• A new book provides analysis and recommendations for agricultural adaptation measures in response to the risks of climate change impacts in the region, particularly for Albania, FYR Macedonia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan. (worldbank.org)
  • Looking Beyond the Horizon: How Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Responses Will Reshape Agriculture in Eastern Europe and Central Asia examines the challenges and opportunities being created in the agriculture sector in Albania, the Former Yugoslav Republic (FYR) of Macedonia, Moldova, and Uzbekistan. (worldbank.org)
  • The Accomplishment Report provides an overview of the main achievements of the project "Addressing Water Security: Climate Impacts and Adaptation Responses in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean", implemented from 2014 to 2020 by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme (IHP) with the support from the Flanders Fund-in-Trust (FUST) for the support of UNESCO's activities in the field of Science. (org.in)
  • This paper examines the determinants and implied economic impacts of climate change adaptation strategies in the context of traditional pastoralism. (mdpi.com)
  • Based on the submission by the African Group on Work Stream 1 of the ADP (October 2013)[1], such a goal may reflect an ex ante determination of the costs of adaptation to climate impacts and the required finance and technology support. (legalresponse.org)
  • Despite the signings of the Kyoto Protocol 1998 and Paris Climate Change Agreement that envision to provide ample funding to climate vulnerable countries, Pakistan is still short of receiving the required amount from the international community for implementing its mitigation and adaptation policies. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Mitigation and adaptation are both important and sometimes they overlap, so mix-ups are understandable. (realclimate.org)
  • SIDS) and called upon the international community to continue to increase its support for the development and implementation of SIDS national mitigation and adaptation strategies and programmes. (who.int)
  • Climate Changes in the Holocene: Impact, Adaptation, and Resilience investigates the impact of natural climate changes on humans and civilization through case studies from various places, periods, and climates. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • The UK's COP26 Adaptation and Resilience Champion Anne-Marie Trevelyan told CBA15's closing plenary that enabling more locally-led adaptation is a critical part of what the UK wants to achieve at this year's UN climate talks (COP26). (iied.org)
  • Anne-Marie Trevelyan is the UK government's International Champion on Adaptation and Resilience for the COP26 presidency and Minister of State for Energy, Clean Growth and Climate Change. (iied.org)
  • Trevelyan said the UK supports the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group Initiative for Effective Adaptation (LIFE-AR) and recognises that countries and local communities should make decisions on building their resilience. (iied.org)
  • She said: "In supporting the LDC Initiative for Effective Adaptation and Resilience programme, we recognise that countries and local communities are the experts in determining how to prepare for climate change. (iied.org)
  • The Adaptation at Altitude programme is working to increase the resilience and adaptive capacity of mountain communities and ecosystems to climate change. (weadapt.org)
  • We also wish to stimulate identifcation of potential initiatives related to human rights, climate change adaptation, and healthy ecosystems to ensure a just transition that protect rights of people - while building social-ecological resilience. (lu.se)
  • Findings from this study document that organizations can successfully address challenges from rapidly changing conditions and eventually, evolve in a resilient form of adaptation. (econbiz.de)
  • Main outcomes of the project include the development of the Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) - a bottom-up methodology for assessing the impact of climate uncertainty and change on water resources and developing resilient and flexible adaptation pathways. (org.in)
  • We have created a programme that has synergies between disaster risk management and climate change adaptation because these two areas are strongly interlinked. (lu.se)
  • Magnus Hagelsteen, Programme Director, MSc in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation. (lu.se)
  • It is hosted by the Adaptation at Altitude (A@A) programme , funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) . (weadapt.org)
  • The recent agreement at COP26 to double adaptation finance to $40 billion by 2025 will help, but it's nowhere near enough. (oxfam.org)
  • Pakistan has proposed strategies concerning adaptation and mitigation to halt the hazards caused by climate change. (eurasiareview.com)
  • Most CRSCI grant recipients' adaptation plans address long-term extreme heat trends and related adaptation strategies, since extreme heat events are projected to become more frequent and intense over the next decade. (cdc.gov)
