"Adaptive capacity" refers to an individual's or a system's ability to adjust, change, or respond to new situations or challenges.
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In some locations and amongst some groups of people with high exposure, high sensitivity and / or
low adaptive capacity, net costs will be significantly larger than the global average.
Because of their financial and technical resources, large industrial organizations typically have a significant
adaptive capacity for addressing vulnerability to weather extremes.
It has been suggested (11) that subjects who used more mature defenses and exhibited
greater adaptive capacity were more likely to adhere to their regimen.
The most vulnerable households are faced with a limited substantial
local adaptive capacity, and at the same time they encounter barriers to migration that prevent their displacement.
In addition, it proposes policy actions and initiatives to help governments and fishing communities maintain and
build adaptive capacity to climate change.
My point is the selfish one, that for a social scientist looking at societal risk perception and
adaptive capacity in flood risk areas, this research represents a dilemma.
It establishes a global goal of
enhancing adaptive capacity, strengthening resilience and reducing vulnerability, including an adequate adaptation response given the Agreement's temperature goal.
After synthesis of available information we make several key adaptation recommendations including: improving current surveillance and monitoring systems; concentrating adaptation strategies and policies on vulnerable communities;
strengthening adaptive capacity of public health systems; developing multidisciplinary approaches sustained byan new mechanism of inter-sectional coordination; and increasing awareness and mobilization of the general public.
One was a broad review of around 8200 abstracts on environmental life - cycle assessment, whilst the other was a more in - depth analysis of 275 full - text articles and reports
on adaptive capacity to climate change.
However these older studies also used the more comprehensive (and difficult to administer) Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment (NBAS, devised by pediatricians), whereas more recent tests have used less complex tests, especially the Neurologic and
Adaptive Capacity Score (NACS, devised by anesthesiologists), which aggregates all data into a single figure and which has been criticized as insensitive and unreliable.86 — 88
Risks are greatest for tropical countries, given projected impacts that
exceed adaptive capacity and higher poverty rates compared with temperate regions.
The cobs provided some of the earliest evidence of maize farming in temperate conditions, and Swarts's findings underscore the
vast adaptive capacity of the globally important crop.
We found that high concentration areas for species with traits conferring highest sensitivity and lowest
adaptive capacity differ from those of highly exposed species, and we identify areas where exposure - based assessments alone may over or under - estimate climate change impacts.
A number of recent studies are beginning to probe the enormous challenges of developing scenarios of
adaptive capacity at multiple scales.
These in turn have contributed to Africa's
weak adaptive capacity, increasing the continent's vulnerability to projected climate change.
Human or
societal adaptive capacity, identified as being low for Africa in the Third Assessment Report, is now better understood and this understanding is supported by several case studies of both current and future adaptation options.
Coastal areas will be affected by sea level rise, with poorer countries with
little adaptive capacity suffering the worst of it.
The complexity of processes that
determine adaptive capacity dictates an increasing regional focus to studies in order best to understand and predict adaptive processes (Kates and Wilbanks, 2003): hence the rise in numbers of regional - scale studies.
For now, Khanna says efforts to make Canada's health care system more climate resilient have been «fragmented,» underscoring the need for coordinated efforts to build system -
wide adaptive capacity.
This report introduces the
National Adaptive Capacity (NAC) framework, a tool to help governments bring institutional capacity development into their adaptation planning processes.
This meant the researchers could analyse information at a micro-scale not visible to human readers, picking up on which of 165 determinants of
adaptive capacity occurred in the same texts and how these texts were linked.
The case studies targets to 1) define vulnerability to climate change by understanding potential impacts on the system, the sensitivity the
current adaptive capacity, 2) identify gaps in existing knowledge in assessing the vulnerability of the system, 3) identify potential strategies for reducing vulnerability to climate change, and 4) provide policy guidance in reducing system vulnerability.
Occupational therapy practitioners should be cognizant of a client's resilient and
adaptive capacities when providing services to a client who has endured a traumatic event.
Projected climate - change - related exposures are likely to affect the health status of millions of people, particularly those with
low adaptive capacity, through:
Development of eco-specific adaptive knowledge (including indigenous knowledge) on adaptation to climate variability to enhance
adaptive capacity for future climate change.
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