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Shaffril, Hayrol Azril Mohamed; Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi; Samsuddin, Samsul Farid
Guidelines for developing a systematic literature review for studies related to climate change adaptation
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
This study proposes a set of GuFSyADD guidelines on steps for developing suggestions that enhance of its rigor in systematic literature review (SLR) for studies related to climate change adaptation. The prescribed guidelines are based on the following six steps, (1) guided by review of protocol/publication standard/established guidelines/related published articles, (2) formulation of review questions, (3) systematic searching strategies, (4) appraisal of quality, (5) data extraction and analysis, and (6) data demonstration. Essentially, this set of proposed guidelines enables researchers to develop an SLR pertaining to climate change adaptation in an organised, transparent, and replicable manner.
2021
10.1007/s11356-021-13178-0
Ruth, Matthias; Franklin, Rachel S.
Livability for all? Conceptual limits and practical implications
APPLIED GEOGRAPHY
Livability has risen, alongside sustainability, as a guiding principle for planning and policy. Promoted as the more tangible of the two concepts, livability shapes public perception and infrastructure investments in cities, as well as competition among cities for the attention of the public, investment communities, and potentially fickle and mobile human capital. This paper takes stock of the current discourse on livability, identifies two central elements that have yet to shape the assessments of livability and policies to promote it, and explores strategies for research and practice to transform the livability concept, and with it the places in which the lives and livelihoods of people unfold.
2014
10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.09.018
Sparks, Tim H.
Local-scale adaptation to climate change: the village flower festival
CLIMATE RESEARCH
Plant tourism, for example to view flower displays or autumn colours, is a worldwide industry worth billions of US dollars annually. Climate change has been modifying the timings of many of these plant events, but there is little evidence of adaptation to meet this challenge. Here I show that a local-scale festival attracting thousands of people annually has advanced its timing by more than 3 wk over 46 yr. This short paper represents one of the first solid pieces of evidence of adaptation in flower tourism. I believe that these events represent a neglected source of data for confirming responses to a changing climate and, worldwide, it is likely that festivals can provide numerous such examples.
2014
10.3354/cr01228
Mees, Heleen L. P.; Driessen, Peter P. J.; Runhaar, Hens A. C.; Stamatelos, Jennifer
Who governs climate adaptation? Getting green roofs for stormwater retention off the ground
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Green roofs are an innovative solution for urban stormwater management. This paper examines governance arrangements for green roofs as a no-regrets' climate adaptation measure in five cities. We analysed who governs green roofs, why and with what outcome. Our results show that hierarchical and market arrangements co-exist in the various stages of the policy process. Cities with a higher prevalence of hierarchical arrangements have substantially higher implementation rates for green roofs. Although private sector involvement is crucial for raising efficiencies, a significant level of public responsibility taken by local governments appears to be salient for unleashing the potential of green roofs.
2013
10.1080/09640568.2012.706600
Beery, Thomas; Schmitt, Kristen; McDonnell, Julie; Moore, Tansey
Community Climate Conversations: Engaging and Empowering Local Action in a Changing World
JOURNAL OF EXTENSION
We examined how the Twin Ports Climate Conversations (TPCC), a community-based climate communication project, is influencing local climate awareness and response. A survey of TPCC participants and subsequent roundtable discussion event were used to explore program impacts, outcomes, and future directions. Results showed that the TPCC project has been effective at increasing awareness and facilitating contacts and may be leading to actions that range from information sharing to personal behavioral changes. Future directions include engaging new audiences and promoting more on-the-ground climate action. TPCC can serve as a model to help other communities start cross-sectoral climate conversations.
2019
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Tweneboah-Koduah, Desmond
Local Governments' Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Ghana: Evidence From Bongo District
JOURNAL OF ASIAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES
Global environmental policies require strong local actions to make an impact. However, the capacity for local action and impact are often taken for granted. This paper examines the institutional capacity of the Bongo district assembly to support the livelihood adaptation capacity of rural smallholder farmers. Twenty key informant interviews were done, and five focus group discussions were also conducted in five communities. The paper finds that the local government is too weak to facilitate climate change adaptation at the local level due to four institutional barriers: politics of climate change, barriers relating to centralized planning, limited funding stream, and absence of skilled manpower.
2024
10.1177/00219096241243294
Keskitalo, E. Carina H.; Kulyasova, Antonina A.
The role of governance in community adaptation to climate change
POLAR RESEARCH
The capacity to adapt to challenges such as climate change can be seen as largely determined by socioeconomic context or social vulnerability. This article examines the adaptive capacity of local actors in response to globalization and climate change, asking: how much of the desirable adaptation can be undertaken at a local level, and how much is determined by actors at other levels, for instance, when resource conflicts occur? Drawing on case studies of fishing in northern Norway and north-west Russia, the paper shows that adaptive capacity beyond the immediate economic adaptations available to local actors is, to a considerable extent, politically determined within larger governance networks.
2009
10.1111/j.1751-8369.2009.00097.x
Losasso, Mario; Leone, Mattia; Tersigni, Enza
Computational design based approaches for public space resilient regeneration
TECHNE-JOURNAL OF TECHNOLOGY FOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT
In urban areas, the issue of resilient-based design for adaptation to climate impacts is one of those where the interdependence between technological innovation, resource governance and sustainable development strategies is relevant. Public spaces are a key system for testing the most effective strategies for reducing climate impacts through approaches that use computational design tools in climate adaptation actions. The paper presents the results of the Athenaeum Research Project funded for 2017-2019 by Federico II University entitled SIMMCITIES_NA, Scenario Impact Modelling Methodology for a Climate change-Induced hazards Tool for Integrated End-users Strategic planning and design - Napoli.
2020
10.13128/techne-7815
Fan, Yubing; McCann, Laura; Qin, Hua
Households' Adoption of Drought Tolerant Plants: An Adaptation to Climate Change?
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
Adopting drought tolerant plants (DTPs) to conserve water is a potential adaptation to the predicted effects of climate change in the Midwest. Survey responses from 624 Missouri households were analyzed using a univariate probit model. DTP adoption was positively correlated with both low and high household incomes, living in rural subdivisions, time spent gardening, proenvironment attitudes, and concerns about drought. Policy interventions in newly drought-prone areas might include subsidizing the up-front cost of DTPs, requiring their use in new housing developments so DTPs are the default for buyers, and targeted educational efforts to environmental and gardening groups and rural residents.
2017
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Carof, M.; Marie, M.; Pavie, J.
Tools for evaluating that forage systems are adapted to climate change
FOURRAGES
Current and future climate changes are one of the driving factors of change in farming practices. New systems being developed by farmers (alone or with the help of farm advisors) and researchers require an evaluation phase in order to assess the relevance of new practices with regard to determined criteria. A wide range of tools are available, and choosing the right ones is crucial. A recent guide, relying on basic characteristics (type of system, parameters for evaluating sustainability, end users, etc.) has analyzed tools which may be used to check if forage systems are adapted to climate change based on multiple criteria. A list of tools is proposed, two of which are presented in detail.
2013
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McClain, Shanna N.; Bruch, Carl; Secchi, Silvia
Adaptation in the Tisza: innovation and tribulation at the sub-basin level
WATER INTERNATIONAL
This article explores the elements limiting adaptive governance in the Tisza sub-basin, considers policy options available to the sub-basin, and concludes that more attention must be paid to frameworks governing adaptation in transboundary sub-basins where resources are limited.The Tisza is the largest sub-basin in the Danube River basin, and faces increasing water management pressures exacerbated by climate change. The Tisza countries have experienced challenges with managing climate change adaptation in a nested, consistent and effective manner pursuant to the EU Water Framework Directive. This is due to inefficiencies in climate change adaptation, such as weakened vertical coordination.
2016
10.1080/02508060.2016.1214774
Hepburn, Cameron; Mueller, Benito
International Air Travel and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: A Proposal for an Adaptation Levy1
WORLD ECONOMY
(1287) Cameron Hepburn and Benito Muller Greenhouse gas emissions from international aviation services have been increasing rapidly and are likely to continue to do so in the absence of major policy changes. At the same time, while all countries will experience impacts from climate change, developing countries are the most vulnerable. Significant financial assistance for adaptation is therefore needed for developing countries, but current proposals are inadequate. Solutions to the challenges of both aviation greenhouse gas emissions and climate change adaptation finance are thus urgently required. This paper proposes an international air travel adaptation levy that addresses both problems.
