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Livelihoods, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in Morogoro, Tanzania
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In this paper, the authors examine farmers' livelihood responses and vulnerability to climate variability and other stressors in Morogoro, Tanzania, to understand their implications for adaptation to climate change by agricultural households in developing world more generally.About:
This article is published in Environmental Science & Policy.The article was published on 2008-11-01. It has received 548 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Livelihood & Natural resource.read more
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Food security and food production systems
John R. Porter,Liyong Xie,Andrew J. Challinor,Kevern L. Cochrane,S. Mark Howden,Muhammad Iqbal,David B. Lobell,Maria I. Travasso,Netra Chhetri,Karen A. Garrett,John Ingram,Leslie Lipper,Nancy McCarthy,Justin M. McGrath,Daniel R. Smith,Philip K. Thornton,James E. M. Watson,Lewis H. Ziska +17 more
TL;DR: The questions for this chapter are how far climate and its change affect current food production systems and food security and the extent to which they will do so in the future.
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The effect of environmental change on human migration
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify five families of drivers which affect migration decisions: economic, political, social, demographic and environmental drivers, and propose a new framework for understanding the effect of environmental change on migration.
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The Adaptive Capacity Wheel: A method to assess the inherent characteristics of institutions to enable the adaptive capacity of society
Joyeeta Gupta,Catrien J.A.M. Termeer,J.E.M. Klostermann,Sander Meijerink,Margo van den Brink,P. Jong,Sibout Nooteboom,Emmy Bergsma,Emmy Bergsma +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present six dimensions: Variety, learning capacity, room for autonomous change, leadership, availability of resources and fair governance to assess if institutions stimulate the adaptive capacity of society to respond to climate change from local through to national level.
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Determinants of risk: Exposure and vulnerability
Omar D. Cardona,Maarten van Aalst,Jörn Birkmann,Maureen Fordham,Glenn R. McGregor,Rosa Perez,Roger S. Pulwarty,E. Lisa F. Schipper,Bach Tan Sinh,Henri Décamps,Mark Keim,Ian Davis,Kristie L. Ebi,Allan Lavell,Reinhard Mechler,Virginia Murray,Mark Pelling,Jürgen Pohl,Anthony-Oliver Smith,Frank Thomalla +19 more
TL;DR: This chapter aims to provide a rigorous understanding of the dimensions of exposure and vulnerability, as well as a proper assessment of changes in those dimensions, by further detailing the determinants of risk as presented in Chapter 1.
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Can farmers’ adaptation to climate change be explained by socio-economic household-level variables?
Till B. Below,Khamaldin D. Mutabazi,Dieter Kirschke,Christian Franke,Stefan Sieber,Rosemarie Siebert,Karen Tscherning +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an activity-based adaptation index (AAI) and explored the relationship between socioeconomic variables and farmers' adaptation behavior by means of an explanatory factor analysis and a multiple linear regression model using latent variables.
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Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set the stage for impact, adaptation, and vulnerability assessment of climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity, and developed and applied scenarios in Climate Change Impact, Adaptation, and Vulnerability Assessment.
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters.
TL;DR: The authors argue that the social, political and economic environment is as much a cause of disasters as the natural environment and that the concept of vulnerability is central to an understanding of disasters and their prevention or mitigation, exploring the extent and ways in which people gain access to resources.
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At Risk: Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters
TL;DR: In this paper, the challenge of disasters and their approach are discussed, and a framework and theory for disaster mitigation is presented. But the authors do not address the problem of access to resources and coping in adversarial situations.
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Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability
Barry Smit,Johanna Wandel +1 more
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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A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
Billie Turner,Roger E. Kasperson,Roger E. Kasperson,Pamela A. Matson,James J. McCarthy,Robert W. Corell,Lindsey Christensen,Noelle Eckley,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Jeanne X. Kasperson,Amy Luers,Marybeth L. Martello,Colin Polsky,Colin Polsky,Alexander Pulsipher,Andrew Schiller +15 more
TL;DR: A vulnerability framework for the assessment of coupled human–environment systems is presented and it is shown that vulnerability is registered not by exposure to hazards alone but also resides in the sensitivity and resilience of the system experiencing such hazards.