Sentences with phrase «between adaptation needs»

This guidance document provides a framework for defining adaptation gaps and a preliminary assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality.

Not exact matches

Closer interactions are needed between the climate change adaptation research community, business leaders and innovators.

Nevertheless, as we have seen, there is a small but growing number of scientists, both in physics and biology, who operate with a relational model, who see some correspondence between the constructs of the mind and reality itself, however inexact, and who also see the possibility of restoring the experience of meaning if the non-human natural world is perceived as dynamic, creative, full of life and purpose, whom process thinkers have engaged in conversation; together they have attempted to explore new visions of reality better suited for adaptation to the urgent needs of the contemporary world.

«To balance funding between the backlog and climate adaptation, bridge managers will need robust data on collapse risk,» said lead author Madeleine M. Flint, an assistant professor of civil & environmental engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

We need to understand how these adaptations between generations occur since these may help us understand the record levels of obesity and type 2 diabetes in our society today.»

This poses the need for our shorter term glycolytic adaptations, these adaptations are going to help us buffer fatigue and recover in between each set more quickly — therefore allowing us to keep the weight on the bar for longer periods of time before having to drop.

McCall agrees: «There is a big difference between pain and discomfort; when we exercise we need to push ourselves to discomfort in order to create an overload and create adaptation.

Rather than make a distinction between teaching practices that are available to all learners and separate interventions for children with additional needs, the project therefore explores the notion that an inclusive curriculum is about its applicability to all from its inception and not about adaptations and extensions to make a non-inclusive curriculum more applicable to excluded groups.

The preservice teachers mediated the interface between the students and technology, providing guidance, adaptations, and feedback as needed and withdrawing their involvement when it was not necessary or desired.

While not all of the needed investment will have adaptation benefits, any adaptation projects that also reduce emissions are especially attractive, and these seven projects show that, from urban centers to rural states in North America, and from tropical agriculture to tiny island nations, finding synergies between mitigation and adaptation isn't just possible, it is already happening.

They suggest that management strategies currently employed in marginal production areas that moderate temperatures and offset mismatches between the needs of the plant at various growth stages and seasonal weather conditions may be useful adaptation strategies.

So, too, has the adaptation gap — the difference between funding and capacity needed and what has been committed.

The UN did not tot up cost estimates but noted individual countries set out needs of between US$ 100 million and $ 200 billion for adaptation alone.

In order to promote a more productive dialogue between scientists and policymakers, the discussion of adaptation and mitigation options in the policy arena needs to be reframed so that it addresses environmental degradation and sustainability in the broad sense, not just the impacts of climate change.

As we shall see, that high - emitting nations have responsibility for funding adaptation measures in developing countries is a conclusion that can be based on strong ethical grounds despite reasonable disagreements about such matters as when the ethical responsibility was triggered, which kinds of adaptation measures should be funded now, and the need to distinguish between responsibilities that arise due to the «fault» of high - emitting countries and responsibilities which arise without attributing «fault.»

In the area of climate change, the report highlights the findings of its Emissions Gap Report 2013 — which details the gap between current global emissions and the reduction needed to remain on track to meet the 2 degree Celsius global warming target — and its Africa Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming Adaptation Gap Report, which describes the costs of adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming adaptation measures on the African continent under various global warming scenarios.

There may be a need to consider some explicit trade - offs between adaptation and mitigation, ∫ (A, M).

In addition, Article 9 states that the provision of scaled - up financial resources should aim to achieve a balance between adaptation and mitigation, taking into account country - driven strategies, and the priorities and needs of developing country Parties, especially those that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change and have significant capacity constraints, such as the least developed countries and small island developing States, considering the need for public and grant - based resources for adaptation.

Estimates put developing country needs for mitigation and adaption between USD 600 billion and USD 1.55 trillion, USD 100 billion to 450 billion going to adaptation alone.

John Bowlby, the main theorist in the attachment literature, identifies the close attachment relationship between responsive caregiver and dependent infant as an adaptation needed for the infant's survival.