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Journal articles on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Whitney, Charlotte K., Tugce Conger, Natalie C. Ban, and Romney McPhie. "Synthesizing and communicating climate change impacts to inform coastal adaptation planning." FACETS 5, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 704–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2019-0027.

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Planning for adaptation to climate change requires regionally relevant information on rising air and ocean temperatures, sea levels, increasingly frequent and intense storms, and other climate-related impacts. However, in many regions there are limited focused syntheses of the climate impacts, risks, and potential adaptation strategies for coastal marine areas and sectors. We report on a regional assessment of climate change impacts and recommendations for adaptation strategies in the NE Pacific Coast (British Columbia, Canada), conducted in collaboration with a regional planning and plan implementation partnership (Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast), aimed at bridging the gaps between climate science and regional adaptation planning. We incorporated both social and ecological aspects of climate change impacts and adaptations, and the feedback mechanisms which may result in both increased risks and opportunities for the following areas of interest: “Ecosystems”, “Fisheries and Aquaculture”, “Communities”, and “Marine Infrastructure”. As next steps within the region, we propose proactive planning measures including communication of the key impacts and projections and cross-sectoral assessments of climate vulnerability and risk to direct decision-making.
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Wang, Guangyu, Tongli Wang, Haijun Kang, Shari Mang, Brianne Riehl, Brad Seely, Shirong Liu, Futao Guo, Qinglin Li, and John L. Innes. "Adaptation of Asia-Pacific forests to climate change." Journal of Forestry Research 27, no. 3 (March 18, 2016): 469–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11676-016-0218-1.

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Frankland, Richard, Lisa Hardwick, and Samuel Watkin. "Climate change adaptation in a small Pacific island nation." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 165, no. 6 (November 2012): 46–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/cien.11.00054.

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Inamara, Aaron, and Verena Thomas. "Pacific climate change adaptation: The use of participatory media to promote indigenous knowledge." Pacific Journalism Review 23, no. 1 (July 21, 2017): 113. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v23i1.210.

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Pacific Island communities are increasingly experiencing the impacts of climate change. Inaccessibility to relevant information about contemporary climate change adaptation strategies at the community level presents challenges. At the same time, indigenous strategies to adapt to climate changes have been overlooked in both local and global climate change debates. This article discusses a project undertaken with a community on Andra Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea. Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies were explored through photo essays developed by community members, engaging in approaches of visual participatory action research and indigenous research approaches. The collaboration with the Andra Island community created a space for reflective dialogue about challenges posed by climate change as well as how photo essays can be used to promote Indigenous Knowledge (IK) as a viable capital for community-based adaptation (CBA). Within this context, this article demonstrates how climate change is both a natural and cultural process of change which poses socio-economic challenges. These challenges can compel people to engage in unsustainable practices that might exacerbate natural climate change impacts. The article highlights that building community capacity in participatory media can be an important tool to forge collective synergy, dialogue and ownership in local climate change initiatives. In particular, the authors demonstrate how participatory media can be harnessed to integrate indigenous knowledge in community-based climate change adaptation.
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Mahany, Mollie J., and Mark E. Keim. "Challenges and Strategies for Climate Change Adaptation Among Pacific Island Nations." Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 6, no. 4 (December 2012): 415–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/dmp.2011.44.

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ABSTRACTFew regions of the world are at higher risk for environmental disasters than the Pacific Island countries and territories. During 2004 and 2005, the top public health leadership from 19 of 22 Pacific Island countries and territories convened 2 health summits with the goal of developing the world's first comprehensive regional strategy for sustainable disaster risk management as applied to public health emergencies. These summits followed on the objectives of the 1994 Barbados Plan of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and those of the subsequent Yokohama Strategy and Plan of Action for a Safer World. The outputs of the 2004 and 2005 Pacific Health Summits for Sustainable Disaster Risk Management provide a detailed description of challenges and accomplishments of the Pacific Island health ministries, establish a Pacific plan of action based upon the principles of disaster risk management, and provide a locally derived, evidence-based approach for many climate change adaptation measures related to extreme weather events in the Pacific region. The declaration and outputs from these summits are offered here as a guide for developmental and humanitarian assistance in the region (and for other small-island developing states) and as a means for reducing the risk of adverse health effects resulting from climate change.(Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2012;6:415-423)
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von Seggern, Janne. "Understandings, Practices and Human-Environment Relationships—A Meta-Ethnographic Analysis of Local and Indigenous Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies in Selected Pacific Island States." Sustainability 13, no. 1 (December 22, 2020): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13010011.

