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Norman, Heidi | The Voice as a Strategy for Advancing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights and Interests on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation | PUBLIC LAW REVIEW | A new and meaningful relationship between Indigenous peoples and political institutions, as the Voice intends, is needed to address climate change adaptation and mitigation. Indigenous peoples in Australia, and globally, are already experiencing the impact of climate change. With rights and interests recognised over their land, this land estate is increasingly vital to addressing the immediate term net-zero targets and longer-term reduction of carbon in the atmosphere along with advancing Indigenous knowledges in new economies and rights to country. | 2023 | null |
Bruch, Carl; Troell, Jessica | Legalizing adaptation: water law in a changing climate | WATER INTERNATIONAL | Adaptation to climate change will play a critical role in water management in the coming decades, necessitating reform of the legal, regulatory, and institutional frameworks that govern water allocation, use, and quality to integrate adaptive water management. Legal and regulatory tools can also facilitate adaptive responses. This article provides an overview of the ways in which water laws, regulations, and institutions will need to be rethought and reformulated and offers some thoughts on the future of governing for adaptation in the water sector. | 2011 | 10.1080/02508060.2011.630525 |
Nori-Sarma, Amruta; Wellenius, Gregory A. A. | Human Health and Well-being in a Warming World | MILBANK QUARTERLY | Policy PointsAfter decades of scientific progress and growth in academic literature, there is a recognition that climate change poses a substantial threat to the health and well-being of individuals and communities both in the United States and globally.Solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change can have important health cobenefits.A vital component of these policy solutions is that they must also take into consideration historic issues of environmental justice and racism, and implementation of these policies must have a strong equity lens. | 2023 | 10.1111/1468-0009.12608 |
Longman, Ryan J.; Peterson, Courtney L.; Baroli, Madeline; Frazier, Abby G.; Cook, Zachary; Parsons, Elliott W.; Dinan, Maude; Kamelamela, Katie L.; Steele, Caitriana; Burnett, Reanna; Swanston, Chris; Giardina, Christian P. | Climate Adaptation for Tropical Island Land Stewardship Adapting a Workshop Planning Process to Hawai'i | BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY | Adaptation Planning and Practices for Hawai'i Forests and Native Ecosystems What: More than 40 participants, representing federal and state government agencies, non-governmental organizations, academia, and private landholders met remotely to receive practical training in considering climate change information and identifying adaptation actions for natural resources management professionals working in forests and native Hawaiian ecosystems. When: 26 January-16 March 2021 Where: Virtual, hosted by the Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science | 2022 | 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0163.1 |
Mainuddin, Mohammed; Mac Kirby; Hoanh, Chu Thai | Water productivity responses and adaptation to climate change in the lower Mekong basin | WATER INTERNATIONAL | A crop growth simulation model was used to study the impact of climate change for the period 2010-2050 on water productivity of rainfed rice. In general, the results suggest that water productivity of rainfed rice may increase significantly in the upper basin in Laos and Thailand and may decrease in the lower basin in Cambodia and Vietnam. Significant net increases in water productivity can be achieved by applying simple adaptation options such as shifting the planting dates, applying supplementary irrigation, and increasing fertilizer inputs. | 2012 | 10.1080/02508060.2012.645192 |
Aslanova, Fidan; Gokcekus, Huseyin | FOREIGN NATIONALS PERSPECTIVES ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON THE ENVIRONMENT | ORBIS | This study aims to analize the perspectives of foreign nationals about climate change impacts on the environment in Cyprus. The stratified purposeful sampling method was used to determine the study group. The research findings determined from this research suggest that the participants have knowledge about climate change, adaptation to climate change and the skills required to reduce climate change, as well as awareness on climate change impacts on the environment, but lack background information on how to reduce environmental problems. | 2019 | null |
Mendelsohn, R | Efficient adaptation to climate change | CLIMATIC CHANGE | Firms and individuals will likely engage in substantial private adaptation with respect to climate change in such sectors as farming, energy, timber, and recreation because it is in their interest to do so. The shared benefit nature of joint adaptation, however, will cause individuals to underprovide joint adaptation in such areas as water control, sea walls, and ecological management. Governments need to start thinking about joint adaptation, being careful to design efficient responses which treat climate change problems as they arise. | 2000 | 10.1023/A:1005507810350 |
Quinn, Sam; Lees, Jess | Aligning disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Pacific perceptions, practice and policy | AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT | The climate crisis is compounding disaster risk around the world, heightening the vulnerabilities of communities in disaster-prone regions and increasing the pressure on humanitarian actors to respond effectively to the resulting challenges. The Beyond Barriers research led by Humanitarian Advisory Group in partnership with World Vision Australia, explores ways to strengthen the integration(1) of disaster risk reduction (DRR)(2) and climate change adaptation (CCA)(3) to enhance resilience outcomes for communities in the Pacific region. | 2022 | null |
Creutzig, Felix | Towards typologies of urban climate and global environmental change | ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS | The beauty of cities is that every city is different. From the homogenizing perspective of global environmental change that speaks trouble. Weneed an understanding of which kind of cities can contribute what kind of measures to mitigate and adapt to global environmental change. Typologies of cities offer a bridge between the idiosyncratic and the global. Bounoua et al (2015 Environ. Res. Lett. 10 084010) analyse the impact of urbanization on surface climate. Wediscuss their results and suggest avenues for further systematic analysis. | 2015 | 10.1088/1748-9326/10/10/101001 |
