Communities adapting to climate change
Recommended reading
- Food system scenarios: exploring global/local linkages
- ( T.E. Downing; G. Ziervogel / Stockholm Environment Institute , 2005)
- The first generation of climate impact assessments were led by scenarios of climate change predicted over time. In recent years, the indeterminate nature of complex systems, such as interactions betw...
- New indicators of vulnerability and adaptive capacity
- ( W.N. Adger / Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research , 2004)
- In order to understand processes underlying climate change adaptation and response, and determine the strength and efficiency of adaptation strategies, there is a need to develop indicators of vulnera...
- Application of methods and tools for assessing impacts and vulnerability, and developing adaptation responses
- ( United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change , 2004)
- The purpose of this paper was to facilitate discussion at a workshop on adaptation in December 2004 but it presents an appropriate and current summary of approaches to methodologies, tools and vulnera...
- Sustainable drylands management: a strategy for securing water resources and adapting to climate change
- ( Climate Change, International Institute for Sustainable Development , 2003)
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This information paper illustrates sustainable dryland management practises in communities vulnerable to climate change with case studies in India and the Sudan.
In both cases the adaptation program...
- Adapting to climate change: social-ecological resilience in a Canadian Western Arctic community
- ( F. Berkes; D. Jolly / Conservation Ecology [journal] , 2001)
- Human adaptation remains an insufficiently studied part of the subject of climate change. This paper examines the questions of adaptation and change in terms of social-ecological resilience using less...
