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Orge, R. F.; Sawey, D. A.; Leal, L., V; Gagelonia, E. C. | Re-engineering the paddy rice drying system in the Philippines for climate change adaptation | DRYING TECHNOLOGY | The Philippines is experiencing extreme weather events (typhoons and floods) which often result to significant rice postharvest losses, among other things. In this study, a new and mechanized postharvest system that integrates field handling and drying of the paddy grains is proposed to speed up the operation and help ensure a good quality harvest even when affected by typhoons or floods. The system makes use of eight 500 kg capacity specially-designed bags that function both as grain containers during transport and as drying bins. The drying operation is accomplished using these bags while mounted on the floor inside a typhoon-resistant shelter. | 2020 | 10.1080/07373937.2019.1648289 |
Ndesanjo, Ronald Boniphace; Asokan, Shilpa Muliyil | Climate Change Adaptation and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Tanzania: Policy Trends and Smallholder Livelihoods | PROGRESS IN DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | Water, energy and food security are critical for realizing the Green Economy initiative. This article aims to assess the implications of climate change on the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Tanzania within the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) context. It analyses smallholder livelihoods in terms of access to and control over resources and investigates how their livelihoods are impacted by contested access to and control over land and water. We review relevant empirical knowledge and policy context in Tanzania and analyse the extent to which the policy environment promotes (or does not promote) smallholder adaptive capacity. | 2023 | 10.1177/14649934231162220 |
Mafie, Gabriel K. | The Impact of Climate Change on Agricultural Productivity in Tanzania | INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC JOURNAL | This paper investigates the impact of climate change on agricultural productivity in Tanzania focusing on maize and paddy as the staple food crops. We use Tanzania National Panel Survey (NPS) data for 2008/9, 2010/11, and 2012/13. The results suggest a significant impact of weather variables - temperature and rainfall, and their shocks on agricultural productivity in Tanzania. Also, farmers' education appears to reduce the impact of temperature shocks on productivity. These findings imply a need for policy intervention to ensure that farmers are equipped for climate change adaptation as well as the use of modern farming technologies and inputs. | 2022 | 10.1080/10168737.2021.2010229 |
Ge, Qi; Ho, Benjamin | ENERGY USE AND TEMPERATURE HABITUATION: EVIDENCE FROM HIGH FREQUENCY THERMOSTAT USAGE DATA | ECONOMIC INQUIRY | Using micro-level thermostat data from 27,000 U.S. households, we analyze how home heating/cooling decisions respond to weather. Responses are greater for extreme heat than for extreme cold and persist for at least 30 days after exposure, due in part to transaction costs but also to changes in intrinsic preferences. Failure to understand habit can lead us to overestimate the impact of short-term policy nudges but underestimate the long-run impact of small changes. Higher frequency estimates of how behavior responds to weather improve our understanding of climate adaptation as climate change affects not only mean temperatures but also variances. | 2019 | 10.1111/ecin.12744 |
Wuepper, David; Zilberman, David; Sauer, Johannes | Non-cognitive skills and climate change adaptation: empirical evidence from Ghana's pineapple farmers | CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT | In the context of accelerating climate change, it is important to understand the determinants of farmers' adaptive capacity. Here, we focus on the role of non-cognitive skills, including perceived self-efficacy, locus of control beliefs, and time preferences. Our sample consists of 398 pineapple farmers in Southern Ghana and we rely on instrumental variables to identify the causal effect. We find that those with higher non-cognitive skills are more likely to respond to the adversities of climate change by adopting a climate smart technology (mulching). When exploring why, we find that they perceive their costs of innovation adoption as lower. | 2020 | 10.1080/17565529.2019.1607240 |
Ando, Amy W.; Reeser, Collin | Homeowner Willingness to Pay for a Pre- flood Agreement for a Post- flood Buyout O S | LAND ECONOMICS | Homeowner buyout programs promote climate adaptation efforts by re-moving homes from floodplains. We estimate homeowner willingness to pay (WTP) for a novel agreement in which they precommit to relocating if a flood severely damages their home in exchange for an expedited buyout pro-cess. We find nearly all respondents identified positive WTP to enroll in this program, with average WTP about $600. Factors like flood risk and expectation of neighbors' responses significantly affect WTP. If the pre -flood agreement is available only if the homeowner has flood insurance, only 68% of homeowners were willing to accept the agreement. (JEL Q51, Q54) | 2022 | 10.3368/le.98.4.052721-0056 |
Ndiritu, S. Wagura; Ruhinduka, Remidius Denis | Climate variability and post-harvest food loss abatement technologies: evidence from rural Tanzania | STUDIES IN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS | This paper focuses on improved storage and preservation technologies as an adaptation strategy in response to climate change. We also study the trade-off between improved cereal storage technologies and the preservation techniques among rural households in Tanzania. We find that climate variables significantly influence farmers' choice of improved storage technologies and preserving decisions. Using a bivariate probit model, we find that modern storage technologies and preservation measures are substitutes. Farmers can significantly reduce annual costs associated with preservation by adopting (usually long lasting) modern storage facilities. | 2019 | 10.7896/j.1822 |
Reed, Brian; Mendelsohn, Robert; Abidoye, Babatunde O. | THE ECONOMICS OF CROP ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN SOUTH-EAST ASIA | CLIMATE CHANGE ECONOMICS | We examine the potential for farmers in South-East Asia to adapt to climate change using a survey of farmers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam. We model farmers' current choices using cross-sectional analysis. We test the climate sensitivity of when to plant, which crop to plant, whether to irrigate, and how much inputs to use. We find that all these choices are sensitive to climate in this region. Farmers are likely to adapt to future climate change by growing more rice and oilseed crops, planting more often from November through March, and relying more heavily on ground water irrigation for water short seasons. | 2017 | 10.1142/S2010007817400024 |
Funder, Mikkel; Mweemba, Carol; Nyambe, Imasiku | The Politics of Climate Change Adaptation in Development: Authority, Resource Control and State Intervention in Rural Zambia | JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | In this article, we call for more attention to the national and local politics of climate change in developing countries, and contribute to this through a study of climate change adaptation interventions in Zambia. We show how such interventions form part of central state efforts to extend authority and control over natural resources, and how competing institutional actors such as local governments and chiefs seek to counter this. The article thereby shows how climate change adaptation is emerging as a new arena for deep-seated political and institutional struggles over issues such as authority, land control and devolution in development. | 2018 | 10.1080/00220388.2016.1277021 |
Davies, Mark; Guenther, Bruce; Leavy, Jennifer; Mitchell, Tom; Tanner, Thomas | 'Adaptive Social Protection': Synergies for Poverty Reduction | IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | Social protection initiatives in the context of agriculture are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider the multiple risks and both short- and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change and natural disaster. By exploring linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection in the agricultural sector, IDS researcher's have developed the concept of 'adaptive social protection'. Studying adaptive social protection involves examining the role of social protection in strengthening adaptation and for developing more climate-resilient social protection interventions. | 2008 | null |
Nordhagen, Stella; Pascual, Unai | The Impact of Climate Shocks on Seed Purchase Decisions in Malawi: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation | WORLD DEVELOPMENT | This paper addresses the relevance of agricultural seed systems in terms of the production and dissemination of seed in the context of adaptation to climate change. Using nationwide household level data from Malawi, we examine the hypothesis that climatic shocks increase small-scale farmers' reliance on purchased seeds, in particular from local seed markets, an element of the informal seed sector. The results are used to discuss the role of seed systems for potentially supporting small-scale farmers' adaptation mechanisms in the face of climate change in Malawi. This study has implications for other similar sub-Saharan African contexts. | 2013 | 10.1016/j.worlddev.2012.08.002 |
La Rosa, Daniele; Wiesmann, Daniel | Land cover and impervious surface extraction using parametric and non-parametric algorithms from the open-source software R: an application to sustainable urban planning in Sicily | GISCIENCE & REMOTE SENSING | Detailed urban land-cover maps are essential information for sustainable planning. Land-cover maps assist planners in designing strategies for the optimisation of urban ecosystem services and climate change adaptation. In this study, the statistical software R was applied to land cover analysis for the Catania metropolitan area in Sicily, Italy. Six land cover classes were extracted from high-resolution orthophotos. Five different classification algorithms were compared. Texture and contextual layers were tested in different combinations as ancillary data. Classification accuracies of 89% were achieved for two of the tested algorithms. | 2013 | 10.1080/15481603.2013.795307 |
