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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Adaptation plans"”.
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Urban climate resilience : a global assessment of city adaptation plans
… accept climate change as an irrefutable threat, adaptation planning has emerged as a necessary action for countries, states, and municipalities. This thesis explores adaptive responses to climate change in 17 cities, comparing municipal plans created to "battle" a global problem at the local …
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Exploring the factors and actors that contribute to the co-production of climate adaptation plans: a comparison of three municipalities in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… change by developing formal institutions for adaptation. However, given the relative novelty of the adaptation planning field, there is insufficient practice-related research to inform these processes. The aim of this dissertation is therefore to assess the factors and actors that affect …
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Storm smart planning for adaptation to sea level rise : addressing coastal flood risk in East Boston
… of how well we implement sustainability plans, now and in the future, the weight of scientific evidence indicates that mean sea level will continue to rise at an increasing rate over the next century. Thus, coastal lands and development lie in a precarious position, increasingly …
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Measuring climate adaptation : assessing the use of indicators in U.S. coastal cities
… years many U.S. cities have developed climate adaptation plans. However, they have made limited progress implementing these plans and even less progress evaluating the effectiveness of them. Indicators have the potential to help cities track the implementation and effectiveness of their …
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Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Tourism Demand
… could assist tourism managers to develop future adaptation plans for revenue maximization.
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
… effects on production, income sources and adaptation plans. We find that increasing drought severity lowers soybean yields and revenues and decreases reliance on own-business income and remittances, reflecting broader livelihood impacts. Farmers who use mobile phones to access agricultural …
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
… effects on production, income sources and adaptation plans. We find that increasing drought severity lowers soybean yields and revenues and decreases reliance on own-business income and remittances, reflecting broader livelihood impacts. Farmers who use mobile phones to access agricultural …
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Regional Sea Level Rise Along the United States Coasts
… future. Of greater importance for mitigation and adaptation plans, however, is the rate of local or regional sea level (RSL) rise. Ocean dynamics along with changes in Earth’s gravitational field can cause RSL to deviate from the change in GMSL. During the satellite altimeter era covering the past …
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Determining Conditions That Enable or Impede the Inclusion of Climate Justice in Municipal Adaptation Planning in Canada
Abstract Governments are increasingly turning to adaptation planning to prepare for the onset of climate change. A climate justice framework in adaptation planning seeks equity by ensuring all parts of society receive the benefits required to address their vulnerabilities. This thesis examined the …
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Assessing how South African Development Community Countries' National Adaptation Planning addresses health impacts: A scoping review
… it is key that countries have effective adaptation plans in place and that these plans are being implemented. This study reviewed available research to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and their …
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Effectiveness of Institutional Flood Adaptation Actions and Plans in Vhembe District Municipality, South Africa
… and anthropogenic factors. Proactive adaptation actions and plans are crucial for reducing flood risks and consequences, particularly in vulnerable rural communities. South Africa has made significant progress in flood risk reduction but face challenges in balancing structural measures …
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Impacts of coastal flooding on watersheds in Hampton Roads, VA
… of SLR is accelerating due to land subsidence. Adaptation plans for coastal flooding are mostly made at the municipality level, ignoring the propagation of water across its administrative boundaries. Impact assessment at the watershed scale identifies areas where municipalities will need to …
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Climate Change Relocation as an Adaptation Strategy: from Taboo to Opportunity
… mentioned as one of the potential climate change adaptation strategies, it mostly adheres to rhetoric with limited discussion of its actual implementation. Scientific study and observation indicate the imminence of climate change impacts, many of which may exceed the adaptive capacity of …
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Driving forces and barriers for adaption strategies against the urban heat stress hazard in Berlin, Germany
… to the issues of heat stress and climate adaptation, CO2 reduction remains the primary focus of public policy. Whether cities are ready to take on the challenge of responding to these threats is a significant concern for the future. Germany is known for having numerous regulations, laws, …
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Building resiliency or holding off the inevitable? climate adaptation on a dense barrier island in New York
… observational methods in the analysis of climate adaptation planning on the barrier island of Long Beach, NY five years after Hurricane Sandy left the island devastated. Relying on theories of ecological resiliency that call to mind a 'safe-to-fail' approach rather than engineering resiliency's …
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Building Coastal City Resilience and Extreme Heat Action in Zanzibar, Tanzania through Multi-Hazard Risk Assessment (MHRA)
… insights for the TRCS, informing tailored adaptation plans as part of the Zanzibar Climate Change Alliance: City Wide Risk Assessment (CWRA).
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Frames and games : testing a public health orientation to climate adaptation planning
Current urban climate adaptation planning efforts tend to focus on protecting a city's physical assets from potential climate-related disasters, with an increasing emphasis on enhancing resilience, or building places that can absorb and withstand climatic shocks. Scholars and practitioners have …
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Climate change adaptation in the U.S. electric utility sector
… the United States are approaching climate change adaptation and the factors enabling and constraining these efforts. The thesis draws on an analysis of electric utility responses to surveys distributed by the Carbon Disclosure Project as well as case studies of Consolidated Edison, Entergy, and …
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Exploring how social justice is considered in climate adaptation planning and implementation within local governments in the United States
… the United States develop and implement climate adaptation plans and is composed of an introduction (Chapter 1), three stand-alone manuscripts (Chapters 2-4), and a conclusion (Chapter 5). The introduction gives a brief overview of climate adaptation planning, the intersection of social justice …
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Developing a framework for assessing equity in contributions to the global goal on adaptation as part of the global stocktake
… to assess collective progress in mitigation, adaptation, and the means of implementation and support as outlined in Article 14 of the Paris Agreement. The stocktake will be undertaken considering equity and the best available science. As a result, the GST requires a framework for assessing …
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