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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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Launching criteria of ‘Heatstroke Alert’ in Japan according to regionality and age group
Environmental Research Communications, 2023 To reduce heatstroke cases, the Japanese government launched ‘Heatstroke Alert’ in 2020. In this initiative, an alert is issued when the daily maximum wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) is expected to reach or exceed 33 °C.
Kazutaka Oka +2 more
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, 2015 Climate change adaptation involves major global and societal challenges such as finding adequate and equitable adaptation funding and integrating adaptation and development programs. Current funding is insufficient. Debates between the Global North and South center on how best to allocate the financial burdens associated with adaptation programs.
Carmin, J. +5 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 The risks of flood and drought have been projected to increase in many regions due to global warming. Afforestation is considered an adaptation option because it reduces flood risks by decreasing total runoff and peak river discharge, but it also ...
Kumiko Takata, Naota Hanasaki
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Managing Climate Change Refugia for Climate Adaptation [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2016 Refugia have long been studied from paleontological and biogeographical perspectives to understand how populations persisted during past periods of unfavorable climate. Recently, researchers have applied the idea to contemporary landscapes to identify climate change refugia, here defined as areas relatively buffered from contemporary climate change ...
Toni Lyn Morelli +14 more
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Agroforestry and Adaptation to Climate Change
EURAF Policy Briefing, 2023 EURAF Policy Briefing ...
Lawson, Gerry +3 more
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Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing Countries [PDF]
Environmental Management, 2009 Adaptation to climate change is given increasing international attention as the confidence in climate change projections is getting higher. Developing countries have specific needs for adaptation due to high vulnerabilities, and they will in this way carry a great part of the global costs of climate change although the rising atmospheric greenhouse gas
Mertz, Ole +3 more
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Integrating climate in Ugandan health and subsistence food systems: where diverse knowledges meet
BMC Public Health, 2020 Background The effects of food insecurity linked to climate change will be exacerbated in subsistence communities that are dependent upon food systems for their livelihoods and sustenance. Place-and community-based forms of surveillance are important for
Bianca van Bavel +7 more
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Open Agriculture, 2021 Climate change hazards including droughts and floods are adversely affecting crop productivity and food security among Kenyan smallholder farmers. This article analyzes rainfall and temperature change effects on household food security in Kimandi-Wanyaga,
Ngure Mary W. +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Accurate land use land cover (LULC) classification is vital for the sustainable management of natural resources and to learn how the landscape is changing due to climate.
Sana Basheer +6 more
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