Sentences with phrase «more local adaptation»

Hellmann expects to see more local adaptation in the duskywing than in the swallowtails, as they are more isolated from their southern cousins.

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In the past years global operators have understood that adaptations to local taste make their exploits even more successful.

Variation in pigmentation among human populations may reflect local adaptation to regional light environments, because dark skin is more photoprotective, whereas pale skin aids the production of vitamin D. Although genes associated with skin pigmentation have been identified in European populations, little is known about the genetic basis of skin pigmentation in Africans.

Today, in a world where many people have ready access to a wide variety of foods at their local groceries, the adaptations can act more as limitations to the kinds of foods you can eat to remain healthy.

This is all good for understanding more regional / local impacts — for adaptation, for strengthening the science, and inspiring people to implement mitigation measures — but from an ecological citizen's view, all we need to know at a low level of confidence is that AGW will be causing some bad things or other to be happening somewhere or other, sometime or other, to people and other creatures to feel the heavy responsibility to mitigate here and now.

Without adaptation, local temperature increases of 1 °C or more above pre-industrial levels are projected to negatively impact yields for the major crops (wheat, rice, and maize) in tropical and temperate regions, although individual locations may benefit (medium confidence).

The authors find that, without adaptation, projected corn, rice and wheat production is reduced when areas experience 2.0 °C or more of local warming, with losses greater in the second half of the century due to larger changes in climate.

How the climate will change in the future is largely based on results from Global Climate Models; however, work on climate adaptation at regional and local levels requires much more detailed information.

The local governments want the industries to pay for damage and adaptation costs resulting from climate change, including sea - level rise and more extreme storms.

The situation is indeed clear; we can logically conclude from geology, physics, climate science, ecology, and economics that a few hundred more ppm of CO2 would most likely be net beneficial globally and even for those areas or circumstances in which global warming would not be beneficial it would be considerably more feasible and cost effective to implement local adaptations than attempt global mitigation which comes with no money - back guarantees should the entire (100 %) world not play ball.

Logically, I think that the approach I would take is easier to do in a context where more local communities are discussing potential policies of dealing with, say, adaptation to sea level rise.

Simply put, we need more research and more ice - worthy vessels — and we especially need resilience and adaptation in local communities, according to Arctic experts who spoke during the biennial Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice - Diminishing Arctic.

The authors find that, without adaptation, projected corn, rice and wheat production is reduced when areas experience 2.0 °C or more of local warming and that crop - level adaptations are projected to be able to increase yields when compared to similar scenarios that do not utilize adaptation.

Title Building Capabilities of Local Climate Change Communicators towards Climate Change Adaptation in the Upland Communities in Southeast Asia Authors Wilfredo M. CARANDANG, Leila D. LANDICHO, Roberto G. VISCO, Bao HUY, Christine WULANDARI, and Anoulom VILAYPHONE Issue Issue 6, published April 2016 Highlights The capability... Read more...

With increasing land degradation, desertification and soil erosion hitting hard at the local level and poor women and men totally reliant on natural resources for their survival, the need for adaptation support could not be more urgent.

Her work focuses on the health effects of climate change; advocating for strategies to prepare for and prevent these impacts, especially for our most vulnerable communities; and making health a more central feature of national, state and local climate change adaptation plans.

Conserving Biodiversity in Yemen In Yemen, where agriculture employs more than 55 percent of the economically active population, the World Bank is tapping local farmers «long traditions of agrobiodiversity farming practices» to create coping strategies for adaptation to climate change, including «the conservation and utilization of biodiversity important to agriculture (particularly the local land races and their wild relatives) and associated local traditional knowledge.»

Korten suggests we must develop more cooperative self - organization, self - reliant local adaptation, and manage our boundaries better.