Sentences with phrase «resilience of this particular community»

On a personal level it has been found that resilience grows by coming through adversity and I think this story shows that the resilience of this particular community has grown - and improved mental health and wellbeing for all members.

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What articles about the reef should convey is that it is critically important that the global community, and Australia in particular, take action to bolster the resilience of the reef and maximize its natural capacity to recover.
These focus in particular on building the capacity of communities to adapt to climate change in ways that allow them to moderate potential damage, to take advantage of new opportunities and to cope with the consequences of climate change, and on enhancing the resilience of communities and the ecosystems on which they depend.
In particular, it presents four key messages, namely that: biodiversity is key to climate change adaptation; a different set of policy directions, changed incentive structures, reduced or phased - out perverse subsidies, and increased engagement of business leaders is required to work towards «holistic economics»; environmental limits need to be established to ensure society remains within them in order to achieve sustainability; and ecosystem - based adaptation (EBA) is an emerging approach that works with nature to help vulnerable communities and build resilience to climate change.
Adaptive responses to climate change in fisheries could include: management approaches and policies that maximize resilience of the exploited ecosystems, ensuring fishing and aquaculture communities have the opportunity and capacity to respond to new opportunities brought about by climate change, and the use of multi-sector adaptive strategies to reduce the consequence of negative impacts in any particular sector.
The objective of the programme was to strengthen the capacities of these countries to build ecosystem resilience by promoting EbA options and to reduce the vulnerability of communities, with particular emphasis on mountain ecosystems.
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