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Showing 1 to 20 of 158 for “"Climate Change Adaptation"”.
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Local Bureaucrats and Climate Change Adaptation
… – are faced with the realities of a changing climate which include severe storms, prolonged droughts, larger and more damaging floods, and more. Simultaneously, the issue of climate change is incredibly polarized in US politics with one side claiming it is not happening (or if it is happening …
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Climate-change adaptation among Smallholder farmers in zambia
In Zambia, climate variability has resulted in declining and more erratic rainfall. Soil fertility has also declined, mainly from over use and use of environmentally unfriendly farming methods. These factors have contributed to declining farm productivity and revenue, leading to increased poverty …
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION, NATURAL HAZARD MITIGATION, AND INNOVATIVE RESPONSES
… as a response aimed to adapting to climate change and natural disasters. Specifically, the first two papers seek to understand the drivers and implications of adaptation-related technological innovations. The third paper draws on the policy innovation theory to examine factors that …
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Climate change adaptation in the U.S. electric utility sector
… the sector will need to adapt to the impacts of climate change. These are likely to include increased heat waves, drought, extreme precipitation events, and sea level rise. Electric utilities play a key role in providing electricity services in cities that will be facing all of these …
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Spatial planning to integrate climate change adaptation at local level
Climate change is directly or indirectly affecting cities, regions or even nations in multiple ways. Impacts are exponential and repetitive with increased instability of climate pattern, socio-ecological systems, increased inequalities and distribution of resources. It is therefore necessary that …
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Three Essays on Climate Change Adaptation in Rural African Communities
<p>Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the present era, bringing new risks and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities across the world. While there is a broad recognition that solutions around climate change will require coordination and support across borders and governments, a …
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Three Essays On Climate Change Adaptation In Rural African Communities
<p>Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the present era, bringing new risks and exacerbating existing vulnerabilities across the world. While there is a broad recognition that solutions around climate change will require coordination and support across borders and governments, a …
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Climate change adaptation and sustainable agricultural intensification in developing countries
The recent threat of climate change has exacerbated the inherent risks in smallholder farming such as soil degradation, resulting in an unprecedented decline in agricultural yields in developing countries. This has threatened the livelihoods of large segments of populations that are heavily …
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Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Decision Making for Transit Infrastructure
… for valuing transit-specific investments in climate change adaptation and provides little guidance on how transit agencies can decide between potential adaptation strategies, given prevailing uncertainties and their institutional priorities. This thesis aims to address these gaps in …
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Understanding Relations, Learning, and Transformation in Mongolian Herders’ Climate Change Adaptation
… that aim to support communities in adapting to climate change. By centering on Mongolian nomadic herders’ perspectives and experiences in adaptation to climate change, this study investigates pastoralists’ adaptation and learning, relational factors that shape the processes, and the impact of …
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Climate change adaptation and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest
Climate change will pose increasing challenges to forest managers working to achieve 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 …
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A new climate for regionalism : metropolitan experiments in climate change adaptation
Climate change threatens the function and even existence of coastal cities, requiring them to adapt by preparing for near-term risks and reorienting long-term development. Most policy and academic interest in the governance of climate adaptation has focused on global, national, and local scales. …
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Revisiting barriers to climate change adaptation in coastal municipalities in Massachusetts
… has positioned itself as a leader in climate adaptation and mitigation action. However, there is little knowledge about how exactly climate adaptation is occurring at the local level and what barriers municipalities in the state face in implementing adaptation strategies. In response …
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Beyond Prediction: Climate Change Adaptation, Science & Technology Studies (STS), and Transformational Change
Climate change adaptation is a priority for researchers, policymakers, and the public. Adaptation practices, however, have largely failed to keep pace with climate change risks and deliver the systemic changes required to reduce vulnerability. Critical scholarship has focused on conventional …
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Climate change adaptation research among vine growers: evidence from Mátra wine region
… research contributes to the intensively growing climate change adaptation discourse with the examination of vine growers’ risk perception and risk management practices. In studies dealing with agricultural climate change adaptation issues, it is an often-cited statement that farming is a dynamic …
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A political ecology of design : contested visions of urban climate change adaptation
… Asia, severe weather events and long-term climate impacts challenge how we live and work. As the debates over cities, planning, and climate change intensify, governments are proposing increasingly ambitious plans to respond to climate impacts. These involve extensive reconfigurations of …
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Coastal Climate Change Adaptation: the Influence of Perceived Risk, Uncertainty, Trust, and Scale
<p>Understanding barriers to adaptation and revealing how these barriers differ across scales of management and decision making has emerged as a major theme within the literature on climate change adaptation (CCA). However, research that analyzes the process of adaptation in order to inform …
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Urban archipelago for climate change adaptation: the next phase of landmaking in Boston
… threatened by sea level rise caused by global climate change. Boston is one of them that desires to seek innovative sea level rise adaptation strategies. This thesis provides a new, operational strategy that changes the relationship between water and the city, extending the legacy of Boston’s …
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