Sentences with phrase «adaptation challenges for»

Increased pests, water stress, diseases, and weather extremes will pose adaptation challenges for crop and livestock production.

With a drier future and higher regional temperatures amplifying possible late - century droughts, the situation presents a major adaptation challenge for managing the region's water needs, explains Ault, who along with lead author Benjamin Cook and Jason Smerdon, both of NASA, published their new study, «Unprecedented 21st Century Drought Risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains Drought Risk in Western North America.»

Not exact matches

I've regularly detailed that narrative, along with the adaptations we introduced in mid-2014 to address those inadvertent challenges (see for example, A Better Lesson Than «This Time is Different»).

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Baby - friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) in 2016, UNICEF and WHO collected 13 country case studies about the BFHI, which document the country adaptations in implementation, achievements, challenges and lessons learned and recommendations for the global BFHI guidance.

Dr Jochen Hinkel from Global Climate Forum in Germany, who is a co-author of this paper and a Lead Author of the coastal chapter for the 2014 IPCC Assessment Report added: «The IPCC has done a great job in bringing together knowledge on climate change, sea - level rise and is potential impacts but now needs to complement this work with a solution - oriented perspective focusing on overcoming barriers to adaptation, mobilising resources, empowering people and discovering opportunities for strengthening coastal resilience in the context of both climate change as well as existing coastal challenges and other issues.»

Adaptation of wildlife and people to new conditions in the Arctic represents one of the most significant challenges for conservationists and local communities, not just in the future but right now.

HUD has an adaptation plan in place to assess those risks and prepare public housing, home lending and other programs for the challenges of climate change but it seems unlikely Carson would make that a priority.

There it's addressing the critical — and interrelated — challenges of climate change and adaptation responses for horticulture, cassava and the red meat value chain.

The point of training is to overload your body, for your body to feel challenged by the demand, and for adaptation to occur.

That said, we also know that the microbiome plays a powerful role in adaptation to these foods, and that some of our guts may not be up for the challenge.

Following shortly thereafter with the John Travolta thriller The General's Daughter, West confirmed his standing as a Hollywood player and was soon priming up for his biggest challenge to date, the big - screen adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video game franchise.

By 2006 it was finally time for Lohman to come into her own on the big screen, a challenge she faced with commendable aplomb in director Michael Mayer's adaptation of the Mary O'Hara novel My Friend Flicka.

, this will be a more faithful adaptation — and a new kind of screenwriting challenge — for Mr. Anderson.

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

This posed some challenges for the film adaptation, which needed to serve as a gateway to the later installments» more serious storytelling.

Right from the moment we first saw her at age 13 in Atonement as the worryingly precocious younger sister at the big house, she's always seemed someone set apart, which makes playing an ordinary Irish village girl in this adaptation of Colm Tóibín's noted novel the sort of challenge which might just set the agenda for the rest of her career.

Just a few years ago, Cage had action movie credibility (thanks to things like The Rock and Face / Off), family blockbuster appeal (the National Treasure series), and the chops and versatility to make compelling and challenging films for celebrated directors (such as Spike Jonze's Adaptation and Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men).

You may recall that Brian Kinsley offered a thorough examination of Joe Penhall's «The Road» screenplay for this column back in September last year, which already addressed many of the challenges inherent in this particular adaptation.

That said, Michael Lewis's terrific book presented an enormous challenge for adaptation, between its many characters who scarcely intersect and its necessary explanations of complex financial instruments.

The film, which is touring in a new digital restoration for its 50th anniversary, is a classic of European art cinema, a minimalist manifesto, and the easiest entry point into the challenging anti-Masterpiece Theatre of Straub and Huillet, a husband - wife duo who co-directed more than 30 films (all of which can be loosely categorized as «adaptations») before Huillet's death in 2006.

Nothing for its picturesque cinematography, its challenging screenplay adaptation, nor its direction by Jean - Marc Vallée, whose Dallas Buyers Club scored six Oscar nods last year, including a win in Best Actor for Matthew McConaughey.

hor may be more popular than some of the other Marvel superheroes who've already made their way to the big screen (like Daredevil, The Punisher, and yes, even Iron Man), but there's a good reason why the God of Thunder has had to wait so long for his Hollywood debut: it's without a doubt the most challenging adaptation of the bunch.

Has many global challenges about that, including the development of actions for mitigation and adaptation to climate changes.

The teacher understands and can provide adaptations for areas of exceptionality in learning — including learning disabilities, visual and perceptual difficulties, and special physical or mental challenges.

The comics industry has experienced countless creative and business challenges, and encountered (and sometimes outright ignored) important matters regarding the ethical treatment of creators, their creations, and compensation for the merchandising and adaptation of those creations in other media.

With its inventive challenges and competitive social dynamics, the reality show «Survivor» seemed like a natural fit for a video game adaptation.