  • For example, the Arizona Extreme Weather and Public Health Program released a Climate and Health Adaptation Plan pdf icon external icon in 2017 and an Addendum in 2018, which provide an organizing framework as well as a platform for discussion on the most effective strategies to benefit health and the challenges in climate adaptation. (cdc.gov)
  • This study seeks to explore evidence of organizational learning, identify the most critical factors that facilitate organizational adaptation, develop strategies for change, and assess the effects of these strategies on the performance and evolution of the system. (econbiz.de)
  • Because the intensive interviewing method provides extensive detail on the question-response process, not only does it allow the interviewer to identify which questions and/or response categories are problematic, it also shows why and how questions are problematic, leading to possible strategies for improving question design. (cdc.gov)
  • Vianna, J.A. . 2022 Positive selection over the mitochondrial genome and its role in the diversification of gentoo penguins in response to adaptation in isolation. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • Civil society initiative for promoting effective and equitable adaptation, Southern Voices has developed Joint Principles of Adaptation (JPA) which promotes multi-stakeholder participation in the shaping of policies on climate change adaptation. (ngoforum.org.kh)
  • Over time, it may well be that health and social care partnerships develop the capability to deliver adaptations on a fair and equitable, tenure-neutral basis, but in the short term we have serious doubts about whether this is actually going to be viable. (allmediascotland.com)
  • This thesis was built upon literature around strategic management and entrepreneurship and later taking an overview on the innovation landscape of 18 European Global Banks from the years 2012 to 2018 regarding their approaches to strategic adaptation, innovation mindset and collaboration. (jyu.fi)
  • The collected data provided an overview on the different initiatives that European banks have considered relevant in their journey of strategic adaptation and transformation. (jyu.fi)
  • Focusing on strategic adaptation, an innovation mind-set and collaborative entrepreneurship provide today an opportunity for banks to reinvent them-selves in the areas that need attention. (jyu.fi)
  • CRSCI grant recipients were required to create a Climate and Health Adaptation Plan for their jurisdiction, outlining the priorities, activities, resources, stakeholders, and responsibilities required to reduce the anticipated negative health effects resulting from climate and health hazards. (cdc.gov)
  • T he A@A Knowledge Network seeks t o encourage communication between stakeholders working on and experiencing climate change adaptation in mountainous regions across the globe and support the sharing of successful solutions for adaptation in mountains, and their translation and uptake for use in other locations. (weadapt.org)
  • A global community of practice to support and encourage communication and engagement between stakeholders working on climate change adaptation in mountains. (weadapt.org)
  • Check out our Discussion Brief: Pathways for Just and Fair Adaptation: A Rights-Based Approach to National Adaptation Plans by Victor Bernard , Albert Salamanca and Nicole Anschell. (lu.se)
  • Adaptation and validation of QOLIE-31 were performed in July 2018 among 118 patients with epilepsy in the Fez-Meknes region. (who.int)
  • Cities are emerging as a new venue to overcome the challenges of obtaining data on compensatory responses to climatic warming through phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary change. (bvsalud.org)
  • We assessed the current literature and found evidence for significant plasticity and evolution in thermal tolerance trait responses to urban heat islands . (bvsalud.org)
  • The BRACE framework then helps states develop and implement health adaptation plans and address gaps in critical public health functions and services. (cdc.gov)
  • African gove rnme nts have ma de firm comm itm ents at variou s forum s to ad dress climate change with emphasis on health adaptation. (who.int)
  • A BN was used to define relationships between driving forces, geologic constraints, and coastal response for the U.S. Atlantic coast that include observations of local rates of relative sea level rise, wave height, tide range, geomorphic classification, coastal slope, and shoreline change rate. (usgs.gov)
  • Only a fourth of all climate finance to vulnerable countries is for adaptation. (oxfam.org)
  • Moreover, they support adaptive responses via Ab-dependent mechanisms, triggered by CD16, and DC editing. (frontiersin.org)
  • During anti-HCMV responses, NK cells can reshape their receptor repertoire and function, through epigenetic remodeling, and acquire adaptive traits such as longevity and clonal expansion abilities. (frontiersin.org)
  • The critical task in designing adaptive systems is to determine the bases for the effective organizational adaptation. (econbiz.de)
