Sentences with phrase «by local adaptations»

Mental health problems, subjective WE and PWE contexts were assessed by local adaptations of internationally developed measures for use with former child soldiers at least 6 years after the end of the war.

Not exact matches

Authoring organization (s): Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - Published: 2006, 2008 Summary: These materials include clinical algorithms geared for health workers (not lay counselors) to use to counsel mothers and determine the most appropriate time to stop breastfeeding; an adaptation and finalization of the World Health Organization (WHO) Infant and Young Child Feeding Counseling: An Integrated Course, including new chapters on complementary feeding and country - specific recommendations; adaptations and local drawings / graphics inspired by the WHO counseling cards; and take - home brochures for mothers on exclusive breastfeeding, expressing breastmilk, and replacement feeding.

11 (Uvnas - Moberg, Eriksson: «Breastfeeding: physiological, endocrine and behavioral adaptations caused by oxytocin and local neurogenic activity in the nipple and mammary gland.»

It is intended to use, after adaptation to suit local circumstances, by policy - makers and managers as well as by clinicians, midwives and nursing personnel.

The committees suggested setting up a national climate change adaptation program to empower communities by using local, indigenous knowledge to help decrease disaster risk and support recovery efforts.

Increasingly local adaptation to climate is being studied at the molecular level by identifying which genes control climate adaptation and how these vary between individuals.

Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

It recommends that the federal government move aggressively to support those efforts by developing a national adaptation strategy to coordinate planning and exchange information between federal agencies and local governments.

It works by providing sustainable social benefits for a local community within climate change adaptation practices.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Limits to hybridization derived variation are determined by the interplay of local adaptation and genomic constraints

AACA - B was led by Canada and Russia and focuses on the adaptation activities that are being implemented by Arctic Council member states on a national, sub-national, regional and local level.

Researchers have speculated that local hypoxia by occlusion and slow movement may contribute to such adaptations via promoting anabolic hormone secretions by the local accumulation of metabolites.

BlacKkKlansman Spike Lee — United States IN A NUTSHELL An adaptation of the book Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth, this film follows an African - American detective (played by John David Washington) in Colorado Springs, who infiltrates the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.

Jocelyn Moorhouse)-- World Premiere Academy Award winner Kate Winslet, Chris Hemsworth, and Judy Davis star in this adaptation of the best - selling novel by Rosalie Ham, about a dressmaker who returns to her tiny Australian hometown from the chic fashion houses of Paris to put her past to rest — and revolutionize the local women's couture while she's at it.

The impacts and management of global climate change in extreme environments, including adaptation by local populations.

But I'm wondering what Eric estimates as the (local and global) risks and adaptation chances of a scenario with 5 - 10m of SLR by 2300.

A first step towards planning adaptation policies of SLR would be the projection of SLR at the local level at different time scales and at its different scenarios, as devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

While local adaptation planners might be primarily be interested in how the patterns of heat extremes align with changes in population over their immediate community, it is equally important for decision makers to recognise the broader implications of heat exposure increases driven by future changes in where people live.

By presenting their own experiences of participating in disaster risk reduction activities, it aims to highlight the capacity of children in order to inspire other children and youth, as well as encourage local governments, NGOs, and the private sector to support child - centered community risk reduction and climate change adaptation.

Requires the Under Secretary of Commerce to: (1) establish a Climate Service Program, a Climate Service Office, a Climate Service Advisory Committee, and a Summer Institutes Program at the Regional Climate Centers for interaction with and training of students and educators on weather and climate sciences; (2) operate the Climate Service Program; (3) maintain a network of six Regional Climate Centers to work cooperatively with the State Climate Offices on data collection and exchange, research support, and state and local adaptation and response planning on climate; (4) maintain a network of offices as part of the Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments Program; (5) ensure that the core functions and missions of the National Weather Service, the National Integrated Drought Information System, and any other programs within NOAA are not diminished or neglected by the establishment of the Climate Service Program or the duties imposed on such offices or programs; (6) report to Congress on the need for climate services; (7) prepare a plan for creating a Climate Service Program in NOAA and delivering climate products and services to NOAA users and stakeholders; and (8) establish and maintain a clearinghouse of federal climate service products and links to agencies providing climate services.

Although climate change is global, information on climate adaptation and mitigation are required by the local and regional decision - makers.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

Micro-financing and other social safety nets and social welfare grants, as a means to enhance adaptation to current and future shocks and stresses, may be successful in overcoming such constraints if supported by local institutional arrangements on a long - term sustainable basis (Ellis, 2003; Chigwada, 2005).

• Tools, datasets, and land management information to support coastal planning, including better data and resources provided via platforms that improve their usability by decision makers • Linking physical vulnerability with economic analysis, planning, and assessment of adaptation options • Improving understanding of increased risks of and damage from coastal storm surge flooding • Developing risk - management approaches for coastal development and local land - use planning

It is increasingly apparent that CBA potentially offers ways to address the vulnerability of local communities by connecting climate change adaptation to non-climate local needs.

By Ani Dasgupta 2018-02-22T10:43:39 +00:00 February 22nd 2018 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, URBAN & METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE Tags: climate change, climate change adaptation, Local Governance, New Urban Agenda, SDGs, sustainable urban development, Urbanisation

By URBANET 2018-02-06T00:11:17 +00:00 February 5th 2018 Categories: CLIMATE CHANGE & RESILIENCE, STÄDTE ALS AKTEURE STÄRKEN, URBAN & METROPOLITAN GOVERNANCE Tags: climate change, climate change adaptation, Local Governance, New Urban Agenda, SDGs, sustainable urban development, Urbanisation

By Laids Mias - Cea 2018-03-08T13:36:01 +00:00 March 7th 2018 Categories: GLOBAL URBAN DEBATES, INCLUSION Tags: climate change, climate change adaptation, gender, gender equality, gender inequality, gender - sensitive urban development, inclusion, inclusive urban planning, Local Governance, SDGs, South - East Asia, sustainable urban development

As a partner in the project, WRI documented a four - step process developed by USAID Mekong ARCC that integrates local and scientific data to develop adaptation plans, and revealed lessons on implementing the four - step process.

For example, adaptation of Sitka spruce to climate change projected for 2080 under the A2 scenario (using the Canadian and Hadley GCMs) would require advancement of annual bud set date within each local population by over 50 days (Aitken et al., 2008).

Securing the common interest on local and regional scales (referred to by Brunner and Lynch as «adaptive governance») provides the rationale for effective climate adaptation strategies.

«Future global wheat harvest is likely to be reduced by six per cent per each degree Celsius of local temperature increase if no adaptation takes place.

The costs are expected to be much higher than those associated with local adaptation in other studies, though these measures by definition are limited in scope and scale, the scientists state.

The mechanism proposed by Del Giudice by which adult attachment style is adapted to the extrinsic risk in the local environment via attachment style during the early years does not fulfill important criteria of an adaptation.

Some equipment and adaptations may be provided by your local council.