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Innovation Management Practices, Strategic Adaptation, and Business Results: Evidence from the Electronics Industry
(Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011)
Farmers' Perceived Vulnerability and Proactive versus Reactive Climate Change Adaptation in Chile's Maule Region
(MDPI, 2021)
Changes in climatic conditions are unavoidable and irreversible and an early and effective adaptation in farming systems will be vital for resilient agriculture. Although the extant literature has described factors that ...
Drawing the line between adaptation and development: a systematic literature review of planned adaptation in developing countries
(Wiley, 2016)
Climate change adaptation is increasingly considered an urgent priority for policy action. Billions of dollars have been pledged for adaptation finance, with many donor agencies requiring that adaptation is distinct from ...
Organizational adaptation to climate change: learning to anticipate energy disruptions
(Emerald Group Publishing Ltd, 2017)
Purpose - This paper aims to investigate how organizational learning (OL) affects the development of anticipatory adaptation to climate change in companies. Because the need to learn increases in circumstances of greater ...
Adaptive management of alien invasive species: putting the theory into practice
(Fundação o Boticário de Proteçao á Natureza, 2007-10)
Even though often based on scarce information, many actions due to conservation ofbiodiversity need to be carried out as matters of urgency. In the case of biological invasions, this is acommon situation, as the real ...
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 ...
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 ...
The effects on public health of climate change adaptation responses: A systematic review of evidence from low- And middle-income countries
(IOP Publishing, 2021)
Climate change adaptation responses are being developed and delivered in many parts of the world in the absence of detailed knowledge of their effects on public health. Here we present the results of a systematic review ...
Comparative analysis of hybridized solutions to water resources management in Burkina Faso, India and Peru
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)
Hybridization of ‘green’ and engineered infrastructure, informed by protecting or restoring catchment processes, can resolve interconnected demands on catchment ecosystems, potentially also reversing historic degradation ...
CAIN-21: Automatic adaptation decisions and extensibility in an MPEG-21 adaptation engine
This paper presents the progress and final state of CAIN-21, an extensible and metadata driven multimedia adaptation in the MPEG-21 framework. CAIN-21 facilitates the integration of pluggable multimedia adaptation tools, ...