  • Before the "Nonlinear adaptation in simple models section", you need to clarify the difference between the model supported by the equations (Izhikevich) and the adaptive exponential IF - as it stands the paragraph ends a bit flat without a clear conclusion of whether these are two sides of the same coin. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Furthermore, there is considerable scientific experience on adaptation from the Arctic with the fastest climate change on Earth, such as the Adaptive Actions in a Changing Arctic ( AACA ) report for the Arctic Council. (realclimate.org)
  • Livestock animals possess several adaptive mechanisms to cope with heat stress challenges, but these mechanisms only help animals survive the stress by compromising the productive responses. (allaboutfeed.net)
  • WHO is not responsible for the content or accuracy of this adaptation. (who.int)
  • Firstly, the experiment was conducted to obtain the data of psychological response of odor intensity using a continuous scale of odor intensity under the odor concentration with step change on time serious. (aivc.org)
  • The rate of adaptation may, however, depend on whether temperature is increasing or decreasing, since bacterial growth and turnover scale with temperature. (lu.se)
  • Rumination is characterized by a set of repetitive thoughts about symptoms, causes and consequences of depression, and the Ruminative Response Scale was developed to evaluate this construct. (bvsalud.org)
  • CBA15 is the leading practitioner-focused forum on climate change adaptation, delivering dialogue and evidence to inform policy and action from the local to the global scale. (iied.org)
  • Physiological adaptation to cities as a proxy to forecast global-scale responses to climate change. (bvsalud.org)
  • The objective is to design questionnaires that assess and track responses to large-scale traumatic events that may significantly impact public mental health. (cdc.gov)
  • A changing in situ temperature will affect the temperature adaptation of bacterial growth in lake water, both long term in response to global change, and short term in response to seasonal variations. (lu.se)
  • Temperature adaptation was studied for winter (in situ temperature 2.5 °C) and summer communities (16.5 °C) from a temperate lake in Southern Sweden by exposing them to a temperature treatment gradient between 0. (lu.se)
  • Temperature adaptation of bacterial community growth was estimated as leucine incorporation using a temperature Sensitivity Index (SI, log growth at 35 °C/4 °C), where higher values indicate adaptation to higher temperatures. (lu.se)
  • Adaptation for the summer community was also correlated to treatment temperature, but the rate of adaption was slower. (lu.se)
  • Two processes were examined: the response of crop duration to mean temperature and the response of seed-set to extremes of temperature. (reading.ac.uk)
  • For some simulations the reduction in mean yield between the current and future climates was as large as 70%, indicating the importance of genotypic adaptation to changes in both means and extremes of temperature under climate change. (reading.ac.uk)
  • 66% of assessed data points agree on the effectiveness class, a response-temperature combination is shown as belonging to that class. (ipcc.ch)
  • These novel strains are the influenza virus's evolutionary adaptations to a strong population-wide immune response. (cdc.gov)
  • The UN Environment Program (UNEP) estimates that annual adaptation costs in developing countries are expected to reach $140 to $300 billion in 2030 and $280 to $500 billion in 2050 . (oxfam.org)
  • 4. If developing countries, like LDCs, AOSIS and other vulnerable developing countries, adopt adaptation components as part of their INDCs, will they be obligated to fulfil those commitments at any cost? (legalresponse.org)
  • Dramatic differences between the adaptation characteristics of moving and stationary stimuli were observed, however. (cambridge.org)
  • On subsets of trials (clusters) and after controlling for stimulus-response adaptation, spike time differences between pairs of neurons are "time-warped" (compressed/stretched) by trial-to-trial changes in shared excitability, explaining why fixed spike time patterns and noise correlations are seldom reported. (nature.com)
  • In general, adaptation could shift a cell's preferred temporal frequency. (cambridge.org)
  • This study also showed that when workers were ranked on their sleep to work urinary 6-sulphatoxymelatonin ratio, this ratio was a better predictor of adaptation than shift worked. (cdc.gov)
  • This package of measures included a $6 million concept feasibility phase, led by the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) with CSIRO and other partners, to develop a new Reef Restoration and Adaptation Program (RRAP). (www.csiro.au)
  • Analysis of response variability shared between neurons over repeated trials of a single stimulus ("noise correlations") allows the effect of underlying variability sources to be investigated. (nature.com)
  • The morphological adaptation refers to unique physical characteristics which imparts the ability of survival in extremely harsh climatic conditions. (allaboutfeed.net)
