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<strong>Applying f</strong>uel reduction treatments (FRTs) to forested landscapes can alleviate undesirable changes in wildfire benefits and costs due to climate change. A conceptual framework was developed for determining the preferred FRTs across planning periods, adapting FRTs to future climate change,...
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of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural … resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis … of the sustainability of community based adaptation (CBA) activities in 20 community based organizations (CBO) that were …
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Intercropping has a strong potential to counteract the severe degradation of arable land in the North China Plain (NCP). However, a rapid decline of intercropping can be observed in the last decades. The present paper investigates the reason for this development and suggests solutions on how to...
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If we wish to understand how our species can adapt to the coming tide of environmental change, then understanding how we have adapted throughout the course of evolution is vital. Evolutionary biologists have been exploring these questions in the last forty years, establishing a solid record of...
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adaptation options mean that local governments must address the need for adaptation planning within a context of scientific … demonstrates a process to model, visualize and evaluate potential flood impacts and adaptation options for the community of Delta … collaboratively, together with future adaptation scenarios assessed against quantitative and qualitative indicators. This ‘visioning …
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Climate adaptation has emerged as a mainstream risk management strategy for assisting in maintaining socio … introduce the concept of an “adaptation frontier”, which is defined as a socio-ecological system’s transitional adaptive … of systems on the frontier. These include path dependence, adaptation/development deficits, values conflicts and …
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the city level emerged in 1996 and has long had a focus on mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. City planners’ “adaptation … turn” is recent and still ongoing. This paper presents a meta-evaluation of Swedish municipal adaptation approaches, and … being put into the identification of barriers to adaptation planning, in contrast, there is little assessment or …
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Tropical highland regions are experiencing rapid climate change. In these regions the adaptation challenge is … enhanced climate resilience and adaptation to climate change. To support development of locally appropriate climate resilience … appropriate unit for defining adaptation strategies in these primarily subsistence agriculture communities. To this end, we …
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city roadmap balancing: low carbon development, gains in resource efficiency and adaptation to climate change. The paper …
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Most climate related hazards in Bangladesh are linked to water. The climate vulnerable poor—the poorest and most marginalized communities living in remote villages along Bangladesh’s coastal zone that are vulnerable to climate change impacts and who possess low adaptive capacity are most...
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