Chesney, Marc; Lasserre, Pierre; Troja, Bruno | Mitigating global warming: a real options approach | ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH | Mitigation and adaptation represent two solutions to the issue of global warming. While mitigation aims at reducing emissions and preventing climate change, adaptation encompasses a broad scope of techniques used to reduce the impacts of climate change once they have occurred. Both have direct costs on a country's gross domestic product, but costs also arise from temperature increases due to inaction. This paper introduces a tipping point in a real options model and analyzes optimal investment choices in mitigation and their timing. | 2017 | 10.1007/s10479-016-2258-5 |
del Rio, Cristian Banfi; Bellolio, Flavia Carbonell | Litigation for damages and contribution of the chilean courts to the ethical-environmental challenges posed by climate change | ACTA BIOETHICA | This article shows that the experience accrued by the Chilean Supreme Court in lawsuits on tort and environ-mental liability, should allow it to address the ethical-environmental and legal issues that global warming implies, either by preventing harm through the imposition on the major emitters of greenhouse gases, including the State, of the duty to reduce emissions rapidly and significantly, or by demanding and enforcing the obligation to adapt to climate change through the attribution of tort liability or environmental liability. | 2023 | null |
Arnold, Wyatt; Spanos, Katherine A.; Schwarz, Andrew; Doan, Chi; Deaver, Katerina; Akens, Mary U.; Maendly, Romain; Selmon, Michelle; Ekstrom, Julia; Coombe, Peter; Andrew, John | A Climate Action Plan for the California Department of Water Resources | JOURNAL AWWA | Key TakeawaysGreenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation to climate change vulnerabilities should be incorporated into existing utility business and project management processes.A comprehensive climate action plan can meet and exceed legal requirements, reduce risk, achieve business process efficiencies, apply best available science, and demonstrate social responsibility.Focused internal workgroups, expert consultation, inspired management, feedback loops, breadth of application, and quantitative detail are critical to success. | 2022 | 10.1002/awwa.2011 |
Hong, Harrison; Karolyi, G. Andrew; Scheinkman, Jose A. | Climate Finance | REVIEW OF FINANCIAL STUDIES | Climate finance is the study of local and global financing of public and private investment that seeks to support mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. In 2017, the Review of Financial Studies launched a competition among scholars to develop research proposals on the topic with the goal of publishing this special volume. We describe the competition, how the nine projects featured in this volume came to be published, and frame their findings within what we view as a broader climate finance research program. | 2020 | 10.1093/rfs/hhz146 |
Boote, Kenneth J.; Ibrahim, Amir M. H.; Lafitte, Renee; McCulley, Rebecca; Messina, Carlos; Murray, Seth C.; Specht, James E.; Taylor, Sterling; Westgate, Mark E.; Glasener, Karl; Bijl, Caron Gala; Giese, James H. | Position Statement on Crop Adaptation to Climate Change | CROP SCIENCE | The Crop Science Society of America's (CSSA) position statement-Crop Adaptation to Climate Change-was researched and assembled by a working group of scientists from academia and industry. The statement (i) reviews the impacts of variable weather conditions arising from climate change on cropping systems, (ii) reports the progress to date in adapting crops and management practices to new conditions, and (iii) offers focus areas for increasing the speed at which global agricultural systems can adapt to climate change. | 2011 | 10.2135/cropsci2011.07.0369 |
Vigano, Alessandro; Manica, Andrea; Di Piero, Vittorio; Leonardi, Michela | Did Going North Give Us Migraine? An Evolutionary Approach on Understanding Latitudinal Differences in Migraine Epidemiology | HEADACHE | This commentary discusses a recent publication by evolutionary biologists with strong implications for migraine experts. The Authors showed that a gene polymorphism associated with migraine gave our ancestors an evolutionary advantage when colonizing northern, and thus colder, territories. They then highlight that the prevalence of migraine may differ among countries because of climatic adaptation. These results may prove useful in planning both epidemiological and physiological studies in the field of migraine. | 2019 | 10.1111/head.13520 |
Coirolo, Cristina; Commins, Stephen; Haque, Iftekharul; Pierce, Gregory | Climate Change and Social Protection in Bangladesh: Are Existing Programmes Able to Address the Impacts of Climate Change? | DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW | Bangladesh is generally considered to be one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with flooding, droughts and cyclones being the most common annual disaster events. This article provides an overview of existing social-protection programmes and government policies in the context of long-term adaptation to climate change related to sudden onset disasters, and evaluates their effectiveness in addressing related vulnerabilities and promoting food security in climate-vulnerable regions in the country. | 2013 | 10.1111/dpr.12040 |
Lockwood, Matthew | What Can Climate-Adaptation Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa Learn from Research on Governance and Politics? | DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW | There has been relatively little thinking about the political context of climate-adaptation policy in sub-Saharan Africa, what this means for the quality of governance, and the capacity to plan and deliver what are often quite complex policies and programmes. This is all the more surprising given the quantity and depth of what is already known about politics and governance in Africa. This article asks what can be learned from this body of knowledge and experience that is relevant for climate-adaptation policy. | 2013 | 10.1111/dpr.12029 |
Kahn, ME | Two measures of progress in adapting to climate change | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS | Adaptation will play a key role in determining the economic and social costs of climate change. One important measure of adaptation is reductions in deaths caused by climate events. This paper uses two new data sets to test the hypothesis that, in recent years, climate events cause less deaths than in the past. Using data on deaths caused by natural disasters and data on skin cancer death rates in warmer and cooler US states, this paper reports evidence in favor of the adaptation progress hypothesis. | 2003 | 10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00052-9 |
Thompson, Erica; Frigg, Roman; Helgeson, Casey | Expert Judgment for Climate Change Adaptation | PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE | Climate change adaptation is largely a local matter, and adaptation planning can benefit from local climate change projections. Such projections are typically generated by accepting climate model outputs in a relatively uncritical way. We argue, based on the IPCC's treatment of model outputs from the CMIP5 ensemble, that this approach is unwarranted and that subjective expert judgment should play a central role in the provision of local climate change projections intended to support decision-making. | 2016 | 10.1086/687942 |
