Archive for 'Adaptation'
Indigenous People, Adaptation, & Climate Change
The IUCN in March came out with a report on the effects of climate change on indigenous people, which you can find here. Their conclusions were interesting. According to the report, most indigenous peoples will suffer inequitably by the effects of climate change, are often socially vulnerable as they lack rights and land tenure, and [...]
Posted: April 19th, 2008 under Adaptation.
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Arabian Adaptation
Most people know the story: In 1973-1974, during the Arab Oil embargo, the Saudi Kingdom began subsidizing wheat production to protect themselves against a reverse boycott by western wheat producers for food security. Growing wheat in the middle east isn’t as strange as it sounds. As Saudi Aramco World pointed out in 1978, out, the [...]
Posted: April 13th, 2008 under Adaptation.
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What are the big donors to do?
There was much consternation at the recent international climate change meetings in Bangkok regarding the roll of the World Bank in funding climate change adaptation work. While C2Si has not fully evaluated the arguments made, it is clear that developing countries, rightly worried about the impacts they will suffer in coming decades, would like to [...]
Posted: April 10th, 2008 under Adaptation.
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Warmer World, Less Fish
A New United Nations Environmental Program Report, In Dead Water, suggests that the combination of global climatic disruption, pollution, and over-harvesting will impact the world’s key fishing grounds. According to the report, at least three quarters of key fishing grounds globally will be harmed by changes in ocean circulation would be predicted to occur [...]
Posted: February 24th, 2008 under Adaptation, Climate Changes.
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Adaptation by Individuals Requires Policy to Adapt as Well
That the environment changes is no great insight. Indeed, societies have been dealing with Nature’s fickleness since before our modern species emerged. But responding to these environmental changes has always been a rather straightforward, though often terribly disruptive, enterprise. Local communities and individuals can adapt to changes in the environment through many activities, from small [...]
Posted: February 21st, 2008 under Adaptation.
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