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‘Q-Storming’ to identify challenges and opportunities for integrating health and climate adaptation measures in Africa
(Elsevier, 2023)
Introduction: Climate factors influence the state of human health and wellbeing. Climate-related threats are particularly being experienced by vulnerable populations in Africa. A Question (Q)-Storming session was convened ...
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 ...
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 ...
Assessing resilience to climate change in the US cities
(2012-03-09)
In the face of uncertainties associated with climate change, building adaptive capacity and resilience at the community level emerges as an essential and timely element of local planning. However, key social factors that ...
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 ...
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 ...
Irrigation as an adaptive strategy to climate change: an economic perspective on Brazilian agriculture
(Environment and Development Economics, 2018)