Nutz, Marcel; Stebegg, Florian | Climate change adaptation under heterogeneous beliefs | MATHEMATICS AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS | We study strategic interactions between firms with heterogeneous beliefs about future climate impacts. To that end, we propose a Cournot-type equilibrium model where firms choose mitigation efforts and production quantities such as to maximize the expected profits under their subjective beliefs. It is shown that optimal mitigation efforts are increased by the presence of uncertainty and act as substitutes; i.e., one firm's lack of mitigation incentivizes others to act more decidedly, and vice versa. | 2022 | 10.1007/s11579-022-00314-8 |
Kotova, Nadezhda; Makhortykh, Sergey | Human adaptation to past climate changes in the northern Pontic steppe | QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL | The northern Pontic steppe in the southern part of Eastern Europe has reacted to climate changes. It is characterized by a historically constant moisture deficiency, and is an advantageous area for study of diverse types of human adaptation to climate changes. Two main types of such adaptations, which occurred during the 6th-1st millennium BC, have been distinguished. The first is connected with the early historical migrations, and the second with changes in the economy of local steppe populations. | 2010 | 10.1016/j.quaint.2009.09.026 |
MacIver, DC; Dallmeier, F | Adaptation to climate change and variability: Adaptive management | ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT | This paper summarizes the recommendations from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Workshop on Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change convened in Costa Rica in 1998. Specifically, this paper also summarizes the adaptive management science issues and, in many cases, sectoral options. The Workshop, organized by Canada and Costa Rica, involved more than 200 experts and focused on adaptation science, adaptive management and adaptation options for climate variability and change. | 2000 | 10.1023/A:1006308512816 |
Quevauviller, Philippe | European Research Programme on Climate Change and Natural Hazards Developments in the field of droughts | HOUILLE BLANCHE-REVUE INTERNATIONALE DE L EAU | Research activities on climate change are closely linked to the development of the related European Union policy as underlined in the White Paper on Adaptation to Climate Change and in on-going discussions about the integration of adaptation and mitigation measures in the Water Framework Directive river basin management planning This paper recalls the drought policy framework and provides examples of related projects It concludes by highlighting the needs for a stronger science-policy Interface | 2010 | 10.1051/lhb/2010053 |
Masoudi, Nahid; Zaccour, Georges | Adapting to climate change: Is cooperation good for the environment? | ECONOMICS LETTERS | We consider the formation of an international environmental agreement focusing on adaptation to climate change. Members of the agreement fully share their knowledge and determine their investments in R&D by maximizing their joint welfare, while non-members optimize their individual payoffs. Using a three-stage game formalism, we obtain that a large coalition is achievable and that total emissions increase with the size of the agreement. The welfare implications are parameter dependent. | 2017 | 10.1016/j.econlet.2017.01.018 |
Levy, Barry S. | Increasing Risks for Armed Conflict: Climate Change, Food and Water Insecurity, and Forced Displacement | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HEALTH SERVICES | The interrelated factors of climate change, decreased access to freshwater, and forced displacement are heightening the risk of armed conflict. Higher temperatures and extremes of precipitation are contributing to food and water insecurity, forced displacement, and sociopolitical tensions. Health professionals can help to address these problems through education, advocacy, and other activities that aim to mitigate and adapt to climate change and minimize the risk of armed conflict. | 2019 | 10.1177/0020731419845249 |
Videras, Julio | Social Networks and the Environment | ANNUAL REVIEW OF RESOURCE ECONOMICS, VOL 5 | This review discusses empirical research on social networks and the environment; it summarizes findings from representative studies and the conceptual frameworks social scientists use to examine the role of social networks. The article presents basic concepts in social network analysis, summarizes common challenges of empirical research on social networks, and outlines areas for future research. Finally, the article discusses the normative and positive meanings of social networks. | 2013 | 10.1146/annurev-resource-091912-151912 |
Rinnert, Christin; Schueller, Alexandra; Juepner, Robert | Climate change challenge: new ideas for flood risk management | WASSERWIRTSCHAFT | The current event in Germany in July 2021 clearly highlighted the necessity to adapt to the climate change effects. This paper discusses the ongoing development process of the implemented flood risk management according to the EU Floods Directive to a climate-adapted flood risk management. The need for further development, especially in the fields of operative flood protection and flood aftercare, is shown. Further, current trends such as the concept of resilience are addressed. | 2021 | null |
Munoz Campos, Marta Rosa; Romero Sarduy, Maria Isabel; Carballo Concepcion, Jorge Alfredo | The Public Consultation as a Tool of the Social and Environmental Safeguards. Methodological Proposal for Projects with Adaptation Approach based on Ecosystems and Community-Based Adaptation (ABE/ABC) | ESTUDIOS DEL DESARROLLO SOCIAL-CUBA Y AMERICA LATINA | The work shows the importance of having environmental and social safeguards for adaptation to climate change, especially in the Cuban context, where there is a set of laws and regulations that prioritize these actions. Emphasis is placed on the indispensability of community participation to achieve sustainability in the adaptation processes. It offers some key concepts and methodology for developing public consultations on projects with ecosystem and community-based approaches. | 2019 | null |
Rees, Judith | Geography and climate change: Presidential Address and record of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) AGM 2015 | GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL | In her third and final address as President of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), Dame Professor Judith Rees outlines the importance of geography in understanding some of the problems surrounding control of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the impacts of and adaptation to climate change. Her comments are followed by a summary of the proceedings of the Society's 2015 Annual General Meeting, including reflections on 2014 activities. | 2015 | 10.1111/geoj.12149 |
