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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Climate Change and Development"”.
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Collective Climate Action, Policy Learning and COVID-19: A Comparative Analysis of the Global Governance and Responses
… global challenges in terms of policy learning and collective action. The COVID-19 pandemic and anthropogenic climate change pose critical challenges to human well-being as much as they depend on collective responses to contain them. The comparative analysis of governance structures in climate …
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Modelling climate change impacts on maize and soybean yields in Central and Eastern Provinces of Zambia
… recognised that the unfavourable impacts of climate change on agriculture production may add up significantly to the developmental challenges of ensuring food security and reducing poverty. In Zambia, climate change impact assessments on crops are mainly carried out using large spatial scale …
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Policy coherence between biodiversity conservation, climate change and poverty alleviation in Mexico
In the last decades, the impacts of climate change have affected people, societies, economic sectors and ecosystems in all the continents and oceans. Climate change will make povertyalleviation harder by slowing down economic growth, eroding food security, and increasing and creating poverty traps. …
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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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Income inequality and mitigation burdens: An examination of climate mitigation fair shares for South African households
Equity is an essential issue for climate change mitigation, especially when considering the needs of a large global population in the developing world. The principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities (CBDR/RC) aims to ensure equitable sharing of the climate …
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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
Local governments are increasingly responding to climate 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 …
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Microfluidic engineering of water purification
The demand for clean water has been increasing for several reasons, such as rapid industrialization of developing countries, environmental pollution and climate change, and development of biofuels and the resulting irrigation growth. To meet the needs for this growing demand for clean water, …
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Multi-temporal remote sensing for estimation of plant available water-holding capacity of soil
… task because of their high spatial variability and the challenge of choosing representative field sites for soil analysis. Globally, soil information is becoming a prioritized agenda, due to the increasing demand for soil information for quantitative ecological, environmental and agronomic …
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Impact of climate change and irrigation development on hydropower supply in the Zambezi River Basin, and implications for power sector development in the Southern African Power Pool
… the hypothesis that the combination of future changes in climate and development (primarily irrigation) in the Zambezi River Basin (ZRB) threatens the technical and economic viability of existing and planned hydropower plants, and in turn the expansion plans and costs of the regional power …