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Local and Indigenous knowledge systems worldwide indicate adaptation and mitigation strategies to climate change. Particularly in regions that are massively affected by climatic changes, such as the Pacific Island States, there is a need for increased and combined research on the role which these knowledge systems can play internationally. For this reason, this article provides a synthesis of empirical results and approaches to local and Indigenous climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies in selected South Pacific Island States by using a meta-ethnographic approach. The reviewed literature is associated with the sub-disciplinary perspective of the Anthropology of Climate Change. The results of the meta-ethnographic analysis are discussed based on three thematic focal points: First, the empirical ground of local understandings of climate change and its theoretical conceptualization(s) are constituted. Second, the results of practices for adaptation to climate change are synthesized and presented in detail throughout one example. Third, the synthesis of climate change mitigation practices is outlined with a specific focus on human-environment relationships.
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Webber, Sophie. "Circulating climate services: Commercializing science for climate change adaptation in Pacific Islands." Geoforum 85 (October 2017): 82–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.07.009.

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Walshe, Rory A., Denis Chang Seng, Adam Bumpus, and Joelle Auffray. "Perceptions of adaptation, resilience and climate knowledge in the Pacific." International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management 10, no. 2 (March 19, 2018): 303–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijccsm-03-2017-0060.

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Purpose While the South Pacific is often cited as highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, there is comparatively little known about how different groups perceive climate change. Understanding the gaps and differences between risk and perceived risk is a prerequisite to designing effective and sustainable adaptation strategies. Design/methodology/approach This research examined three key groups in Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu: secondary school teachers, media personnel, and rural subsistence livelihood-based communities that live near or in conservation areas. This study deployed a dual methodology of participatory focus groups, paired with a national mobile phone based survey to gauge perceptions of climate change. This was the first time mobile technology had been used to gather perceptual data regarding the environment in the South Pacific. Findings The research findings highlighted a number of important differences and similarities in ways that these groups perceive climate change issues, solutions, personal vulnerability and comprehension of science among other factors. Practical implications These differences and similarities are neglected in large-scale top-down climate change adaptation strategies and have key implications for the design of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation and therefore sustainable development in the region. Originality/value The research was innovative in terms of its methods, as well as its distillation of the perceptions of climate change from teachers, media and rural communities.
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Vize, Sue. "Using Education to Bring Climate Change Adaptation to Pacific Communities." Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 6, no. 2 (September 2012): 219–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973408212475202.

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Wang, Guangyu, Tongli Wang, Haijun Kang, Shari Mang, Brianne Riehl, Brad Seely, Shirong Liu, et al. "Erratum to: Adaptation of Asia-Pacific forests to climate change." Journal of Forestry Research 28, no. 5 (July 17, 2017): 1103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11676-017-0463-y.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Schwebel, Michael Bryan. "Climate change adaptation and policy in Pacific small island states| Safe havens or adrift at sea?" Thesis, Temple University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3703089.

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Pacific Small Island States (PSIS) are in the precarious position as some of the first jurisdictions to grapple with the current and forecasted effects of climate change, such as forced migrations and loss of culture. Yet, islanders' viewpoints are neither often fully understood nor heeded by those at the international decision making levels. Therefore, how and to what extent are PSIS successfully preparing for climate change?

This completed study used a mixed methods approach that examines nissology — how islanders view and understand themselves — and its relationship with successful (discussed and defined within the study) adaptation planning. The study also used a mixed methods approach to juxtapose the findings of the nissological and success analyses with a second research question: an in-depth study and analysis of regional and global policymaking entities, and the degrees to which they may influence islanders' preparation for climate change.

