Sentences with phrase «adaptive measures»

Adaptive measures for developed countries may be implemented in time, but many nations in the world will be vulnerable to runaway climate change.

Can there be a reduction in insurance premiums for homeowners who take adaptive measures?

Only a solid of understanding of natural climate change can prevent this climate insanity and pave the way to truly scientifically based adaptive measures.

«There are a number of adaptive measures that should be taken.

She states that these relationships are formed as adaptive measures necessary for coping with the adjustments and transitions that come with the various stages of maturation in one's early life.

Officials along the East Coast are considering adaptive measures like dunes, revetments, stricter building standards and expensive flood gates following Sandy's $ 50 billion price tag.

aMath (Adaptive Math) is a fully automated computer adaptive measure of broad math skills.

aReading (Adaptive Reading) is a computer - administered adaptive measure of broad reading that is individualized for each student, but may be individually or group administered in about 15 - 30 minutes.

Farmers» assessments of private adaptive measures to climate change and influential factors: a study in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam.

Isn't taking on the challenge of identifying and fully supporting adaptive measures to protect those most vulnerable to likely unavoidable impacts every bit as much a responsibility of the US government and people as is reducing our emisssions of greenhouse gases and creating green jobs to enhance our own prosperity?

Most of us will walk away from the latest IPCC assessment more certain than ever of the need for action on greenhouse gas emissions, not to mention adaptive measures like dunes, dikes, and sea walls to fight rising seas.

As adaptive measures are identified, allocate resources for these projects, many of which will stretch over decades.

Results also indicated that past climate experiences was the most important determinant of adaptive measures.

Mr Darling said he was introducing a green stimulus, ensuring part of the fiscal stimulus supports low - carbon growth and jobs by accelerating # 535 million of capital spending on energy efficiency, rail transport and adaptive measures.

These adaptive measures have proven to hinder the ability to respond to climate change.

aReading (Adaptive Reading) is a simple, efficient computer - adaptive measure of broad reading for grades K - 12 that is individualized for each student, but may be delivered in a group format in about 15 - 30 minutes.

At Mountain View Middle School in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, educators shape teaching strategies classroom by classroom and student by student using data from the adaptive Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment.1 MAP is administered to all students at the school in the fall, winter, and spring to assess students» understanding of math, reading, and language arts.

Seemingly unrelated regression model was used to identify the determinants of farmers» adaptive measures.

Congress and the Department of Defense should, for example, support the development and distribution of high - resolution hurricane and coastal flooding models; adequately fund data monitoring systems such as our nation's tide gauge network; allocate human, financial, and data resources to detailed mapping and planning efforts at military installations; and, as adaptive measures are identified, allocate resources for these projects, many of which will stretch over decades.

Farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam

This study examined farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta (Vietnam) from a data set of 330 farmers.

To demonstrate that millions will starve: take projections of extremes from broken climate models, and put them in wheat crop models, and then assume we take no adaptive measures for the first time in human history.

The region's water resources will be unable to support an increase in demand due to projected climate change and population growth, so a broad portfolio of adaptive measures will be needed (Cohen and Neale, 2006; Cohen et al., 2006).

Ngo, Quang Thanh (2016): Farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam.

In the impact model, the adaptive measure is implemented through a multiplicative factor, ranging between 0 and 1, applied to the damage curves and to the population density layer.

Adaptive measures might include things like the building of sea defences, switching food and water sources to more resilient ones — anything to make sure that whatever interests are considered important are not greatly compromised by climatic impacts.

Above all, it is time to break away from Bush - Era thinking, and to encourage governments to act incisively, with science, not lobbying, as guide to climate policy and the regulation of adaptive measures.

Further, it is necessary to ensure that adaptive measures are preemptive rather than reactionary and that communities are in a position to respond from the outset.