of adaptation to climate change in the European Union, note significant recent policy developments, and highlight some of the opportunities that one particular aspect of EU policy, the new Mission on Adaptation, affords communities and policy makers to identify and develop more transformative actions....
Ecosystem-based adaptation : a natural response to climate change The World Bank's mission is to alleviate poverty and support sustainable development. Climate change is a serious environmental challenge that could underm... A Colls,N Ash,N Nyman 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 Ecosystem-based approaches...
The adaptation of mega-urban regions and their landscapes to climate change is predominantly a spatial planning matter. Rapidly developing Asian megacities, like Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) in Vietnam, need to become more resilient and less vulnerable to climate change. Our contribution takes spatial ...
This paper reviews the importance of fisheries and aquaculture, with particular reference to poor people in the developing world, and the likely impact of climate change on these activities and on food security. It highlights some practical measures that can be taken to adapt to the expected effec...
While defending assets and markets against climate risks is the focus of most vulnerability assessments, few of us are inspired by an inherently defensive mission. Sell the vision Climate change is such a daunting crisis that focusing on the downside risks can easily paralyze progress with fear and...
d'investissement sur l'échantillon Pour aboutir à un ordre de grandeur relatif à l'impact du changement climatique sur l'intégrité physique de l'ensemble des composantes du réseau, la publication scientifique suivante a servi de référence : « Climate change impacts and costs to U.S....
Existing adaptation approaches pay little attention to comprehensively capture mission goals and explicitly specify adaptation requirements. We propose an approach to using scenario-based analysis to elicit and specify the criteria of multiple quality attributes as adaptation invariants, and design ...
Traditional weather and climate forecasting is used by many indigenous communities worldwide as a guide in making important decisions that enable them cope and adapt to climate change-induced extreme weather variation. In many pastoral communities in Africa, traditional weather and climate forecasting ...
at the heart of national climate change adaptation strategies, but [...] daccess-ods.un.org daccess-ods.un.org 有效的适应不仅需要把水作为国家气候变化适应战略的核心,而且还必须把 对气候变化的适应纳入现行的国家水资源政策、计划和供资的主流。
This paper presents some preliminary outcomes of the Tropical Forests and Climate Change Adaptation (TroFCCA) project of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) whose overall mission is to underscore the importance of tropical forests for livelihood adaptation to climate change and ...