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Climate services for the railway sector: A synthesis of adaptation information needs in Europe
Frontiers in Climate, 2022 Given that climate variability and change present unprecedented challenges to the rail sector, efforts to produce relevant climate data/information for climate risk management and adaptive decision making in the rail sector are gaining traction. However,
Emmanuel M. N. A. N. Attoh +4 more
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Survey-Based Assessment of the Preferences in Residential Demand Response on the Island of Mayotte
Energies, 2022 As on many other European islands, the energy system of Mayotte suffers from low reliability of supply, low share of renewable energies, and high costs of supply.
Nikolas Schöne +2 more
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Understanding how climate change affects coastal ecosystems is one of the most important elements in determining vulnerability and resilience for long-term ecosystem management in the face of the increasing risk of coastal hazards (e.g., sea level rise ...
Quan Van Dau +4 more
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Land, 2023 The Meiyu season is a typical rainy season in East Asia that is controlled by summer monsoon. Despite extensive research on its impact, it is unclear how urbanization modifies precipitation during the Meiyu season in the background of the monsoon ...
Ping Liang +4 more
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Possibility of Stabilizing the Greenland Ice Sheet
Earth's Future, 2021 Recent acceleration in the retreat of the Greenland ice sheet under a warming climate has caused unprecedented challenges and threats to coastal communities due to the rising sea level and increasing storm surges.
Xiuquan Wang +2 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Initiatives and Adaptation Measures to Climate Change Undertaken in Poland and Western Europe [PDF]
, 2016 The analysis of the main initiatives for adaptation to climate change in selected countries of Western Europe and Poland relate to key issues mentioned in the strategic documents of the European Commission.
Michalak, Dorota
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Regional development and climate change adaptation: a study of the role of legitimacy [PDF]
, 2016 This paper presents results from a study of Czech Local Action Groups (LAGs), focusing on gaining knowledge about their internally perceived legitimacy and their potential role in local adaptation to climate change.
Danihelka, Pavel +4 more
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Climate Change AdaptationAdapting to climate change is an increasingly urgent policy priority in lower- and middle-income countries. This systematic review summarizes the current state of the literature on adaptation to climate change, and conducts a quantitative meta-analysis of the effectiveness of climate ...
Rexer, Jonah, Sharma, Siddharth
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Scientific African, 2021 In the recent decades, extreme weather events have increased in frequency, intensity and magnitude threatening and increasing the vulnerability of rural livelihoods particularly in the arid and semi-arid lands.
Dorcas N. Kalele +3 more
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Women and water management in times of climate change: participatory and inclusive processes [PDF]
, 2013 This paper focuses on community engagement, and particularly the inclusion of women, in water management as a response to climate change. Addressing water-related problems is central to climate change adaptation, and civil society, marginalized ...
Figueiredo, P. +1 more
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