Editorial: Climate change and adaptive capacity building
Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2023 Wei Shui +4 more
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Climate events and the role of adaptive capacity for (im-)mobility [PDF]
Population and Environment, 2022 Abstract The study examines the relationship between sudden- and gradual-onset climate events and migration, hypothesizing that this relationship is mediated by the adaptive capacity of affected individuals. We use survey data from regions of Cambodia, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda, and Vietnam that were affected by both types of events ...
Vally Koubi +3 more
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The Readiness Index for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: The Role of Climate and Adaptive Capacity Proxies [PDF]
Applied Sciences, 2021 As global changes continue, the repercussions in Africa remain profound. This is reflected notably in food and water crises across Africa. This work examines the readiness of Africa to climate change adaptation through a newly developed readiness index (ClimAdaptCap Index). In fact, this work shifts the readiness debate from emotional descriptions that
Terence Epule Epule +3 more
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Assessing urban adaptive capacity to climate change [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Management, 2016 Despite the growing number of studies focusing on urban vulnerability to climate change, adaptive capacity, which is a key component of the IPCC definition of vulnerability, is rarely assessed quantitatively. We examine the capacity of adaptation in the Concepción Metropolitan Area, Chile.
Araya-Munoz, Dahyann +4 more
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Assessing institutional capacities to adapt to climate change: integrating psychological dimensions in the Adaptive Capacity Wheel [PDF]
Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 2013 Abstract. Several case studies show that social factors like institutions, perceptions and social capital strongly affect social capacities to adapt to climate change. Together with economic and technological development they are important for building social capacities.
T. Grothmann +3 more
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Climate capacity: the measurement for adaptation to climate change
Chinese Journal of Population Resources and Environment, 2015 This article proposed the concept of “climate capacity” as a way of measuring human’s adaptiveness to climate change. This article also focused on the related concepts like ecological carrying capacity, water resources carrying capacity, land carrying capacity as well as population carrying capacity.
Jiahua Pan +3 more
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Climate change and the city: Building capacity for urban adaptation [PDF]
Progress in Planning, 2015 AbstractThe significant shifts in climate variables projected for the 21st century, coupled with the observed impacts of ongoing extreme weather and climate events, ensures that adaptation to climate change is set to remain a pressing issue for urban areas over the coming decades.
Carter, Jeremy G. +5 more
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What do we know about UK household adaptation to climate change? A systematic review [PDF]
, 2014 The UK Government’s first National Adaptation Programme seeks to create a ‘climate-ready society’ capable of making well-informed and far-sighted decisions to address risks and opportunities posed by a changing climate, where individual households are ...
Porter, J.J. +2 more
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Understanding the adaptive capacity of Australian small-to-medium enterprises to climate change and variability [PDF]
, 2013 Small-to-medium enterprises (SMEs) comprise 96 per cent of all private businesses in Australia. The SME sector is the economy’s largest employer and the largest contributor to GDP.
Janina Murta +2 more
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Building local capacity to adapt to climate change
Climate Policy, 2021 Local governments in cities around the world will not be able to cope with climate change impacts until they enhance their capacity to adapt.
Lawrence Susskind, Amber Kim
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