Sentences with phrase «adaptation strategy»

Monday Trauma and self - alienation: The costs and benefits of disowning one's traumatized child selves as a survival and adaptation strategy.

With the assistance of the coastal erosion project, the Masig community has made some decisions about their future and how they want to progress an adaptation strategy.

Arivudai Nambi Appadurai, India Adaptation Strategy Head for the Climate Resilience Practice and WRI India, distills how they can adapt, with a focus on the dynamics of environmental justice and sustainable development.

Adaptation strategy is crucial in this region, mainly due to the large contribution of hydropower resources to regional electricity supply.

U.S. federal task force calls for domestic and international climate change adaptation strategy

Thinking through the implications of 4 degrees of warming shows that the impacts are so significant that the only real adaptation strategy is to avoid that at all cost because of the pain and suffering that is going to cost.

They include joint impact and vulnerability assessment and the development of a basin - wide adaptation strategy.

This manual collects useful exercises concerning the training on capacity strengthening in climate change vulnerability and adaptation strategy assessments.

He directed the chair of CEQ to provide to him within one year «a progress report on agency actions in support of the national adaptation strategy and recommendations for any further such measures as the CEQ Chair may deem necessary.»

On February 14 CSW ventured to the Department of the Interior for the latest in a series of public workshops on the development of the new draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy.

U.S. federal task force calls for domestic and international climate change adaptation strategy (on the 2010 Interagency Adaptation Task Force progress report)

«The nation must prepare for and adapt to a changing climate,» says the draft National Fish, Wildlife and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy, «to safeguard our valuable living resources for current and future generations.»

The Center established a classified website with climate change analysis available to the U.S. government, and is seeking to directly support the Departments of Defense and State to aid adaptation strategy.

Aravindakshan, Sreejith and Sherief, Aliyaru Kunju (2010): The wanted change against climate change: assessing the role of organic farming as an adaptation strategy.

Therefore, everything from R&D policy and farm bills to infrastructure funding and space policy is key to an aggressive adaptation strategy.

This article explores distributed water harvesting, a climate change adaptation strategy that can offer the co-benefit of enhancing ecosystem services.

The Climate Change Adaptation Strategy.

In 2012, Council adopted the Climate Change Adaptation Strategy to ensure a vibrant, liveable, and resilient city in the face of climate change.

In addition to creating a national climate adaptation strategy, the Summit report said additional steps are neeeded, starting at the top with visible Presidential leadership.

At present, the US itself lacks a federal adaptation strategy, and faces escalating costs of inaction in both monetary and human terms.

And it is time for the United States to develop and implement a national climate change preparedness and impacts adaptation strategy.

Agroforestry is an attractive adaptation strategy for a number of reasons.

-- Not later than 1 year after the date of the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476, each department or agency that has a representative on the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel established under section 475 shall --

This guidance document collects a vast range of experiences in order to illustrate the different steps in developing a basin - wide adaptation strategy with concrete examples and thereby to distil some recommendations to take into account in similar efforts in the future.

(1) complete an adaptation plan for that department or agency, respectively, implementing the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy under section 476 and consistent with the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Policy under section 472, detailing the department's or agency's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources within the department's or agency's jurisdiction and necessary additional actions, including a timeline for implementation of those actions;

-- In order to be eligible for funds under section 480, not later than 1 year after the development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476 each State shall prepare a State natural resources adaptation plan detailing the State's current and projected efforts to address the potential impacts of climate change and ocean acidification on natural resources and coastal areas within the State's jurisdiction.

-- The Panel shall serve as a forum for interagency consultation on and the coordination of the development and implementation of a national Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy required under section 476.

After these threats are identified for each resource, then the relative risk from natural - and human - caused climate change (estimated from the global climate model projections, but also the historical, paleo - record and worst case sequences of events) can be compared with other risks in order to adopt the optimal mitigation / adaptation strategy.

(Sec. 475) Requires the President to: (1) establish the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel to serve as a forum for interagency consultation on and the coordination of the development and implementation of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy; and (2) develop such Strategy to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient to, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and to identify opportunities to mitigate those impacts.

(Sec. 474) Requires the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to: (1) advise the President on implementation and development of a Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and federal natural resource agency adaptation plans; (2) serve as Chair of the Natural Resources Climate Change Adaptation Panel; and (3) coordinate such strategies and activities.

In support of Reclamation's new Climate Change Adaptation Strategy, this seminar will provide staff a high - level orientation on climate change, equip staff with talking points about how climate change relates to Reclamation's mission, and summarize initial tools that are available to support Strategy implementation.

So while biochar might be a valid contribution to a future adaptation strategy, it's premature to know if it's the best option.

The U.S. government should move toward a coordinated national climate change adaptation strategy, says a federal interagency task force in a recent report to the President.

The report argues that migration can be a «sensible climate change adaptation strategy» — if it is managed carefully and supported by good development policies and targeted investments.

For example, restricting development of land in flood plains and in coastal locations affected by hurricane storm surge is an effective adaptation strategy regardless of how climate changes.

David Bresch, Head Sustainability & Political Risk Management at Swiss Re, concluded: «Efforts to manage soil subsidence risks are most effective when they form part of a broader climate adaptation strategy that takes long - term climate impacts into account and engages multiple actors in finding the right solutions.

If you have one, please give us the «adaptation strategy» for agriculture when water runs out.

In October, the President's Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force will send Obama its recommendations for creating a national adaptation strategy.

Last year President Obama called on the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force to draft a report to the president offering federal recommendations toward a national climate change adaptation strategy.

On Wednesday, summit representatives provided the White House with a summary document (available here) laying out a series of recommendations as the administration seeks to craft a national adaptation strategy.

One adaptation strategy is to tap other species of maple that may prove to be more resilient.»

Data from its first national climate change adaptation strategy issued last year show that extreme weather events have killed more than 2,000 people each year on average since the 1990s.

It recommends that the federal government move aggressively to support those efforts by developing a national adaptation strategy to coordinate planning and exchange information between federal agencies and local governments.

The control of ragweed is important for public health and as an adaptation strategy against the impacts of climate change.

Prior to joining GFI, Charlie worked at the Georgetown Climate Center, where he researched climate change adaptation strategies for local governments preparing for potential climate - related issues.

Results from this USGS study will help inform adaptation strategies.

«A detailed analysis of emissions from urban harbours around the world could provide an understanding of adaptation strategies needed to manage and protect estuaries globally from future development and climate change.»

Longer - term adaptation strategies focus on genetics.

Low - tech adaptation strategies are helping people in developing countries cope with the dangers of a warmer world.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.