2010
10.1111/j.1467-9701.2010.01287.x
Kempenaar, Annet; Laeni, Naim; van den Brink, Margo; Busscher, Tim; Ovink, Henk
'Water as Leverage': Design-Led Planning for Urban Climate Resilience
PLANNING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
To prepare for the impacts of climate change, many Asian cities aim to become climate resilient. This calls for innovative, integrative, inclusive, and transformative planning approaches. Although design is advocated as a means to develop such approaches, it remains unclear what a design-led planning approach actually entails. This paper explores the design-led planning approach of the 'Water as Leverage' (WaL) programme, and investigates how it unfolded in Semarang, Indonesia. We found that WaL was able to develop promising proposals by employing the potential of design. However, future design-led planning initiatives can benefit from more receptivity to local situations and initiatives.
2024
10.1080/02697459.2022.2104322
Spirandelli, Daniele J.; Anderson, Tiffany R.; Porro, Roberto; Fletcher, Charles H.
Improving Adaptation Planning for Future Sea-Level Rise: Understanding Uncertainty and Risks Using a Probability-Based Shoreline Model
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Sea-level rise (SLR) presents risks to communities and ecosystems because of hazards like coastal erosion. In order to adapt, planners and the public seek estimates of shoreline change with high confidence and accuracy. The complexity of shorelines produces considerable uncertainty in the timing, location and magnitude of change. We present and discuss a probabilistic shoreline model for SLR planning. Using the coast of Maui as an illustrative case, we compare this model to a common deterministic model. We discuss the advantages of a probability-based model for SLR adaptation, including for prioritizing actions, phasing, visualizing risk and uncertainty, and improving adaptive management.
2016
10.1177/0739456X16657160
Xu, Yilan; Box-Couillard, Sebastien
Social learning about climate risks
ECONOMIC INQUIRY
With a social network adjacency matrix constructed from the Facebook Social Connectedness Index (SCI), this paper examines whether social learning facilitates climate risk perception updates to inform climate adaptation. We find that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma-induced regional flooding increased flood insurance policies nationwide to the extent of each county's social network proximity to the flooded areas, with a corresponding update in climate risk perception. Social learning resulted in an additional 250,000 policies in flooded counties and 81,000 policies in unflooded counties over 3 years. We find evidence of the salience effect but no support for adverse selection or over-insurance.
2024
10.1111/ecin.13210
Egerer, Monika; Haase, Dagmar; McPhearson, Timon; Frantzeskaki, Niki; Andersson, Erik; Nagendra, Harini; Ossola, Alessandro
Urban change as an untapped opportunity for climate adaptation
NPJ URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
Urban social-ecological-technological systems (SETS) are dynamic and respond to climate pressures. Change involves alterations to land and resource management, social organization, infrastructure, and design. Research often focuses on how climate change impacts urban SETS or on the characteristics of urban SETS that promote climate resilience. Yet passive approaches to urban climate change adaptation may disregard active SETS change by urban residents, planners, and policymakers that could be opportunities for adaptation. Here, we use evidence of urban social, ecological, and technological change to address how SETS change opens windows of opportunity to improve climate change adaptation.
2021
10.1038/s42949-021-00024-y
Ward, Frank A.
Hydroeconomic Analysis to Guide Climate Adaptation Plans
FRONTIERS IN WATER
Successful climate adaptation needs to sustain food, water, and energy security in the face of elevated carbon emissions. Hydroeconomic analysis (HEA) offers considerable potential to inform climate adaptation plans where water is an important element of economic activity. This paper's contribution is to identify how HEA can inform climate adaptation plans by minimizing economic costs of responding to climate induced changes in water supplies. It describes what HEA is, why it is important, how researchers implement it, who has made significant contributions, and places where it has informed policy debates. It also describes future directions for the use of HEA to guide climate adaptation.
2021
10.3389/frwa.2021.681475
Fantini, Andrea
Urban and peri-urban agriculture as a strategy for creating more sustainable and resilient urban food systems and facing socio-environmental emergencies
AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) is one of the most interesting phenomena of land management and transformation in recent decades. Thanks to its multiple functions, it can become an effective strategy to create more sustainable and resilient cities and food systems as well as to cope with global emergencies such as climate change, ecological degradation, food insecurity and economic crises. This paper analyzes the various functions of urban and peri-urban agriculture, the ways in which these functions connect and feed each other, the obstacles to its large-scale implementation, and the important role that it may have in the transition to an alternative economic and social paradigm.
2023
10.1080/21683565.2022.2127044
Fanzo, Jessica; Davis, Claire; McLaren, Rebecca; Choufani, Jowel
The effect of climate change across food systems: Implications for nutrition outcomes
GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY-AGRICULTURE POLICY ECONOMICS AND ENVIRONMENT
A better understanding of the pathways linking climate change and nutrition is critical for developing effective interventions to ensure the world's population has access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food. The paper uses a food systems approach to analyze the bidirectional relationships between climate change and food and nutrition along the entire food supply chain. It identifies adaptation and mitigation interventions for each step of the food supply chain to move toward a more climate-smart, nutrition-sensitive food system. There are many entry points for double duty actions that address climate adaptation and nutrition but they need to be implemented and scaled by governments.
2018
10.1016/j.gfs.2018.06.001
Demydenko, Andriy; Zheleznyak, Mark; Ishchuk, Olexiy
COST EFFECTIVE ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL IN UKRAINE
INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS
At the beginning of the 21st century, when it became clear that humanity would feel the effects of climate change mainly through waiter, research of the Institute of Mathematical Machines and System Problem of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine which modelled the spread of the Chernobyl disaster consequences in the aquatic environment, was also aimed at water modeling of the adaptation to climate change in Ukraine. The article shows how mathematical modeling of water resources can help develop the most cost-effective proactive adaptation measures at the community level - early warning of communities about extreme weather and reducing the impact / consequences of extreme floods.
2022
10.31392/iscs.2022.20.016
Vasey-Ellis, Natasha
Planning for Climate Change in Coastal Victoria
URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH
Sea-level rise, storm surges and changing weather patterns along oceans and coasts are issues of increasing urgency for Australia as rising numbers of people seek the sea-change lifestyle. A survey of the Australian state of Victoria's 22 coastal municipalities was employed to assess the degree to which they recognise climate change as a threat to their coastal zones. Questions were also used to gain an understanding of the adaptive capacity of the municipalities to coastal vulnerabilities and to highlight current and future strategies for adapting to climate change along coasts. The findings show that climate change is not being addressed adequately via statutory planning in Victoria.
2009
10.1080/08111140902950487
Manning, Dale T.; Goemans, Christopher; Maas, Alexander
Producer Responses to Surface Water Availability and Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
LAND ECONOMICS
Climate change is predicted to bring changes in weather and water availability. The effect on agriculture depends on the ability of producers to modify their practices in response to changing distributions. We develop a two-stage theoretical model of planting and irrigation decisions and use a unique dataset to empirically estimate how producers respond to changes in expected water availability and deviations from expectations. As water supplies decrease, producers respond by planting fewer acres and concentrating the application of water. Highlighting the importance of adaptation in this context, failure to account for this behavioral response overstates climate change impacts by 17%.
2017
10.3368/le.93.4.631
Biesbroek, Robbert
Policy integration and climate change adaptation
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Policy integration is considered an important mode to govern cross-cutting policy problems effectively. In the context of climate change adaptation, calls for strengthened policy integration have recently emerged to ensure timely, adequate and effective actions. Though research on climate change adaptation policy integration is still in its infancy, current knowledge from policy studies offers a solid basis for informing future work on adaptation policy integration. This paper reviews the main reasons why governments pursue policy integration, identifies key enabling and constraining conditions, and discusses evaluation of policy integration in the context of climate change adaptation.
2021
10.1016/j.cosust.2021.07.003
Antle, John M.; Capalbo, Susan M.
Adaptation of Agricultural and Food Systems to Climate Change: An Economic and Policy Perspective
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
Adaptation of agricultural and food systems to climate change involves private and public investment decisions in the face of climate and policy uncertainties. The authors present a framework for analysis of adaptation as an investment, based on elements of the economics, finance, and ecological economics literatures. They use this framework to assess critically impact and adaptation studies, and discuss how research could be designed to support public and private investment decisions. They then discuss how climate mitigation policies and other policies may affect adaptive capacity of agricultural and food systems. They conclude with an agenda for public research on climate adaptation.
2010
10.1093/aepp/ppq015
Echeverria, Carolina Castillo
CLIMATE GOVERNANCE IN SMALL AGRICULTURAL FARMS IN THREE COSTA RICAN TOWNS FROM A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
REVISTA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES-COSTA RICA
This article discusses how and who is/are in charge of exercising the climate change adaptation governance in smallholder farms from a gender perspective. The results are part of a qualitative research that was carried out in 2018. In-depth interviews were conducted with men and women from three rural locations in Costa Rica. The results discuss how land ownership, gender, and age intersect in specific contexts, influencing the adaptation capacity of male and female administrators and, therefore, the exercise of governance associated to adaptation. In addition, it is analyzed how the adaptations that have been implemented in the farms vary according to the gender of the administrator.