Nguyen Chien Thang; Ha Huy Ngoc; Tran Thi Tuyet | CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION POLICIES OF VIETNAM IN THE MEKONG DELTA | RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF VIETNAMESE STUDIES-VYETNAMSKIYE ISSLEDOVANIYA | If the alarming climate change and sea-level rise scenario occurs without coping solutions, it will greatly affect the socio-economic development and the environment of the the Mekong River Delta region. Recognizing this, the Government has soon developed both policies and action plans to adapt to climate change for the region. However, the policies and programs to cope with climate change are still inadequate and limited. In order to complete the climate change adaptation policies in the Mekong Delta in the current context, the Government and localities in the region need to implement more comprehensive and practical solutions for it. | 2020 | 10.24411/2618-9453-2020-10023 |
Woodruff, Sierra C. | Coordinating Plans for Climate Adaptation | JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | Climate adaptation planning emphasizes the need for coordination across sectors and scales. To assess how adaptation is coordinated with multiple planning efforts in a community, I analyze plans in the City of Chester, Pennsylvania, USA. Multiple environmental plans and strategies align with adaptation efforts, but when policies from all plans are mapped, a clear conflict between redevelopment priorities and adaptation emerges. Land use plans promote redevelopment in hazardous locations, increasing vulnerability. These conflicts raise questions about the ability for mainstreaming and win-win strategies to produce transformation change. | 2022 | 10.1177/0739456X18810131 |
Neset, Tina-Simone; Opach, Tomasz; Lion, Peter; Lilja, Anna; Johansson, Jimmy | Map-Based Web Tools Supporting Climate Change Adaptation | PROFESSIONAL GEOGRAPHER | This article discusses the state of the art in geovisualization supporting climate change adaptation. We reviewed twenty selected map-based Web tools, classified by their content and functionality, and assessed them by visual representations, interactive functions, information type, target audience, and how vulnerability and adaptation to climate change are addressed. Our study concludes that the tools (1) can be classified as data viewers with basic functionality and data explorers offering more sophisticated interactive functions; (2) mostly feature moderate or high richness of data content; and (3) predominantly target expert users. | 2016 | 10.1080/00330124.2015.1033670 |
Hanna, Christina; Cretney, Raven; White, Iain | Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand | PLANNING THEORY & PRACTICE | As a nation rapidly progressing managed retreat legislation, we take a historical perspective to identify how the imaginary of retreat evolved in Aotearoa-New Zealand to become mainstream. Tracing the history along a layered reactive-passive-proactive timeline, we reveal how policy experiments and technical advocacy coalitions have advanced different imaginaries of retreat, creating new political spaces for change. We identify the importance of understanding retreat as less of a policy and more an attempt to unmake and remake space that has implications for justice and the permanence of land-use and property in an era of dynamic risks. | 2022 | 10.1080/14649357.2022.2141845 |
Vij, Sumit; Warner, Jeroen F.; Biesbroek, Robbert; Groot, Annemarie | Non-decisions are also decisions: power interplay between Bangladesh and India over the Brahmaputra River | WATER INTERNATIONAL | This article shows how Bangladesh and India intentionally maintain the status quo for the Brahmaputra River at the transboundary level, using material and ideational resources. Results show that India wants to reduce its hegemonic vulnerabilities and Bangladesh aims to maintain its control over the Brahmaputra river, simultaneously building its technical and negotiation skills. We conclude that the underlying processes of maintaining the status quo can be comprehended as 'non-decision making'. The analysis presented will help policy actors to push towards a forward-looking climate change adaptation planning for the Brahmaputra River. | 2020 | 10.1080/02508060.2018.1554767 |
von Arnim, Gundula; Mohring, Bernhard; Paul, Carola | Constrained liquidity during forest calamities: an explorative study for adaptation in private forest enterprises in Germany | AUSTRIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE | Successive calamities, including bark beetle outbreaks and windthrow, have caused severe damages in German forests since 2018. The loss of forest stands as an important source of income makes it increasingly difficult for forest management to secure sustainable revenues, which in turn threatens the livelihood of many private forest enterprises. In addition, valuable ecosystem services are affected and there is a lack of financial resources for the necessary investments in reforestation and climate change adaptation. An online survey was used to investigate the attitude of private forest enterprises towards solving liquidity problems. | 2021 | null |
Di Falco, Salvatore; Veronesi, Marcella | How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia | LAND ECONOMICS | We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and significant impact on net revenues when coupled with water conservation strategies or soil conservation strategies, but not when implemented in isolation. | 2013 | 10.3368/le.89.4.743 |
Steemers, K | Towards a research agenda for adapting to climate change | BUILDING RESEARCH AND INFORMATION | The views, publications and research related to building design and climate change are reviewed in generic terms at the outset of this paper in order to identify a number of questions and potential research avenues. In particular, the links between the roles of building design and its implications for occupant behaviour are addressed in the context of the environmental performance of buildings and climate change. The emphasis is on the integration of adaptation with energy-efficient design, both in terms of how buildings can be designed to increase their adaptive potential and of the significance of occupant adaptive opportunities. | 2003 | 10.1080/0961321032000097692 |
Eguavoen, Irit; zur Heide, Friedrich | Climate change and adaptation research in Ethiopia | ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ETHNOLOGIE | Climate change and the adaptation to its negative impact not only rank high on the political agenda, they also open up a field for social research where anthropologists and social geographers can add valuable contributions. The paper outlines conceptually the challenges in conducting research on the adaptation to climate change by presenting the uncertainties with regard to climate modeling in the Ethiopian Highlands. The authors ask whether it is possible to empirically investigate the direct dependency between climate change and local adaptation strategies by referring to their own and other research projects in the study region. | 2012 | null |
Carmin, JoAnn; Anguelovski, Isabelle; Roberts, Debra | Urban Climate Adaptation in the Global South: Planning in an Emerging Policy Domain | JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | Cities throughout the world face the challenge of preparing for climate change impacts. Since urban climate adaptation is an emerging policy domain, however, few institutions exist to guide cities among the first to take action. Drawing on institutional theory and case study research, this article examines the initiation and development of adaptation planning in two cities in the global south: Durban and Quito. The cases suggest that action in nascent policy domains is motivated by endogenous factors and sustained by taking advantage of opportunities rising and creatively linking new agendas to existing goals, plans, and programs. | 2012 | 10.1177/0739456X11430951 |
Inderberg, Tor Hakon | GOVERNANCE FOR CLIMATE-CHANGE ADAPTIVE CAPACITY IN THE SWEDISH ELECTRICITY SECTOR Do changes in structure and culture matter? | PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW | This article analyses the capacity for climate change adaptation (CCA) in the Swedish electricity grid sector. Utilizing two perspectives from organization theory it directs attention to changes in the sector, from the 1980s until 2010, with radical change with an NPM-reform in 1996. For the time before 1996 findings indicate a high CCA capacity. The reform led to a reduction in this capacity through an increased emphasis on economic efficiency, although there also has been some room for robustness-considerations. This article shows that organizational culture and formal structure influence the capacity to adapt to climate change. | 2012 | 10.1080/14719037.2011.650058 |
Smith, Glen; LeTissier, Martin; O'Hagan, Anne Marie; Farrell, Eugene J. | Policy Coherence for Climate Change Adaptation at the Land-Sea Interface in Ireland | PLANNING PRACTICE AND RESEARCH | One area where climate adaptation policies are proving difficult to design and implement is at the coast. On one hand, some of the most severe impacts of climate change are being recorded at the coast - especially through erosion and flooding - whilst on the other hand, these areas represent complex land-sea planning and policy interfaces. This paper analyses the coherency of policies along Ireland's coast from a climate adaptation perspective. Results suggest that many policies are developed in an ad-hoc fashion around the needs of single sectors. Improved policy coherence at all levels of governance is required to address this. | 2022 | 10.1080/02697459.2021.1991657 |