  • First paragraph: of their spike response FOLLOWING AN INITIAL INCREASE. (scholarpedia.org)
  • This StoryMap will present examples of these heat adaptation activities across the 18 CRSCI grant recipients, organized into the following categories: 1) Adaptation and Response Plans, 2) Communications and Education Activities, 3) Heat Health Alert Systems, 4) Cooling Centers and Water Sites, 5) Home Energy Assistance and Weatherization, 6) Surveillance, 7) Assessments and Analyses, 8) Data and Tools, and 9) Partnerships and Collaborations. (cdc.gov)
  • Management (7.5), Capacity Development (7.5),Introduction national and international authorities, NGOs, UN agencies, and to Disaster Response Management (7.5), Risk Based Land Use the Red Cross/ Red Crescent movement. (lu.se)
  • Our study suggests that local adaptation of gentoo penguins has emerged as a response to environmental variability promoting the fixation of mitochondrial haplotypes in a non-random manner. (nerc.ac.uk)
  • dblp: Coordinated run-time adaptation of variability-intensive systems: an application in cloud computing. (uni-trier.de)
  • Other examples of climate adaptation can be found in a recent Eos article on food security in Africa . (realclimate.org)
  • Confidence in evidence relates to the way the article links outcomes of adaptation with the adaptation response. (ipcc.ch)
  • The major mechanisms of recognition and effector responses employed by NK cells against Herpesviruses, related to their genomic organization will be addressed, including those allowing NK cells to generate memory-like responses. (frontiersin.org)
  • For those studies that reported both plastic and evolved components of thermal tolerance, we found evidence that both mechanisms contributed to phenotypic shifts in thermal tolerance, rather than plastic responses precluding or limiting evolved responses. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Joint Principle for Adaptation in Cambodia context had been shared into Knowledge Sharing Event on Cambodia's Response to Climate Change. (ngoforum.org.kh)
  • 52 detailed responses were received from How does the intervention interact with its context? (cancercentrum.se)
  • This decrease of odorous sensitivity, the increase of odorous threshold in other words due to continuous exposure to odor is called olfactory adaptation. (aivc.org)
  • Additionally, the model applicability was tested under recovery process of olfactory adaptation using instantaneous exposure of odor under recovering state with fresh air. (aivc.org)
  • One parameter is the amplitude of response to unit impulse, and the other parameter is exponential constant. (aivc.org)
  • They invested significant resources and effort to improve organizational capacity in communication and strengthened their collaboration links with expected and spontaneous partners from public, private, and non-profit sectors.Based on findings from this analysis, I offer a set of policy implications for guiding effective organizational adaptation to changing conditions. (econbiz.de)
  • 1. What will be the legal implications of incorporating adaptation into the INDCs? (legalresponse.org)
  • The event also bring together 15 authors of the most relevant adaptation cases submitted in response to the call for documented community based climate change related practices in Cambodia. (ngoforum.org.kh)
  • I watched a few of the streamed sessions, and it struck me that climate change adaptation seems to be a fairly new concept to many leaders. (realclimate.org)
  • One important point addressed during the summit was of course financing climate change adaptation, which is promising. (realclimate.org)
  • Financing is clearly needed for climate change adaptation. (realclimate.org)
  • There are key questions that should involve scientists: What is needed for proper climate change adaptation? (realclimate.org)
  • I think it would be useful with a presentation of the state of climate science relevant for climate change adaptation at a high level in the summit. (realclimate.org)
  • The San Francisco Planning Department has published the Responses to Comments document for the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Ocean Beach Climate Change Adaptation Project on the San Francisco Planning Department's website at sfplanning.org/sfceqadocs . (sfrecpark.org)
  • and build myriads of apps enabling adaptation to climate change. (esri.com)
  • Climate Change Adaptation actors within this field of study. (lu.se)
  • Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation will be at- universityadmissions.se. (lu.se)
  • Follow the links below to go directly to the highlights for each day of the 15th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change . (iied.org)
  • This theme aims to connect those working on and interested in climate change adaptation in mountains. (weadapt.org)
  • As part of this work the A@A team have developed (and continue to build) the Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal - a global database of climate change adaptation (CCA) solutions for mountain regions. (weadapt.org)
  • The Solutions Portal shares detailed information about tried and tested climate change adaptation solutions for mountain regions, encourages knowledge exchange, and supports collaborations. (weadapt.org)