Vignola, Raffaele; Locatelli, Bruno; Martinez, Celia; Imbach, Pablo | Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change: what role for policy-makers, society and scientists? | MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION STRATEGIES FOR GLOBAL CHANGE | In developing countries where economies and livelihoods depend largely on ecosystem services, policies for adaptation to climate change should take into account the role of these services in increasing the resilience of society. This ecosystem-based approach to adaptation was the focus of an international workshop on Adaptation to Climate Change: the role of Ecosystem Services held in November 2008 in Costa Rica. This article presents the key messages from the workshop. | 2009 | 10.1007/s11027-009-9193-6 |
Kirby, Andrew | Urban adaptation to climate change: geographers and wicked problems | BOLETIN DE LA ASOCIACION DE GEOGRAFOS ESPANOLES | This paper explores the importance of adaptation to climate change impacts in urban areas. The complexity of existing and likely impacts poses unique challenges to all aspects of society, from state to polity and economy. These in turn pose methodological challenges to academic practice, demanding the integration of macro and micro perspectives and pure and applied research. The paper argues that geographers can make significant contributions to this scholarship. | 2018 | 10.21138/bage.2735 |
Eckersley, Peter; England, Kit; Ferry, Laurence | Sustainable development in cities: collaborating to improve urban climate resilience and develop the business case for adaptation | PUBLIC MONEY & MANAGEMENT | Fragmented governance contexts make it difficult for public bodies to direct and control climate adaptation initiatives. This paper highlights how Newcastle City Council collaborated with local partners to create a shared understanding of how a major storm could affect public services across North East England. This helped the authority to develop a business case to invest in infrastructure that will help to protect future generations from severe weather events. | 2018 | 10.1080/09540962.2018.1477642 |
Di Falco, Salvatore | Adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan agriculture: assessing the evidence and rethinking the drivers | EUROPEAN REVIEW OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS | In this paper, after a review of the evolution of the literature on climate change economics in agriculture, I present some evidence of the impact of different moments of the distribution of rainfall on farmers risk aversion. It is found that while more rainfall is negatively associated with the probability of observing risk aversion, rainfall variability is positively correlated. This result highlights an important behavioural dimension of climatic factors. | 2014 | 10.1093/erae/jbu014 |
Sherman, Jodi D.; MacNeill, Andrea J.; Biddinger, Paul D.; Ergun, Ozlem; Salas, Renee N.; Eckelman, Matthew J. | Sustainable and Resilient Health Care in the Face of a Changing Climate | ANNUAL REVIEW OF PUBLIC HEALTH | Climate change is a threat multiplier, exacerbating underlying vulnerabilities, worsening human health, and disrupting health systems' abilities to deliver high-quality continuous care. This review synthesizes the evidence of what the health care sector can do to adapt to a changing climate while reducing its own climate impact, identifies barriers to change, and makes recommendations to achieve sustainable, resilient health care systems. | 2023 | 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-071421-051937 |
Liang, Christine | Exploring the Spectrum of Citizen Engagement through urban Climate Action | ERCIM NEWS | Cities are a major contributor of greenhouse gases (75% of global CO2 emissions, according to UNEP [1]) and are highly affected by climate change events such as heat-waves. However, cities also have the resources and power to be catalysts for change and can play a vital role in climate action. The CityCLIM project mobilises citizens with a variety of methods to raise awareness, contribute data and promote climate adaptation solutions. | 2023 | null |
Stehr, Nico; von Storch, Hans | A Very Blind Spot | SOCIETY | The need for action in the context of the climate crisis cannot be more urgent. We should start living with the inevitable climate change and its societal challenges. Adaptation processes are as much needed as are mitigation efforts. Adaptation processes can become the engine for sustainable economic activity. Adaptation can lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; adaptation and mitigation do not contradict each other. | 2019 | 10.1007/s12115-019-00424-y |
Zarzycki, Andrzej; Decker, Martina | Climate-adaptive buildings: Systems and materials | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPUTING | This article discusses research case studies that deploy physical computing with kinetic, pneumatic, and smart material technologies as vehicles to address the prospects of these technologies and their future impact on resilient and high-performance buildings. It looks into conceptual aspects of an integrated hybrid system that combines both computation approaches and unique opportunities inherent to these hybrid designs. | 2019 | 10.1177/1478077119852707 |
Sobel, Adam H. | Usable climate science is adaptation science | CLIMATIC CHANGE | The author argues that in the present historical moment, the only climate science that is truly usable is that which is oriented towards adaptation, because current policies and politics are so far from what would be needed to avert dangerous climate change that scientific uncertainty is not a limiting factor on mitigation. The author considers what implications this might have for climate science and climate scientists. | 2021 | 10.1007/s10584-021-03108-x |
Adewole, Isaac F.; Agbola, S. B.; Kasim, Oluwasinaayomi Faith | Building resilience to climate change impacts after the 2011 flood disaster at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria | ENVIRONMENT AND URBANIZATION | This paper describes how the University of Ibadan has sought to build greater resilience to flooding, through its response to the devastating flood in 2011. This included both structural and non-structural components, as well as measures to address the increased risk levels that climate change is bringing or may bring in the future. The paper also draws out some lessons that have wide relevance for other universities. | 2015 | 10.1177/0956247814547679 |
Strangfeld, Peter; Stopp, Horst | Floating settlement structures Strategy for adaptation to climate change. | BAUPHYSIK | Floating buildings are a topical affair Besides an architectural gain in context with old city- and industrial harbors such as post mining landcapes, they are an alternative for the traditional construction on fixed ground. In a historical consideration floating homes are no new appearance. But owing to the rise of sea-level by the climate change it is becoming momentous and it is a new topic for the building physics | 2015 | 10.1002/bapi.201510013 |