Eisenack, Klaus; Moser, Susanne C.; Hoffmann, Esther; Klein, Richard J. T.; Oberlack, Christoph; Pechan, Anna; Rotter, Maja; Termeer, Catrien J. A. M. | Explaining and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | The concept of barriers is increasingly used to describe the obstacles that hinder the planning and implementation of climate change adaptation. The growing literature on barriers to adaptation reveals not only commonly reported barriers, but also conflicting evidence, and few explanations of why barriers exist and change. There is thus a need for research that focuses on the interdependencies between barriers and considers the dynamic ways in which barriers develop and persist. Such research, which would be actor-centred and comparative, would help to explain barriers to adaptation and provide insights into how to overcome them. | 2014 | 10.1038/NCLIMATE2350 |
Reynolds, Joel H.; Miller, Brian W.; Schuurman, Gregor W.; Carr, Wylie A.; Symstad, Amy J.; Gross, John E.; Runyon, Amber N. | Accurately Characterizing Climate Change Scenario Planning in the US National Park Service: Comment on Murphy et al. 2023 | SOCIETY & NATURAL RESOURCES | We more accurately locate the boundary between current practice and research priorities regarding climate change scenario planning in U.S. federal land management agencies by supplementing the characterization in a recent article (Understanding perceptions of climate change scenario planning in United States public land management agencies) of its use in the U.S. National Park Service. Accurately reflecting the full depth and breadth of efforts to streamline and mainstream the method for climate change adaptation planning in the U.S. National Park Service provides readers helpful guidance and resources called for by Murphy et al. | 2024 | 10.1080/08941920.2024.2310226 |
Perez-Zanon, Naria; Ho, An-Chi; Chou, Chihchung; Lledo, Llorenc; Marcos-Matamoros, Rauel; Rifa, Eva; Gonzalez-Reviriego, Nube | CSIndicators: Get tailored climate indicators for applications in your sector | CLIMATE SERVICES | CSIndicators is an R package that gathers generalised methods for the flexible computation of climate-related indicators. Each method represents a specific mathematical approach which is combined with the possibility of selecting a flexible time period to define the indicator. This enables a wide range of possibilities for tailoring indicators to sectorial climate service applications. This package is intended for sub-seasonal, seasonal and decadal climate predictions, but its methods are also applicable to other time scales. Additionally, this package is compatible with the CSTools R package for climate forecast post-processing. | 2023 | 10.1016/j.cliser.2023.100393 |
Berke, Philip; Yu, Siyu; Malecha, Matt; Cooper, John | Plans that Disrupt Development: Equity Policies and Social Vulnerability in Six Coastal Cities | JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | Urban plans often ignore the uneven impacts of hazards on socially vulnerable populations. We evaluate the degree to which equity policies in local networks of plans support risk reduction for socially vulnerable populations, and examine the relationship between equity policies scores and the level of social vulnerability in six cities exposed to floods and projected sea level rise. We find high variability in equity policy support for risk reduction, and that equity policies in plans actually actively increase risk of loss in neighborhoods with high levels of social vulnerability, which in turn could disrupt further development. | 2023 | 10.1177/0739456X19861144 |
Mendelsohn, Robert; Wang, Jinxia | The impact of climate on farm inputs in developing countries agriculture | ATMOSFERA | The success of the green revolution has prompted some analysts to suggest it can be extended more broadly to all poor farmers. This paper argues that suitable natural endowments are an important precondition for high input farming. Examining production functions across China, we find that outcomes are very climate sensitive. It follows that we also find that input demand functions are climate sensitive. Efforts to intensify farming in undeveloped regions should focus on places with suitable soils and especially climate. The results also suggest that farmers will partially adapt to climate change by altering their input intensity. | 2017 | 10.20937/ATM.2017.30.02.01 |
Chinowsky, Paul S.; Schweikert, Amy E.; Strzepek, Niko; Strzepek, Kenneth | Road Infrastructure and Climate Change in Vietnam | SUSTAINABILITY | Climate change is a potential threat to Vietnam's development as current and future infrastructure will be vulnerable to climate change impacts. This paper focuses on the physical asset of road infrastructure in Vietnam by evaluating the potential impact of changes from stressors, including: sea level rise, precipitation, temperature and flooding. Across 56 climate scenarios, the mean additional cost of maintaining the same road network through 2050 amount to US$10.5 billion. The potential scale of these impacts establishes climate change adaptation as an important component of planning and policy in the current and near future. | 2015 | 10.3390/su7055452 |
Coulthard, Sarah | Adapting to environmental change in artisanal fisheries - Insights from a South Indian Lagoon | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS | Despite international focus on how to facilitate adaptation to climate change, a good deal of adaptation will, inevitably, be enacted by households and communities at the local level. This paper provides an account of adaptation among villages in a south Indian fishery. Pulicat lagoon is presented as a system of dynamic environmental trends and shocks. An analysis of livelihood diversification, illustrates that some households are more adaptable to environmental change than others. Unexpectedly, it is not the poorest who are the least able to adapt, but rather fishers who have become locked into an overly specialised fishery. | 2008 | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.04.003 |
Mallen, Cheryl; Dingle, Greg | Organizing Sport for Climate Related Adaptations: Lessons from the Water and Forestry Industries | SUSTAINABILITY | Sporting societies around the world are being impacted by a variety of contemporary climatic challenges. The sport management literature indicates that these impacts have disrupted sport. Some adaptations have been implemented, but a comprehensive planning framework is absent from the literature. Learning from other industries, thus, was considered, and an examination of the literature from the water and forestry industries was conducted. The examination resulted in the discovery of six key themes offering insights or practical lessons to guide sport organizations in their efforts to organize for adapting to climatic impacts. | 2021 | 10.3390/su131810462 |
Li, Siyue | China's huge investment on water facilities: an effective adaptation to climate change, natural disasters, and food security | NATURAL HAZARDS | China's huge investment on water infrastructure for sustainable water use, followed by recently frequent natural disasters, caused worldwide concerns, i.e., continuously published by Nature and Science. Most researchers emphasized challenges on this investment; yet, we argue that the 2011-plan, targeting reservoirs, wells, irrigation systems, inter-basin water transfer projects, is the most effective adaptation to climate change, drought and flooding, as well as food security. This provides a good case of water management and development, particularly for the current uneven water resources and food security by climate change. | 2012 | 10.1007/s11069-011-9964-8 |
Lele, Sharachchandra; Srinivasan, Veena; Thomas, Bejoy K.; Jamwal, Priyanka | Adapting to climate change in rapidly urbanizing river basins: insights from a multiple-concerns, multiple-stressors, and multi-level approach | WATER INTERNATIONAL | Much of the research on climate change adaptation in rapidly urbanizing developing regions focuses primarily on adaptation or resilience as the goal, assumes that climate change is the major stressor, and focuses on the household or the city as the unit of analysis. In this article, we use findings from two rapidly urbanizing sub-basins of the Cauvery River in southern India (the Arkavathy and Noyyal sub-basins) to argue for a broader analytic and policy framework that explicitly considers multiple normative concerns and stressors, and uses the entirewatershed as the unit of analysis to address the climate-water interaction. | 2018 | 10.1080/02508060.2017.1416442 |
Vicuna, Sebastian; Gil, Marina; Melo, Oscar; Donoso, Guillermo; Merino, Pablo | Water option contracts for climate change adaptation in Santiago, Chile | WATER INTERNATIONAL | Climate change-induced extreme events pose an important challenge for urban water managers. In Santiago (Chile), the total cost of such events can be reduced by an option contract that sets ex ante water prices and water volumes to be traded when certain triggering conditions are met. This article discusses two types of option contracts: water leasing to trade water from agriculture to urban uses during droughts; and a savings option contract to reduce urban water consumption during short-term turbidity events. We find that water option contracts are flexible instruments that improve the distribution of hydrological risks. | 2018 | 10.1080/02508060.2017.1416444 |
Thompson, Wyatt; Gerlt, Scott; Campbell, J. Elliott; Kueppers, Lara M.; Lu, Yaqiong; Snyder, Mark A. | A Cost of Tractability? Estimating Climate Change Impacts Using a Single Crop Market Understates Impacts on Market Conditions and Variability | APPLIED ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVES AND POLICY | Scientists estimate that U.S. Corn Belt crop yields will increase or decrease, on average, and become more variable with climate change. Corn and soybean farming dominates this region, but studies typically do not assess the joint impact of new distributions of corn and soybean yields on markets. We use a structural economic model with projections of climate-driven yield changes to simulate these effects. Our findings suggest that a narrow focus on a single crop in this key growing region risks underestimating the impact on price distributions and average crop receipts, and can lead to incorrect signs on estimated impacts. | 2017 | 10.1093/aepp/ppw023 |