2022
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Dymen, Christian; Langlais, Richard
Adapting to Climate Change in Swedish Planning Practice
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Mitigation measures, especially municipal energy infrastructure transformation, have been the focus of Sweden's climate change responses. Recently, adaptation measures have grown in priority and planners are challenged to integrate mitigation and adaptation. In our study, we observe how synergies and conflicts in adaptation, mitigation, and other social and economic dimensions of spatial planning are grappled with in municipalities. We draw primarily from interviews with municipal planners and regional agencies as well as a review of policy documents. Our conclusion is that municipalities could be assisted in their climate change planning by stronger regional and national involvement.
2013
10.1177/0739456X12463943
Marchand, Amelia A. M.
Climate and Cultural Vulnerabilities of Indigenous Elders
GENERATIONS
Indigenous peoples' diversity and intricate knowledge systems rooted in place-based ecologies have the potential to dismantle institutional barriers and structural disparities, finding relevant ways to reinforce climate justice in their communities. Climate vulnerabilities of some Indigenous communities are being offset by the strength of elder's knowledge, input, and decision-making into valuable adaptation and mitigation strategies. The wisdom of Indigenous elders provides a unique cultural perspective to the changing climate, which may better help characterize the effects of environmental shifts for a more relatable approach to communicating long-term impacts and initiating action.
2022
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Fan, Shenggen
Reflections of Food Policy Evolution over the Last Three DecadesJEL codes
APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY
For the last three decades, food policy in developing countries has evolved rapidly from a singular focus on producing more food to broader focus on protecting natural resources, reducing poverty and malnutrition, and promoting climate adaptation and mitigation. Since receiving my PhD in the late 1980s, I have dedicated most of my research and research management to these policy issues. After 35years aboard, I returned to my home country in 2020, where I work with my colleagues at China Agricultural University and continue to conduct policy research on transforming food systems for human and planetary health. This paper is my reflection of policy evolution over the last three decades.
2020
10.1002/aepp.13065
Li Lingling; Yue Naihua
Climate adaptation research on the energy-saving design of gymnasiums in cold regions
DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT
Energy-saving design must be based on regional climate conditions. This study takes the gymnasium in cold regions of northeast China as the research object, by analyzing the temperature, humidity, wind, rainfall and other climatic conditions of cold regions in China and combining with the characteristics of gymnasium, based on the field research, model simulation, data analysis result, and via study on mutual relationship of energy-saving strategies and construction techniques of gymnasium, proposes the envelope insulation, solar utilization, natural ventilation and other related strategies adopted by gymnasium in cold regions of northeast China to cope with local climatic conditions.
2014
10.1080/19443994.2013.826875
Tanner, Thomas; Lewis, David; Wrathall, David; Bronen, Robin; Cradock-Henry, Nick; Huq, Saleemul; Lawless, Chris; Nawrotzki, Raphael; Prasad, Vivek; Rahman, Md Ashiqur; Alaniz, Ryan; King, Katherine; McNamara, Karen; Nadiruzzaman, Md; Henly-Shepard, Sarah; Thomalla, Frank
Livelihood resilience in the face of climate change
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
The resilience concept requires greater attention to human livelihoods if it is to address the limits to adaptation strategies and the development needs of the planet's poorest and most vulnerable people. Although the concept of resilience is increasingly informing research and policy, its transfer from ecological theory to social systems leads to weak engagement with normative, social and political dimensions of climate change adaptation. A livelihood perspective helps to strengthen resilience thinking by placing greater emphasis on human needs and their agency, empowerment and human rights, and considering adaptive livelihood systems in the context of wider transformational changes.
2015
10.1038/NCLIMATE2431
Birchall, S. Jeff; Macdonald, Seghan; Bonnett, Nicole
Climate Change Adaptation Planning: Breaking Down Barriers through Comprehensive Educational Frameworks
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
The planning profession sits at the forefront of local climate adaptation action. Yet, novel challenges exist for coordinating and implementing comprehensive actions. Through key actor interviews, this qualitative study examines the role of planners in navigating these challenges. In order to understand how planners are being prepared for this role, attention to how climate adaptation features in required courses across accredited planning programs in Canada is included. This study finds that while planners excel at a range of key skills related to communication, in the context of climate adaptation, these strengths are constrained by a lack of technical knowledge. Graphical abstract
2024
10.1177/0739456X241242059
Marty, Edwige; Bullock, Renee; Cashmore, Matthew; Crane, Todd; Eriksen, Siri
Adapting to climate change among transitioning maasai pastoralists in southern Kenya: an intersectional analysis of differentiated abilities to benefit from diversification processes.
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
With increasingly fragmented rangelands, restricted mobility and climatic stress, diversification has accelerated among East African pastoralists. Diversification is also promoted as a climate change adaptation strategy to reduce climatic exposure. Through a study of a Maasai communal land in southern Kenya, we analyze how pastoralists navigate changing access to key productive resources that are linked to diversification processes, social differentiation, and the reshaping of livelihood practices. By integrating an intersectional approach in access theory, we unpack a deeper level of context specific patterns of inclusion and exclusion embedded within evolving production relations.
2023
10.1080/03066150.2022.2121918
Andre, Karin; Jonsson, C. Anna
Science-practice interactions linked to climate adaptation in two contexts: municipal planning and forestry in Sweden
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
This paper examines the science-practice interface in the process of adapting to climate change in society. This paper analyses science-based stakeholder dialogues with climate scientists, municipal officers and private individual forest owners in Sweden, and examines how local experts both share scientific knowledge and experience and integrate it into their work strategies and practices. The results demonstrate how local experts jointly conceptualise climate adaptation, how scientific knowledge is domesticated among local experts in dialogue with scientific experts, the emergence of anchoring devices, and the boundary-spanning functions that are at work in the respective sectors.
2015
10.1080/09640568.2013.854717
Ehrenfeucht, Renia; Nelson, Marla
Towards Transformative Climate Relocation Initiatives
JOURNAL OF PLANNING LITERATURE
Climate-induced changes will become an increasingly important factor in development patterns and where people choose to live. Assisting residents as they make decisions about staying and whether or if to move, and where to go, will become a critical dimension of climate adaptation policy. Using global cases of relocation initiatives, this article examines how adaptive relocation policy can facilitate community-led opportunities for frontline communities-communities of color and those with lower incomes-as people move from and stay in risky environments. It then summarizes factors to consider when designing relocation initiatives to lead to outcomes that improve people's well-being.
2023
10.1177/08854122221130287
Bohman, Anna; Neset, Tina-Simone; Opach, Tomasz; Rod, Jan Ketil
Decision support for adaptive action - assessing the potential of geographic visualization
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
This study explores the role of geographic visualization for supporting the implementation of climate change adaptation. Interviews and group discussions with planners and decision makers indicate that geographic visualization bears primary potential for communicative purposes. In order to respond to analytical needs a high level of interactivity including the exploration of background data and the ability to link the tools with own databases were some of the key requirements made by the participants. The study concludes that more than better climate predictions, awareness and involvement may be precisely what is needed to narrow the implementation gap in climate change adaptation.
2015
10.1080/09640568.2014.973937
Vandenbergh, Michael P.; Johnson, Bruce M.
The Role of Private Environmental Governance in Climate Adaptation
FRONTIERS IN CLIMATE
This Article examines the role of private environmental governance (PEG) in climate change adaptation. PEG occurs when private organizations perform traditionally governmental functions such as providing public goods and reducing negative externalities. PEG initiatives that target climate change mitigation have expanded rapidly in the last decade and have been the subject of research in multiple fields, but PEG initiatives that target climate change adaptation have received less attention. As a first step, the Article develops a definition of private governance regarding climate adaption, identifies several types of PEG adaptation initiatives, and briefly identifies research gaps.
2021
10.3389/fclim.2021.715368
Tanner, Thomas; Mitchell, Tom
Entrenchment or Enhancement: Could Climate Change Adaptation Help to Reduce Chronic Poverty?
IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
In the context of climate change, the poorest people are commonly seen as having the least capacity to adapt. However to date there has been a limited examination of the dynamic and differentiated nature of poverty Through bringing together both the chronic poverty and adaptation literature, this article presents a new pro-poor adaptation research agenda underpinned by a more nuanced understanding of poverty. While recognising that poverty reduction efforts are threatened by climate change, this article investigates ways in which proactive adaptation could offer opportunities to create pathways out of chronic poverty through targeted vulnerability reduction and adaptation efforts.
2008
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Ohdedar, Birsha
Groundwater law, abstraction, and responding to climate change: assessing recent law reforms in British Columbia and England
WATER INTERNATIONAL
In 2014, British Columbia enacted the Water Sustainability Act, a comprehensive overhaul of its groundwater and surface water regimes. Meanwhile, in England more piecemeal changes have been made to groundwater laws and policies. Through developing a framework from groundwater governance and climate change adaptation literature this article analyzes the effectiveness of these reforms, which have been carried out through different methods and from different starting points. The article goes on to consider how new processes and technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking), bring fresh challenges in aligning progress in groundwater law reforms with the wider policy framework.