Stigter, Tibor Y.; Miller, Jodie; Chen, Jianyao; Re, Viviana | Groundwater and climate change: threats and opportunities | HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL | The important role of groundwater in adaptation to climate change is explored, and the competing threats and opportunities that climate change pose to groundwater systems are evaluated. This has been achieved through a review of current thinking on the complex interactions between human activities, climate and the hydrological cycle affecting groundwater quantity and quality, across different regions and time scales. | 2023 | 10.1007/s10040-022-02554-w |
Bauer, Peter; Hoefler, Torsten; Stevens, Bjorn; Hazeleger, Wilco | Digital twins of Earth and the computing challenge of human interaction | NATURE COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE | Digital twins of Earth have the capability to offer versatile access to detailed information on our changing world, helping societies to adapt to climate change and to manage the effects of local impacts, globally. Nevertheless, human interaction with digital twins requires advances in computational science, particularly where complex geophysical data is turned into information to support decision making. | 2024 | 10.1038/s43588-024-00599-3 |
HEINLOTH, K; KARIMANZIRA, RP | OUTCOMES AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE IPCC AFOS WORKING GROUP ON CLIMATE-CHANGE RESPONSE STRATEGIES AND EMISSION REDUCTIONS | CLIMATIC CHANGE | The most promising response strategies are sustainable practices in agriculture to improve productivity on existing arable land especially in developing countries to meet the food requirements of a still rising population sustainable practices in forestry both in tropical forests as well as in forests of temperate and boreal zones, in the latter case to achieve sufficient fast adaption to climate change. | 1994 | 10.1007/BF01098478 |
Ganguly, Auroop R.; Kumar, Devashish; Ganguli, Poulomi; Short, Geoffrey; Klausner, James | Climate Adaptation Informatics: Water Stress on Power Production | COMPUTING IN SCIENCE & ENGINEERING | Resilience to nonstationarity and deep uncertainty is a prerequisite for decadal to century scale water security. Adaptation is urgent at decadal (near-term) horizons, when projections of stressors and vulnerability are typically more reliable but climate internal variability may preclude actionable insights. A case study of at-risk power production suggests that informed decisions are still possible. | 2015 | 10.1109/MCSE.2015.106 |
Ravishankara, A. R.; Dawson, John P.; Winner, Darrell A. | New Directions: Adapting air quality management to climate change: A must for planning | ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT | While adaptation to climate change is primarily thought of as a water, weather, and infrastructure issue, air quality and air quality management are important aspects of climate change adaptation. Air quality and climate change are so heavily intertwined that air quality needs to be considered not only for mitigation strategies but also in management of and adapting to climate change. | 2012 | 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2011.12.048 |
Aijazi, Arfa N.; Brager, Gail S. | Understanding Climate Change Impacts on Building Energy Use | ASHRAE JOURNAL | The built environment is central to an effective global strategy to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. For design practitioners, the mitigation component is clear and well established. On the other hand, adaptation, which describes a building's resilience to respond to climate change related hazards, is generally not part of the design process, but is equally important. | 2018 | null |
Quinta Goy, Carolina | THE IMPACT OF PATENTS IN THE FIELD OF CLEAN TECHNOLOGIES: A VIEW FROM THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW | REVISTA LA PROPIEDAD INMATERIAL | The purpose of this study is to evaluate, from the theoretical precepts of the Economic Analysis of Law, the convenience -in terms of efficiency or inefficiency- of eliminating the patent regime for the protection of inventions related to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. This paper use the transaction cost approach to analyze the appropriateness of such a solution. | 2019 | 10.18601/16571959.n28.07 |
Fedorkov, A | Climatic adaptation of seed maturity in Scots pine and Norway spruce populations | SILVA FENNICA | Seed maturation of Scots pine and Norway spruce in a provenance experiment at Kortkeros (northern Russia) was examined by the X-ray method. Logarithmic relationships were found bt tween seed anatomy development and long-term average thermal sum. Seed development in the northern populations of Scots pine and Norway spruce was a little faster than in the southern ones. | 2001 | 10.14214/sf.609 |
Kemp-Benedict, Eric; Agyemang-Bonsu, William Kojo | The Akropong approach to multi-sector project planning | FUTURES | We introduce an approach to cross-sector project planning developed in the context of a climate change adaptation strategy being carried out in Ghana. The approach, which uses a simplified cross-impact approach, should be applicable in many cross-sector or cross-disciplinary studies in which the work is carried out by sector or discipline-specific teams. | 2008 | 10.1016/j.futures.2008.07.014 |
Gissi, Elena; Schiebinger, Londa; Hadly, Elizabeth A.; Crowder, Larry B.; Santoleri, Rosalia; Micheli, Fiorenza | Exploring climate-induced sex-based differences in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems to mitigate biodiversity loss | NATURE COMMUNICATIONS | The response of aquatic and terrestrial organisms to climate change can depend on biological sex. A key challenge is to unravel the interactive effects of sex and climate change at the individual and population levels and the cascading effects on communities. This new understanding is essential to improve climate adaptation and mitigation strategies. | 2023 | 10.1038/s41467-023-40316-8 |
Smith, V. Kerry | Reflections-Legacies, Incentives, and Advice | REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY | Lessons from the early literature in environmental economics are used to assess the impact of an early contributor, Ralph C. d'Arge; discuss the prospects for designing incentive-based approaches to encourage private adaptation to climate change; and comment on reforming current practices concerning benefit-cost analyses of major federal rules. | 2010 | 10.1093/reep/req009 |
Major, David C.; Juhola, Sirkku | Guidance for Climate Change Adaptation in Small Coastal Towns and Cities: A New Challenge | JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT | Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views expressed in this Forum article do not necessarily reflect the views of ASCE or the Editorial Board of the journal. | 2016 | 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000356 |
Gable, Lance | Global Health Law and the Climate Crisis: An Unfulfilled Opportunity | JOURNAL OF LAW MEDICINE & ETHICS | The emerging global climate crisis threatens human health in unprecedented ways, yet global health concerns have not been sufficiently considered within international climate change efforts. A more collaborative pathway could advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change while protecting public health and social justice. | 2023 | 10.1017/jme.2023.124 |
