predict the food security index in Ukraine and to estimate the risk level of its reduction. Methodology / approach. The following models are used for forecasting: the Holt's twoparameter model - to forecast the dynamics of caloric content of the daily diet and integral foo... | Voronenko, I; Skrypnyk, A; Klymenko, N; Zherlitsyn, D; Starychenko, Y | FOOD SECURITY RISK IN UKRAINE: ASSESSMENT AND FORECAST | Agricultural And Resource Economics-International Scientific E-Journal | null | 2,020 |
Climate-resilient agriculture (CRA) is among the top policy priorities for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in their food, agriculture, and forestry sectors. However, the strategies that have been adopted to date have failed to produce positive changes or alter climate change trajectories. Scientific ... | Manevska-Tasevska, G; Duangbootsee, U; Bimbilovski, I; Thathong, P; Ha, TM | A systematic scoping review and content analysis of policy recommendations for climate-resilient agriculture | Climate Policy | https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2232334 | 2,023 |
Several cities are exceptionally vulnerable to flood impacts due to increasing urbanization, population growth, and climate change. Quantifying flood vulnerability is useful for identifying the system's weakness, monitoring its evolution, and supporting targeted flood risk adaptation policies. One of the vital aims of ... | Abdrabo, KI; Kantoush, SA; Esmaiel, A; Saber, M; Sumi, T; Almamari, M; Elboshy, B; Ghoniem, S | An integrated indicator-based approach for constructing an urban flood vulnerability index as an urban decision-making tool using the PCA and AHP techniques: A case study of Alexandria, Egypt | Urban Climate | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2023.101426 | 2,023 |
The article describes and reflects upon how multi-level governance and planning in Sweden have been affected by and reacted upon three pending major challenges confronting humanity, namely climate change, migration and the Covid-19 pandemic. These 'crises' are broadly considered 'existential threats' in need of 'securi... | Elander, I; Granberg, M; Montin, S | Governance and planning in a 'perfect storm': Securitising climate change, migration and Covid-19 in Sweden | Progress In Planning | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.progress.2021.100634 | 2,022 |
The construction of reservoirs has led to difficult livelihood transitions of resettled households after relocation and resettlement, resulting in a series of socioeconomic problems. How to scientifically integrate regional resource advantages and improve the livelihood resilience of resettled households has become an ... | Chen, SJ; Wu, J; Zhou, KX; Li, R | Livelihood resilience and livelihood construction path of China's rural reservoir resettled households in the energy transition | Frontiers In Sustainable Food Systems | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1046761 | 2,023 |
Due to global warming, humanity has to face irreversible effects regarding social, environmental, and economic systems. Climate change and its impacts fundamentally affect the transition to sustainable development. Therefore beside sustainability, resilience is getting more and more popular in urban research. Despite t... | Buzási, A; Csizovszky, A | Sustainability and climate adaptation in urban development - lock-in analysis in Budapest XVII. district | Ter Es Tarsadalom | https://doi.org/10.17649/TET.35.1.3291 | 2,021 |
Decisions on long-lived flood risk management (FRM) investments are complex because the future is uncertain. Flexibility and robustness can be used to deal with future uncertainty. Real options analysis (ROA) provides a welfare-economics framework to design and evaluate robust and flexible FRM strategies under risk or ... | Kind, JM; Baayen, JH; Botzen, WJW | Benefits and Limitations of Real Options Analysis for the Practice of River Flood Risk Management | Water Resources Research | https://doi.org/10.1002/2017WR022402 | 2,018 |
Purpose The purpose of this study is to assess how intergovernmental panel on climate change's (IPCC's) sixth assessment report of Working Group I (WGI), a Summary for Policymakers (SPM), has evaluated the current climate change situation. The author uses the qualitative content analysis (QCA) method (i.e. summative co... | Asadnabizadeh, M | Critical findings of the sixth assessment report (AR6) of working Group I of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) for global climate change policymaking a summary for policymakers (SPM) analysis | International Journal Of Climate Change Strategies And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-04-2022-0049 | 2,022 |
A survey of local governments participating in two urban climate change programs is presented to determine the mechanisms used to reach emissions reduction goals and the motivations for participation. Results support previous research that shows a preference for policies that rely on changes in individual behavior, whi... | Rice, JL | Public Targets, Private Choices: Urban Climate Governance in the Pacific Northwest | Professional Geographer | https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2013.787011 | 2,014 |
Purpose This paper aims to build a theoretical model of the impact of farmers' adoption behavior of soil and water conservation measures on the agricultural output to analyze the impact of farmers' adoption behavior of soil and water conservation measures on agricultural output. Design/methodology/approach Based on the... | Huang, XH; Lu, Q; Yang, F | The effects of farmers' adoption behavior of soil and water conservation measures on agricultural output | International Journal Of Climate Change Strategies And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-02-2020-0014 | 2,020 |