Zhang, Hongliang; Mu, Jianhong E.; McCarl, Bruce A. | Adaptation to climate change via adjustment in land leasing: Evidence from dryland wheat farms in the US Pacific Northwest | LAND USE POLICY | Land leasing is a possible climate adaptation where risk is shared. We investigate how climate affects dryland wheat farmland rental patterns in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Using farm-level agricultural census data, we study the relationships between climate and leasing arrangements. We find that increases in precipitation reduce leased land and increase the use of cash-rent leases, while increases in precipitation variability reduce the prevalence of cash-rent leases. Using medium and high greenhouse-gas emission-based climate projections we predict that, by 2050, leased acreage will decline by 23% and, respectively 29%. | 2018 | 10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.07.030 |
Dorner, Zack; Knook, Jorie; Ratu, Te Rehia; Stahlmann-Brown, Philip | Climate worry reduces farmer well-being | NEW ZEALAND ECONOMIC PAPERS | Climate anxiety and worry about a changing climate have the potential to reduce individual well-being. We test for this possibility using a national survey sample of farmers, foresters, and growers in Aotearoa New Zealand. This group is of particular interest because changing climate has the potential to radically change their commercial operations. We find that survey respondents who express climate worry report substantially lower subjective well-being. Our estimates are robust to the inclusion of a wide range of controls. Our findings point to the importance of mitigating and adapting to climate change for well-being. | 2024 | 10.1080/00779954.2024.2333796 |
Dodman, David; Mitlin, Diana; Co, Jason Rayos | Victims to victors, disasters to opportunities Community-driven responses to climate change in the Philippines | INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLANNING REVIEW | Advocates of community-based adaptation claim that it heaps to identify, assist, and implement community-based development activities, research and policy in response to climate change. However, there has been little systematic examination of the ways in which existing experiences of dealing with hazard events con inform communily-based adaptation. This article analyses the experience of the Homeless People's Federation of the Philippines in respect of community-led disaster responses, with the aim of informing future discussions on the role of planning for climate change adaptation in low- and middle-income countries. | 2010 | 10.3828/idpr.2009.10 |
Stennes, B; Krcmar-Nozic, E; van Kooten, GC | Climate change and forestry: What policy for Canada? | CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY-ANALYSE DE POLITIQUES | On the basis of projected global climate change, Canada is expected to experience large land-use impacts. As indicated in this paper, forestry and agriculture are likely to be net gainers from climate change, with Canada as a whole possibly gaining from global warming. Adaptation to climate change will require shifting land out of forestry and into agricultural activities. Nonetheless, cost-effective mitigation strategies will likely involve the opposite - planting trees on agricultural land. The quandary for decision makers is whether to pursue mitigation strategies that could be to the detriment of future adaptation. | 1998 | 10.2307/3551883 |
Knieling, Joerg; Kretschmann, Nancy; Nell, Rebecca; Pfau-Weller, Natalie | Knowledge production and learning effects using the example of living labs in Halle (Saale) and Mannheim | RAUMFORSCHUNG UND RAUMORDNUNG-SPATIAL RESEARCH AND PLANNING | Rising average temperatures and more frequent occurrence of heat islands increase the vulnerability of urban society in Halle (Saale) and Mannheim. Dealing with the associated challenges requires not only locally adapted strategies, but in particular an interdepartmental approach and involvement of those affected. Living labs in both cities open up the possibility of testing this in a transformative process. This paper discusses the challenges that living labs are confronted with in terms of knowledge already in the finding phase and what needs to be taken into account to support this process in the best possible way. | 2021 | 10.14512/rur.30 |
Kundo, Hare Krisna; Brueckner, Martin; Spencer, Rochelle; Davis, John | Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed | JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | As the consequences of climate change become better understood, there is growing agreement among development practitioners and academics on the need for mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection. This review paper assesses the progress in mainstreaming efforts, revealing that there has been considerable progress made to date. However, a number of critical issues relating to the challenges of such mainstreaming in the context of developing countries and the conceptual framework needed to assess the outcomes of such developmental programmes are yet to be addressed. These issues are examined in this paper. | 2021 | 10.1002/jid.3567 |
Tan, Raymond R.; Foo, Dominic C. Y. | Integrated multi-scale water management as a climate change adaptation strategy | CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY | Water management will become increasingly critical as the effects of climate change manifest. There are existing water management tools and concepts in current use for both policy and decision-making in industry, but these often look at water issues from the limited perspectives of specific decision-makers who see the problems only at particular scales. In this perspective paper, we argue for an integrated water management approach as an imperative climate change adaptation; there is an urgent need for research on the development of such a multi-scale framework to effectively manage water use in industrial systems. | 2018 | 10.1007/s10098-018-1551-1 |
Sciulli, Nick | Organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure assets to climate change: evidence from coastal councils in Australia | PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT | The frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as floods, storm surges, droughts, bushfires and cyclones, are forcing public organizations to look at their strategies for safeguarding their infrastructure assets. The organizational challenges facing local councils worldwide in the context of climate change have not been adequately developed or understood. This article addresses this gap in knowledge with a model that identifies the organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure to climate change. Managers can use the model to also assess the vulnerability of their infrastructure to climate change. | 2013 | 10.1080/09540962.2013.763436 |
Yoshida, Yoshikatsu; Maruyama, Koki; Takahara, Hiroshi | Global Warming Projections Using the Community Climate System Model, CCSM3 | NEC TECHNICAL JOURNAL | This paper provides an outline of the global warming projections made using the atmosphere-ocean coupled model CCSM3. Results show that even if the concentration of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere is stabilized, the temperature and sea level will continue to rise over the next few hundred years, and that hysteresis effects appear in sea level changes depending on the pathway of the concentration in future. It will become increasingly important that, in our future activities, we fully consider adaptations to climate change in addition to attempting to mitigate the global warming (through emissions reduction). | 2008 | null |
Huang, Jikun; Wang, Jinxia; Khoi, Dang Kim; Plunkett, Herb; Xu, Ying; Findlay, Christopher | Rural Adaptation to Climate Change: New Findings and Existing Knowledge | ASIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT | This paper discusses the results of new research at the farm level regarding farmers' responses to climate change. These results are placed in the context of existing literature. The topics include the benefits of adaptation, the forms of adaptation, and the drivers of adaptation such as land tenure, water allocation systems, the operation of labor markets, and the extent of social capital. Moreover, this paper examines farmers' responses to market signals as they consider adaptation options and the connections of these options with infrastructure quality. It also reviews policy options that support adaptation. | 2021 | 10.37801/ajad2021.18.2.1 |
Beheshtian, Arash; Donaghy, Kieran P.; Geddes, R. Richard; Gao, H. Oliver | Climate-adaptive planning for the long-term resilience of transportation energy infrastructure | TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART E-LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION REVIEW | This paper investigates a long-term planning response to the climate-vulnerability of transportation energy infrastructure in the borough of Manhattan, NY. The proposed model, a two-stage stochastic optimization, features a hybrid utility-regret function with increasing relative and decreasing absolute risk aversion. Modeling results suggest (1) investment in early- and late-stage resilience-enhancing solutions as a complementary approach with significant weight on immediate actions, and (2) a decentralized supply chain formation through an early-stage deployment of reservoir tanks within the case study area. | 2018 | 10.1016/j.tre.2018.02.009 |
Sarfraz, Hamid | Revisiting the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty | WATER INTERNATIONAL | This article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) in light of the UN Watercourses Convention. The IWT is, to a large extent, still relevant but must incorporate contemporary environmental standards and the social realities that are impacting water resources. Proposals for improving the IWT include the incorporation of provisions related to joint research initiatives, optimal use of available resources through mutually negotiated trade-offs, a joint climate change adaptation strategy, consideration of environmental flow needs, and joint water development and energy generation. | 2013 | 10.1080/02508060.2013.784494 |
