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Rediscovering South Africa: Flood disaster risk management through ecosystem-based adaptation
Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, 2022 The emergence of ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) has created a shift from the conventional adaptation approaches often accompanied by high costs, including conflicting interests associated with the dense urban fabric and inflexibility.
Emmanuel Tolulope Busayo +5 more
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Securing the sea: ecosystem-based adaptation and the biopolitics of insuring nature's rents
Journal of Political Ecology, 2021 With the emergence of the so-called Blue Economy, various conservation finance mechanisms and financial structures are being proposed as a means of simultaneously securing marine biodiversity and profit-making.
Jens Christiansen
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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, 2017 Societal adaptation to climate change requires measures that simultaneously reduce poverty, protect or restore biodiversity and ecosystem services, and remove atmospheric greenhouse gases.
Fabio Rubio Scarano
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Indicators to measure the climate change adaptation outcomes of ecosystem-based adaptation [PDF]
Climatic Change, 2019 Abstract Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of a strategy to help people adapt to climate change. Despite the potential of EbA to provide adaptation benefits, there is a lack of consensus on how to measure the success of this approach.
Camila I. Donatti +4 more
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Ecology and Society, 2019 Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) to climate change is an approach claimed to deliver social benefits relevant to marginalized groups. Based on a structured literature review, we interrogate such claims, asking whether such approaches may (or may not ...
Stephen Woroniecki +2 more
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Farmers' Strategies to Climate Change and Urbanization: Potential of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation in Rural Chengdu, Southwest China. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022 Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA) is emerging as a cost-effective approach for helping people adapt to climate and non-climate changes. Nowadays, climate change and urbanization have affected agricultural systems, but it is not clear how rural communities
Zhong B, Wu S, Sun G, Wu N.
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The use of ecosystem-based adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America [PDF]
, 2017 There is growing interest in promoting the use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, however there is limited information on how commonly these practices are used by smallholder farmers and ...
Avelino, Jacques +7 more
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Ecosystem-based Adaptation: A review of the constraints [PDF]
Environmental Science & Policy, 2018 Abstract In the international climate policy arena, Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) has become the preferred adaptation approach to climate change in the least developed and developing countries. Its perceived strength lies in the premise that adaptation strategies need to address both ecosystems and livelihoods simultaneously, given these are ...
Nalau, Johanna +2 more
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International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 2018 Disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation are connected through a common goal: reducing the impacts of extreme events and increasing resilience to disasters, particularly among vulnerable populations. By coordinating adaptation and disaster risk management policies, multiple benefits can be achieved.
McVittie, A +4 more
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Local Ecological Knowledge on Climate Change and Ecosystem-Based Adaptation Strategies Promote Resilience in the Middle Zambezi Biosphere Reserve, Zimbabwe. [PDF]
Scientifica (Cairo), 2019 Understanding local community perceptions on impacts, causes, and responses to climate change is vital for promotion of community resilience towards climate change. This study explored local ecological knowledge (LEK) held by local communities on climate
Kupika OL, Gandiwa E, Nhamo G, Kativu S.
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