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Global hotspots for coastal ecosystem-based adaptation. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2020
Helping the world's coastal communities adapt to climate change impacts requires evaluating the vulnerability of coastal communities and assessing adaptation options.
Holly P Jones, Barry Nickel, Tanja Srebotnjak, Will Turner, Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich, Erika Zavaleta, David G Hole   +6 more
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Ecosystem-based adaptation in Lake Victoria Basin; synergies and trade-offs [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2021
Healthy ecosystems such as forests and wetlands have a great potential to support adaptation to climate change and are the foundation of sustainable livelihoods.
Dorice Agol, Hannah Reid, Florence Crick, Hausner Wendo   +3 more
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Ecosystem-based adaptation for increased agricultural productivity by smallholder farmers in Nepal [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2022
The impacts of climate change are evident in the agriculture sector globally. These impacts are more severe and pronounced in a mountainous country like Nepal due to the high reliance on agro-economy and subsistence-based livelihoods by smallholder ...
Kiran Bhusal, Erica Udas, Laxmi Dutt Bhatta   +2 more
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Ecosystem-based Adaptation in Ecuador: Good Practices for Adaptive Co-Management [PDF]

Ambiente & Sociedade, 2020
Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) requires social learning and linkages between actors and levels under Adaptive Co-Management (ACM), especially in landscapes with high biodiversity and vulnerability, such as the Tropical Andes.
Pere Ariza-Montobbio, Nicolás Cuvi
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Integration of urban ecosystem-based adaptation in Nepal: A policy landscape analysis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is an ecologically sensitive, cost-effective, and locally adaptive climate adaptation strategy to strengthen the climate resilience of vulnerable communities.
Tshering Ongmu Sherpa
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Reducing risks by transforming landscapes: Cross-scale effects of land-use changes on ecosystem services. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Globally, anthropogenic environmental change is exacerbating the already vulnerable conditions of many people and ecosystems. In order to obtain food, water, raw materials and shelter, rural people modify forests and other ecosystems, affecting the ...
Giacomo Fedele, Bruno Locatelli, Houria Djoudi, Matthew J Colloff   +3 more
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Ecosystem-based climate change adaptation for Essenvelt, Middelburg, The Netherlands

Town and Regional Planning, 2018
Climate change is an internationally recognised phenomenon generally held accountable for the increasing magnitude of extremes in both climatic events and temperature.
Wim Timmermans, Cor Jacobs, Tim van Hattum, Louis Lategan, Juaneé Cilliers   +4 more
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Biodiversity outcomes of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation: Characterising the evidence base

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2022
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are increasingly recognised for their potential to address both the climate and biodiversity crises. Both these outcomes rely on the capacity of NbS to support and enhance the health of an ecosystem: its biodiversity, the ...
Isabel B. Key, Isabel B. Key, Alison C. Smith, Alison C. Smith, Beth Turner, Beth Turner, Alexandre Chausson, Cécile A. J. Girardin, Cécile A. J. Girardin, Megan Macgillivray, Nathalie Seddon   +10 more
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Dual adaptation for biodiversity and people: Nexus in ecological protection using a case study of the Qilian Mountains in China

Ecological Indicators, 2022
Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has attracted wide attention in climate change adaptation strategy. However, EBM requires the realization of co-benefits of biodiversity and human wellbeing improvement.
Zhenshan Yang, Yilin Zhang, Huimin Su, Jieyong Wang   +3 more
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Nature-based solutions as climate change adaptation measures for rail infrastructure

Nature-Based Solutions, 2022
The transport sector fulfils crucial economic and social functions with railways being instrumental in the safe, efficient, and reliable movements of people to their destinations and goods to market.
Lorraine Blackwood, Fabrice G. Renaud, Steven Gillespie   +2 more
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