Wolf, Christopher; Ripple, William J.; Crist, Eileen | Human population, social justice, and climate policy | SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE | We illustrate how human population has been mostly ignored with regard to climate policy by conducting a systematic review of the literature in the context of social justice and six transformative steps for climate change mitigation. Despite this, implementing socially just population policies could make substantial contributions to climate mitigation and adaptation while also promoting social justice and gender equity. We detail how this is possible using a number of policy examples, including increasing the availability of voluntary family planning services and improving education for girls and young women. | 2021 | 10.1007/s11625-021-00951-w |
Gamalei, Yu V. | The origin and evolution of higher plants | HERALD OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | This article, based on a paper presented at a RAS Presidium meeting, considers modern ideas on the origin and the main milestones in the evolution of higher plants. The history of their rise, water and air migrations, and participation in pedogenic processes is reconstructed proceeding from the structure of transport communications that were formed in the course of algal-mycobacterial symbiogenesis as buffer zones of exchange between the participants. Proceeding from further transformations of transport networks, regularities of the climatic adaptogenesis of higher plant forms in the Cenozoic are discussed. | 2012 | 10.1134/S1019331612040028 |
Aakre, Stine; Rubbelke, Dirk T. G. | Objectives of public economic policy and the adaptation to climate change | JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT | Much can be learned about adaptation by applying structures and methodologies already used in other research fields. This study employs a public economic policy approach to investigate how - or if at all - adaptation should be supported by the public sector. Three different fields of adaptation activity are identified which are especially relevant for government intervention and the study proposes ways in which government intervention could be conducted. The analysis takes into account that developing regions are particularly vulnerable and they have insufficient funds to adequately adapt to climate change. | 2010 | 10.1080/09640568.2010.488116 |
Hourdequin, Marion | Ethics, Adaptation, and the Anthropocene | ETHICS POLICY & ENVIRONMENT | Some proponents of the Anthropocene argue that it is time adopt a future-oriented outlook: natural baselines no longer matter, and humans should remake the planet for the better. This raises questions about whose vision should guide such remaking, and whether the past deserves any consideration in adapting for the future. I argue that the past remains relevant, because the natural, cultural, and social worlds people enter into - shaped by those who came before us - matter. On this view, there are reasons to value 'nature', even in a human-altered world, and climate adaptation should take that into account. | 2021 | 10.1080/21550085.2021.1904530 |
Horne, James | Australian water policy in a climate change context: some reflections | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT | This paper focuses on Australian water reform in a climate change context over the period between mid-2006 and end 2011, with a particular focus on the Murray Darling Basin (MDB). In Australia, during this period, the potential impacts from climate change became more central to the policy debate, and the implementation of what can be said to be a large-scale climate change adaptation programme commenced. The paper outlines the policy framework adopted by the government of the day and then draws out some of the key issues for water management against this background, and the attendant increased uncertainty. | 2013 | 10.1080/07900627.2013.725537 |
Kattsov, V. M.; Shkolnik, I. M.; Efimov, S. V. | Climate Change Projections in Russian Regions: The Detailing in Physical and Probability Spaces | RUSSIAN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY | The problem is stated of quantification of the 21st century climate change projections across Russia detailed in the physical and probability spaces. The obtained projections are to be used for the quantitative description of future climate impacts on the sectors of the Russian economy and, in the end, for developing the federal, sector, and regional plans of adaptation to climate changes. The formulated problem is solved by massive (50 members) ensemble simulations using the high-resolution (the horizontal resolution is 25 km) system of climate models developed in the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory. | 2017 | 10.3103/S1068373917070044 |
Di Falco, Salvatore; Sharma, Sindra | Investing in Climate Change Adaptation: Motivations and Green Incentives in the Fiji Islands | ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS | We investigate the interplay between individual's intrinsic motivation and green incentives on stated climate change adaptive behavior. Using experimental and survey data in the Fiji Islands, we find that intrinsic motivations favoring pro-environmental [beliefs) positively influence the intention to adapt. Moreover we find that green incentives crowd-in intrinsic pro-environmental motivations and further facilitate the uptake of adaptive investments. Demographic factors of ethnicity, occupation, participation in and access to credit also influence cognitive and behavioral constructs to varying degrees. | 2018 | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.08.015 |
Mansur, Erin T.; Mendelsohn, Robert; Morrison, Wendy | Climate change adaptation: A study of fuel choice and consumption in the US energy sector | JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT | Using cross-sectional data, this paper estimates a national energy model of fuel choice by both households and firms. Consumers in warmer locations rely relatively more heavily on electricity rather than natural gas, oil, and other fuels. They also use more energy. Climate change will likely increase electricity consumption on cooling but reduce the use of other fuels for heating. On net, American energy expenditures will likely increase, resulting in welfare damages that increase as temperatures rise. For example, if the US warms by 5 degrees C by 2100, we predict annual welfare losses of $57 billion. | 2008 | 10.1016/j.jeem.2007.10.001 |
Sukhoveeva, O. E. | Adaptation of Land Use to Climate Change in Russia | RUSSIAN METEOROLOGY AND HYDROLOGY | The concept of land use adaptation to climate change and a short history of its formation in Russia are described. The global problems and disadvantages of the adaptation policy are listed, the Russian approaches and developed methods of land use adaptation to climate change are specified. Although there are a lot of legislative acts and scientific recommendations in Russia, the tendency of developing only evaluation and monitoring activities is observed. Also, there is a lack of specific implemented agrotechnological projects aimed at the adaptation of agriculture to changing environmental conditions. | 2020 | 10.3103/S106837392012002X |
AUSUBEL, JH | TECHNICAL PROGRESS AND CLIMATIC-CHANGE | ENERGY POLICY | The global warming debate has neglected and thus underestimated the importance of technical change in considering reduction in greenhouse gases and adaptation to climate change, Relevant quantitative cases of long-run technical change during the past 100 years are presented in computing, communications, transport, energy, and agriculture, A noteworthy technological trajectory is that of decarbonization, or decreasing carbon intensity of primary energy, If human societies have not yet reached the end of the history of technology, the cost structure for mitigation and adaptation changes could be cheap. | 1995 | 10.1016/0301-4215(95)90166-5 |
Granberg, Mikael; Glover, Leigh | Adaptation and Maladaptation in Australian National Climate Change Policy | JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY & PLANNING | This paper examines Australia's national policies for adapting to climate change impacts. Recent developments in research funding, institutional capacities and extreme events have resulted in a greater interest and level of activity in adaptation policy. Based on a historical review of national policy, adaptation policy is considered within a political frame and political values, especially the values of neoliberalism, within adaptation policy are identified. Of interest are the implications of these values for the outcomes of adaptation policy, with attention given to the problem of maladaptation. | 2014 | 10.1080/1523908X.2013.823857 |
Simonet, Guillaume | From adjustment to transformation: the rise of adaptation to climate change? | DEVELOPPEMENT DURABLE & TERRITOIRES | The 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the rise of the notion of adaptation by devoting a prominent place. Among the dozen of new definitions, the transformational adaptation appears to be the most innovative. Indeed, the need for a transformation of the workings of the socio-economic system at territorial scale is now inevitable rather than just some adjustments. The article questions this new definition by showing the contribution of social and human sciences and the opportunities offered in terms of planning, interdisciplinary research and conceptualization. | 2020 | 10.4000/developpementdurable.17511 |
Kumssa, Asfaw; Jones, John F. | Climate change and human security in Africa | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WORLD ECOLOGY | Climate change poses a major threat to human security and poverty in Africa. In Africa, where livelihoods are mainly based on climate-dependent resources and environment, the effect of climate change will be disproportionate and severe. Moreover, Africa's capacity to adapt to and cope with the adverse effects of climate variability is generally weak. This article discusses how climate change affects human security in Africa. It also assesses the policy options available to policymakers in terms of mitigation and adaptation to climate change to reduce vulnerability and human insecurity in Africa. | 2010 | 10.1080/13504509.2010.520453 |
