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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

open access: yesLand, 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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Innovative Financing Mechanisms to Leverage Ecosystem Based Adaptation (EbA) Finance for Vulnerable Communities [PDF]

open access: yesGlobal 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
doaj  

Challenges for planning climate change resilience through the co-creation living lab approach in the Mediterranean coastal town of Piran

open access: yesRevija 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   +2 more
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The promises and pitfalls of ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change as a vehicle for social empowerment

open access: yesEcology 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
doaj   +1 more source

Securing the sea: ecosystem-based adaptation and the biopolitics of insuring nature's rents

open access: yesJournal 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
doaj   +2 more sources

THE MODEL OF THE INTERCULTURAL ADAPTATION ECOSYSTEM OF UNIVERSITIES AS AN ELEMENT OF STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT

open access: yesСтратегические решения и риск-менеджмент, 2021
The tasks of increasing the international competitiveness and export of Russian education within the framework of national development priorities are inextricably linked with the need to create a favorable environment for the adaptation of international ...
S. V. Ilkevich   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dynamic occupancy modelling of Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reveals increasing landscape use in Nepal

open access: yesScientific Reports
Large mammals with general habitat needs can persist throughout mixed used landscapes, however, human-wildlife conflict frequently leads to their restriction to protected areas.
Ashok Kumar Ram   +8 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

Nature-based solutions in the savanna belt of Africa: Insights from a systematic review

open access: yesNature-Based Solutions
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are powerful tools whereby, using nature as the template, societal challenges can be addressed, while simultaneously achieving co-benefits for the environment.
Daniel O. Olago   +7 more
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