Essays about: "maladaptation"

Showing result 11 - 14 of 14 essays containing the word maladaptation.

  1. 11. Addressing the risk of maladaptation in Social Protection: The case of World Food Programme

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Helene Lykke Strøbech; Andreia Bordon Rosa; [2020]
    Keywords : Maladaptation; Social Protection; Climate Change; Climate Change Adaptation; Pathways; Vulnerability; Adaptive Capacity; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The need to adapt to climate change has been widely acknowledged as a challenge expanding beyond the discrete realm of adaptation initiatives. Accordingly, social protection has received growing attention due to its potential to promote adaptive capacity, whilst partly addressing both direct and indirect drivers of vulnerability to climate change. READ MORE

  3. 12. Political Dimensions of Climate Change Adaptation : Framing Financial Attributes in Pakistan

    University essay from KTH/Historiska studier av teknik, vetenskap och miljö

    Author : Anusha Batool Sherazi; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation; adaptation funding; climate change policy; corrective justice; differential responsibility; maladaptation; political ecology.;

    Abstract : The interest towards climate change adaptation has gradually increased from local tointernational levels around the globe. This is one reason that there is less than the dueattention paid previously, on its implementation, besides relatively lower levels offunding available for the adaptation related activities. READ MORE

  4. 13. An investigation into whether poaching creates an ecological trap for white rhinoceros in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park, South Africa

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies

    Author : Alice Michel; [2019]
    Keywords : ecological trap; rhinoceros; maladaptation; megaherbivore; source-sink; habitat quality; middens;

    Abstract : In an ecological trap, animals choose habitat based upon cues that once led members of their species to optimal habitat, but now lead to habitat where individual fitness is reduced because of changing conditions. The southern white rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is a threatened species due to poaching for its keratin horn. READ MORE

  5. 14. Income diversification in fishing and aquaculture in the Tam Giang Lagoon : adaptation to climate change or not?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Thi Hai Hanh Tong; [2011]
    Keywords : climate change; adaptation; floods; fishers; aquaculture; lagoon; Vietnam;

    Abstract : Adaptation is strongly recognized as a means to cope with the impact and threat from climate change. The capacity which people use to make an adequate living for themselves determines how people respond to climate change. READ MORE