The study examined 18 PSIS and their Climate Change Adaptation Plans (CCAPs) and then interviewed PSIS' representatives at their respective Missions to the United Nations in New York City to evaluate how PSIS view and foresee current and future policies regarding climate change at the global, regional, and local levels. Then, fieldwork was performed within the United States Territories in the Pacific: American Samoa, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands to obtain on-the-ground information regarding implementation of plans, policies, and projects.

The study attempted to address two specific gaps in the literature via the triangulation of methods and data: the relationship between an island-centric viewpoint of CCAPs and successful climate change as well as how policymaking in the Pacific at the local, regional, and global levels either assisted or hindered successful climate change adaptation policy.

The results suggested answers to these two key questions as well as several unexpected or emergent findings. Regarding the two principal research questions, PSIS that crafted their CCAPs in a more nissological or island-centric manner were indicative of states that were foreseen to be more successful in adapting to current and future climate change effects. Next, PSIS that were part of AOSIS, the various regional associations, and those PSIS that had complete sovereignty (independent) were indicative of those PSIS expressing greater overall success at preparing for climate change than those PSIS not meeting these criteria. However, not all PSIS had the opportunity to become members of AOSIS or certain regional organizations for various reasons.

Finally, a policy document was created at the end of the study to illustrate some of the best practices based upon this study's findings. Immediately preceding the policy document are other emergent findings indicative of future areas of research and exploration within the realms of nissology, regional associations and partnerships, and successful climate change adaptation.

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Webber, Sophie Rachel. "Adaptation ecologies : circuits of climate change finance, policy, and science in the Pacific Islands." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/54381.

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In order to address the expected impacts of climate change, international development institutions have instigated adaptation projects and policies. These efforts promise to mitigate anticipated harms in vulnerable-to-climate-change social and ecological systems. This dissertation examines the operation and dissemination of adaptation projects and policies in the context of small island states in the Pacific region. It also explores the important role that the pre-eminent development institution, the World Bank, plays in programming adaptation. The research questions explored here are: i) How do finance, policy and science circulate in the name of adaptation? ii) What do the circulation of finance, policy and science achieve for adaptation in Kiribati and Solomon Islands? and iii) Why is the World Bank invested in adaptation, or what does adaptation do for the World Bank and other developmental actors? In answering these questions, I draw from multi-sited primary fieldwork, participant observation, and documentary analysis: at the World Bank in Washington, DC and Sydney, within the public bureaucracies of Australia, Kiribati, and Solomon Islands, and with regional organizations and development partners in the Pacific region. This dissertation posits the emergence of a Pacific Adaptation Complex. The analytical concept of the Pacific Adaptation Concept recognizes the vast institutional arrangements, configurations of expertise, and project technologies that come together to make adaptation happen. Within the Complex, experimental nodes are key, as are multi-directional flows. Yet, I find that, overwhelmingly, flows and investments for adaptation are dogged by persistent stickiness, and a rhetorical attention to mobility and success that is indifferent to practical outcomes. However, the promise of adaptation finance, policy, and science works through failing development institutions and imaginaries, allowing reinvention in an era of development crisis.
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MacKendrick, Katharine. "Climate Change Adaptation Planning for Cultural and Natural Resource Resilience: a Look at Planning for Climate Change in Two Native Nations in the Pacific Northwest U.S." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10022.

