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From climate risk to action: Analysing adaptation decision robustness under uncertainty

open access: yesClimate Risk Management
Climate adaptation decisions are made under great uncertainty, arising from uncertainties about both the level of climate risk and the attributes of decision options.
Cecina Babich Morrow   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Climate risk perceptions and adaptation decision-making at Nordic farm scale – a typology of risk responses

open access: yesInternational Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2019
Agriculture in the Nordic countries is a sector, where farmers are facing climatic challenges first-hand with little policy guidance on climate change adaptation or climate risk management. Adaptation practices emerging at the farm scale have potentially
Janina Käyhkö
doaj   +1 more source

Identifying Neighborhood Effects on Geohazard Adaptation in Mountainous Rural Areas of China: A Spatial Econometric Model

open access: yesInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2023
In mountainous rural settlements facing the threat of geohazards, local adaptation is a self-organizing process influenced by individual and group behaviors. Encouraging a wide range of local populations to embrace geohazard adaptation strategies emerges
Li Peng, Jing Tan
doaj   +1 more source

Climate Adaptation Measures for Enhancing Urban Resilience

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Climate change threatens urban areas globally. Enhancing resilience is crucial, yet the comprehensive clustering of practical climate adaptation measures for use in construction industry decision-making is notably absent.
Seyed M. H. S. Rezvani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a management tool for the equal evaluation of economic, social and ecological effects of adaptation scenarios for attenuating the effects of climate change induced flooding [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Climate change is expected to influence river flooding which may have important implications for socio-economic and ecological systems. Changed flood risks require a proper policy. Water managers need to develop and select those adaptation scenarios that
De Smet, L, De Sutter, Renaat
core  

Exploring Preferences for a Digital Single‐Session Intervention for Adolescent Siblings of Youth With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent siblings of children with cancer are at elevated risk for psychosocial problems. Unfortunately, various barriers such as limited family time and resources, conflicting schedules, and psychosocial staffing constraints at cancer centers hinder sibling access to support.
Christina M. Amaro   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing decision support for climate adaptation in agriculture and natural resources

open access: yesFrontiers in Environmental Science
Climatic changes in California require farmers to develop adaptation strategies to sustain their production. Decision support is a key element of climate adaptation but requires a robust understanding of producer needs and priorities.
Samuel Ikendi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Case Base Mining for Adaptation Knowledge Acquisition [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In case-based reasoning, the adaptation of a source case in order to solve the target problem is at the same time crucial and difficult to implement.
Badra, Fadi   +5 more
core   +5 more sources

A context-aware decision engine for content adaptation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Building a good content adaptation service for mobile devices poses many challenges. To meet these challenges, this quality-of-service-aware decision engine automatically negotiates for the appropriate adaptation decision for synthesizing an optimal ...
Lau, FCM, Lum, WY
core   +1 more source

European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline and EXPeRT Recommendations for the Diagnosis and Management of Gastroenteropancreatic Neuroendocrine Neoplasms in Children and Adolescents

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen   +23 more
wiley   +1 more source

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