Luetz, Johannes M.; Nunn, Patrick D. | Spirituality and sustainable development: an entangled and neglected relationship | SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE | There is a paucity of research that examines the relationship between spirituality and sustainable development, including in relation to Indigenous or non-Western worldviews. This Comment argues that closer integration of spirituality and sustainability will enable more effective and sustainable strategies for future development. | 2023 | 10.1007/s11625-023-01347-8 |
Gilmore, Elisabeth A.; Kousky, Carolyn; St Clair, Travis | Climate change will increase local government fiscal stress in the United States | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | Climate hazards can compound existing stresses on the revenues and expenditures of local governments, revealing potential risks to fiscal stability. Incorporating these risks into local budgeting and strategic planning would encourage a more complete accounting of the benefits of climate adaptation and risk reduction efforts. | 2022 | 10.1038/s41558-022-01311-x |
Pisor, Anne C.; Basurto, Xavier; Douglass, Kristina G.; Mach, Katharine J.; Ready, Elspeth; Tylianakis, Jason M.; Hazel, Ashley; Kline, Michelle A.; Kramer, Karen L.; Lansing, J. Stephen; Moritz, Mark; Smaldino, Paul E.; Thornton, Thomas F.; Jones, James Holland | Effective climate change adaptation means supporting community autonomy | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | Communities want to determine their own climate change adaptation strategies, and scientists and decision-makers should listen to them - both the equity and efficacy of climate change adaptation depend on it. We outline key lessons researchers and development actors can take to support communities and learn from them. | 2022 | 10.1038/s41558-022-01303-x |
Logan, Tom; Reilly, Allison | Risk of isolation increases the urgency and spatial extent of climate change adaptation | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | Estimations of the risk from sea-level rise are often based on the amount of property inundated by water. However, risk measurements based on isolation - being cut-off from key services owing to road flooding - suggest that the impacts of sea-level rise could be more widespread and may begin earlier than anticipated. | 2023 | 10.1038/s41558-023-01647-y |
Ayers, Jessica; Forsyth, Tim | COMMUNITY-BASED ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE: Strengthening Resilience through Development | ENVIRONMENT | A newly forming approach to adaptation addresses a community's development needs as a way to increase the resilience of poor, vulnerable people to the impacts of climate change. Early examples of such community-based adaptation in Bangladesh highlight the successes and limitations of this approach. | 2009 | 10.3200/ENV.51.4.22-31 |
Haasnoot, Marjolijn; Biesbroek, Robbert; Lawrence, Judy; Muccione, Veruska; Lempert, Robert; Glavovic, Bruce | Defining the solution space to accelerate climate change adaptation | REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | Decision makers need better insights about solutions to accelerate adaptation efforts. Defining the concept of solution space and revealing the forces and strategies that influence this space will enable decision makers to define pathways for adaptation action. | 2020 | 10.1007/s10113-020-01623-8 |
Howarth, Candice; Robinson, Elizabeth J. Z. | Effective climate action must integrate climate adaptation and mitigation | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | Mitigation and adaptation strategies have historically been, and continue to be, developed separately. The climate is already changing and integration of adaptation and mitigation in policy and practice is now urgently needed. | 2024 | 10.1038/s41558-024-01963-x |
Dow, Kirstin; Berkhout, Frans; Preston, Benjamin L.; Klein, Richard J. T.; Midgley, Guy; Shaw, M. Rebecca | Limits to adaptation | NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE | Amid insufficient global efforts to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, the focus on adapting to climate change risks has gained prominence. Understanding adaptation limits, and societal limits in particular, is crucial for shaping society's responses to climate change. Adaptation limits represent the point where actors, be they individuals, businesses, or governments, can no longer safeguard their valued objectives from intolerable climate-related risks through adaptation. An actor-centered, risk-based approach is essential to define these limits, in the context of the consequences, likelihood, and uncertainty of climate-related hazards. The risks face by actors can be categorized as acceptable, tolerable, or intolerable, influenced by their perceptions and experiences. As actors adapt within the tolerable risk zone, they invest in adaptive measures. However, when risks escalate or adaptation costs become prohibitive, a point is reached where no viable adaptive options remain, resulting in a behavioral discontinuity—the adaptation limit. This risk-based approach to defining adaptation limits emphasizes the social, institutional, and cultural aspects influencing both adaptation and risk perceptions. This approach recognizes that limits are unique to each actor and manifest themselves on different scales. Urgency for researching adaptation limits is heightened by the looming climate crisis. Communities, regions, and sectors, particularly in vulnerable areas like the Arctic, approach their adaptation limits. Effective early warning systems and cross-scale operations are imperative. Collaboration between policymakers and researchers is necessary to predict and manage the consequences of surpassing adaptation limits as climate change accelerates. This proactive approach better prepares us for the forthcoming challenges and debates. | 2013 | 10.1038/nclimate1847 |
Warner, Benjamin P. | Understanding actor-centered adaptation limits in smallholder agriculture in the Central American dry tropics | AGRICULTURE AND HUMAN VALUES | Adaptations made by agrarian households in the face of global change risks are largely dependent on their livelihood goals. I argue that adaptation-limit research is crucial to many agrarian development programs because a focus on adaptation limits may allow researchers and practitioners to better understand and support successful adaptation and allow smallholders to pursue their goals. In this study of smallholder farming in Northwest Costa Rica, I found that security and the unique parcelero identity of rice farmers in this region define livelihood goals. I show that an understanding of the multidimensionality and fluidity of farmer livelihood goals may enrich our current understanding of actor-centered adaptation limits as insurmountable thresholds. In response to worsening global change risks, farmers in this study traded off certain goals to pursue others. In this way, farmers do not perceive adaptation limits as insurmountable. Alternative indicators of adaptation limits did exist; irreversibility in adaptation and the great hardship associated with tradeoffs among livelihood goals may mark adaptation limits. | 2016 | 10.1007/s10460-015-9661-4 |