2017
10.1080/02508060.2017.1351059
McNicol, Ian
Increasing the Adaptation Pathways Capacity of Land Use Planning - Insights from New South Wales, Australia
URBAN POLICY AND RESEARCH
Australian local governments are expected to be the frontline of climate change adaptation implementation, but existing institutional arrangements are inadequate. Institutional changes that make adaptation pathways part of land use planning policy are needed and how this might happen is assessed using New South Wales (NSW), Australia, as a case study. The most effective implementation mechanism is identified as an independent adaptation statute integrated with land use planning. The institutional assessment approach employed is potentially useful for identifying adaptation policy implications in planning systems and is of relevance to ogoing research into local level adaptation.
2021
10.1080/08111146.2020.1788530
Rubinov, Igor
Desire for development: seeking social change though climate adaption projects
DEVELOPMENT IN PRACTICE
This article considers why residents of Tajikistan seek out development projects, which are increasingly focused on adaptation to climate change, even as they recognise the limitations of those projects. Experiences of meaningful development during the Soviet era, along with foreign media accounts and migrant experiences abroad, reoriented people's expectations and encouraged them to seek aid. As a result, people sought out personal networks to guide development projects in the hopes of bolstering their ongoing livelihood strategies. Efforts to promote participation in development must account for the desires people hold in order to guide how projects are devised and implemented.
2020
10.1080/09614524.2019.1664995
Ghosh, Saibal
Do bankers on board fulfill their role? Corporate social responsibility, environmental concerns and firm leverage
CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Using a dataset of listed Indian manufacturing firms for 2010-2020, the study examines their financial response to climate risks in the presence of banker-directors. The results show that climate sensitivity and vulnerability exert a negative impact on firm leverage and cost whereas climate adaptation has relatively limited impact. These effects broadly resonate across firm ownership, although it differ across firm-bank equity interlocks. The overall impact of these developments is manifest in a decline in investment. The findings suggest that policymakers need to be more responsive to firm-bank interactions, as these can impact firm behavior and have real economic consequences.
2024
10.1002/csr.2747
Borsdorf, Axel; Borsdorf, Falk; Ortega, Luis Alfonso
Towards climate change adaptation, sustainable development and conflict resolution - the Cinturon Andino Biosphere Reserve in Southern Colombia
ECO MONT-JOURNAL ON PROTECTED MOUNTAIN AREAS RESEARCH
Cinturon Andino is the largest biosphere reserve of Colombia, located in the southernmost region of the state, the so-called Macizo Colombiano. For years threatened by guerilla activities and internal conflicts between indigenas and campesinos, the farmers have now initiated new attempts to adapt to climate change, to implement organic farming in order to secure the water quality and supply for the large cities in the vicinity of the park, to improve their livelihood and to strengthen the social and human capital. This article describes the chosen path to sustainability and provides suggestions for the adaptation of the park to the UNESCO Seville Strategy for biosphere reserves.
2011
10.1553/eco.mont-3-2s43
Anguelovski, Isabelle; Shi, Linda; Chu, Eric; Gallagher, Daniel; Goh, Kian; Lamb, Zachary; Reeve, Kara; Teicher, Hannah
Equity Impacts of Urban Land Use Planning for Climate Adaptation: Critical Perspectives from the Global North and South
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
A growing number of cities are preparing for climate change impacts by developing adaptation plans. However, little is known about how these plans and their implementation affect the vulnerability of the urban poor. We critically assess initiatives in eight cities worldwide and find that land use planning for climate adaptation can exacerbate socio-spatial inequalities across diverse developmental and environmental conditions. We argue that urban adaptation injustices fall into two categories: acts of commission, when interventions negatively affect or displace poor communities, and acts of omission, when they protect and prioritize elite groups at the expense of the urban poor.
2016
10.1177/0739456X16645166
Guy, Simon; Henshaw, Victoria; Heidrich, Oliver
Climate change, adaptation and Eco-Art in Singapore
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Eco-Art has recently emerged as a potential means to place emphasis on environmental issues such as climate change, recycling and the metabolism of the city experienced both materially and conceptually within local, regional and global contexts. Such art presents the possibility of shaping civic practices in arenas beyond those of traditional planning domains. Adopting a pragmatic approach, which recognises the contextual pluralism that exists in debates regarding climate change, this paper is interested in how Eco-Art projects encourage the re-imagining of urban spaces within the context of sustainability, and flows of materials and the recycling of plastic in art specifically.
2015
10.1080/09640568.2013.839446
Chretien, Jean-Paul
ADAPTING TO HEALTH IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
HEALTH SECURITY
The Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes climate change as a threat to its mission and recently issued policy to implement climate change adaptation measures. However, the DoD has not conducted a comprehensive assessment of health-related climate change effects. To catalyze the needed assessmenta first step toward a comprehensive DoD climate change adaptation plan for healththis article discusses the DoD relevance of 3 selected climate change impacts: heat injuries, vector-borne diseases, and extreme weather that could lead to natural disasters. The author uses these examples to propose a comprehensive approach to planning for health-related climate change impacts in the DoD.
2016
10.1089/hs.2016.0019
Mysiak, Jaroslav; Castellari, Sergio; Kurnik, Blaz; Swart, Rob; Pringle, Patrick; Schwarze, Reimund; Wolters, Henk; Jeuken, Ad; van der Linden, Paul
Brief communication: Strengthening coherence between climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction
NATURAL HAZARDS AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
Reducing disaster risks and adapting to climate change are ever more important policy goals in Europe and worldwide. The commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and complementary multilateral frameworks, including the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, has galvanized pursuits for policy coherence. The report Climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction in Europe: enhancing coherence of the knowledge base, policies and practices of the European Environment Agency identified several ways for how coherence and re- silience can be built through knowledge sharing, collaboration and investments.
2018
10.5194/nhess-18-3137-2018
Tanner, Thomas
Shifting the Narrative: Child-led Responses to Climate Change and Disasters in El Salvador and the Philippines
CHILDREN & SOCIETY
Children and young people are commonly treated in the climate change and disasters literature as victims of natural events requiring protection by adults. This article critiques that narrative, drawing on examples from the Philippines and El Salvador that explore how children's groups have responded to such issues through child-centred initiatives. This highlights the importance of understanding children's perception and communication of risks facing their lives and livelihoods, their potential as agents of change in preventing disasters and adapting to climate change, and the implications for the theory and practice of child participation, particularly in developing countries.
2010
10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00316.x
Fuessel, H. -M.
Adaptation planning for climate change: concepts, assessment approaches, and key lessons
SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE
Planned adaptation to climate change denotes actions undertaken to reduce the risks and capitalize on the opportunities associated with global climate change. This paper summarizes current thinking about planned adaptation. It starts with an explanation of key adaptation concepts, a description of the diversity of adaptation contexts, and a discussion of key prerequisites for effective adaptation. On the basis of this introduction, major approaches to climate impact and adaptation assessment and their evolution are reviewed. Finally, principles for adaptation assessment are derived from decision-analytical considerations and from the experience with past adaptation assessments.
2007
10.1007/s11625-007-0032-y
Benard-Sora, Fiona; Praene, Jean Philippe
Sustainable urban planning for a successful energy transition on Reunion Island: From policy intentions to practical achievement
UTILITIES POLICY
Numerous studies have investigated how small vulnerable territories are adapting to climate change, particularly non-interconnected islands with focus on Renewable Energy Sources (RES) and self-sufficiency. A key to success is an energy plan with appropriate policy tools. This paper first presents a discussion on barriers to RES deployment. Then, we present the energy situation and the legislative energy framework in Reunion Island. Are the legislative and policy frameworks sufficient to achieve the energy transition? This paper proposes an original view discussing the potential of a territory and available tools to develop RES. Energy transition is also view as an opportunity.
2018
10.1016/j.jup.2018.08.007
de Loë, R; Kreutzwiser, R; Moraru, L
Adaptation options for the near term:: climate change and the Canadian water sector
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
Climate change poses significant challenges for the Canadian water sector. This paper discusses issues relating to the selection of proactive, planned adaptation measures for the near term (next decade), A set of selection criteria is offered, and these are used in three cases to illustrate how stakeholders can identify measures appropriate for the near term. Cases include municipal water supply in the Grand River basin, Ontario; irrigation in southern Alberta. and commercial navigation on the Great Lakes. In all three cases, it is possible to identify adaptations to climate change that also represent appropriate responses to existing conditions; these should be pursued first.
