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Barry Smit

Researcher at University of Guelph

Publications -  117
Citations -  23170

Barry Smit is an academic researcher from University of Guelph. The author has contributed to research in topics: Climate change & Vulnerability. The author has an hindex of 49, co-authored 117 publications receiving 21783 citations. Previous affiliations of Barry Smit include Simon Fraser University.

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Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability

TL;DR: In this article, a review of adaptation of human communities to global changes, especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability is presented, focusing on scholarship that contributes to practical implementation of adaptations at the community scale.
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Climate change 2007 : impacts, adaptation and vulnerability : Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose an "anatomy of adaptation" to systematically specify and differentiate adaptations, based upon three questions: (i) adapt to what? (ii) who or what adapts? and (iii) how does adaptation occur?
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Assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity

TL;DR: Enright et al. as discussed by the authors presented the Enright-Fankhauser-Gabel-Nantel-Klein model, which is based on the work of the authors of this paper.