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xii, 172 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
The literature indicates that for indigenous peoples the environmental impacts of climate change and some proposed solutions threaten lifeways, subsistence, economic ventures, future growth, cultural survivability, rights, land ownership, and access to resources. However, limited understanding and awareness of the vulnerability and capacity of American Indian and Alaska Native tribes and of climate change impacts at the local level affect climate policymaking, planning, and equity. Case studies with the Coquille and Hoopa Valley Indian tribes in the Pacific Northwest U.S. explore the key considerations in planning for climate change adaptation, particularly for cultural and natural resource resilience. Document analysis and semi-structured interviews offer insight on the risks the tribes face and the role of traditional and local knowledge and experience in planning for climate change adaptation. Conclusions offer information useful in planning for climate impacts, local-level climate adaptation research, and climate policy development at the local to global levels.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Michael Hibbard, Chair; Dr. Cassandra Moseley; Kathy Lynn
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Cauchi, John Paul. "Climate change, food security and health in Kiribati; investigating community resilience and opportunities for adaptation in Kiribati." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/214100/1/John%20Paul_Cauchi_Thesis.pdf.

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This thesis examines the interactions between climate change, food security and public health outcomes in Kiribati. Food security is known to be a strong determinant of health outcomes. This study found Kiribati to be overly reliant on imported food of low nutritious quality, with strong negative public health outcomes such as increasing prevalence of diabetes and hypertension. Identified environmental problems are worsening with climate change; these affect and imperil domestic food production. This study also identifies the strengths of Kiribati communities, providing recommendations on improving food security and climate resilience based on suggestions of islanders and scientific evidence.
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Kies-Ryan, Samantha L. "Water is life: Using creative visual methods to facilitate community cultural engagement in water management in the Solomon islands." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/228031/1/Samantha_Kies-Ryan_Thesis.pdf.

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This practice-led participatory action research project applied and adapted visual research methods such as photo voice and cultural mapping to facilitate community engagement in water management in the Solomon Islands. The insights and processes that were developed through the research led to the creation of an interactive community cultural map that documents cultural knowledge that traditionally protects the water sources. The creation of the map generated a conversation between the generations about the ways that cultural knowledge from the past can inform the present and future that could be used as model for dialogical community engagement in other contexts.
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Longépée, Esméralda. "La résilience des systèmes socio-écologiques des États atolliens dans le contexte du changement climatique : le cas de Kiribati (Pacifique Sud)." Thesis, La Rochelle, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LAROS007/document.

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La menace représentée par le changement climatique, et en particulier l’élévation du niveau de la mer, sur les pays entièrement composés d’atolls est largement médiatisée. La République de Kiribati est un pays atollien situé dans l’océan Pacifique, peuplé par 100 000 habitants. Au cours des derniers siècles, les communautés atolliennes de Kiribati ont développé un système de gestion des ressources naturelles qui a assuré leur survie. Depuis quelques décennies, la mondialisation est cause de mutations rapides, en particulier dans le mode de vie et dans la relation des communautés atolliennes à leur environnement naturel. Étant donné le caractère fortement intégré du système sociétal et de l’écosystème dans les atolls, cette thèse aborde la question de l’avenir des pays atolliens dans le contexte du changement climatique par l’étude de la résilience de leurs systèmes socio-écologiques. La résilience d’un système correspond à sa capacité à absorber des perturbations et à se réorganiser tandis qu’il subit des changements tout en conservant la même fonction, structure, identité et les mêmes rétroactions. Cette thèse postule qu’une estimation de la résilience des systèmes socio-écologiques aux perturbations d’origine météo-marine nécessite au préalable une analyse de leur résilience générale. De telles estimations s’appuient sur des modèles conceptuels réalisés à partir de résultats d’entretiens et d’enquêtes menés à Kiribati, et sur l’analyse d’images aériennes. L’avenir des pays atolliens est discuté en envisageant différents scénarios : l’adaptation, la transformation, la migration et l’effondrement
The threats to states entirely composed of atolls from climate change and associated sea-level rise have been widely publicized. The Republic of Kiribati is an atoll country situated in Pacific Ocean settled by 100,000 inhabitants. Over the past centuries, the atoll communities of Kiribati have developed natural resource management systems that have enabled their survival. Over the past decades, globalization has caused rapid changes, especially regarding lifestyles and relationships of atoll communities to their natural environment. Given the highly integrated nature of the societal system and the ecosystem in the atolls, this thesis addresses the question of the future of atoll countries in the context of climate change by studying the resilience of their social-ecological systems. Resilience is the capacity of a system to absorb disturbance and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain essentially the same function, structure, identity, and feedbacks. This thesis postulated that an assessment of social-ecological resilience of climate- and marine-related disturbances required a preliminary analysis of their general resilience. Such assessments are based on conceptual models made from interviews and surveys and from the analysis of aerial imagery. The future of atoll countries is discussed considering different scenario: adaptation, transformation, migration and collapse
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Mashila, Thabang. "Spatial planning for climate change adaptation : developing a climate change local area adaptation plan for Khayelitsha." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13332.