Mechler, R.; Singh, C.; Ebi, K.; Djalante, R.; Thomas, A.; James, R.; Tschakert, P.; Wewerinke-Singh, M.; Schinko, T.; Ley, D.; Nalau, J.; Bouwer, L. M.; Huggel, C.; Huq, S.; Linnerooth-Bayer, J.; Surminski, S.; Pinho, P.; Jones, R.; Boyd, E.; Revi, A. | Loss and Damage and limits to adaptation: recent IPCC insights and implications for climate science and policy | SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE | Recent evidence shows that climate change is leading to irreversible and existential impacts on vulnerable communities and countries across the globe. Among other effects, this has given rise to public debate and engagement around notions of climate crisis and emergency. The Loss and Damage (L&D) policy debate has emphasized these aspects over the last three decades. Yet, despite institutionalization through an article on L&D by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the Paris Agreement, the debate has remained vague, particularly with reference to its remit and relationship to adaptation policy and practice. Research has recently made important strides forward in terms of developing a science perspective on L&D. This article reviews insights derived from recent publications by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and others, and presents the implications for science and policy. Emerging evidence on hard and soft adaptation limits in certain systems, sectors and regions holds the potential to further build momentum for climate policy to live up to the Paris ambition of stringent emission reductions and to increase efforts to support the most vulnerable. L&D policy may want to consider actions to extend soft adaptation limits and spur transformational, that is, non-standard risk management and adaptation, so that limits are not breached. Financial, technical, and legal support would be appropriate for instances where hard limits are transgressed. Research is well positioned to further develop robust evidence on critical and relevant risks at scale in the most vulnerable countries and communities, as well as options to reduce barriers and limits to adaptation. | 2020 | 10.1007/s11625-020-00807-9 |
Juhola, Sirkku; Filatova, Tatiana; Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan; Mechler, Reinhard; Scheffran, Juergen; Schweizer, Pia-Johanna | Social tipping points and adaptation limits in the context of systemic risk: concepts, models and governance | FRONTIERS IN CLIMATE | Physical tipping points have gained a lot of attention in global and climate change research to understand the conditions for system transitions when it comes to the atmosphere and the biosphere. Social tipping points have been framed as mechanisms in socio-environmental systems, where a small change in the underlying elements or behavior of actors triggers a large non-linear response in the social system. With climate change becoming more acute, it is important to know whether and how societies can adapt. While social tipping points related to climate change have been associated with positive or negative outcomes, overstepping adaptation limits has been linked to adverse outcomes where actors' values and objectives are strongly compromised. Currently, the evidence base is limited, and most of the discussion on social tipping points in climate change adaptation and risk research is conceptual or anecdotal. This paper brings together three strands of literature - social tipping points, climate adaptation limits and systemic risks, which so far have been separate. Furthermore, we discuss methods and models used to illustrate the dynamics of social and adaptation tipping points in the context of cascading risks at different scales beyond adaptation limits. We end with suggesting that further evidence is needed to identify tipping points in social systems, which is crucial for developing appropriate governance approaches. | 2022 | 10.3389/fclim.2022.1009234 |
Sakdapolrak, Patrick; Borderon, Marion; Sterly, Harald | The limits of migration as adaptation. A conceptual approach towards the role of immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure in translocal livelihoods systems | CLIMATE AND DEVELOPMENT | Migration can strengthen adaptation to climate change. The potential of migration-as-adaptation builds on a world of intensifying global mobility and global connectedness and the increasing possibility of geographically spreading risks. But what if mobility is impeded and connectivity disrupted? And what happens if geographically distant places face risks simultaneously due to the global and systemic character or multiplicity of crises? This paper points to fundamental gaps in research on migration-as-adaptation, which largely neglects the questions of adaptation limits. It argues that an understanding of the limits of migration-as-adaptation needs to address (1) migration as an inherent feature of social systems under stress, (2) the unequal and contested nature of adaptation goals, and (3) immobility, disconnectedness and simultaneous exposure as the core mechanisms that limit the adaptive potential of migration. The paper proposes a novel translocal-mobilities perspective to address the multi-scalar, multi-local, relational and intersectional dynamics of the limits of migration-as-adaptation. It formulates core questions for research on the limits of migration as adaptation. A comprehensive understanding will help the scientific community to build more realistic scenarios on climate change and migration and provide entry points for policies to avoid reaching adaptation limits and to mitigate negative consequences. | 2023 | 10.1080/17565529.2023.2180318 |
Kerr, Rachel Bezner; Naess, Lars Otto; Allen-O’Neil, Bridget Totin, Edmond; Nyantakyi-Frimpong, Hanson; Risvoll, Camilla; Rivera Ferre, Marta G.; López-i-Gelats, Feliu; Eriksen, Siri | Interplays between changing biophysical and social dynamics under climate change: Implications for limits to sustainable adaptation in food systems | GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY | Climate change scenarios have significant implications for the livelihoods and food security of particular groups in society and will necessitate a range of adaptation actions. While there is a significant literature on the social as well as biophysical factors and limits to adaptation, less is known about the interactions between these, and what such interactions mean for the prospects of achieving sustainable and resilient food systems. This paper is an attempt at addressing this gap by examining changing biophysical and social factors, with specific consideration of vulnerable groups, across four case studies (Ghana, Malawi, Norway and Spain). In each case, future climate change scenarios and associated biophysical limits are mapped onto four key social factors that drive vulnerability and mediate adaptation, namely, scale, history, power and politics, and social differentiation. We then consider what the interaction between biophysical limits and socio-political dynamics means for the options for and limits to future adaptation, and how climate may interact with, and reshape, socio-political elements. We find that biophysical limits and socio-political factors do not operate in isolation, but interact, with dynamic relationships determining the ‘space’ or set of options for sustainable adaptation. By connecting the perspectives of biophysical and social factors, the study illuminates the risks of unanticipated outcomes that result from the disregard of local contexts in the implementation of adaptation measures. We conclude that a framework focusing on the space for sustainable adaptation conditioned by biophysical and social factors, and their interactions, can help provide evidence on what does and does not constitute sustainable adaptation, and help to counter unhelpful narratives of climate change as a sole or dominant cause of challenges in food systems. | 2022 | 10.1111/gcb.16124 |