2001
10.1016/S0959-3780(00)00053-4
Miao, Ruiqing
Climate, insurance and innovation: the case of drought and innovations in drought-tolerant traits in US agriculture
EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
This paper investigates the effects of crop insurance on agricultural innovation (namely, drought-tolerant traits) in the context of climate change. A conceptual framework is developed to model the market equilibrium of agricultural innovations. Hypotheses derived are then tested by using data for US agriculture. We find that the US agricultural sector responds to climate variation by increasing innovation activities, but this response is weakened by subsidised crop insurance by about 23 per cent. This indicates that crop insurance may have an unintended crowding-out effect as an option of risk management and may inhibit societies' long-run capacity to adapt to climate change.
2020
10.1093/erae/jbaa010
Butler, William H.; Deyle, Robert E.; Mutnansky, Cassidy
Low-Regrets Incrementalism: Land Use Planning Adaptation to Accelerating Sea Level Rise in Florida's Coastal Communities
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Sea level rise is one of the climate change effects most amenable to adaptation planning as the impacts are familiar and the nature of the phenomenon is unambiguous. Yet, significant uncertainties remain. Using a normative framework of adaptive management and natural hazards planning, we examine how coastal communities in Florida are planning in the face of accelerating sea level rise through analysis of planning documents and interviews with planners. We clarify that communities are taking a low-regrets incremental approach with increasingly progressive measures motivated by confidence in planning intelligence and direct experience with impacts attributable to sea level rise.
2016
10.1177/0739456X16647161
Light, Andrew; Taraska, Gwynne
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Climate-Ready Development Assistance
ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES
Traditional justifications for state-to-state development assistance include charity, basic rights and self-interest. Except in unusual cases such as war-reparations agreements, development assistance has typically been justified for reasons such as the above, without reference to any history of injury that holds between the states. We argue that climate change creates relationships of harm that can be cited to supplement and strengthen the traditional claims for development assistance. Finally, to demonstrate the utility of this analysis, we offer a brief application of our reasoning to the emerging conflict in the United Nations over the future post-2015 development agenda.
2014
10.3197/096327114X13894344179086
Carballo Concepcion, Jorge Alfredo; Rojas Martinez, Janet; Polo Jimenez, Veronica
Methodological Proposal to Determinate Beneficiaries on Projects with Climate Change Adaptation Approach
ESTUDIOS DEL DESARROLLO SOCIAL-CUBA Y AMERICA LATINA
The work shows the importance of determining the benefits and beneficiaries in projects with an ecosystem-based approach, based on the rigorous analysis and observance of positive changes in the well-being of the population and improvement in the environment. Participatory Cartography and Geographic Information Systems are used as effective tools for the spatial analysis of benefits and beneficiaries, so that different knowledges are articulated and represent reality in a participatory manner. A methodological proposal is made for the identification of beneficiaries in projects with an ecosystem-based approach, based on interventions in the communities and coastal ecosystems.
2019
null
Mahlkow, Nicole; Donner, Julie
From Planning to Implementation? The Role of Climate Change Adaptation Plans to Tackle Heat Stress: A Case Study of Berlin, Germany
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Global climate change increases the necessity for mid-latitude cities to tackle urban heat. Climate change adaptation plans are common policy mechanisms to approach the issue. This paper studies the city climate development plan (StEP Klima) of Berlin, Germany, by using Constellation Analysis. We analyzed to what extent StEP Klima might trigger planning and governance processes for the implementation of heat stress measures. Berlin's plan brought attention to the local risks of urban heat and possible strategies. To translate its aims into decision makers' everyday governance and planning practice, institutionalized guidance and an activation of policy instruments is needed.
2017
10.1177/0739456X16664787
Cui, Xiaomeng
Climate change and adaptation in agriculture: Evidence from US cropping patterns
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Understanding how a changing climate alters regional comparative advantage is crucial for evaluating the economic impacts of climate change. I exploit temporal variation in decades-long averages of weather and estimate crop acreage elasticities with respect to climate change in the United States. I find substantial climate change adaptation through acreage adjustments in US agriculture. Climate change explains about 10-35% of the observed US corn and soybean expansion over the past 30 years, and climate-driven crop substitution has played an important role. The acreage response is heterogeneous across major and minor producing areas and across dryland and irrigated counties.
2020
10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102306
Bolleter, Julian; Grace, Bill; Edwards, Nicole; Foster, Sarah; Hooper, Paula
The big squeeze: maintaining the green infrastructure role of estuarine foreshores while adapting to sea-level rise
JOURNAL OF URBAN DESIGN
A global challenge concerns reconciling population growth and increasing built infrastructure with foreshore ecosystems that are 'squeezed' against a rising sea levels, hampering their ability to deliver life-sustaining ecosystem services. This paper tests established sea-level rise strategies - fortification, accommodation, and retreat - using a city-centre adjacent estuarine case study in Western Australia to understand the implications for foreshore ecosystem service provision. The results indicate that some retreat of urban areas will be required, combined with the migration of the foreshore reserves landward, to maintain ecosystem service functions over the longer term.
2023
10.1080/13574809.2022.2097902
Casanova-Perez, Lorena; Pablo Martinez-Davila, Juan; Lopez-Ortiz, Silvia; Landeros-Sanchez, Cesareo; Lopez-Romero, Gustavo
Sociocultural dimension in agriculture adaptation to climate change
AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
Societal responses to climate change are influenced by culture, but this has not been the focus of understanding and adapting to this phenomenon. This process is critical when examining agriculture, an eminently social activity that has an historic perspective and characteristic manners of production expressed by the culture carrying it out. Therefore, the present study analyzes and compares the theoretical-conceptual approaches used in the role of culture in agricultural adaptation to climate change, given the paradigmatic bias in each. This information is essential for the design and implementation of agricultural adaptation strategies having social and cultural viability.
2016
10.1080/21683565.2016.1204582
Blesic, S.
Applications of statistical physics to study climate phenomena and contribute to overall adaptation efforts
EPL
This paper provides a brief review of the interesting physics that arises from the use of detrending methods for time series analysis for the study of phenomena related to problems of adaptation to climate change. It presents illustrative examples of some of the newly developed or already existent methodological solutions that can be used to study climate phenomena, and of three sectors -public health, infrastructure and cultural heritage- where statistical physics tools can be utilized. In the context of adaptation to climate change statistical physics can offer data-led understandings that are of wider value to the scientific community and applicable local-scale insights.
2020
10.1209/0295-5075/132/20004
Burke, Marshall; Emerick, Kyle
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture
AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
Understanding the potential impacts of climate change on economic outcomes requires knowing how agents might adapt to a changing climate. We exploit large variation in recent temperature and precipitation trends to identify adaptation to climate change in US agriculture, and use this information to generate new estimates of the potential impact of future climate change on agricultural outcomes. Longer run adaptations appear to have mitigated less than half-and more likely none-of the large negative short-run impacts of extreme heat on productivity. Limited recent adaptation implies substantial losses under future climate change in the absence of countervailing investments.
2016
10.1257/pol.20130025
Colby, Scott J.; Zipp, Katherine Y.
EXCESS VULNERABILITY FROM SUBSIDIZED FLOOD INSURANCE: HOUSING MARKET ADAPTATION WHEN PREMIUMS EQUAL EXPECTED FLOOD DAMAGE
CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS
We calculate there are 8.1% more houses in Allegheny County, PA (Pittsburgh) due to flood insurance subsidies. Conversely, if/when National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) premiums rise by 50% to equal expected damages, property values will decrease by 8.8% in the short-term, with about half of that recuperated in the long run (4.7%) as quality-adjusted housing stocks contract by 7.5% over decades. This analysis informs community planning and current NFIP revisions that strive to balance solvency and social consequences. Furthermore, our extension of Poterba's (1984) dynamic user-cost of housing model can be used in integrated assessment models of climate change adaptation.
2021
10.1142/S2010007820500128
Federico, Katia; Bonora, Alberto; Di Giustino, Gianmarco; Reho, Matelda; Lucertini, Giulia
Spatial Analysis of GHG Balances and Climate Change Mitigation in Rural Areas: The Case of Emilia-Romagna Region
ATMOSPHERE
This paper aims to analyse the issue of mitigation and the balance of greenhouse gases in the rural contexts of the Emilia-Romagna region (Italy) due to climate change. The approach is based on the experimentation of a methodology, populated by available spatial databases and refined with a series of technical meetings, where it was possible to weigh availability and alternative choices within the identified assessment model. The objective of the research is to create a regional GHG balance map, in order to classify the territory for this specific dynamic. The aim of this approach is supporting policy decisions related to the Common Agricultural Policy at a regional level.