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Climate change is now widely seen as a major challenge of this time and the future of cities. However, the most vulnerable will be the urban poor particularly those located on the urban fringes in high risk areas with limited access to basic services and economic opportunities. In South Africa, although progress has been made to reduce socio-economic and environmental challenges created by apartheid legislations, inequalities still exist where the privileged live in safer and well located and serviced parts of the city while he poor are still located in settlements created by apartheid in urban fringes. Spatial Planning presents an opportunity to increase resilience to climate change in vulnerable areas of cities. Through integrating planning and climate adaptation actions, future spatial decisions will add to resilience to climate change and enhance wellbeing of people. The dissertation includes a case study that was conducted to learn about the status quo of the study area to effectively recommend relevant interventions that seek to create resilience to climate change in the area. A local area adaptation plan was then formulated including the framework for implementing proposed interventions in a 20 year timeframe.
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Hoang, Lan Ngoc. "Adaptation planning under climate change uncertainty." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2013. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/5567/.

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This project explores the uncertainty factors in drought planning for a water resource zone in Sussex. Nine planning options from the 2009 Sussex Water Resource Management Plan were assessed using four climate products: the 2009 UK Climate Projections Change Factors, the Spatial Coherent Projections, the 11 runs of the HadRM3 regional climate model and their subsequent downscaling by the Future Flows Project. The varying drought statistics from these four climate products reflect post-processing uncertainty - the uncertainty stemming from the process of converting original climate model outputs into products of different formats, variables and temporal/spatial scales. Overall, the study has integrated a cascade analysis of climate uncertainty, climate post-processing uncertainty, hydrological uncertainty, water resource model uncertainty and demand uncertainty on water resource planning. The study combines Robust Optimisation, Decision-Scaling and Robust Decision Making into Robust Decision Analysis, a decision making framework for dynamic adaptation pathways in response to different levels of uncertainty and risk averseness. Post-processing uncertainty is the dominate uncertainty until 2030s; 2050s is then dominated by demand and socio-economic uncertainty. The most severe droughts within the Spatial Coherent Projections and the 2009 UK Climate Projection products are variations of the 1975-1976 and the 1988-1989 droughts, two of the worst historic droughts currently used as the design events for drought planning in Sussex. The system appears to be robust to variations of these past droughts. Yet, under different sequences of droughts from the HadRM3 and Future Flows products, the system demonstrated frequent supply failures in the 2050s, unless water demand is maintained at the 2007 level or lower. While operational costs in the 2030s are generally within the region of 4 to 5 million GBP per year, those in the 2050s Market Forces jumped to the region of 5 to 15 million GBP per year and with supply deficit from 0 to 1100 Ml/year. When demand grows by 35% from the 2007 baseline level, universal metering becomes a key option. Despite climate post-processing uncertainty, the main hotspots of water deficits remains similar across the climate products and are driven by network bottlenecks and the continually high dependence of the system on water sources a round the Hardham area. The study also indicates that inter-regional transfers might not be as reliable as assumed.
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Hemingway, Jessica. "U.S. Local Government Adaptation to Climate Change:." Doctoral thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-232723.

