Adaptive capacity
Small-Scale Farmers Associations’ adaptive capacity to climate change in Swaziland sugarcane industry
... the adaptive capacities of SSFAs in Swaziland’s Lowveld to climate variability and ...an adaptive capacity index, the results point to SSFAs that have difficulty in adapting to climate ...of ...
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Climate Variability and Adaptive Capacity in Semi-arid Tharaka District, Kenya.
... of adaptive capacity in four agro-ecological zones of Tharaka sub-county, ...of adaptive capacity-flexibility and access to ...of adaptive capacity is reflected in households’ ...
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Agricultural information’s impact on the adaptive capacity of Ghana’s smallholder cocoa farmers
... bolster adaptive capacity, it is important to identify which adaptive actions could best serve Ghana’s cocoa ...pertinent adaptive actions that could bolster the adaptive ...
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Assessing the adaptive capacity of the Ontario wine industry for climate change adaptation
... this difference were not explored in this study. Winemakers have several options available to them to reduce the impact of events such as the low yield in 2014. These include blending wine from previous vintages and ...
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Adaptive capacity for endogenous development of Kuna Yala, an Indigenous Biocultural System
... the capacity of a system to stay within a particular domain while still undergoing change, and is accomplished by reorganising so as to retain the same function, structure and identity (Walker, Holling, Carpenter, ...
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SELF – EMPLOYMENT ADAPTIVE CAPACITY OF YOUTH IN RURAL OF THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE
... self-employment adaptive capacity indicator (ACI) of youth in rural of Thai Nguyen ...overall adaptive capacity index is ...the adaptive capacity of social resources is highest ...
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Assessment of personal travel adaptive capacity using a participatory survey approach
... the adaptive capacity of travel options in order to reduce fuel consumption will become increasingly important as public and private investment becomes focused on climate change mitigation and oil price ...
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The adaptive capacity of thermal tolerance in chinook salmon
... the adaptive capacity of organisms has become an increasingly central goal of organismal biologists (Williams et ...2008). Adaptive capacity is the intrinsic ability of individuals or ...
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The 2008 floods in Queensland: a case study of vulnerability, resilience and adaptive capacity
... We are conducting a survey of Government institutions and members of the Local and District Disaster Management Groups in Charleville to discuss the events leading up to, during, and after the January and February 2008 ...
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Development of a Framework for Local Governments to Enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
... of capacity to cope with the changes ...of adaptive capacity. This suggests that a an increasing adaptive capacity will reduce vulnerability and vice versa (IPCC, ...and adaptive ...
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Resilience, adaptive capacity, and the lock-in trap of the Western Australian agricultural region
... and capacity for change and ...the adaptive cycle. A region's adaptive capacity is achieved by substituting direct reliance on regional factors with institutional intervention and ...
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Physiological performance and adaptive capacity of kelp (Laminariales) in a changing environment
... Habitat-forming seaweeds are ecologically important and form the foundation of many temperate reef ecosystems around the globe (Bolton, 1996; Beardall et al., 1998; Kerswell, 2006; Steneck & Johnson, 2013). Kelps ...
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Building adaptive capacity to climate change in tropical coastal communities
... 1| Five domains of adaptive capacity to climate change: Assets, Flexibility, Social... interactions can occur among any of the domains, not just the neighbouring ones.[r] ...
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The potential for sand dams to increase the adaptive capacity of East African drylands to climate change
... Abstract Drylands are home to more than two billion people and are characterised by frequent, severe droughts. Such extreme events are expected to be exacerbated in the near future by climate change. A potentially simple ...
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Case Study: Reviewing Methods of Assessing Community Adaptive Capacity for Jefferson County, Texas
... Although the previously mentioned assessments [17]-[20] brought value in quantifying communities’ resilience in the US, they lacked the temporal comparisons intra- and inter-counties. Analyzing the six dimensions of Jef- ...
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Conservation organizations need to consider adaptive capacity: why local input matters
... applying adaptive capacity assess- ments in response to escalating climate change ...how adaptive capacity should be ...why adaptive capac- ity assessment represents a critical tool ...
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Resilience and adaptive capacity in socio-environmental systems: case studies from colonial Mexico.
... This adaptive capacity and resourcefulness are manifest at a range of temporal and spatial scales and may involve the estab- lishment and implementation of trading relationships or may be achieved through ...
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Gendered medicinal plant knowledge contributions to adaptive capacity and health sovereignty in Amazonia
... discussed the implications of knowledge diversity, or the differences in the knowledge held by different people, for the continuity of knowledge systems. Only recently have some researchers begun to argue that ...
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Adapting the English suburbs for climate change: A conceptual model of local adaptive capacity
... In considering local adaptive capacity we first need to conceptualise what is meant by ‘neighbourhood’ as our notion of ‘locality’. Kearns and Parkinson (2001, p2103) note that “there is no single, ...
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Increasing the resilience and adaptive capacity of cities through entrepreneurial urbanism
... Healey (2005) and Gilg (2005) suggest that such an argumentative (or 'agonistic') approach presents a better forum for engaging with diversity by leaving a continuous space open for constructive conflict, debate, and ...
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