2022
10.3390/atmos13122060
Schattman, Rachel E.; Mendez, V. Ernesto; Merrill, Scott C.; Zia, Asim
Mixed methods approach to understanding farmer and agricultural advisor perceptions of climate change and adaptation in Vermont, United States
AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
The relationships among farmers' belief in climate change, perceptions of climate-related risk, and use of climate adaptation practices is a growing topic of interest in U.S. scholarship. The northeast region is not well represented in the literature, although it is highly agricultural and will likely face climate-related risks that differ from those faced in other regions. We used a mixed methods approach to examine northeast farmers' perceptions of climate change and climate-related risks over time, and perceived trade-offs associated with on-farm practices. Our investigation shows how northeastern farmers think about climate-risk, and what they are doing to address it.
2018
10.1080/21683565.2017.1357667
Di Falco, Salvatore; Doku, Angela; Mahajan, Avichal
Peer effects and the choice of adaptation strategies
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
This paper analyzes the impact of peer choices on the decision to adapt to climate change in rural Ethiopia. Two IVs are employed (peer-of-peer choices and peer-of-peer information sources) in order to tackle the issue of endogeneity. Through the use of a 3-year panel of farmers in the Nile Basin region, we find that peer choices positively affect the uptake of different adaptation strategies. A 10 percentage point increase in the share of peers using a specific strategy translates to an increase in the likelihood of adaptation between approximately 7% and 14%. This emphasizes the importance of social networks to achieve adaptation to climate change in sub-Saharan Africa.
2020
10.1111/agec.12538
Camargo, Alejandro
Imagined transitions: agrarian capitalism and climate change adaptation in Colombia
JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
Climate change has significantly affected rural lives around the world. Adaptation, as a political response to this situation, interacts with longer trajectories of agrarian capitalism and peasant's expectations for the future. Through the concept of imagined transitions, this article explores how peasants of northern Colombia manufacture and project their own transition to an agrarian capitalist future in the aftermath of climate-related floods and in the midst of adaptation interventions. Peasants use adaptation to imagine a future in which they are no longer peasants but have instead become rural entrepreneurs who play a proactive role in the development of capitalism.
2022
10.1080/03066150.2022.2059350
Chuang, Yating
Climate variability, rainfall shocks, and farmers' income diversification in India
ECONOMICS LETTERS
Rainfall in India has become much more variable as a result of global climate change. Responses to rain shocks vary depending on the level of climate variation a community experiences historically. Using data spanning three decades in 230 villages in India, I find that farmers tend to diversify their income with non-farm wage jobs in response to rainfall shocks. This diversification strategy is employed less in places with more variable historical weather as people are more adapted. As climate change causes more variable weather in the coming years, my results suggest that places with historically less variable weather may become more vulnerable in this changing climate.
2019
10.1016/j.econlet.2018.10.015
Denardi, Frederico; Kvitschal, Marcus Vinicius; Hawerroth, Maraisa Crestani
A brief history of the forty-five years of the Epagri apple breeding program in Brazil
CROP BREEDING AND APPLIED BIOTECHNOLOGY
The E'AppleBP is the largest Brazilian apple breeding program in activity in Brazil, with Brazilian and international contributions to breeding of apple cultivars, under public funding. The main objectives are development of new apple cultivars with good local climate adaptation, disease resistance, high yield, high fruit quality, good fruit storability and lower demand for orchard hand labor. Twenty-seven apple cultivars have been released, including 15 from local breeding crosses and four sport mutations. 'Fuji Suprema; 'Monalisa; 'Venice; 'Daiane; luiza; and 'Kinkas' are most promising for commercial use. The other eight cultivars were released for use as pollinizers.
2019
10.1590/1984-70332019v19n3p47
Turner, Jacqueline; Pain, Nicola
Nothing Lasts Forever: Managing Future Risk from Climate Change Impacts on the Australian Coast
ENVIRONMENTAL AND PLANNING LAW JOURNAL
Planning disputes about coastal protection and planning for adaptation to sea-level rise have reached courts and tribunals in various Australian jurisdictions since the early 2000s. Recent cases reflect a changing approach to coastal development in light of climate change risk within existing statutory frameworks. In merits review courts and tribunals are refusing development consents and imposing consent conditions that reflect the need to adapt over time to future climate change risk. Climate-adaptive outcomes have also been achieved by courts upholding strategic planning instruments aimed at limiting new development in areas likely to become more hazardous over time.
2022
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Yu, Lihong; Lin, Feng; Xu, Lin; Xi, Jingyu
P-doped electrode for vanadium flow battery with high-rate capability and all-climate adaptability
JOURNAL OF ENERGY CHEMISTRY
A phosphorous-doped graphite felt (PGF) is fabricated and examined as electrode for vanadium flow battery (VFB). P doping improves the electrolyte wettability of GF and induces more defect sites on its surface, resulting in significantly enhanced activity and reversibility towards VO2+/VO2+ and V2+/V3+ couples. VFB with PGF electrode demonstrates outstanding performance such as high-rate capability under 50-400 mA cm(-2), wide-temperature tolerance at -20 degrees C-60 degrees C, and excellent durability over 1000 charge-discharge cycles. These merits enable PGF a promising electrode for the next-generation VFB, which can operate at high-power and all-climate conditions.
2019
10.1016/j.jechem.2018.11.004
Iizumi, Toshichika; Masutomi, Yuji; Takimoto, Takahiro; Hirota, Tomoyoshi; Yatagai, Akiyo; Tatsumi, Kenichi; Kobayashi, Kazuhiko; Hasegawa, Toshihiro
Emerging research topics in agricultural meteorology and assessment of climate change adaptation
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY
Climate change is virtually certain and efforts for adaptation is essential not only to decrease the negative consequences but also to increase the opportunities. To achieve the goal, we need to address emerging research topics in the field of agricultural meteorology with regard to climate change adaptation. We touch upon how harvesting insights from crop models with different complexities can be improved, the detection and attribution of impacts on agricultural ecosystems associated with climate and technological changes, and how crop and weather datasets can be improved. We conclude by discussing important knowledge gaps that need to be addressed in future research.
2018
10.2480/agrmet.D-17-00021
Orr, Madeleine; Murfree, Jessica; Stargel, Laura
(Re)scheduling as a climate mitigation and adaptation strategy
MANAGING SPORT AND LEISURE
Climate change has presented a new suite of health and safety, legal, and operational challenges to which the sport sector must respond. At the same time, many professional leagues and sport federations are adopting environmental strategies that include emissions reductions, such as the UN Sport for Climate Action Framework's Race to Zero, which will see its signatories halve emissions by 2030, and reach carbon neutrality by 2040. In this paper, we argue climate change is producing recurring disruptive events which might shake sport organizations out of inertia regarding scheduling. We suggest rescheduling might be used as a tool for mitigation and climate adaptation.
2022
10.1080/23750472.2022.2159501
Husby, Trond; de Groot, Henri L. F.; Hofkes, Marjan W.; Filatova, Tatiana
Flood protection and endogenous sorting of households: the role of credit constraints
MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE
Human migration is increasingly seen as a promising climate change adaptation and flood risk reduction strategy. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how spatial differences in flood risk, due to differences in flood protection, reduce the mobility of vulnerable households through a credit constraint mechanism. Using an equilibrium model with two households types and endogenous sorting, we show how spatial differences in flood protection lead to clustering of vulnerable households in a risky region, in a real-world setting of common United States (US) flood zones. We find clustering effects of some size for flood zones with return periods of less than 30 years.
2018
10.1007/s11027-015-9667-7
Anisimov, O. A.; Zhil'tsova, E. L.; Shapovalova, K. O.; Ershova, A. A.
Analysis of Climate Change Indicators. Part 1. Eastern Siberia
RUSSIAN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY
Data on modern climate and environmental changes in Eastern Siberia are compared with the public perception of such changes through cognitive indicators. Observations reveal positive air temperature trends for all seasons, shortening of the cold period, decrease in wintertime daily temperature variations, deeper seasonal thawing of permafrost, and lengthening of the vegetation period. The public perception acknowledges these changes only partly, although they already affect many types of human's activity. The gap between observational data and the cognitive indicators of climate change complicates the development and implementation of climate adaptation strategies.
2019
10.3103/S1068373919120033
Mihiar, Christopher; Lewis, David J.
Climate, Adaptation, and the Value of Forestland: A National Ricardian Analysis of the United States
LAND ECONOMICS
This study estimates an econometric Ricardian model of the effects of climate on forestry using a novel national data set of county-level net economic returns to forestland. Results show that climate change projections to 2050 will increase forest net returns on the middle latitudes of eastern U.S. timberland. We quantify the value of extensive margin adaptation to climate change by separately estimating climate's effect on 11 distinct forest types. We find that approximately 69% of the positive climate change effect on eastern U.S. forestry arises from the value of extensive margin adaptation. Climate change impacts in the western United States are inconclusive.
