Sentences with phrase «improve adaptive capacity»

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.

Other uncertainties include how much effort and resources will be put into improving the adaptive capacity of public health systems to prepare in advance for the health effects of climate change, prevent harm to individual and community health, and limit associated health burdens and societal costs.

This activity report describes a FAO - supported project designed to improve the adaptive capacities of rural populations and their resilience to drought and other climate change impacts in Bangladesh.

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Assessing the components of adaptive capacity to improve conservation and management efforts under global change.

Alejandro provides Cognitive Coaching and Adaptive Schools Seminars for skills development, self - directedness, improved collaboration, and increased capacity for individuals and teams to reach greater levels of success.

... society's ability to cope with extreme events has not only improved, it has also put its increased adaptive capacity to good effect.

• 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

At the same time enhanced investments are needed around the world on policies focused on improving resilience and adaptive capacity.

FIGURE 2.21 Improved understanding of adaptive capacity, sensitivity, and exposure to climate change can allow for more informed policy decisions.

Creating resilient and sustainable societies requires substantial intervention to develop adaptive capacity of vulnerable communities and to maintain a healthy agriculture for improved food security.

After synthesis of available information we make several key adaptation recommendations including: improving current surveillance and monitoring systems; concentrating adaptation strategies and policies on vulnerable communities; strengthening adaptive capacity of public health systems; developing multidisciplinary approaches sustained byan new mechanism of inter-sectional coordination; and increasing awareness and mobilization of the general public.

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.