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The desire for local governments to adapt to climate change seems logically relevant as weather extremes inhibit the ability of local governments to protect public health and safety and to ensure delivery of public services. By conducting planned adaptation to climate change local governments enable themselves to minimize risk and increase adaptive capacity to deal with climate change impacts. In the midst of a federal government, minus the Obama administration, that has tended to downplay the importance of climate change, action by local level governments - cities in particular - in the U.S. have been at the forefront of action on climate change. Little attention has been given to local government adaptation in rural areas by both researchers and policy makers alike. Rural areas are at risk to changes in climate because they tend to be reliant on climate sensitive industries, comprised of vulnerable populations, such as the elderly and very young and to possess few resources to conduct land-use and other planning. This dissertation expands upon previous research by examining the decision to conduct planned adaptation by both urban and rural local government adaptation to climate change (RQ1) and by identifying the influences on the decision of local governments in both urban and rural areas to conduct planned adaptation to climate change (RQ2). New York State was selected as an appropriate case study to answer research questions because of the drastic contrast between urban and rural areas of the state. On the one hand, it has been one of the most progressive states in terms of climate change policy including its largest local government New York City; on the other hand, it is comprised of many rural local governments suffering from population and economic decline. An online survey was distributed to all New York State local governments in November/December 2011 and supplemented by informant discussions conducted before and after the survey. While a considerable amount of time has passed since the survey was conducted, it took place during what appears to be a particular timeframe in political history where the U.S. president supported action on climate change. Results of this study show strong differences in resource availability and the likelihood of urban vs. rural elected officials to conduct planned adaptation. One hundred and forty-two responses were received from large and small cities, towns, villages and counties. A traditional deductive research design was deployed to answer research questions. To examine the influences on the decision of local elected officials to conduct planned adaptation hypotheses were developed based on previous empirical studies and Mohr’s 1969 hypothesis that “Innovation is related to the motivation to innovate, inversely related to the strength of obstacles to innovation, and directly related to the availability of resources for overcoming such obstacles” (Mohr, 1969, p. 111). Two dependent variables were measured (1) planned adaptation or conscious decisions to adapt to climate change and an alternate dependent variable (2) formal and informal discussion of climate change within the local government. Independent variables measured related to local elected official motivation to conduct planned adaptation in the form of climate weather related concerns in New York State (i.e. extreme weather, water quality, and ecological changes), resource availability within the local government (i.e. budget, staff, climate change expertise) and the existence of obstacles toward planned adaptation external to local governments (i.e. public support, federal and state informational and financial support). The results of the survey showed that a small minority of local governments in New York State had decided to conduct planned adaptation to climate change. Over half of the sample was identified as conducting some form of spontaneous or reactive adaptation which consisted mostly of actions to minimize flood risk (i.e. update storm-water infrastructure, manage flood plains, promote open space). However, no local government surveyed had been identified as having successfully implemented an adaptation plan. Informal discussions were found to be occurring among half of the sample surveyed with a small number of local governments discussing climate change formally. According to informant discussions, the low level of planned adaptation among New York State local governments can be explained by a number of factors including a non-requirement to conduct planned adaptation, varying policy, resource and incentive conditions throughout the state, a lack of urgency to adapt to climate change and, finally, the absence of a support system to conduct planned adaptation. Results of hypothesis testing indicate that local governments are more likely to conduct planned adaptation to climate change where: A) climate change concerns are water related, B) budget, staff and climate change expertise are available and C) public support to address climate change impacts as well as state and federal informational support are available. Financial support from state and federal governments did not appear to influence the decision to conduct planned adaptation. Rural local governments were found less likely than urban local governments to be discussing climate change and to be conducting planned adaptation which is likely to be related to organizational size and the availability of resources to conduct planned adaptation measures. This dissertation contributes to understanding how local governments are adapting to climate change in New York State, what influences the decision of elected officials to conduct planned adaptation to climate change and how experiences may differ from municipality type — especially related to urban vs. rural local governments.
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Slagle, John T. "Climate change in Myanmar: impacts and adaptation." Thesis, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/44672.