Kim, Donghyun; Lim, Up | Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework | SUSTAINABILITY | This study presents a conceptual framework for analyzing urban resilience in the context of climate change. The key conceptual elements of resilience are first identified and then reorganized with a focus on cities and climate change adaptation. This study covers not only ecological and engineering resilience but also resilience as a sociopolitical process from an evolutionary perspective. The study's conceptual framework centers on resilience as it relates to cities and climate change. Its findings are expected to shed light on future urban planning and policies for adapting to climate change. | 2016 | 10.3390/su8040405 |
Alberini, Anna; Chiabai, Aline | Urban environmental health and sensitive populations: How much are the Italians willing to pay to reduce their risks? | REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS | We use contingent valuation to elicit WTP for a reduction in the risk of dying for cardiovascular and respiratory causes, the most important causes of premature mortality during heat waves and air pollution episodes, among the Italian public. We find that WTP depends on respondent age and health. WTP increases with the size of the risk reduction, but is not strictly proportional to it. All else the same, older individuals are willing to pay less for a given risk reduction than younger individuals, and poor health tends to raise WTP. Our results support the notion that the VSL is individuated. | 2007 | 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2006.08.008 |
Charalampopoulos, Ioannis; Matzarakis, Andreas | Thoughts about the Thermal Environment and the Development of Human Civilisation | ATMOSPHERE | Thermal conditions are the most challenging factors in studying human biometeorology, indoor and outdoor design, and adaptation to climate change. The thermal environment is always present and shapes everyday life, behaviours, and the natural and artificial environment. In this paper, we analyse some thoughts that link thermal perception to the roots of human civilisation. Following the narrative thread of mythology and the history of religions, there are direct and indirect references to the thermal environment everywhere. The thermal environment may be a part of the core of human culture. | 2022 | 10.3390/atmos13111925 |
Horowitz, Flavio; Pereira, Marcelo B.; de Azambuja, Giovani B. | Glass window coatings for sunlight heat reflection and co-utilization | APPLIED OPTICS | Buildings that simultaneously provide natural illumination and thermal comfort for all seasons have met with increasing demand as conventional resource limitations are realized. In this context, organic and metal-dielectric coatings are tested, and a simple, coated double-glazed window with solar blinds is conceived that includes passive infrared (IR) reflection, active illumination control, and integration to the building envelope. As a result, a proper spectrally selective coating is applied to produce a low-emissivity solar window with climate-adaptive co-utilization of the reflected IR. | 2011 | 10.1364/AO.50.00C250 |
Guo, Wei | Climate Adaptability of Green Buildings in Coastal Areas | JOURNAL OF COASTAL RESEARCH | The survival and development of human beings cannot be separated from a dependence on the sea. However, with the increase of human activities, the natural environment, especially the coastal environment, continues to deteriorate, and human beings have to strengthen the protection of nature. Therefore, the green building movement, especially green building design adapted to the natural climate environment, has become a current research hotspot. This paper introduces design strategies for green buildings based on climate adaptability, elasticity, and technology for buildings in coastal areas. | 2020 | 10.2112/SI106-085.1 |
Kahsay, Goytom Abraha; Garcia, Nerea Turreira; Bosselmann, Aske Skovmand | Mobile Internet Use and Climate Adaptation: Empirical Evidence from Vietnamese Coffee Farmers | JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS | This paper investigates the association between mobile internet use (MIU) and climate adaptation among Vietnamese coffee farmers. We find that farmers with access to mobile internet are more likely to take adaptation measures and obtain higher coffee yields using both simple regression and instrumental variable models. Our data suggest that the adaptation results are driven by changes in water and crop management practices and mediated by farmers' access to weather forecasts and farm price information. Policy support for MIU may enhance farmers' climate resilience in developing countries. | 2023 | 10.22004/ag.econ.322849 |
Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone | Climate Change and Uneven Development | SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS | In this paper, using a theoretical model with endogenous capital depreciation, we study the effects of climate change and adaptation on long-run development. We show that climate change affects economic growth depending on climate exposure and adaptation efficiency, which are asymmetric between different countries. Poor countries are likely to be hurt more, because of the negative effects of climate change on the rate of depreciation of the assets that represent the engine of growth. These asymmetries generally induce growth deficits and unsustainability traps in less-developed economies. | 2011 | 10.1111/j.1467-9442.2011.01676.x |
Alston, Margaret | Women and adaptation | WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-CLIMATE CHANGE | This article addresses the uneven impacts of climate change on women. To date, there has been a significant emphasis on climate science and technological solutions to aid mitigation and adaptation strategies. This has led to a form of global managerialism that presupposes that all people can adapt with the right resources and knowledge. In this article, it is argued that the differential impacts of climate change on women demand that climate actions and strategies require gender sensitivity and that further research on climate change, adaptations, and actions includes a gendered analysis. | 2013 | 10.1002/wcc.232 |
Barrage, Lint; Furst, Jacob | Housing investment, sea level rise, and climate change beliefs | ECONOMICS LETTERS | We investigate the association of new housing construction with sea level rise exposure and climate change beliefs. We combine U.S. Census construction permits data, sea level rise projections, county-level climate change belief estimates (Howe et al., 2015), and standard housing controls. The results suggest that (i) sea level rise vulnerability is associated with significantly reduced construction in areas with high climate change beliefs, but that (ii) this relationship is significantly attenuated in more skeptical areas, suggesting that climate skepticism may be delaying adaptation. | 2019 | 10.1016/j.econlet.2019.01.023 |
Lin, Zhiyang; Sheng, Yan | Climate change and firm productivity: the case of drought | APPLIED ECONOMICS LETTERS | This paper evaluates the causal effects of climate change on firm productivity from the perspective of drought, which is a complicated climate phenomenon. Based on the panel data of agriculture-related firms in China, we present strong evidence that drought significantly reduces firm' total factor productivity. Mechanism analysis shows that the negative effect is rooting from higher costs of equity capital, higher operation costs, and lower investment efficiency. Finally, we find that government subsidy and policy stimulating corporate innovation can help firms adapt to climate change. | 2023 | 10.1080/13504851.2022.2116385 |
Di Falco, Salvatore; Veronesi, Marcella; Yesuf, Mahmud | Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro-Perspective from Ethiopia | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS | We examine the driving forces behind farm households' decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farm households' food productivity. We estimate a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching to account for the heterogeneity in the decision to adapt or not, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. Access to credit, extension and information are found to be the main drivers behind adaptation. We find that adaptation increases food productivity, that the farm households that did not adapt would benefit the most from adaptation. | 2011 | 10.1093/ajae/aar006 |
Stults, Missy; Larsen, Larissa | Tackling Uncertainty in US Local Climate Adaptation Planning | JOURNAL OF PLANNING EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | Climate adaptation presents some new forms of planning uncertainty. We identified thirteen types of climate change uncertainty and grouped these into four categories. Next, we summarized eleven planning techniques, noting that only six of these techniques reflect an adapt and monitor approach that actively engages uncertainty. We then evaluated the types of uncertainty and planning techniques identified in forty-four US local climate adaptation plans. We found no communities used scenario planning or robust strategies despite the emphasis placed on these techniques in the literature. | 2020 | 10.1177/0739456X18769134 |
Lehmann, Steffen | DEVELOPING A HOLISTIC PATHWAY TO CLIMATE-ADAPTIVE BUILDINGS | JOURNAL OF GREEN BUILDING | This paper explores the origins of an air-condition dependency which evolved with 20th century architecture and is related to other developments that affected buildings in the last century, such as the lack of flexibility/adaptability of buildings and their short life span. It then looks at some passive design principles as frequently found in heritage buildings from the pre-air-conditioning era, which are based on heat avoidance and harnessing of natural energies, The paper concludes with a series of recommendations for a holistic pathway to zero-carbon, climate-adaptive buildings. | 2009 | 10.3992/jgb.4.3.91 |