2021
10.3368/le.97.4.011620-0004R1
Bin Kashem, Shakil; Wilson, Bev; Van Zandt, Shannon
Planning for Climate Adaptation: Evaluating the Changing Patterns of Social Vulnerability and Adaptation Challenges in Three Coastal Cities
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
While recent research has recognized the importance of considering social vulnerability, the changing patterns of social vulnerability within cities and the climate adaptation challenges these shifts pose have yet to receive much attention. In this article, we evaluate the changing patterns of social vulnerability in three coastal cities (Houston, New Orleans, and Tampa) over a thirty-year time period (1980-2010) and integrate neighborhood change theories with theories of social vulnerability to explain those patterns. Through this analysis, we highlight emerging dimensions of vulnerability that warrant attention in the future adaptation efforts of these cities.
2016
10.1177/0739456X16645167
Linnenluecke, Martina K.; Birt, Jacqueline; Griffiths, Andrew
The role of accounting in supporting adaptation to climate change
ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE
The study is one of the first concerned with the topic of accounting and climate change adaptation. It proposes that the accounting role can support organisational climate change adaptation by performing the following functions: (i) a risk assessment function (assessing vulnerability and adaptive capacity), (ii) a valuation function (valuing adaptation costs and benefits) and (iii) a disclosure function (disclosure of risk associated with climate change impacts). This study synthesises and expands on existing research and practice in environmental accounting and sets the scene for future research and practice in the emerging area of accounting for climate risk.
2015
10.1111/acfi.12120
Rothausen, Sabrina G. S. A.; Conway, Declan
Greenhouse-gas emissions from energy use in the water sector
NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
Water management faces great challenges over the coming decades. Pressures include stricter water-quality standards, increasing demand for water and the need to adapt to climate change, while reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. The processes of abstraction, conveyance and treatment of fresh water and wastewater all demand energy. Energy use in the water sector is growing, yet its importance is under-recognized, and gaps remain in our knowledge. Here we define the need to integrate energy use further into water resource management and identify opportunities for the water sector to understand and describe more effectively its role in greenhouse-gas emissions.
2011
10.1038/NCLIMATE1147
Duffy, Meg; Shaefer, H. Luke
In the Aftermath of the Storm: Administrative Burden in Disaster Recovery
SOCIAL SERVICE REVIEW
As climate change intensifies, analyzing the barriers to disaster recovery faced by marginalized communities is increasingly important. Using in-depth interviews from the Understanding Communities of Deep Disadvantage project, a community-level investigation of disadvantage in the United States, this study examines participant experiences with the federal disaster recovery system in the wake of Hurricanes Matthew and Florence. Our analysis reveals how administrative burden, high rejection rates for key disaster recovery programs, and the slow pace of aid ignited a feedback loop that depressed application rates for disaster aid in a community with extreme need.
2022
10.1086/721087
Mori, Akira S.
Advancing nature-based approaches to address the biodiversity and climate emergency
ECOLOGY LETTERS
Biodiversity loss and climate change are often considered as intertwined issues. However, they do not receive equal attention. Even in the context of nature-based climate solutions, which consider ecosystems to be crucial to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, the potential role of biodiversity has received little attention. Here this essay emphasizes biodiversity as the cause-not only the consequence-to help society and nature face challenges associated with the changing climate. Reconsidering and emphasizing the linkages between these twin environmental crises is urgently needed to make collective efforts for the environment truly effective.
2020
10.1111/ele.13594
Rodriguez Mirano, Jeanpierre; Joaquin Vertiz-Osores, Jacinto
Confluence between forest ecosystems and scientific knowledge against climate change: Peruvian legal framework
NEXO REVISTA CIENTIFICA
This article consists of an exploratory study that reflects on the scope of climate change policies in Peru, the generation of scientific knowledge from the study of forest ecosystems and the feasibility of a scenario of confluence between both. It was based on a qualitative analysis, through the design of Emergent Founded Theory, of a juridical-comparative type. The value of the vulnerability of a forest ecosystem as a policy analysis tool for adaptation to climate change was explained, in addition to the instantaneous benefits resulting from the systematization of scientific information to facilitate the process of defining strategies towards these policies.
2021
10.5377/nexo.v34i06.13118
Ruth, Matthias; Lin, Ai-Chen
Regional energy demand and adaptations to climate change: Methodology and application to the state of Maryland, USA
ENERGY POLICY
This paper explores potential impacts of climate change on natural gas, electricity and heating oil use by the residential and commercial sectors in the state of Maryland, USA. Time series analysis is used to quantify historical temperature-energy demand relationships. A dynamic computer model uses those relationships to simulate future energy demand under a range of energy prices, temperatures and other drivers. The results indicate that climate exerts a comparably small signal on future energy demand, but that the combined climate and non-climate-induced changes in energy demand may pose significant challenges to policy and investment decisions in the state.
2006
10.1016/j.enpol.2005.04.016
Trenberth, Kevin E.
An imperative for climate change planning: tracking Earth's global energy
CURRENT OPINION IN ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
Planned adaptation to climate change requires information about what is happening and why. While a long-term trend is for global warming, short-term periods of cooling can occur and have physical causes associated with natural variability. However, such natural variability means that energy is rearranged or changed within the climate system, and should be traceable. An assessment is given of our ability to track changes in reservoirs and flows of energy within the climate system. Arguments are given that developing the ability to do this is important, as it affects interpretations of global and especially regional climate change, and prospects for the future.
2009
10.1016/j.cosust.2009.06.001
LEWANDROWSKI, JK; BRAZEE, RJ
FARM PROGRAMS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
CLIMATIC CHANGE
The view that the agricultural sector could largely offset any negative impacts of climate change by altering production practices assumes the government will not create disincentives for farmers to adapt. U.S. farm programs, however, often discourage such obvious adaptations as switching crops, investing in water conserving technologies, and entry or exit. We outline a simple portfolio model describing producer decision making: we then use this framework to assess how specific US. farm programs might affect adaption to climate change. Three future climate scenarios are considered and in each the present structure of U.S. farm programs discourages adaptation.
1993
10.1007/BF01092678
Barrett, Juliana; Balcom, Nancy
Moving With the Marsh: Encouraging Property Owner Adaptation to Marsh Migration
JOURNAL OF EXTENSION
Climate change adaptation efforts at the local level can help build support among Extension clients as well as improve resilience of natural systems. Marsh migration models of tidal wetlands in Connecticut show inland movement where conditions are suitable. Property owners, however, are frequently opposed to allowing marsh migration of cultivated lawns and gardens. We provide an example of development of a marsh migration buffer on a recently acquired land trust parcel adjacent to tidal wetlands as a local climate adaptation technique. Monitoring and education efforts are ongoing, with emphasis on local outreach. Similar strategies can be applied elsewhere.
2020
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Vella, Karen; Butler, William H.; Sipe, Neil; Chapin, Tim; Murley, Jim
Voluntary Collaboration for Adaptive Governance: The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
The Southeast Florida Regional Climate Change Compact (SFRCCC) has been highlighted as a regional climate change governance exemplar for land use planning. After six years, we find the compact has given momentum to local climate change planning through the Regional Climate Action Plan and provides a foundation for adaptive governance for climate change adaptation. We also find aspects of the compact lacking in terms of representation, decision making, learning, and problem responsiveness. Efforts are now needed to scale down implementation and scale up governance and planning more systematically to address climate change adaptation needs at multiple levels.
2016
10.1177/0739456X16659700
Takasaki, Yoshito
Learning from disaster: community-based marine protected areas in Fiji
ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
This paper examines whether and how experiencing climate-related disasters can improve the rural poor's adaptation to climate change through community-based resource management. Original household survey data in Fiji capture the establishment of community-based marine protected areas following a tropical cyclone. Controlling for the endogeneity of household-level cyclone damage reveals that a household's exposure to the disaster increases its support for establishing marine protected areas, presumably for future safety nets. Evidence suggests that community members' social learning from disaster experience might facilitate their consensual decision making.
2016
10.1017/S1355770X15000108
Daly, Cathy; Fatoric, Sandra; Carmichael, Bethune; Pittungnapoo, Witiya; Adetunji, Olufemi; Hollesen, Jorgen; Nakhaei, Masoud; Diaz, Alberto Herrera
Climate change adaptation policy and planning for cultural heritage in low- and middle-income countries
ANTIQUITY
Climate change threatens archaeological sites and cultural landscapes globally. While to date, awareness and action around cultural heritage and climate change adaptation planning has focused on Europe and North America, in this article, the authors address adaptation policy and measures for heritage sites in low- and middle-income countries. Using a review of national adaptation plans, expert survey and five case studies, results show the varied climate change adaptation responses across four continents, their strengths and weaknesses, and the barriers to be addressed to ensure better integration of cultural heritage in climate change adaptation planning.
