Adaptive Capacity to Climate Risk
Resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of an inland rural town prone to flooding: a climate change adaptation case study of Charleville, Queensland, Australia
... the risk of natural disasters and have difficulty accessing and interpreting important ...at risk can add complexity to the designing of relevant and meaningful messages (Pfister ...flood risk in ...
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Assessing institutional capacities to adapt to climate change: integrating psychological dimensions in the Adaptive Capacity Wheel
... its adaptive capacity is reduced because there is lack of po- litical will for adaptation (Grothmann et ...(or: risk appraisal) and/or chances of climate change and its potential impacts 5 ...
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Accredited qualifications for capacity development in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation
... disaster risk arises when hazards interact with the physical, social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities and exposure of populations (UNISDR, ...of climate change (IPCC, 2012), as shown in figure ...
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Climate Variability and Adaptive Capacity in Semi-arid Tharaka District, Kenya.
... to climate change in Thara- ka were the Catholic Diocese of Meru, Plan International, United Nations De- velopment Programme (UNDP) and World Food Programme ...seasonal climate forecast would improve ...
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Participatory diagnosis and development of climate change adaptive capacity in the groundnut basin of Senegal: building a climate-smart village model
... CCAFS: Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security; CGIAR: Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research; CIAT: International Center for Tropical Agriculture; CMS: Senegal Mutuel Loan; CNCAS: National ...
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Understanding adaptive capacity and capacity to innovate in social–ecological systems: applying a gender lens
... pre-identified risk or particular hazard ...to climate change), or to innovate to address a pre-specified problem (sensu Lemos et ...2008). Adaptive capacity has been well described in ...
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Development of a Framework for Local Governments to Enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
... of climate change risk assessment these uncertainties arise from the fact that although there is a high level of confidence that the climate is changing, the magnitude of the changes and associated ...
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Characterizing adaptive capacity to climate change in developing countries: a case study on Peru
... years, climate-related catastrophes across the world illustrated the importance of a nation’s capacity to act and react when facing ...performing risk analysis, and reconstructing the infrastructure ...
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Education to Enhance Vietnamese Coastal Communities’ Adaptive Capacity to Cope With Climate Change
... climate change. First of all, the project conducted by MONRE and UNDP (United National Development Program) in 20009 named ‘Building resilience: Adaptive strategies for coastal livelihoods most at ...
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Spatial analysis and modelling of flood risk and climate adaptation capacity for assessing urban community and critical infrastructure interdependency
... coping capacity (Bell 2010). Thus, the term capacity is a generic and collective definition while coping capacity encompasses individual, people, community and organisational capacity that ...
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Linking Corporate Social Responsibility, Tourism and Climate Change to Build Tourism Community Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Bali
... future climate risks in Indonesia and the ongoing risk management strategies to tackle the ...observed climate change trends in Indonesia, which are: (1) increases in temperature; (2) average sea ...
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Resilience, vulnerability and adaptive capacity of an inland rural town prone to flooding: a climate change adaptation case study of Charleville, Queensland, Australia
... Governments, communities and industries are urgently recommending rural landholders to adopt sustainable land-use practices to protect biodiversity, reduce the environmental impact of farming and become better prepared ...
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Livelihood resilience and adaptive capacity: A critical conceptual review
... and adaptive capacity as they apply to ...disaster risk management ...in climate change and variability ...and adaptive capacity analysis ordinarily had to fit within this ...
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Examining tourism destination risk and community adaptive capacity along the north shore of Lake Superior
... diverse yet complementary methodological approaches (Eakin and Luers 2006). Three actionable objectives were developed to address this complex vulnerability. First, hydroclimatic models were developed (Objective 2) to ...
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Cities at Risk: Building Adaptive Capacities for Managing Climate Change Risks in Asian Coastal Cities (CAR II)
... of climate change and climate change adaptation into Asian planning school ...in climate change science and understanding as well as lessons learned from ongoing urban climate change ...
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Coastal Louisiana: Adaptive Capacity in the Face of Climate Change
... Hazard mitigation planning emerged from the idea of alleviating risk before disaster occurs. Godschalk, Beatley, Berke, Brower, and Kaiser, after studying federal hazard mitigation planning policy and the ways ...
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Techniques for valuing adaptive capacity in flood risk management
... erosion risk management has always faced the challenge of decision-making in the face of multiple uncertainties relating to the climate, the economy and ...managed adaptive approach can offer ...
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Development of a Framework for Local Governments to Enhance Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change
... Climate change presents a fundamental challenge for Local Government functions, including land use and development, coastal management, community health and safety, waste disposal and recycling, and emergency ...
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An adaptive methodology for risk classification of small homogeneous earthfill embankment dams integrating climate change projections
... probabilistic climate model known as UKCP09 is ...the risk classification of the slope’s performance level due to ...dam’s risk classification, as categorized by the Flood and Water Management Act ...
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Spatial analysis and modelling of flood risk and climate adaptation capacity for assessing urban community and critical infrastructure interdependency
... flood risk and climate adaptation capacity indicating variables using a) high resolution digital elevation modelling and urban morphological characterisation with 3D analysis, b) spatial analysis ...
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