Sentence examples for adaptive capacities from inspiring English sources

It is this tendency to concentrate almost exclusively upon individual's adaptive capacities and how individuals adapt to their immediate surroundings that become the central focus of understanding the concept of vulnerability.

Divergent adaptation to climate variability produces unequal adaptive capacities between user groups and contributes to a contested landscape.

These estimates should include representations of adaptation, and so they are tied to systems' adaptive capacities.

We contrast the U.S. model to the Dutch system of climate adaptation to emphasize the feasibility, value, and effectiveness of adopting robust adaptive capacities, rather than policies steeped in reactionary responses.

These presented great challenges to human adaptive capacities and produced some remarkable and ingenious responses.

As we think around implementation, governments and experts must see the SDGs as a huge driver of climate action towards a low-carbon future and a way to increase adaptive capacities.

Just the increasing cost of insurance can be a big drag on economies: a study by Harvard and Swiss Re found that even in rich nations such as the US, larger and more frequent storms could "overwhelm adaptive capacities", rendering "large areas and sectors uninsurable".

Directly linked to systemism, the period of emergism focuses on the adaptive capacities of complex systems.

Adaptive capacities will have to be developed for the directly affected regions and others more indirectly affected.

With regard to the futures research on adaptive capacities, our paper adds insights to a multi-level approach.

The ANDRI is a hierarchical design based on coping and adaptive capacities representing the potential for disaster resilience.