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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Adaptation strategy"”.
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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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Conservation Agriculture as an adaptation strategy to drought in Chivi District, Zimbabwe
… the world over. This study evaluated CA as an adaptation tool to drought in Chivi district, Zimbabwe. It developed a model to enhance adaptation to drought in Chivi and other areas of similar environment. The VLIR-UOUS (2019) Theory of Change (ToC) principles structured interview checklist was …
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Greening climate adaptation : exploring the use of green infrastructure as an adaptation strategy in Boston and Cambridge, MA
Interest in green infrastructure as a potential strategy for addressing climate change has recently emerged in adaptation planning. Green infrastructure (GI), defined here as engineered systems that incorporate green space and natural systems to provide benefits to the public, can be used to …
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Assessing the Impact of Changing Climate on Agriculture in Missouri and the use of Crop Insurance as Adaptation Strategy (1980-2010)
… use of crop insurance by farmers as a climate adaptation or risk management strategy. Crop insurance plays an important role in the process of adapting to climate change because it serves as a buffer against the impact of increasing extreme events. The study tests the hypothesis that farmers in …
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Sustainable urban agriculture: a sustainable adaptation strategy for the City of Cape Town? : Practices and views on sustainable urban agriculture and climate change in Cape Town
… sustainable urban agriculture areas in terms of adaptation to climate change in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area, South Africa. Urbanization and climate change are stressing urban areas in developing countries. Therefore, finding a development path towards "sustainable adaptation" remains a …
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Remixed, Remastered: Investigating Organizational Adaptation in Higher Music Education
… This study was grounded in organizational adaptation theory, drawing upon nine well-established theories: population ecology, life cycles, strategic choice, isomorphism, symbolic action, resource dependence, cybernetics, and network theory. Critical concepts of the turbulent environment, …
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Assessing the role of weather index insurance in climate change adaptation in Malawi
… farmers have been implementing different adaptation activities in an effort to reduce the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods. Weather index insurance (WII) has been recommended as one potential climate change adaptation strategy. In Malawi WII was introduced and piloted in 2005 …
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Social capital and climate change adaptation strategies : the case of smallholder farmers in the Central region of Ghana
… to adapt to the changing climate. The process of adaptation, therefore, involves the interdependence of agents through their relation with each other. This includes the institution in which the agents reside and the resource based on which they depend. The resource embedded in such relationship …
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Identification, state estimation, and adaptive control of type i diabetic patients
… is unnecessary. These findings lead to a control strategy that utilizes only a small number of PID controllers in this scheduled adaptation strategy. The regime-switching scheme proves that adaptive control can potentially improve system performance. But it increases control complexity and may …
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Handling Concept Drift Using the Correlation between Multiple Data Streams
… between data streams. A concept drift adaptation method is firstly proposed to overcome the insufficient training problem caused by scarce newly arrived data. By introducing correlation between multiple data streams, a multi-stream concept drift handling framework is then proposed to …
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Population health and climate change: public perceptions, attitudes and adaptation to heat waves in Adelaide, Australia
… processes during the development of an adaptation strategy for heat waves. Methods: In the first study, interviews were conducted among fourteen residents to explore their views about heat waves, their understanding of its consequences and the emotional and psychological responses …
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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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Rights-based evaluation of government responses to a given 'natural' disaster : Katrina as case study
… human rights of those who seek migration as an adaptation strategy. This paper deals with returning to a place after a catastrophic environmental disaster when the dynamics of that place call into question the tenability of place. The overarching question of the research is "How is disaster …
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Motion Processing in Direction Selective Retinal Ganglion Cells through Dynamic Environments
… that contribute to this cell type-dependent adaptation: connexin36-mediated electrical coupling and differences in effective GABAergic inhibition. In Chapter 6, I show with a simulation of DSGC activity based on data that this adaptation strategy is beneficial for balancing motion detection …
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The living library : an indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon is combating climate change, deforestation, and loss of traditional knowledge by preserving their plants in the wild
… Peru. The library is an indigenous climate adaptation strategy in the rainforest, and an effort to revive the Shipibo-Conibo culture of healing with medicinal plants. The pharmacy was established last year by Alianza Arkana, an NGO in Pucallpa. They have divided the land into sub-parcels, …
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Adaptation and adaptability : expectant design for resilience in coastal urbanity
… of and possibility for urban resiliency through adaptation? Adaptation implies responsiveness to phenomena that are disruptive to a system's functioning; it is a willful evolution in response to changed circumstances. Adaptation occurs in cities when an event or fluctuation provokes a re-figuring …
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Fast blind adaptive equalisation for multiuser CDMA systems
… Least Squares (RLS) algorithms, or on blind adaptation, such as the Constant Modulus Algorithm (CMA) or the Decision Directed algorithm (DD), which has similar convergence properties as the LMS in the absence of decision errors, the CMA is relatively slow compared to the DD algorithm but more …
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A tripartite study on Bayesian estimation of photosynthetically active radiation, impacts of future climate, and adaptation strategies on crop production: a spatial model framework for the Eastern Kansas River Basin
Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies on rainfed and irrigated cropping systems in the Eastern Kansas River Basin (EKSRB; a historically wetter portion of the Great Plains) have not been well-reported. While there are regional-to-global scale climate impact analyses, they rarely provide …
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Investigations of Local Unfolding Like Conformational Excursions in the Native State of Adenylate Kinase
… to an understanding of both function and adaptation in proteins. It has been difficult to experimentally separate these effects because it is challenging to rationally design mutations that will selectively effect dynamics. Here we adopt a mutation approach that is based on a thermal …
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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Their Impacts on the Welfare of Livestock Farming Households in Pakistan
… (CSA) practices has emerged as an important strategy which can enhance resilience to climate change, reduce GHG emissions, and sustainably increase agricultural productivity. Women’s role in livestock rearing is significant and can have an impact on the adoption decision of CSA practices. To …
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