  • Use the category buttons below to explore knowledge shared by peers working on climate change adaptation in mountains. (weadapt.org)
  • Scroll down to 'Members' to see who else is working on climate change adaptation in mountains . (weadapt.org)
  • ate Change is intended to provide a scientific and evidence-based coordinated response to the climate change adaptation needs of African countries in orde r to support the commitments and priorities of African governments. (who.int)
  • The overall objective of the Fram ework is to guide the formulation of country-specific action plans that will form the health component of national clim ate change adaptation plans aimed at minimizing the adverse public health effects of clim ate change. (who.int)
  • Institute a coordination modality for the health and climate focal point entity to steer the development and implementation of the public health response to climate change. (who.int)
  • Climate change adaptation is no longer a choice. (lu.se)
  • Countries must therefore ensure that adaptation is a part of their response to climate change, alongside climate mitigation measures. (lu.se)
  • Responses following sensory stimulation can be analysed to determine principles of neural coding. (nature.com)
  • 1.3 If you adapt the work, then you must license your work under the same or equivalent Creative Commons License and you should add the following disclaimer along with the suggested citation: "This adaptation was not created by the World Health Organization (WHO). (who.int)
  • Adaptation-induced changes in the temporal-frequency tuning and direction selectivity of cat visual cortical cells were studied. (cambridge.org)
  • The authors should also cite a recent paper that analyzes the difference in gain and coherence/coding properties between threshold and AHP-type adaptation: J Benda, L Maler and A Longtin (2010) Linear versus nonlinear signal transmission in integrate-and-fire models with adaptation currents or dynamic thresholds. (scholarpedia.org)
  • The numerosity adaptation effect is a perceptual phenomenon in numerical cognition which demonstrates non-symbolic numerical intuition and exemplifies how numerical percepts can impose themselves upon the human brain automatically. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our findings support the hypothesis that adaptation to peridomestic mosquito vectors mediated dengue emergence from sylvatic progenitor viruses. (cdc.gov)
  • At present, why adaptation have such profound effect on numerosity estimates remains largely unexplained. (wikipedia.org)
  • Microbial growth rates and nutrient utilisation efficiency mediate the species-specific gut microbiota response to in vitro transit time variation, which is the main driver of in vitro microbial load, metabolism and community composition. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Designing for climate adaptation requires an understanding of how existing standards might not provide the same level of protection under a changing climate. (cmu.edu)
  • The $6 million design phase of the RRAP is for the initial planning and feasibility assessment phase of a 10-year program to develop new technologies to assist reef recovery and adaptation. (www.csiro.au)
  • The present research advances the understanding of the relationship between irrational beliefs and ruminative response style, evidencing that the most pathological dimension of rumination (Brooding) has a higher correlation with irrational beliefs than the less dysfunctional dimension (Reflection). (bvsalud.org)
  • The organizations in the Hurricane Katrina response systems suffered from a lack of personnel, plans, and equipment for the effective communication. (econbiz.de)
  • So enabling more locally led adaptation, informed by inclusive plans, is a critical part of what we as a presidency are seeking to catalyse, to continue through to the African presidency at COP27. (iied.org)
  • however, emphasis is placed on items that generated notable response error, that is, they did not capture the information they were designed to measure. (cdc.gov)
  • To build a socio-technical system for organizational adaptation, organizations need to focus on the technical design of advanced communication equipment and data management tools that facilitate the processing, transmitting, storing, and extracting of critical information both for enhanced performance and organizational learning. (econbiz.de)
  • This paper is a nice compact overview of models and functional consequences of adaptation. (scholarpedia.org)
  • Are there effective ways to link the adaptation elements of the INDCs to the global adaptation goal? (legalresponse.org)
  • Speaking via a video recording , Trevelyan said: "We know that effective adaptation requires local leadership. (iied.org)
  • It also called for implementation of effective response measures in coordination with all relevant sectors. (who.int)
  • Adaptation is necessary, but specific measures are often hampered by the simple fact that even the best models do not resolve to regional scales. (realclimate.org)