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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"Climate adaptation"”.
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Multimodal Machine Learning for Climate Adaptation
Climate change stands as one of the most urgent challenges of our generation, with devastating floods in Pakistan, heartbreaking earthquakes in Turkey, and unprecedented wildfires in Canada. For over a century, meteorology has traditionally relied on solving dynamical equations, but machine …
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Sustainable Living: Integrating Climate Adaptation in Bangkok's Informal Settlements
This thesis intends to demonstrate how the largest urban vulnerable communities in Thailand, using the case of At Narong in Khlong Toei, an informal settlement of over 30,000 residents who rent lands adjacent to the Port Authority of Thailand (PAT) in Bangkok. The PAT plans to evict the slum …
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Cal-Adapt and the usability of climate adaptation tools
… globe have already begun to feel the impacts of climate change. Looking forward, the impact will only become more pronounced. As such, an increasing number of municipalities, counties, and states are asking how they can prepare. Various non-profits, public entities, and even the private sector …
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A systematic review of climate adaptation planning in African cities
In recent years the need for climate change adaptation has become increasingly important. Adaptation planning is understood to be the process by which actors identify, develop, test, and prioritise strategies and measures to reduce climate risk. In Africa, climate projections predict higher …
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Urban climate adaptation as a process of organisational decision making
… as critical sites for tackling problems of climate change, both by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and addressing the impacts of changing climate conditions. Unlike climate change mitigation, adaptation does not have one clear, commonly agreed collective goal. Governing and making …
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Entrepreneurship-based factors to foster climate adaptation among Indigenous communities
Entrepreneurship-based factors to foster climate adaptation among Indigenous communities Indunil Prabodha Dharmasiri Ebawala Pitiyalage ABSTRACT (ACADEMIC) This thesis investigates the factors that cause the emergence of entrepreneurship to foster climate adaptation responses among Indigenous …
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Understanding learning and action in place-based climate adaptation workshops
… dissertation examines the role of place-based climate adaptation workshops can play in helping communities as they grapple with the current and anticipated effects of anthropogenic climate change. The manuscript contains five chapters. The introduction (Chapter 1) presents the phenomenon of …
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Stó:lō Relationalities: Exploring Infrastructures of Climate Adaptation along the Fraser River
… of many intersecting forces, from the urgency of climate change caused by flooding and ecological degradation to the material and political hierarchies produced by settler-colonial infrastructures. All of which is imposed onto a rich landscape of indigenous life and history. This paper's approach …
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Making climate adaptation work : strategies for resource constrained South Asian mega-cities
… India to the serious challenges posed by climate change, particularly in the water sector. Drawing on the theories of "adaptation as development" and cross-case analyses of ongoing planning initiatives in these two bellwether cities, this dissertation explores the factors that promote or …
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Measuring climate adaptation : assessing the use of indicators in U.S. coastal cities
In response to the growing threat of climate change, in recent 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 …
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Engaging the public in climate adaptation planning : lessons from sixteen American cities
With growing concern about the risks of climate change, cities are beginning to consider and implement strategies to adapt. Preparing for the impacts of climate change through adaptation planning requires cities to manage collective risks and weigh tradeoffs. Thus, recommendations for adaptation …
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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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Navigating Shared Vulnerabilities: Climate Adaptation on the Split Island of Saint Martin
… island of Saint Martin are working to develop climate adaptation strategies within a context of already existing chronic exposure to extreme climate risks. Given the administrative split and the severity of climate change, how can an island with two governments and two different approaches to …
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The Political Economy of Climate Adaptation and Environmental Health: The Case of Ethiopia
… many of these factors are exacerbated by global climate change. Thus, the central research question of this dissertation is: How do people cope with and adapt to uncertainty, complexity, and change of environmental and health conditions? Specifically, I ask how institutional factors, risk …
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Administrative Draft: Sea-Level Rise & Climate Adaptation Plan for the City of Carpinteria
… rise (SLR) is one consequence of global climate change and given Carpinteria's location right along the coast, the City will likely face the threats of sea-level rise and other impacts in greater frequency and intensity. The intent of this administrative draft is to provide a foundation …
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Climate Adaptation in Out-Of-Hospital Settings: Building Strategic Disaster Resilience in Ambulance Operations
… particularly in the context of escalating climate-related risks and overlapping disasters, such as pandemics. This study uses a pragmatic lens to highlight the implications for operational adjustments within the British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) and comparable …
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The Causeway: Bridging Disaster Relief, Recovery, and Climate Adaptation in the Anton Ruiz Watershed
… and flood waters that rose over 6 feet. As climate change leads to an even more constrained timeline for response with increasingly frequent and intense storms, the future of Punta Santiago and other coastal communities worldwide will necessitate strategies ranging from nature-based shore …
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Collaborative Modeling to Assess Climate Adaptation and Science Information Needs in Snow-fed River Systems
Snow-fed river systems are acutely sensitive to climate change, providing unique case studies to advance an emergent field of socio-hydrology. Climate change alters seasonal snowpack dynamics with warmer temperatures bringing precipitation as rain versus snow, increasing winter flood events, …
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