Purpose - This paper aims to identify the dynamic capabilities that foster organizational resilience towards sustainability. Design/methodology/approach - The study is a qualitative multi-case study with Brazilian manufacturers of different industries that provides an in-depth exploration of underlying dimensions towar... | Souza, AAA; Alves, MFR; Macini, N; Cezarino, LO; Liboni, LB | Resilience for sustainability as an eco-capability | International Journal Of Climate Change Strategies And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-09-2016-0144 | 2,017 |
Food insecurity continues to be prevalent in parts of Africa. In December 2015, there were approximately 21.6 million food insecure people in the Horn and East Africa. Climate change is likely to exacerbate current volatility of agricultural production and lead to further food insecurity. Whilst the academic literature... | Sandstrom, S; Juhola, S | Continue to blame it on the rain? Conceptualization of drought and failure of food systems in the Greater Horn of Africa | Environmental Hazards-Human And Policy Dimensions | https://doi.org/10.1080/17477891.2016.1229656 | 2,017 |
We present here and in the companion papers an analysis of sustainability in the Middle Rio Grande region of the U.S.-Mexico border and propose an interdisciplinary research agenda focused on the coupled human and natural dimensions of water resources sustainability in the face of climate and social change in an intern... | Hargrove, WL; Borrok, DM; Heyman, JM; Tweedie, CW; Ferregut, C | Water, climate, and social change in a fragile landscape | Ecosphere | https://doi.org/10.1890/ES12-00269.1 | 2,013 |
This study examines the vulnerability, adaptation, and resilience of urban poor households living in the riverine communities of the three flood prone areas in Metro Manila, namely, (1) Pasig-Marikina River basin, (2) West Mangahan, and (3) the KAMANAVA area (Kalookan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela). Based on a survey o... | Porio, E | Vulnerability, Adaptation, and Resilience to Floods and Climate Change-Related Risks among Marginal, Riverine Communities in Metro Manila | Asian Journal Of Social Science | https://doi.org/10.1163/156853111X597260 | 2,011 |
Policy measures regarding adaptation to climate change include efforts to adjust socio-economic and ecologic systems. Colombia has undertaken various measures in terms of climate change mitigation and adaptation since becoming a party of the Kyoto protocol in 2001 and a party of the United Nations Framework Convention ... | Ramirez-Villegas, J; Salazar, M; Jarvis, A; Navarro-Racines, CE | A way forward on adaptation to climate change in Colombian agriculture: perspectives towards 2050 | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-012-0500-y | 2,012 |
In the last decades, the increasing vulnerability of floodplains is linked to societal changes such as population density growth, land use changes, water use patterns, among other factors. Land morphology directly influences surface water flow, transport of sediments, soil genesis, local climate and vegetation distribu... | Cunha, NS; Magalhaes, MR; Domingos, T; Abreu, MM; Küpfer, C | The land morphology approach to flood risk mapping: An application to Portugal | Journal Of Environmental Management | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.077 | 2,017 |
The research was carried out in neighboring weredas in Ethiopia (Raya Alamata in the Tigray region and Raya Kobo in Amhara) and assessed reasons for differences in the food security status of households in the two areas. The objective was to examine the relationship between disparities in social vulnerability and food ... | Hidaru, A; Tolossa, D; Tilahun, T | Households Social Vulnerability to Food Insecurity and Coping Strategies in Raya Kobo and Raya Alamata Woredas, Ethiopia | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010160 | 2,023 |
The question of what actions on climate change make sense in the short term-raised in the quotes above-remains largely unanswered. Until we better organize the climate science and technology enterprise to focus on policy options for the short term, the climate debate is likely to remain in its present gridlock. Policie... | Pielkejr, RA | The case for a sustainable climate policy: Why costs and benefits must be temporally balanced | University Of Pennsylvania Law Review | https://doi.org/10.2307/40041380 | 2,007 |
Purpose This research seeks to understand the potential impact to investors from government responses to climate change risk, as reflected in changes to planning processes made after significant weather events. Design/methodology/approach The research examines the land planning responses within a select local governmen... | Cradduck, L; Warren-Myers, G | Development in a state of climate change: an Australian case study of government response | Journal Of Property Investment & Finance | https://doi.org/10.1108/JPIF-11-2021-0090 | 2,022 |
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to present the major gaps in the field of planning policy and its implementation regarding climate change and disaster risk reduction (DRR), with special reference to the displacement of people, together with the knowledge needed to increase community resilience. The researched re... | Crncevic, T; Lovren, VO | Displacement and climate change: improving planning policy and increasing community resilience | International Journal Of Climate Change Strategies And Management | https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCCSM-05-2017-0103 | 2,018 |
Greater diversity (i.e., variety, balance and disparity) within agricultural systems is often suggested as a solution to promote redundancy within such systems and therefore increase their adaptive capacity and reduce their vulnerability against climate change and variability. Yet this assumption relies upon the gather... | Martin, G; Magne, MA | Agricultural diversity to increase adaptive capacity and reduce vulnerability of livestock systems against weather variability - A farm-scale simulation study | Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2014.10.006 | 2,015 |
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