Sentence examples for climate change adaptive from inspiring English sources

It is likely that inequities in these 'social determinants' of health also create inequities in climate change adaptive capacity.

Against this background requirements for a more adaptive and strategic planning approach are discussed by examining the discourses about climate change adaptation – including adaptive urban governance – and strategic planning.

In regard to climate change, as Ebi (2011) has noted, adaptive management closely parallels frameworks for general climate change adaptation (Lim et al. 2005) and public health adaptation (Ebi and Semenza 2008).

Ultimately, the goal of further research would be to develop simulations of future hydrology to explore scenarios of climate change and adaptive management.

This work was funded by the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management (SASSCAL) (Task 311) supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBFF).

In line with the results, any intervention that promotes the use of adaptation measures toclimate change may account for location-specific factors that determine farmers' perception of climate change and adaptive responses thereof.

Perhaps more importantly, this study provides a framework for studying the long-term evolutionary dynamics of terrestrial communities related to climate change, major adaptive radiations, or evolutionary events (e.g., angiosperm evolution) and whether these events had a significant impact on the subsequent structure of vertebrate communities.

Determining whether a phenotypic response to climate change is adaptive is not intuitive.

In general, whether phenotypic responses in body mass to climate change are adaptive will often be difficult to interpret.

It is often assumed that morphological changes occurring in the context of climate change are adaptive, microevolutionary responses, that allow species to better cope with the ongoing climate warming.

In light of predicted climate change, the adaptive responses of species to high temperature and high irradiance have garnered considerable attention in recent years (Reynolds et al. 2001; Larkindale et al. 2005; Allakhverdiev et al. 2008; Mittler et al. 2012).