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Preparing for the health impacts of climate change in Indigenous communities: The role of community-based adaptation
(Elsevier, 2018)
Climate change presents substantial risks to the health of Indigenous peoples. Research is needed to inform health policy and practice for managing risks, with community based adaptation (CBA) emerging as one approach to ...
Practices and strategies for adaptation to climate variability in family farming. an analysis of cases of rural communities in the Andes Mountains of Colombia and Chile
(MDPI, 2021)
Climate variability imposes greater challenges on family farming and especially on rural
communities in vulnerable mountainous regions such as the Andes in Latin America. Changes
in rainfall patterns and fluctuations in ...
Adaptation to the climate change and management of natural risks: searching for synthesis in urban planning
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA, 2016)
Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...
Reporting key features in cold-adapted bacteria
(MDPI AG, 2018-03)
It is well known that cold environments are predominant over the Earth and there are a great number of reports analyzing bacterial adaptations to cold. Most of these works are focused on characteristics traditionally ...
Ruminal Fermentation Pattern, Bacterial Community Composition, and Nutrient Digestibility of Nellore Cattle Submitted to Either Nutritional Restriction or Intake of Concentrate Feedstuffs Prior to Adaptation Period
(2020-07-31)
Beef cattle are key contributors to meat production and represent critical drivers of the global agricultural economy. In Brazil, beef cattle are reared in tropical pastures and finished in feedlot systems. The introduction ...
Climate change and environmental planning: Working to build community resilience and adaptive capacity in Washington State, USA
(07/01/2009)
This work focuses on the efforts being made by King County, Washington to respond to the challenges of global climate change, concentrating on both mitigation and adaptation. King County is a leader in the United States ...
Enhancing adaptive capacity to climate change: The case of smallholder farmers in the Brazilian semi-arid region
(Elsevier B.V., 2010-12-01)
Climate change is one of the main challenges faced by mankind in this century. Although developing countries have little historical responsibility for climate change, they are likely to be most affected by it since they ...
Vulnerability to the health effects of climate variability in rural southwestern Uganda
(Springer, 2015)
Vulnerability to the health impacts of climate change will be shaped by the existing burden of ill- health and is expected to be highest in poor and socio-economically marginalized populations. Sub-Saharan Africa, in ...
The institutionalization of community interventions in Chile: Characteristics and contradictions
(KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL, 2002)
A critical analysis of the consequences of successive institutionalization of community intervention in Chile is presented. This analysis is based on research of current community interventions in Chile, whose results are ...