Sentences with phrase «choices on adaptation»

This briefing note introduces evaluation methods that provide programme managers and policymakers with thorough evidence on the impact of adaptation interventions, allowing them to make informed policy choices on adaptation options.

Not exact matches

Our application on landuse traits certainly contains such local adaptation due to peoples» choice of utilized organisms.

Shaman Durek is an author, activist, and women's empowerment leader who focuses his practice specifically on helping people learn how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation.

His focus is educating people on how to make shamanism a lifestyle choice for evolutionary adaptation.

The director behind comedies When Harry Met Sally and The Princess Bride seems like an odd choice to helm the adaptation of Stephen King's captivity nightmare, but his work on Stand By Me convinced Stephen King himself that Rob Reiner was perfect for the job.

This may have something to do with its success as adaptation — it may be the most obvious choice among Pynchon's novels for silver - screen immortalization given that it's riffing so hard on one of cinema's favorite genres (and those riffs are themselves on the original noir novels as refracted through half a century or so of films of the same), but this simpatico quality presents possibilities and pitfalls in equal order.

There's no indication as to when we can expect to press play on this, but do you believe Connolly is a good choice to finally get the videogame adaptation right, or do you think he's churning out blockbuster screenplays 101?

Matisse's transformative impact on their works is revealed not only by their adaptations of his palette and pictorial structures but also through their choice and appropriation of his subject matter — still lifes, landscapes, figurative works, studio interiors, and portraits.

by Deborah McNamara on October 3, 2013 1 adaptation change choice climate change consciousness consilience ecology environment interconnectedness resilience Rod MacDow weather

I know 2 things from you after all your words: You are stuck on population despite the demographics making that a poor choice for your primary design metric, and you somehow thing adaptation, mitigation and sustainability are specific.

We clearly have to take actions on many levels, but you can ruminate on the morality of the following postion: Assuming that hurricane damage in the US is driven by settlement of the Gulf Coast, the US might make a policy choice to emphasize adaptation (the cost of resettlement would be astronomical (> 10 ^ Kyoto).

So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

Results showed that male household head, education of the household head, marital status of the household head, production assets, firm size, availability of credit, access to market, temperature and rainfall had significant impacts on choices of adaptation.

Steven Mosher: So, you have a choice: how much money to spend on mitigation that wont have a benefit for 30 years versus spending on adaptation to do the best we can over the next 30 years.

This PCIC report is intended to assist those engaged in climate change impact, vulnerability and adaptation analyses by providing guidelines on how to choose climate scenarios, including the choice of appropriate spatial and temporal scales of the data and methods to use.

Even precise and unequivocal knowledge of future temperatures, if available, would not by itself dictate a precise and unequivocal course of action to governments — not even on basic strategic choices of prevention or adaptation.