For a long time Tolkien fans had to make do with a series of half - baked adaptations and tie - ins before Monolith bravely stepped up to the challenge.

Meeting these adaptation challenges is the responsibility not only of the African nations that are facing them, but also of developed countries that bear the historical responsibility for most global warming emissions.

Pursue, with key partners, opportunities for adaptation on critical water issues by challenging conventional thinkin

Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd told reporters, «When we talk about the need for a fast - start fund for adaptation purposes, as well as mitigation purposes, it's to provide the immediate resources necessary for a number of those states to deal with the real challenges that their populations face in the here and now, starting in 2010, 2011, 2012, before, in fact, the post-Kyoto agreement would kick in.»

The document considers the legal challenges for persons uprooted by climate change both internally and across borders and explores how regional labour mobility arrangements can support climate adaptation.

This brochure describes the Women's Green Business Initiative, which is a global programme that is turning climate change challenges into economic opportunities for women, by promoting women's employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in the green economy and in emerging climate change adaptation and mitigation industries.

This technical document identifies key challenges and solutions for carrying out project - level economic analysis of adaptation to climate change, both stand - alone and integrated into broader development projects.

This technical document reviews the current status of opportunities and challenges for grassland carbon sequestration and identifies components that could foster the inclusion of grasslands in future climate agreements to enhance longer term adaptation to climate variability.

This activity report includes case studies and discussions of a regional expert workshop entitled» Climate Change, Fishery and Aquaculture in Latin America: Potential Impacts and Challenges for Adaptation» which took place from 5 to 7 October 2011 at the Center for Oceanographic Research in the Eastern South Pacific (COPAS), University of Concepción, Concepción, Chile.

This report intends to make an assessment of what the fight against climate change — prevention, mitigation and adaptation — means for the world of work, of the challenges and opportunities involved, and of how to contribute to the just transition to environmental sustainability that will serve to advance both decent work opportunities for all and the protection of the planet.

The National Research Council's 2009 report Restructuring Federal Climate Research to Meet the Challenges of Climate Change establishes six priorities for reorganizing the USGCRP around integrated scientific - societal issues and the strengthening of research on the human and societal dimensions of climate change adaptation, mitigation, and vulnerability.

The challenges and opportunities for non-state actors, particularly the private sector, concerning climate change mitigation and adaptation

Given that the US has barely begun to think about and plan for its own adaptation challenges, that thus far it has no strategy or funding for its own preparedness, it is not clear what kind of international commitment US domestic politics will support.

The Indian genius for adaptation and survival in chaotic and challenging circumstances provides hope that the country can solve the seemingly insurmountable challenge of expanding its economy in a clean and sustainable fashion.

I challenge the premise — although we may have adapted to life in Minnesota and places further north, with expensive heating oil, heavy clothing and a large transportation system for fresh foods, removing those adaptations (lowering our survival costs) would be of incredible benefit.

When the adaptation challenge is reframed as implications for near - term decisions, uncertainty about the distant future becomes less problematic and adaptation responses can be better integrated into existing decision - making processes and early warning systems.

While rapid population growth in any urban centre provides major challenges for its local government, the need here is to develop the capacity of local governments to manage this with climate change adaptation in mind.

But as with all decision making approaches, the a challenge for MCA and methods like it is the subjective choices that have to be made about what weights to attach to all the relevant criteria that go into the analysis, including how the adaptation measure being studied impacts poor or vulnerable populations, or how fair it is in the distribution of who pays compared to who benefits.

Research and outreach efforts are underway in the region to help farmers find ways to cope with a rapidly changing climate, take advantage of a longer growing season, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, 61,112 but unequal access to capital and information for strategic adaptation and mitigation remain a challenge.

A research initiative that mapped decisions by town managers in Maine to sources of climate information, engineering design, mandated requirements, and calendars identified the complex, multi-jurisdictional challenges of widespread adaptation for even such seemingly simple actions as using larger culverts to carry water from major storms.116 To help towns adapt culverts to expected climate change over their lifetimes, the Sustainability Solutions Initiative is creating decision tools to map culvert locations, schedule maintenance, estimate needed culvert size, and analyze replacement needs and costs.

But first we must stop viewing adaptation and mitigation as an either / or choice, which Golanky does for economic reasons, seeing mitigation as a zero - sum game, and which Romm does for political ones, seeing adaptation as strategy to downplay the seriousness of the challenge.

A challenge for decision - makers is how to choose adaptations that reduce risks from climate change impacts and provide overwhelmingly beneficial outcomes.

The Obligations of Nations To Fund Adaptation Needs and Compensate for Loss and Damages Despite Challenges in Determining Precise National Obligations.

To overcome some of the challenges in determining precise obligations, international institutional responses such as funding needs through common forms of taxation, dedication of trading revenues for use for adaptation and compensation, and other institutional responses of high - emitting countries are worthy of serious consideration.