Rotberg, Fiona J. Y. | SOCIAL NETWORKS, BROKERS, AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION: A BANGLADESHI CASE | JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Social Network Theory is suggested as a theoretical frame within the context of adaptation to climate change. Two elements of the theory that prove useful are that network brokers bridge networks and diffuse novel information that helps lead to group innovation. Novel information is needed for adaptation to climate change. Network data from a Bangladeshi community exemplify how a rural network functions during non-climate variable and climate variable times; which actors comprise the network and that brokers inside and outside the network diffuse information for possible adaptation. | 2013 | 10.1002/jid.2857 |
Gonzalez Ricoy, Inigo | Two Backward-Looking Principles of Climate Justice | ISEGORIA | The paper examines two backward-looking principles about how the costs of mitigating and adapting to climate change should be distributed. According to the polluter pays principle, such costs should be borne by those who caused climate change. According to the beneficiary pays principle, they should be borne by those who have benefited from the activities causing climate change, regardless of whether they took part in such activities or not. The paper unpacks both principles, considers their main problems and contends that, when properly combined, they can address such problems. | 2019 | 10.3989/isegoria.2019.061.12 |
Urban, Frauke | The MDGs and Beyond: Can Low Carbon Development be Pro-poor? | IDS BULLETIN-INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES | Climate change adaptation and mitigation needs to cut across all poverty reduction efforts, including any post-2015 architecture. However, low carbon development (LCD) debates to date have been mainly about high- and middle-income countries. There are good reasons why even the poorest countries with low emissions might be interested in pursuing LCD. This article argues that we need to link up pro-poor policy debates with the low carbon debates as part of a post-MDG agenda. The article explores several policy responses to LCD and analyses how pro-poor these policy responses are. | 2010 | 10.1111/j.1759-5436.2010.00109.x |
Hoffman, Kate Nicole; Kovaka, Karen | A New Heuristic for Climate Adaptation | PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | An influential heuristic for thinking about climate adaptation asserts that natural adaptation strategies are the best ones. This heuristic has been roundly criticized but is difficult to dislodge in the absence of an alternative. We introduce a new heuristic that assesses adaptation strategies by looking at their maturity, power, and commitment. Maturity is the extent to which we understand an adaptation strategy's effects. Power is the size of the effect an adaptation strategy will have. Commitment is the degree to which an adaptation strategy is difficult to test or reverse. | 2023 | 10.1017/psa.2023.163 |
Trkulja, Tanja; Radujkovic, Milana; Nikolic-Topalovic, Marina | Vertical greenery system: a model for improving energy efficiency of buildings | GRADEVINAR | Adaptation to climate change in cities is essential, and vertical greenery systems (VGSs) are used as a means of restoring the urban areas' ecological integrity. This paper presents the classification, typology, and benefits of the VGS for the energy performance of buildings. To analyse its energy and environmental impacts, the use of VGS was simulated on the facades of residential buildings in the urban area of the City of Banja Luka. The results showed that VGS reduced the temperature of the wall and air in and around the buildings, as well as the emission of CO2 in the air. | 2022 | 10.14256/JCE.3370.2021 |
Letourneau, Alain | Some challenges of interdisciplinarity Working with different experts in adaptation to climate change stakeholders' teams | LANGUAGE AND DIALOGUE | This piece explores dialogue analysis inside a particular ongoing collective work, a regional adaptation to climate change research-action project in the southern part of Quebec province, the Memphremagog MRC. First, some precision is given to better understand what it means to work in interdisciplinary contexts such as this one, continuing the development of a terminology to be able to better identify collaboration between and with different professionals. These problems are then expressed in two case studies of dialogues as they have been documented in the research project. | 2021 | 10.1075/ld.00086.let |
King, Andrew D.; Harrington, Luke J. | The Inequality of Climate Change From 1.5 to 2°C of Global Warming | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS | The Paris Agreement aims to keep global warming well below 2 degrees C above preindustrial levels with a preferred ambitious 1.5 degrees C target. Developing countries, especially small island nations, pressed for the 1.5 degrees C target to be adopted, but who will suffer the largest changes in climate if we miss this target? Here we show that exceeding the 1.5 degrees C global warming target would lead to the poorest experiencing the greatest local climate changes. Under these circumstances greater support for climate adaptation to prevent poverty growth would be required. | 2018 | 10.1029/2018GL078430 |
Meir, I. A.; Pearlmutter, D. | Building for climate change: planning and design considerations in time of climatic uncertainty | CORROSION ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | The climate change discourse is touching all fields and aspects of scientific inquiry and research, as well as everyday life. This paper reviews some of the more pronounced aspects of planning and building design that are directly related to climatic issues. It attempts to show how the exacerbation of climatic extremes and 'freak' weather events influences people's living and working environments, and why the formulation of alternative, climate adapted principles and practices is no longer a 'luxury' that can remain along the fringes of the planning and building disciplines. | 2010 | 10.1179/147842209X12476568584548 |
Agatha de Wit, Fronika Claziena; de Freitas, Paula Martins | Global climate adaptation governance in the Amazon through a polycentricity lens | REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE POLITICA INTERNACIONAL | The 2015 Paris agreement has made adaptation to climate change a global goal and increased the polycentricity of the governance landscape. This study uses insights from polycentric governance theory to analyze the emergence of adaptation governance (AG) in Brazil and its implications for the state of Acre, situated in the Amazon region. By using a qualitative data analysis, including subnational climate policies and semi-structured interviews, we aim to analyze the advantages and challenges of polycentric AG in Acre and provide recommendations for improved AG in the region. | 2019 | 10.1590/0034-7329201900207 |
Di Falco, Salvatore; Sharma-Khushal, Sindra | Cognitive drivers, and the effect of information on climate change adaptive behaviour in Fiji Islands | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY | This study investigates the role of cognitive processes and information on climate change adaptive investment choice. Using experimental surrey data from the Fiji Islands we found that attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control moderated intentions which in turn affected investment stated behaviour. We also found that the correlation between intention and behaviour to be significant only in the presence of information. In addition for those in receipt of information, intention accounted for a greater amount of variance than in the absence of information. | 2019 | 10.1016/j.envsci.2018.11.019 |
Castan Broto, Vanesa; Robin, Enora | Climate urbanism as critical urban theory | URBAN GEOGRAPHY | As urban actors engage in climate action, their projects - from urban greening to changes in urban energy systems - reshape not just the urban built environment but also the organization of social life. This new climate urbanism invites to reimagine what it means to be urban in a climate-changed world. We propose the articulation of climate urbanism as a critical theory that both exposes the production of further inequalities associated with urban responses to climate change and provides new radical forms of practice for more progressive urban futures under climate change. | 2021 | 10.1080/02723638.2020.1850617 |
Chevallier, Romy | Integrating adaptation into development strategies: The Southern African perspective | CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT | This case study explores the interface between climate change adaptation and socio-economic development in the Southern African region. It seeks to make the climate-development juncture more palpable and further highlights the challenges of integration from a policymaker's perspective. It makes a normative case concerning the following key questions: Why is it advantageous to integrate adaptation into development planning, given that the degree and specific advent of climate change is still uncertain? How should this best be done? Which action is required at what level? | 2010 | 10.3763/cdev.2010.0039 |
Farnham, Martin; Kennedy, Peter | Adapting to Climate Change: Equilibrium Welfare Implications for Large and Small Economies | ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS | We show that the availability of adaptation can be welfare-reducing in the non-cooperative equilibrium in a setting with multiple countries. Adaptation is a private good while abatement is a public good. This means that substitution out of abatement and into adaptation by any one country imposes a negative externality on all other countries. The potentially deleterious impact of adaptation is asymmetric: small economies are most likely to be hurt by the availability of adaptation because they control a small fraction of global emissions relative to the biggest emitters. | 2015 | 10.1007/s10640-014-9795-7 |
