Sentences with phrase «range of adaptation measures»

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A route - map approach is taken, identifying adaptation measures to span the plausible range of extreme water levels and creating timetables for investment and...

Of equal, if not greater, importance to such physical and infrastructural adaptations are a broad range of measures that reduce vulnerabilities and increase community resilience to climate changOf equal, if not greater, importance to such physical and infrastructural adaptations are a broad range of measures that reduce vulnerabilities and increase community resilience to climate changof measures that reduce vulnerabilities and increase community resilience to climate change.

This analytical report shows the wide range of adverse impacts of climate change in Africa and assesses the balance of economic costs, as a function of a range of scenarios including both successful and failed global mitigation efforts, and strong compared to weak implementation of adaptation measures.

In situations where probabilities can not be defined, economic analysis can define scenarios that describe a possible set of outcomes for each adaptation measure which meet some criteria of minimum acceptable benefits across a range of scenarios, allowing the decision - maker to explore different levels of acceptable benefits in a systematic way.