Sentences with phrase «build adaptive capacity»

In addition, it proposes policy actions and initiatives to help governments and fishing communities maintain and build adaptive capacity to climate change.

This analytical report provides a brief description of DRR and then reviews a selection of tools that can provide an effective framework for combining the knowledge and experiences from the disaster management and climate change communities to build adaptive capacity.

In this Perspective, the authors propose an approach to build adaptive capacity across a broader set of domains.

Social capital has been paid attention to build adaptive capacity (Allen, 2006).

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 readiness of the nation to predict and avoid public and occupational health problems caused by heat waves and severe storms • Characterization and quantification of relationships between climate variability, health outcomes, and the main determinants of vulnerability within and between populations • Development of reliable methods to connect climate - related changes in food systems and water supplies to health under different conditions • Prediction of future risks in response to climate change scenarios and of reductions in the baseline level of morbidity, mortality, or vulnerability • Identification of the available resources, limitations of, and potential actions by the current U.S. health care system to prevent, prepare for, and respond to climate - related health hazards and to build adaptive capacity among vulnerable segments of the U.S. population

• Improved understanding of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses in a variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and management • Collection of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research

The study provides a set of key policies to build adaptive capacity and reduce climate - related food insecurity.

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.

n building adaptive capacity and resilience of production portfolio to climatic risks without compromising food security and,

The regional discussions emphasized the need to enhance transboundary cooperation on water resource management, and to build adaptive capacities of institutions in each region to manage emerging challenges, particularly those related to climate change.

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A group of social scientists from the USA, Australia, UK, and Chile, led by Prof. Cinner, have pooled their experience, and lessons from hundreds of research and development projects, to highlight five keys ways to build up the adaptive capacity of people living in the coastal tropics.

Hess, J. J., J. Z. McDowell, and G. Luber, 2012: Integrating climate change adaptation into public health practice: Using adaptive management to increase adaptive capacity and build resilience.

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?

Her work resulted in increased literacy performance through professional development centered in adaptive technology and best practices in building literacy capacities.

We use the Adaptive Schools model to build collaborative capacities in schools.

IEE uses the Adaptive Schools SM model to build collaborative capacities in schools.

For example, the UN Capital Development Fund's Local Climate Adaptive Living Facility (LoCAL) helps build the capacity of local governments, who are on the front lines of adapting to climate change, to access and utilize adaptation finance.

Hess, J. J., J. Z. McDowell, and G. Luber, 2012: Integrating climate change adaptation into public health practice: Using adaptive management to increase adaptive capacity and build resilience.

This infographic on the actions that need to be prioritized to improve the adaptive capacity in agriculture sectorsto ensure food security and build resilience against climate change impacts.

• Tools to predict change in water demand, which requires demographic models that incorporate climate change impacts and models that consider the effects of climate change on natural and agricultural landscape water use • Research on water governance, including adaptive management models, adaptive capacity building, and water systems sustainability • Research on the economics of water supply, demand, and conservation

Building climate change adaptive capacity in rice - based cropping systems through water management system (flood and drought)

Building on previous research showing how choice of location is linked to adaptive capacity and vulnerability, we developed a framework showing how the options for retaining desired ecosystem services in the face of sudden crashes depend on how portable the service is and whether the stakeholder is flexible with regard to the location where they receive their services.

Build resilience and adaptive capacity to climate induced hazards in all vulnerable countries.

Home Visiting and the Biology of Toxic Stress: Opportunities to Address Early Childhood Adversity Garner (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Offers a public health approach to building critical caregiver and community capacities to minimize the effects of childhood adversity with a focus on expanding collaboration between caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress and strengthen the social - emotional, language, and cognitive skills needed to develop healthy, adaptive coping skills.

Similarly, ongoing efforts to «unlearn» unhealthy lifestyles and to treat noncommunicable diseases are warranted, 63 but so are efforts to improve the capacity of caregivers and communities to encourage and proactively build the rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills that allow for the adoption of healthy, adaptive coping skills.18, 20,66,67 Ultimately the prevention of all childhood adversity is an unrealistic objective and, to a certain extent, an undesirable one.