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Assessing tradeoffs in the design of climate change adaptation strategies for water utilities in Chile
(2022)
Climate change is a challenge to drinking water providers worldwide and to regulatory frameworks that consider long-term investment decisions. Coping with an unstable climate warrants adjustments in regulations and new ...
Firms adaptation to climate change through product innovation
(2022)
Climate change will impose high costs on different societal actors, including firms and organizations, forcing them to adapt to this new situation. Although the relevance of implementing adaptation strategies is widely ...
Vulnerability and adaptive capacity of community food systems in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from Panaillo
(Springer, 2015)
Rainfall variability and related hydrological disasters are serious threats to agricultural production in developing countries. Since projections of climate change indicate an increase in the frequency and intensity of ...
Exploring the adaptive capacity of the mussel mariculture industry in Chile
(ELSEVIER, 2020)
Societies have adapted to climate and environmental variability throughout history. However, projected climate change poses multiple risks to mariculture because of the increased frequency of environmental threats that lie ...
Implications of climate change for semi-arid dualistic agriculture: a case study in Central Chile
(2019)
The nexus between climate change, agriculture, and poverty has become a major topic of concern, especially for dry regions, which represent a large share of the world’s population and ecosystems vulnerable to climate change. ...
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 ...
Integrated assessment and adaptation to climate change impacts in the Peruvian Andes
(European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2009-10-13)
The Andes as mountain regions worldwide, provide fundamental resources, not only for the local population. Due to the topographic characteristics, the potential for natural hazards is higher than elsewhere. In these areas, ...
An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the health sector In Guyana
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2011-10-22)
Climate change is considered to be the most pervasive and truly global of all issues affecting humanity. It poses a serious threat to the environment, as well as to economies and societies. Whilst it is clear that the ...