This paper addresses this gap in understanding through a pilot project that developed a climate and health-adaptation plan with Marquette County, a geographically large, coastal, non-agricultural-based, rural community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We show how the Deliberation with Analysis model of...
The research aimed to determine how to strengthen community resilience to climate change of rural habitat in the municipality of Camajuaní, Villa Clara, affected by hurricanes and droughts, to support availability, access and consumption of diversified and healthy foods with food security of the most...
Once used for both defense and collective housing, the tulou typology is an integral part of the region’s cultural heritage, with 46 of them being recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. Despite this, the rural communities surrounding them have struggled to find new roles and purposes ...
Climate change implies a shift in the main state of a climate or in its variability, persisting for an extended period that can be decades or longer (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change2007). It has been known for a while to have major global environmental, social, and economic impact ...
The survey questions are based on the index system in Table1, which integrates the main viewpoints of previous literatures on community disaster resilience. Through statistical analysis, the survey results have well presented the process and logic from individual’s cognition to action when disaster oc...
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The concept of resilience deployed as both an ecological and social goal in natural resource policy and management is increasingly relevant to how societies respond to climate change and other external shocks (Adger, 2000;Amundsen, 2012). Much research to date has focused on resilience in ecological...
Climate Change vs Cultural Heritage: An Adaptation Strategy for the Archaeological Site of Ancient Messene VULNERABILITYRESILIENCEAdaptive CapacityAdaptation StrategyThis article examines the effects of climate change on archaeological sites, using as a case study the ... V Pougkakioti,M Lazoglou,E Ma...
Furthermore, the capacity for climate resilience varies between and within regions and nations due to different development contexts and systemic vulnerabilities (IPCC 2018). Studies like this one if replicated in a wide range of contexts can help pre- pare and implement more effective and ...
Studies have shown that Africa is getting more vulnerable to climate change/ variability impact on livelihood compared to other parts of the World. This is because the livelihoods for 80% of the African population are dependent on rain- fed agriculture which are vulnerable to multiple stresses ...