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Showing 1 to 20 of 198 for “"adaptation strategies"”.
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Multinational enterprises’ adaptation strategies under geopolitical risk
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Evaluation of Textbook Difficulty and Adaptation Strategies Used in Turkish Elementary Schools
… self reported perceptions regarding textbook adaptation strategies. Another purpose of this study was to determine the match between the textbook and the students' reading levels. In order to determine the difficulty levels of the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade science and social studies …
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Organ Trade : sea level rise adaptation strategies for the San Francisco Bay Area
… can inform an approach to and process of wetland adaptation in the face of sea level rise. A particular watershed clip in Alameda County, located in South San Francisco Bay, is taken as a test case in order to assess this hypothesis. The site is selected from a set of nested types of more general …
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Heat exposure and adaptation strategies of outdoor informal sector workers in urban Bulawayo - Zimbabwe
… or under makeshift sheds with poorly developed adaptation strategies, and no access to cooling systems both at work and at home. This mixed method study, conducted during the summer of 2015, explored heat exposure and adaptation strategies of informal street vendors in Bulawayo. Study …
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Fluvial and climatic controls on tropical agriculture and adaptation strategies in data-scarce contexts
… capable of directing economic and political strategies. Such complex investigations become even more complex in contexts lacking reliable environmental data, where their low-quality and low representativeness weaken their reliability, compromising the reliability of the outcomes as well. This …
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Assessment of the vulnerability of Ethiopian agriculture to climate change and farmers’ adaptation strategies
… The second theme analysed determinants of adaptation measures and factors influencing the perceptions of climate change in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. Three approaches are employed to address the above themes. The first approach is the vulnerability to expected poverty approach. It is based …
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Community Perception on Climate change and its adaptation Strategies at Nachingwea District – Lindi Region
… perception on impact of climate change and its adaptation strategies at Nachingwea District in five divisions Namambo, Ruponda, Lionja, Naipanga and Mbondo. Data were collected by using structured interview schedule administered on 260 Households randomly selected from five divisions in the …
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Towards successful e-government initiatives: exploring the adaptation strategies of public sector middle managers
… 2005) to make a qualitative examination of the adaptation strategies of middle managers in public bodies when new e-government initiatives are implemented in their workplace, focusing particularly on Saudi Arabia. The public bodies considered in this research are: (i) the Commercial Register …
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Water resources planning and climate change adaptation strategies of Sardinian basins under water-limited conditions
… need for adaptive water and land management strategies to ensure the island’s environmental and economic sustainability under future climate conditions.
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Assessing climate change impacts and agronomic adaptation strategies for dryland crop production in southern Africa
… on understanding climate change impacts and adaptation under heterogeneous conditions that dryland farmers in southern Africa operate. This study sought to understand how climate change will affect food crop production in southern Africa's drylands and to provide insight on the potential of …
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Social impacts of climate change and occupational heat stress and adaptation strategies of mining workers in Ghana
… demanding work, coupled with inadequate adaptation policies to climate change, increases the occurrence of heat-related illnesses and injuries, and contributes to the loss of productive capacity, poor decision making, and other negative effects on the social well-being of workers. Based …
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… assesses the impact of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming systems in the Vhembe District To achieve this aim, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies were employed. A questionnaire was administered to a sample of 224 smallholder farmers to elicit …
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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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An Integrated Approach for Developing Adaptation Strategies in Climate Planning: A Case Study of Vulnerability in Dukes County, Massachusetts
… mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in addition to adaptation strategies. Research indicates, however, that many plans focus on mitigation strategies while adaptation policies related to predicted changes caused by climate change are often overlooked. This thesis presents an integrative framework …
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Missouri Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change, Adaptation Strategies and the Adoption and Diffusion of Market-Oriented Risk Management Strategies
… and variability in relation to their adoption of adaptation strategies. Using a combination of geospatial and statistical analysis, it examines the similarities and differences in on-farm and off-farm adaptation behavior stratified by farmers perception of climate change occurring or not …
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The Dyslexic User's Interface Support Tool (DUIST) - a framework for performance enhancing interface adaptation strategies for dyslexic computer users
… control problems) an investigation into support strategies to aid persons suffering from the condition seems strongly justifiable. As such, an extensive review of existing support techniques for dyslexic computer users are explored leading to the formulation of four central research models; …
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News as a commodity vs. news as a public good : adaptation strategies of South African Newspapers in the Digital Era
… implies that newspapers have to come up with strategies to continue to produce news effectively and attempt to avoid errors in news reporting. As is shown, in some instances quality of news can be compromised in the long run, as in the case of sensationalising news stories and headlines. When …
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Towards Climate Resilient and Energy Efficient Buildings: A Comparative Study on Energy Related Components, Adaptation Strategies, and Whole Building Performance
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Climate change and conservation policy: developing adaptation strategies to minimise climate change impacts to the conservation interest of Scotland’s standing freshwaters
… activity. However, the exact combination of strategies and actions available to environmental managers is yet to be comprehensively documented beyond broad principles. To reach this goal, to manage our ecosystems in the most comprehensive and responsible way, we need to have a clear …
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