Moser, Deyshawn; Steiglechner, Peter; Schlueter, Achim | Facing global environmental change: The role of culturally embedded cognitive biases | ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT | Mankind's ability to mitigate and adapt to climate change may be limited by cognitive biases. To address this challenge, research on cognitive biases has to be expanded beyond the study of individual-based psychological cognition effects to understand their interaction with cultural factors and their impact on group behaviour. Here we describe the relevant cognitive biases and how they are impacted by culture, and we propose that future environmental policymaking has to take into account how such Culturally Embedded Cognitive Biases (CECB) affect willingness to comply. | 2022 | 10.1016/j.envdev.2022.100735 |
Bharati, S; Som, S; Bharati, P; Vasulu, TS | Climate and head form in India | AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN BIOLOGY | The relationship between head form and climatic variation was investigated in different tribal and caste populations of India. The magnitude of the cephalic index varies significantly in different zones. In tropical zones, head form is longer (dolicocephalic) but in temperate zones, head form is more round (mesocephalic or brachycephalic), especially among Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Scheduled Castes (SC) than among other castes. These trends possibly support a climatic adaptation model in head form differences among ST and SC in India. Published 2001 Wiley-Liss, Inc. | 2001 | 10.1002/ajhb.1101 |
Condom, Thomas; Escobar, Marisa; Purkey, David; Pouget, Jean Christophe; Suarez, Wilson; Ramos, Cayo; Apaestegui, James; Tacsi, Arnaldo; Gomez, Jesus | Simulating the implications of glaciers' retreat for water management: a case study in the Rio Santa basin, Peru | WATER INTERNATIONAL | This paper presents a model of Andean glacier hydrology which can be used to assess the water management implications of possible future glacier retreat. The approach taken uses the Water Evaluation and Planning (WEAP) system and integrates both hydrologic processes and representations of the operations of built infrastructure. The model is applied in the Rio Santa watershed in Peru to illustrate how alternative water management strategies can be simulated. The WEAP platform built for this study has been used to engage with local stakeholders for water management. | 2012 | 10.1080/02508060.2012.706773 |
Ebi, Kristie L.; Bowen, Kathryn J.; Calkins, Julie; Chen, Minpeng; Huq, Saleemul; Nalau, Johanna; Palutikof, Jean P.; Rosenzweig, Cynthia | Interactions between two existential threats: COVID-19 and climate change | CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT | The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change are complex existential threats, unpredictable in many ways and unprecedented in modern times. There are parallels between the scale and scope of their impacts and responses. Understanding shared drivers, coupled vulnerabilities, and criteria for effective responses will help societies worldwide prepare for the simultaneous threats of climate change and future pandemics. We summarize some shared characteristics of COVID-19 and climate change impacts and interventions and discuss key policy implications and recommendations. | 2021 | 10.1016/j.crm.2021.100363 |
Yoeruek, Alpaslan; Burkamp, Hendrik; Missler, Volker; Buchholz, Oliver | Heavy rain precaution and climate adaptation Development of a forecasting system for municipalities | WASSERWIRTSCHAFT | Many cities and municipalities are actively addressing heavy rainfall preparedness by having heavy rainfall hazard maps and action plans developed. As an essential next step, a municipal forecasting and early warning system for heavy rain and flooding is requested to be able to react at short notice and in a targeted manner by means of warning, evacuation, setting up mobile protection elements, etc. The htw saar and Hydrotec are developing a heavy rainfall warning system for municipalities that combines measurement and forecast data with hydronumerical modelling. | 2023 | 10.1007/s35147-023-1880-9 |
Wangui, Elisabeth Edna; Smucker, Thomas A.; Wisner, Ben; Lovell, Eric; Mascarenhas, Adolfo; Solomon, Maingi; Weiner, Daniel; Munna, Abubakari; Sinha, Gaurav; Bwenge, Charles; Meena, Hubert; Munishi, Pantaleo | Integrated development, risk management and community-based climate change adaptation in a mountain-plains system in Northern Tanzania | REVUE DE GEOGRAPHIE ALPINE-JOURNAL OF ALPINE RESEARCH | This paper presents a preliminary analysis of work conducted along altitudinal gradients in the mountains and plains of northern Tanzania. We find evidence of a high degree of interdependence among groups of people of different language/cultural groups and socio-economic status interacting along environmental gradients from high to low altitude. We call this socio-geographical adaptation to climate change. However, our analysis and discussion adds complexity to any simple notion of adaptation to climate change since changes are multiple and adaptation is complex. | 2012 | null |
Wilbanks, Thomas J. | Scale and sustainability | CLIMATE POLICY | Geographical scale is a factor in interactions between climate change and sustainable development, because of varying spatial dynamics of key processes and because of varying scales at which decision-making is focused. In a world where the meaning of 'global' and 'local' is being reshaped by technological and social change, a challenge to sustainable development is realizing the impressive, but often elusive, potentials for climate-change-related actions at different scales to be complementary and reinforcing. Climate change adaptation is suggested as an example. | 2007 | 10.1080/14693062.2007.9685656 |
McLeman, R.; Smit, B. | Migration as an adaptation to climate change | CLIMATIC CHANGE | This article presents a conceptual model to investigate population migration as a possible adaptive response to risks associated with climate change. The model reflects established theories of human migration behaviour, and is based upon the concepts of vulnerability, exposure to risk and adaptive capacity, as developed in the climate change research community. The application of the model is illustrated using the case of 1930s migration patterns in rural Eastern Oklahoma, which took place during a period of repeated crop failures due to drought and flooding. | 2006 | 10.1007/s10584-005-9000-7 |
Marino, Elizabeth; Jerolleman, Alessandra; Jessee, Nathan; Weyiouanna, Annie; Topkok, Meghan Sigvana; Keene, Eli; Manda, Simon | Is the Longue Duree a Legal Argument?: Understanding Takings Doctrine in Climate Change and Settler Colonial Contexts in the United States | HUMAN ORGANIZATION | This article investigates whether it is possible to bring the longue duree, or the re-contextualization of risk distribution and accumulation, into litigation about climate outcomes. We do this by analyzing the structure of disaster litigation to identify if and whether historical harm is included in argumentation and by applying the concept of takings to a hypothetical legal argument of repetitive flooding in Alaska. We conclude that invisibility of historical harm in climate and disaster litigation gives insight into the preference and structure of the law. | 2022 | null |
Kousky, Carolyn | Informing climate adaptation: A review of the economic costs of natural disasters | ENERGY ECONOMICS | This paper reviews the empirical literature on the economic impacts of natural disasters to inform both the modeling of potential future climate damages and climate adaptation policy related to extreme events. It covers papers that estimate the short- and/or long-run economic impacts of weather-related extreme events as well as studies identifying the determinants of the magnitude of those damages (including fatalities). The paper also reviews the small number of empirical papers on the potential extent of adaptation in response to changing extreme events. | 2014 | 10.1016/j.eneco.2013.09.029 |
Smith, Joel B.; Vogel, Jason M.; Cromwell, John E., III | An architecture for government action on adaptation to climate change. An editorial comment | CLIMATIC CHANGE | An architecture of government adaptation programs is presented. Components include leadership, institutional organization, stakeholder involvement, climate change information, appropriate use of decision analysis techniques, explicit consideration of barriers to adaptation, funding for adaptation, technology development and diffusion, and adaptation research. This architecture is a useful heuristic for identifying, evaluating, and reevaluating the needs of decision makers as they improve management of climate-sensitive resources in a changing environment. | 2009 | 10.1007/s10584-009-9623-1 |
Orlove, B | Human adaptation to climate change: a review of three historical cases and some general perspectives | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY | To study mitigation and adaptation to climate change, social scientists have drawn on different approaches, particularly sociological approaches to the future and comparative history of past societies. These two approaches frame the social and temporal boundaries of decision-making collectivities in different ways. A consideration of the responses to climate variability in three historical cases, the Classic Maya of Mexico and Central America, the Viking settlements in Greenland, and the US Dust Bowl, shows the value of integrating these two approaches. | 2005 | 10.1016/j.envsci.2005.06.009 |
Bertin, Mattia; Musco, Francesco; Fabian, Lorenzo | Rethinking planning hierarchy considering climate change as global catastrophe | CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT | This article proposes overcoming the distinction between the effects of climate change and the effects linked to classical disaster hazards by considering Climate Change as global catastrophe. The theoretical approach to combining the two models has until now greatly emphasized the need for further research, but with poor results. Starting from a new conception of climate change as a catastrophe in progress, the paper proposes a revision of local planning hierarchy in order to give a primary role to risk assessment in every sector of local development. | 2020 | 10.1016/j.crm.2020.100252 |