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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Adaptation Options"”.
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Evaluation of Adaptation Options to Flood Risk in a Probabilistic Framework
… in order for the decision-makers to take optimal adaptation decisions (e.g., flood protection dike design, recommendations for new buildings, etc.). In this study the challenges of inferring the probability distribution of different physical flood parameters in a context of sparse data, of linking …
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Social vulnerabilities and adaptation options to climatic hazards affecting rural water supply in Barotse floodplain catchment.
… affecting their water supply and identify adaptation options for ensuring sustainable water supply in the face of climate change. The study adopted a mixed method approach with a convergent parallel mixed method research design and a sample size of 205 households and 6 key informants. To …
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Social vulnerabilities and adaptation options to climatic hazards affecting rural water supply in Barotse floodplain catchment.
… affecting their water supply and identify adaptation options for ensuring sustainable water supply in the face of climate change. The study adopted a mixed method approach with a convergent parallel mixed method research design and a sample size of 205 households and 6 key informants. To …
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security and Community Base Adaptation options: The Case of Magu District in Mwanza, Tanzania
… on food security and documents community based adaptations. Three villages were selected representing three agro-ecological zones highlands, middle and lower lands. In each village, sample size of 5 percent of households was systematically selected. Both secondary and primary data were used. …
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The impact of climate change on food and nutrition security in Africa and potential adaptation options for the future; a case study of Malawi
The challenge of providing the global population with sufficient and nutritious food that is also affordable and sustainable cannot be understated. Nowhere is this challenge greater than in Africa where an estimated 21% of the population are currently undernourished. Three key research questions …
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Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest
… A logical starting point for climate change adaptation is to proactively identify management practices and policies that have a higher likelihood of achieving management objectives across a wide range of potential climate futures. This research implemented an approach to identifying such …
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Information and Decision-Support for Robust Adaptation of Irish Water Resources to Climate Change
Anticipatory adaptation to climate change in the water resources sector is essential to reduce or avoid expected impacts on water resources availability and management. Anticipating how water systems are likely to respond to a changing climate is a challenging task, due to the difficulties in …
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Understanding changes in mangrove forests and the implications to community livelihood and resource management in Kenya
… are affecting local livelihoods including adaptation options. Focussing on coastal Kenya and using Lamu as a case study, this multi-method research used systematic literature review, household surveys, participatory consultation workshops, land use land cover change analysis, and ecosystem …
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An integrated approach to climate vulnerability and adaptation assessment of smallholder production systems: evidence from horticultural production in Ghana
… Despite increased research on vulnerability and adaptation, African countries have still not realized their full potential in adapting to changing climate. Climate vulnerability assessments show limited use in guiding decision support for adopting proposed adaptation responses identified. This …
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Impacts of climate change on wine grape farming in the Western Cape: Implications for adaptation
… will need to address this issue by exploring adaptation methods to lessen the impacts of climate change. The research sought to integrate farmer perceptions of climate change with scientific literature on adaptation, in order to suggest the most feasible adaptation strategies for 10 sample …
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Linking climate change, tourist destination adaptation and tourist atttitudes : a case study of the Victorian Surf Coast region
… sustainability. A review of tourism sector adaptation frameworks found that none of the existing models focused on regional tourism destinations. This was deemed important as adaptation is best applied at the local level. The role of the tourist was also largely neglected, which was of some …
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Impact assessment of hydroclimatic change on water stress in the Indus Basin
… and thus lowers future water stress. Effective adaptation options to an increase in water stress include building more storage capacity, relaxation of water allocation to allow inter-provincial water trading, and adaptation of the cropping calendar to the natural hydrological cycle.
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Assessing the processes of determining adaptation finance needs: a comparative study of African NDCs
… climate change. In Africa, the significance of adaptation finance in supporting the implementation of NDCs cannot be overstated, especially with most African countries requiring external financial support. To close the financial gap, the UNFCCC requested developing countries provide cost …
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Drought Response Mechanisms and Adaptation: An Analysis of Strategies Adopted by Wine Grape Farmers in the Western Cape
This thesis examines the response mechanisms and adaptation strategies adopted by grapevine farmers to counteract the effects of the 2015-2018 Western Cape drought, which was characterised as particularly rare and severe. The challenges that emerged during the drought within the study area were …
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Role-play simulations : a tool for transformative civic education and engagement around science-intensive environmental issues
… studying the results of the New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP). NECAP was a two-year participatory action research project aimed at building the capacity of coastal New England communities to adapt to climate change while also testing the effectiveness of role-play simulations as a …
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Urban adaptations observed : the politics of governing climate resilience in Indian cities
… that integrate and support both climate change adaptation and urban development, arguing that combining these two objectives will help ensure the long-term resilience of cities. This dissertation delves into the cases of Bhubaneswar, Indore, and Surat in India and looks at how urban local …
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… assesses the impact of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming systems in the Vhembe District To achieve this aim, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were employed. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 224 smallholder farmers to elicit …
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Climate change and global crop yield: impacts, uncertainties and adaptation
… (4) simplified the representation of farming adaptation strategies. This research aimed to assess climate change impacts on global crop yield that accounts for the knowledge gaps listed above, based on the further development and application of the global crop model PEGASUS. Four main research …
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The economic evaluation of aquaculture as a climate change adaptation option in fisher communities of Zimbabwe
… viability of aquaculture as a climate change adaptation option in rural fisher communities of Zimbabwe. The southern lowveld district of Mwenezi was used as a case study in the economic evaluation of pond culture and cage culture as a climate change adaptation strategy from a baseline …
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Climate change impacts on agricultural vegetation in sub-Saharan Africa
… in climate projections and in the efficiency of adaptation options because of political, economical or institutional obstacles have to be considered. The effect of temperature increases and changing precipitation patterns on crop yields can be analyzed separately and varies in space across the …
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