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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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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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Operationalizing ecosystem-based adaptation: harnessing ecosystem services to buffer communities against climate change

Ecology and Society, 2016
Ecosystem-based approaches for climate change adaptation are promoted at international, national, and local levels by both scholars and practitioners. However, local planning practices that support these approaches are scattered, and measures are neither
Christine Wamsler, Lisa Niven, Thomas H. Beery, Torleif Bramryd, Nils Ekelund, K. Ingemar Jönsson, Adelina Osmani, Thomas Palo, Sanna Stålhammar   +8 more
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Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: concept, scalability and a role for conservation science

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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Global recognition of the importance of nature-based solutions to the impacts of climate change

Global Sustainability, 2020
Ecosystems across the globe are vulnerable to the effects of climate change, as are the communities that depend on them. However, ecosystems can also protect people from climate change impacts.
Nathalie Seddon, Elizabeth Daniels, Rowan Davis, Alexandre Chausson, Rian Harris, Xiaoting Hou-Jones, Saleemul Huq, Valerie Kapos, Georgina M. Mace, Ali Raza Rizvi, Hannah Reid, Dilys Roe, Beth Turner, Sylvia Wicander   +13 more
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Secondary forests in Peru: differential provision of ecosystem services compared to other post-deforestation forest transitions

Ecology and Society, 2022
While tropical forests are undergoing rapid transformation as a result of direct human impacts, many deforested areas are reverting to forest through natural or human-assisted regeneration.
Richard Tito, Norma Salinas, Eric G. Cosio, Tatiana E. Boza Espinoza, Julia G. Muñiz, Susan Aragón, Alex Nina, Rosa Maria Roman-Cuesta   +7 more
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Mainstreaming ecosystem-based adaptation: transformation toward sustainability in urban governance and planning

Ecology and Society, 2015
The concept of ecosystem-based adaptation is advocated at international, national, and regional levels. The concept is thought to foster sustainability transitions and is receiving increasing interest from academic and governmental bodies alike. However,
Christine Wamsler
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Consistent Changes in Land-Use/Land-Cover in Semi-Arid Areas: Implications on Ecosystem Service Delivery and Adaptation in the Limpopo Basin, Botswana

Land, 2022
Ecosystems in semi-arid areas remain essential to securing livelihoods and aiding climate change adaptation. However, land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) is the leading driver of biodiversity, ecosystem services, habitat, and ecosystem loss in most ...
Ephias Mugari, Hillary Masundire
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Challenges for planning climate change resilience through the co-creation living lab approach in the Mediterranean coastal town of Piran

Revija za Geografijo, 2022
Climate change resilience for urban coastal communities is a pressing matter considering hazards like sea-level rise, coastal flooding and erosion. Adapting to such changes and creating climate change resilience should be an all-stakeholder process. This
Peter Kumer, Cécil Meulenberg, Erik Kralj   +2 more
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Innovative Financing Mechanisms to Leverage Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EbA) Finance for Vulnerable Communities [PDF]

Global Economic Observer, 2023
Climate change accelerates economic loss and results in negative GDP growth. Vulnerable geographies and communities are the most affected by climate change, but they lack the capacity (financial and technical) to withstand and adapt to its effects.
NAMITA VIKAS, SMITHA HARI
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