2022
10.15184/aqy.2022.114
Leitch, Anne
Participatory science communication needs to consider power, place, pain and 'poisson': a practitioner insight
JCOM-JOURNAL OF SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
The language of science communication has moved from deficit to dialogue and talk of a 'new social contract' with the public 'invited to participate'. This paper outlines a practitioner path that begins with storytelling and moves to a more participatory mode of practice of science communication for adaptation to climate change at the community scale. I outline personal practitioner reflections, specifically the need to consider issues of power, place, pain and the need to challenge assumptions. I propose the need to consider context, many forms of local knowledge and expertise, social learning, plus the pain of historical, contemporary or projected loss.
2022
10.22323/2.21020801
Woodruff, Sierra C.; Meerow, Sara; Stults, Missy; Wilkins, Chandler
Adaptation to Resilience Planning: Alternative Pathways to Prepare for Climate Change
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
Increasingly, local governments are creating resilience plans. What do these plans contain and how do they compare to other efforts to plan for climate change? We use plan evaluation to analyze 10 resilience plans from U.S. cities in the 100 Resilient Cites program and compare them to 44 climate change adaptation plans. Resilience plans lack critical elements to prepare cities for climate change but offer a platform to address economic, social, and environmental policies that may amplify climate change impacts. Resilience planning represents an alternative, potentially complementary, path to preparing for climate change, but there is room for improvement.
2022
10.1177/0739456X18801057
Chevallier, Romy
Strengthening Africa's climate-smart agriculture and food systems through enhanced policy coherence and coordinated action
SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS-SAJIA
Africa's climate, food and agricultural policy agendas are often fragmented and yet their integration is a key requirement for enhancing the continent's resilience and development outcomes. This research article explores actions to strengthen and better align Africa's climate adaptation and mitigation responses in the agricultural sector. These include recommendations to promote the coherence of Africa's climate-smart agriculture policy frameworks at numerous levels; to strengthen broad-based stakeholder engagement and inclusion; to promote institutional coordination, monitoring, evaluation and learning; and importantly, to enhance policy implementation.
2023
10.1080/10220461.2024.2318712
Babovic, Filip; Babovic, Vladan; Mijic, Ana
Antifragility and the development of urban water infrastructure
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Antifragility is a system property that results in systems becoming increasingly resistant to external shocks by being exposed to them. These systems have the counter-intuitive property of benefiting from uncertain conditions. This paper presents one of the first known applications of antifragility to water infrastructure systems and outlines the development of antifragility at the city scale through the use of local governance, data collection and a bimodal strategy for infrastructure development. The systems architecture presented results in a management paradigm that can deliver reliable water systems in the face of highly uncertain future conditions.
2018
10.1080/07900627.2017.1369866
Yamin, F
The European Union and future climate policy: Is mainstreaming adaptation a distraction or part of the solution?
CLIMATE POLICY
This article reviews the European Union's stance and policies on climate change adaptation and argues that developing a coherent long-term European strategy on climate change post-2012 will require the European Union to focus more strongly on adaptation issues than has hitherto been the case. It suggests that the EU should examine the dissonance between its prescriptions for integrating adaptation within the EU with its prescriptions to developing countries to mainstream adaptation. The EU should avoid a carrot-and-stick approach to adaptation funding and should focus on identifying common institutional and learning challenges with developing countries.
2005
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McCartney, Matthew P.; Girma, Michael Menker
Evaluating the downstream implications of planned water resource development in the Ethiopian portion of the Blue Nile River
WATER INTERNATIONAL
Ethiopia's policy of large dam construction in the Blue Nile River basin is evaluated by simulating the impact of one downscaled midrange climate change scenario (A1B) on the performance of existing and planned irrigation and hydropower schemes. The simulation finds that by 2100: 1) average basin-wide irrigation demand will increase; 2) annual hydroelectricity generation will be just 60% of potential; and 3) flow at the Ethiopia-Sudan border will be reduced from 1661 m(3)/s to 1301 m(3)/s as a consequence of climate change in combination with upstream water resource development. Adaptation to climate change and development must be considered together.
2012
10.1080/02508060.2012.706384
Jimenez Guethon, Reynaldo; Diaz Perez, Danay; Rojas Martinez, Janet
Key Actors in the Management of Climate Change Adaptation Projects. A Methodological Proposal for its Identification
ESTUDIOS DEL DESARROLLO SOCIAL-CUBA Y AMERICA LATINA
This article reflects on the importance of identifying key actors in climate management in Cuba, for which a methodological proposal used in a project to adapt to climate change in Cuban coastal areas with an ecosystem approach is presented. From a theoretical reflection, he tackles the topic of Climate Change from equity, with emphasis on the Cuban case, and the importance of the key actors in the management of projects of this type. Finally, it concludes with a methodological proposal prepared by professors from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Havana to identify key actors in adaptation projects to Climate Change.
2019
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Bocco, Gerardo; Napoletano, Brian M.
The prospects of terrace agriculture as an adaptation to climate change in Latin America
GEOGRAPHY COMPASS
This paper analyzes slope management through terrace agriculture in Latin America's hilly to mountainous terrain to assess the practice's potential role in climate-change adaptation in the region. We review the historical geography of slope management in variable climates and highlight the role of social, rural innovation, and hybrid knowledge in the face of climate change's effects on agriculture. Although the literature on terrace agriculture in the region is extensive, further research is needed to better foresee the future of terrace agriculture, particularly in terms of its role in facing sustainability challenges posed by future climate change.
2017
10.1111/gec3.12330
Huteau, Charlotte Gustave
Landscape and natural hazards. Which perspective for the adaptation of coastal areas to climate change?
DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE & TERRITOIRES
Adaptation to climate change, as well as human settlement impact the landscape. On coastal areas, the landscape is likely to be impacted by erosion and rising sea levels. This raises the issue of how this concept of landscape can be used to convert some territories at risk, particularly to make certain measures more acceptable for the populations, or to propose innovative solutions. It appears that the notion of risk, and of landscape, have many connections that would be interesting to exploit in order to further consider the landscape in this context. This could help stakeholders to think differently about spatial recomposition of these territories.
2019
10.4000/developpementdurable.13981
Stone Jr, Brian; Lanza, Kevin; Mallen, Evan; Vargo, Jason; Russell, Armistead
Urban Heat Management in Louisville, Kentucky: A Framework for Climate Adaptation Planning
JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
We explore the potential for cities to develop urban heat management plans to moderate rising temperatures and to lessen the impact of extreme heat on human health. Specifically, we model the impacts of heat management strategies, including tree planting and other green infrastructure, cool roofing and paving, and a reduction in waste heat emissions from buildings and vehicles, on estimated heat-related mortality across Louisville, Kentucky. Our assessment finds a combination of urban heat management strategies to lessen summer temperatures by as much as 10 degrees F on hot days and to reduce estimated heat-related mortality by more than 20 percent.
2023
10.1177/0739456X19879214
Pepper, Angie
Adapting to Climate Change: What We Owe to Other Animals
JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY
In this article, I expand the existing discourse on climate justice by drawing out the implications of taking animal rights seriously in the context of human-induced climate change. More specifically, I argue that nonhuman animals are owed adaptive assistance to help them cope with the ill-effects of climate change, and I advance and defend four principles of climate justice that derive from a general duty of adaptation. Lastly, I suggest that even if one can successfully argue that the protection of human interests in adaptation ought to be prioritised, nonhuman animal rights will continue to place significant constraints on climate change action.
2019
10.1111/japp.12337
Rozell, Daniel J.
Overestimating coastal urban resilience: The groundwater problem
CITIES
Climate vulnerability assessments of coastal cities rarely include groundwater flooding induced by sea level rise. Unlike surface flooding from tides or storm surge, groundwater flooding is not prevented by seawalls. In cities where the underlying geology is relatively impermeable, groundwater can be drained and pumped over floodwalls as a defensive measure, as is done in the Netherlands. In areas where the underlying geology is highly permeable, managed retreat may be the only practical option. Considering the impacts of groundwater flooding is essential to improving urban vulnerability assessments and formulating realistic resilience strategies.
2021
10.1016/j.cities.2021.103369
Philp, George; Cohen, Alice
Municipal climate change adaptation and mitigation: from planning to action in Nova Scotia
JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT
Jurisdictions around the globe are working to address climate change and many municipalities are seeking to protect their communities from its impacts. Although nearly half the world's population resides in rural areas, most municipal climate change planning literature focuses on urban municipalities. To that end, this paper analyzes the public policy process of Nova Scotia, Canada's rural Municipal Climate Change Action Planning mandate. Through an analysis of the plans and follow-up interviews with municipal planners, we examine the conditions that sustain local climate planning and what municipalities gleaned from this climate planning process.
2020
10.1080/09640568.2019.1691509