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Coastal Ecosystem Based Adaptation: Bangladesh Experience

2013
Bangladesh is confronting multitude threats of climate change related extreme events. The decadal observation provides strong evidences of climate changes in terms of excessive or minimum rainfall events, changing frequency and intensity of floods, cyclone and tidal surge, and sea level rise have been gradually increasing fast and slow impacts.
Paramesh Nandy, Ronju Ahammad, Mesbahul Alam, Aminul Islam   +3 more
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Blue Carbon Ecosystems and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation

2021
Blue carbon ecosystems are being lost at a fast rate due to various trends. When these ecosystems degrade, they contribute to climate change by releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere. Furthermore, coastal ecosystems are being degraded or lost, resulting in damage to infrastructure and property from climatic extremes.
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Unlocking ecosystem based adaptation opportunities in coastal Bangladesh

Journal of Coastal Conservation, 2013
Coastal ecosystems generate diverse services, such as protection, production of food, climate regulation and recreation across the globe. These services are vital for extremely vulnerable coastal areas for enhancing present and future adaptation capacity under changing climate.
Ronju Ahammad, Paramesh Nandy, Panna Husnain   +2 more
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Vulnerability and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in the Farming Communities of Droughtprone Northwest Bangladesh

Social Science Research Network, 2023
R. Sultana, H. Irfanullah, Mohammad Budrudzaman, S. Selim   +3 more
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On the development of urban adaptation strategies using ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation

2015 Smart Cities Symposium Prague (SCSP), 2015
Selected aspects of currently running project UrbanAdapt are described. The project deals with the adaptation of cities on changing climatic conditions. The main project objective is to start the process of preparation of cities adaptation strategies, developing adaptation scenarios and testing the effects and benefits of particular measures ...
Derbek, P., Blümelová, J., Resler, J. (Jaroslav), Juruš, P. (Pavel), Krč, P. (Pavel), Vlček, O., Benešová, N., Bauerová, N., Srbová, D., Eben, K. (Kryštof), Hrubeš, P.   +10 more
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Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices in smallholder agriculture; emerging evidence from rural Pakistan

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
Ecosystems and biodiversity provide many critical life support functions including clean water, food, climate regulation, and recreational services. Despite its significant values biodiversity in Pakistan is being lost at a significant rate particularly ...
S. Shah, Jiehong Zhou, A. Shah
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Using Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Actions to Tackle Food Insecurity

Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 2013
Headlines of late have focused on the worst drought in decades in the United States, Africa, southern Europe, and elsewhere.
Richard Munang, Ibrahim Thiaw, Keith Alverson, Mounkaila Goumandakoye, Desta Mebratu, Jian Liu   +5 more
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in the Urban Environment

2011
Healthy ecosystems provide vital services for urban centres as well as for adaptation of urban communities to climate change. This paper will describe the value of ecosystem services and ecosystem-based adaptation for urban centres, giving examples of the effectiveness of this approach.
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Emerging responses to global climate change: ecosystem-based adaptation

Global Change, Peace & Security, 2018
Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) has recently emerged as an important way to address the impacts of climate change.
John Barkdull, Paul G. Harris
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Ecosystem-Based Adaptation (EbA) in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: Status, Progress and Challenges

Disaster and Risk Research: GADRI Book Series, 2021
Sunita Chaudhary, B. Adhikari, P. Chaudhary, T. Dorji, Renuka Poudel   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source