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Barriers and opportunities for adapting to climate change on the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil
(2017-08-01)
This paper examines barriers and opportunities for climate change adaptation in an urban coastal setting where adaptation is in its infancy. It draws on a diagnostic framework as a foundation for identifying and organising ...
Can Conservation Contracts Co-exist with Change? Payment for Ecosystem Services in the Context of Adaptive Decision-Making and Sustainability
(SPRINGER NEW YORK LLC, 2014-01-01)
This paper considers the ability of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs to operate in the context of dynamic and complex social–ecological systems. Drawing on the experiences of two different PES programs in Latin ...
Adaptive management and water security in a global context: definitions, concepts, and examples
(Elsevier, 2016-08)
Conventional water governance that centralizes decision-making and focuses on increasing supply has sometimes led to ecological degradation and inequitable outcomes. As a corrective, Integrated Water Resources Management ...
Can conservation contracts co-exist with change? Payment for ecosystem services in the context of adaptive decision-making and sustainability
(2015-01)
This paper considers the ability of payment for ecosystem services (PES) programs to operate in the context of dynamic and complex social–ecological systems. Drawing on the experiences of two different PES programs in Latin ...
Jurisdictional Scan British Columbia’s Early Adoption of Agricultural Climate Adaptation Programming
(Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA), 2015)
This jurisdictional scan seeks to provide a synopsis of the BC program and to identify the knowledge products, i.e. tools and methodologies that can be contextualized to agricultural adaptation programs in LAC. The scan ...
Adapting to a changing climate: An operational space for local adaptation committee in Santos coastal area
(2018-11-23)
Coastal living countries are the frontline of climate change impacts presenting vulnerability to natural disasters and other climate hazards. Specially, in developing countries, there is greater vulnerability and environmental ...