Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2019 This paper contrasts knowledge frames for climate change and displacement. First the paper explains the abstract human rights arguments about displacement in climate change and disaster. In contrast, management and claims under lawsuits about climate change and displacement are place-based.
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Tom Tietenberg, Lynne Lewis
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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Assessment for the European Union [PDF]
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare.
Christiane Reif, Daniel Osberghaus
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Ecosystem-based adaptation for smallholder farmers in agricultural landscapes in Central America: opportunities and constraints [PDF]
, 2014 It is increasingly recognized that climate change will have a disproportionate impact on smallholder farmers, due to their dependence on agriculture for both livelihoods and food security, their often high levels of poverty, location in remote areas and ...
Alpizar, Francisco +8 more
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Robust adaptation strategy for enhancing climate resilience in irrigated agriculture
npj Climate ActionAdaptation as a goal has become an absolute necessity in water resources projects to cope with the negative impacts of climate change. Adaptation planning needs to move from the traditional predict-then-act approach to a broader vulnerability and risk ...
Ambili G. Kamalamma, Mukand S. Babel
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County‐Scale Climate Projections Over Minnesota and the Effects of Lakes
Water Resources ResearchClimate projections for three future shared socioeconomic pathway scenarios from six CMIP6 global climate models (GCMs) were dynamically downscaled over Minnesota with the regional Weather Research and Forecasting model coupled to a lake model at 4‐km ...
Stefan Liess +9 more
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From Coping with Natural Disasters in the Past to a Model of Future Optimal Adaptation [PDF]
The aim of this paper is to gain insights from studying adaptation to natural disasters in the past in order to analyze optimal adaptation in Switzerland in the future.
Bucher, Raphael, Guelden Sterzl, Jasmin
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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]
, 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
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Climate change impacts and adaptation in U.S. Rocky Mountain high-elevation ecosystems
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine ResearchFrom a resource management perspective, climate change is considered to be one of the main threats to high-elevation ecosystems. However, these valuable ecosystems present unique challenges to climate change adaptation (actions in response to ...
Meagan F. Oldfather +6 more
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Community-based Adaptation: Lessons from the Development Marketplace 2009 on Adaptation to Climate Change [PDF]
The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support.
Habiba Gitay +2 more
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