Sentences with phrase «adaptive capacity at»

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Now, however, even at a time of widespread neoconservative and neo-laissez-faire sentiment, serious doubts are being raised about the adaptive and innovative capacities of corporations.

If at an early stage in his evolution it was useful for an individual to be able to adapt to a language - using community, i.e., to learn language as fast as possible, selection for this capacity might well have brought about a genetic assimilation of at least the bases for what had originally been only a learned adaptive response.

«Unlike glaciers, humans have remarkable adaptive capacity,» says Cullen Hendrix, a conflict specialist at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The particular genetic diversity and adaptive capacity of Lake Victoria's cichlids is demonstrated by the fact that more than 40 other fish species which colonized the lake at the same time have barely changed since then.

Pier2Peer employs an adaptive and self - driven approach to capacity development with guiding principles to focus on user needs at the local, regional, national, and international level and to foster inter-regional and global collaboration.

Prolonged consumption of Gynostemma may strengthen the adaptive capacity of the person at every level of their life.

How do we encourage teachers to leave the script and be more adaptive while at the same time building their capacity in learning / lesson design?

Question 3: How do we encourage teachers to leave the script and be more adaptive while at the same time building their capacity in learning / lesson design?

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And while the part - time or kids - only third row option gives Disco Sport owners extra passenger capacity, the seven - seat flexibility comes at the expense of both the torque vectoring and adaptive damping options — as well as a full - size spare, which is replaced by an under - body mounted space - saver — limiting on - and off - road ability.

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.

The second looks at how climate change would impact key climate sensitive sectors, the gender dimension of the impacts, and proffers recommendations on what should be done to reduce the vulnerability of women to these impacts, and enhance their adaptive capacities.

Prior to joining UCS in 2005, Ms. Spanger - Siegfried was an associate scientist at the U.S. Center of the Stockholm Environment Institute, where for six years her work focused on understanding and building the adaptive capacity of vulnerable populations and sectors in developing countries in response to climate change.

«Poverty reduction and social protection programs targeted at rural areas can help to increase adaptive capacity to climate change, potentially reducing the need for people to move under distress.»

The current funding that a country can receive is capped at $ 10 million, which is very little to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change».

The Adaptation Fund originated as part of the overall Bonn Agreements on the Implementation of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action from the 6th COP with an objective to «reduce vulnerability and increase adaptive capacity to respond to the impacts of climate change, including variability at the local and national levels.»

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.

Such efforts are beginning at the federal, regional, state, tribal, and local levels, and in the corporate and non-governmental sectors, to build adaptive capacity and resilience to climate change impacts.

The index looked at 177 countries and analyzed their adaptive capacity in terms of vulnerability and readiness by looking at food supply, ecosystems, habitat, health infrastructure, water, economy, governance, and social readiness.

At the same time enhanced investments are needed around the world on policies focused on improving resilience and adaptive capacity.

The idea here is that we shouldn't be spending time trying to discern between human - caused weather extremes and natural - caused weather extremes, at least from an adaptive capacity point - of - view.

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.

Accordingly, over the next few decades the focus of climate policy should be to: (a) broadly advance sustainable development (particularly in developing countries since that would generally enhance their adaptive capacity to cope with numerous problems that currently beset them, including climate - sensitive problems), (b) reduce vulnerabilities to climate - sensitive problems that are urgent today and might be exacerbated by future climate change, and (c) implement «no - regret» emission reduction measures while at the same time striving to expand the universe of such measures through research and development of cleaner and more affordable technologies.

The systems and sectors are some ecosystems (tundra, boreal forest, mountain, mediterranean - type, mangroves, salt marshes, coral reefs and the sea - ice biome), low - lying coasts, water resources in some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry topics and in areas dependent on snow and ice melt, agriculture in low - latitude regions, and human health in areas with low adaptive capacity.

Remote Indigenous communities at increased risk of health issues and isolation and a low adaptive capacity