Warner, Benjamin P.; Kuzdas, Christopher; Yglesias, Mariel G.; Childers, Daniel L. | Limits to adaptation to interacting global change risks among smallholder rice farmers in Northwest Costa Rica | GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE | In this paper, we discuss the theoretical relationships among interacting global change risks, valued livelihood goals, and adaptation limits. We build from research on the impacts of multiple and interacting global change risks in lesser-developed countries and seek to understand household adaptation limits in agrarian communities. We ask: What are valued livelihood goals among smallholder farmers in Northwest Costa Rica? How do socio-economic determinants of adaptive capacities determine their ability to meet these goals in the face of the impacts of interacting global change risks? Our data were based on focus groups, interviews, survey responses from 94 smallholder farmers, government statistics, and published literature. We analyzed our data using qualitative content analysis and quantitative logistic regression models. Our analysis showed that farmers perceived rice production as an identity, and that they were being forced to consider limits to their abilities to adapt to maintain that identity. We found that farm size, cattle ownership, years spent farming, and household income variety were determinants of their abilities to remain in rice production while maintaining sufficient levels of livelihood security. We also showed that for those households most vulnerable to water scarcity, their ability to successfully adapt to meet valued livelihood goals is diminished because adaptation to water scarcity increases vulnerability to decreased rice-market access. In this way, they become trapped by the inability to reduce their vulnerability to risks of the interaction between global changes and therefore abandon valued identities and livelihoods. | 2015 | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.002 |
Alston, M; Clarke, J; Whittenbury, K | Limits to adaptation: Reducing irrigation water in the Murray-Darling Basin dairy communities | JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES | Increasing environmental disasters are creating significant uncertainty for farm families and their communities across the world. One site critically affected is the Murray-Darling Basin area of Australia, an area known as the food bowl of Australia. Following a lengthy drought at the turn of the century concerns were raised about water quality and river health. This led successive governments to introduce policies to systematically reduce water available for irrigated agriculture. The Murray-Darling Basin Plan was developed by the Commonwealth government and is designed to secure water savings from irrigators and to direct those water savings to the stressed natural environment. This paper focuses on the impact of these changes on irrigation dairy families and their communities in northern Victoria. Using a model designed to test the limits to adaptation, we draw out the constraints, limits and barriers to adaptation for dairy families and their communities coping with reduced water access. This model highlights the types of socially just and fair interventions necessary to assist adaptation and foctises attention on thresholds and traps that may prevent adaptation. The model is relevant to other areas where climate changes and environmental disasters are shaping inevitable change. | 2018 | 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.12.026 |
Morrison, Clare; Pickering, Catherine | Limits to Climate Change Adaptation: Case Study of the Australian Alps | GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH | Climate change is occurring and not being mitigated, motivating adaptation but adaptation strategies can have biophysical, economic, technological, and social limits. We review publicly available documents to assess how successful current and proposed adaptation strategies may be for the Australian Alps, including likely limits and potential collaborations and conflicts among stakeholders. Conservation managers, the tourism industry, and local communities have implemented or are proposing a range of adaptation strategies in the region. Some stakeholder strategies complement each other (e.g. invasive species control, fire management), while others are potential sources of conflict (water and electricity for snowmaking, year-round tourism). Economic costs and biophysical constraints are the most important limits to these adaptation strategies. These types of limits and conflicts between different stakeholders on adaptation strategies are likely to occur in other regions and demonstrate that adaptation may only provide partial and short term solutions to the challenges of climate change. | 2013 | 10.1111/j.1745-5871.2012.00758.x |
Bardsley, Douglas K. | Limits to adaptation or a second modernity? Responses to climate change risk in the context of failing socio-ecosystems | ENVIRONMENT DEVELOPMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY | There is a concerning fallacy at the heart of the debate on climate change adaptation - that adaptation will involve re-adjustments primarily on the periphery of functioning socio-ecological systems. Yet, dominant modern systems are already in crisis. Case study examples from research across global, continental and regional scales are used to argue that gaps between sustainability goals and outcomes are already significant. Analyses of global food security and lost diversity; human migration in Asia; and natural resource management systems in core and remote regions of Australia indicate that climate change forms only part of a failing relationship between people and the environment. There is a need to transform socio-ecosystems so that they become resilient in the context of broader learning on environmental uncertainty, variability, change and risk. Such transformations will occur both in situ, to ensure that local environments are not further degraded or people entrenched in failing systems, and ex situ, as people, systems and infrastructure become increasingly mobile to deal with changing circumstances. | 2015 | 10.1007/s10668-014-9541-x |