This dynamic smoothing prevents the population from becoming trapped at local maxima in the adaptive landscape and thereby permits more effective adaptation towards global maxima.
Mobilization of the public to adapt to climate change also depends on availability of information about effective adaptation measures as well as social capacity to deal with these problems.
But in the Sahel, as I have seen, an effective adaptation technology is already being deployed.
One of the principal characteristics of traditional Polynesian cultures is an effective adaptation to and mastery of the ocean environment.
Effective adaptation draws upon a number of cognitive processes, such as perception, learning, memory, reasoning, and problem solving.
Importantly, it also concludes that effective adaptation measures can help build a more resilient global society in the near term and beyond.
Techniques evolve by trial and error; living things survive through effective adaptation – there can be design without the necessity for a conscious designer.
Half of a Yellow Sun is a lop-sided but moving and effective adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Orange Prize-winning novel.
This extremely effective adaptation, available again in a new print that opened Friday for a one-week run at Film Forum, was directed with hard-nosed authority by Joseph Sargent from Peter Stone's sourly witty script.
But despite what might seem a ferociously effective adaptation that would guarantee survival, the frogs are disappearing from their native range in the mountainous forest on the Pacific coast of Colombia.
This cessation of growth, known as diapause, is a highly effective adaptation that enables the insects to avoid environmental conditions hostile to developing nymphs or to emerging winged stages.