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Myanmar is a Least Developed Nation, according to the UN, and therefore is highly vulnerable to the negative effects of a changing climate. To assess the relationship between Myanmar and climate change, this thesis analyzes projected impacts on the nation and its people, the current state of adaptation, and how Myanmar’s government has prepared. Projected impacts are viewed through the lens of the most recent IPCC reports and climate models, and discussed in relation to vulnerable areas in Burmese society and governance. This thesis concludes that Myanmar’s environment, people and society are at a significant risk; higher temperatures, altered precipitation rates, and higher sea levels will lead to reduced agriculture output, the spread of disease, and loss of habitable land. Though recent governmental action has laid the framework for suitable adaptation measures, slow progress in past decades has left Myanmar highly vulnerable to the negative impacts of climate change. Myanmar’s next election is scheduled for 2015, and the emerging leaders have the opportunity to make significant progress in climate change adaptation. Cooperation between Myanmar’s new leaders and the international community could accelerate the nation’s adaptation efforts and result in significant progress on climate change preparedness projects.
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Books on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Facility, Global Environment. Pacific adaptation to climate change: Nauru. S.l: s.n., 2006.

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Facility, Global Environment. Pacific adaptation to climate change: Samoa. Samoa: GEF, 2006.

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Leal Filho, Walter, ed. Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2.

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Facility, Global Environment. Pacific adaptation to climate change: Niue Island. Niue?]: GEF, 2006.

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Facility, Global Environment. Pacific adaptation to climate change: Papua New Guinea. S.l: s.n., 2006.

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Palau. Office of Environmental Response and Coordination. Pacific adaptation to climate change: Palau project proposal. S.l: s.n., 2008.

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Leal Filho, Walter, ed. Managing Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40552-6.

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Alam, Mozaharul, Jeongho Lee, and Puja Sawhney, eds. Status of Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99347-8.

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Erda, Lin, William C. Bolhofer, Saleemul Huq, Stephanie Lenhart, Shishir K. Mukherjee, Joel B. Smith, and Joe Wisniewski, eds. Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1053-4.

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Boer, Ben. Legal frameworks for ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change in the Pacific Islands. Apia, Samoa: SPREP, 2012.

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Book chapters on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Park, Cyn-Young, David A. Raitzer, Jindra Nuella G. Samson, and Paulo Rodelio M. Halili. "Climate Change and Adaptation Challenges in the Pacific." In Climate Change Management, 205–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14938-7_13.

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Ronneberg, Espen, and Peniamina Dougalii Leavai. "Status of Climate Change Adaptation in the Pacific Region." In Springer Climate, 97–123. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99347-8_6.

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Dyer, Jack. "Adapting Climate Change Projections to Pacific Maritime Supply Chains." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 199–223. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_12.

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Cambers, Gillian, Pasha Carruthers, Titilia Rabuatoka, Sanivalati Tubuna, and Juliana Ungaro. "Implementing Climate Change Adaptation Interventions in Remote Outer Islands of the Pacific Island Region." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 3–18. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_1.

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Cai, Rongshuo, Haixia Guo, Di Fu, Xiuhua Yan, and Hongjian Tan. "Response and Adaptation to Climate Change in the South China Sea and Coral Sea." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 163–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_10.

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Dayal, Kavina, Ravinesh Deo, and Armando A. Apan. "Drought Modelling Based on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Network Algorithms: A Case Study in Queensland, Australia." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 177–98. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_11.

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Aipira, Cecilia, Allanah Kidd, and Kate Morioka. "Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries: Fostering Resilience Through Gender Equality." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 225–39. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_13.

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Torabi, Elnaz, Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes, and Michael Howes. "Urban Resilience to Climate-Related Disasters: Emerging Lessons from Resilience Policy and Practice in Coastal Tourism Cities." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 241–54. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_14.

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Le Duff, M., P. Dumas, O. Cohen, and M. Allenbach. "Coastal Erosion Monitoring on Ouvea Island (New Caledonia): Involving the Local Community in Climate Change Adaptation." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 255–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_15.

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Walid, Mohamed. "Towards a Mega-Pacific Islands Education Curriculum for Climate Adaptation Blending Traditional Knowledge in Modern Curriculum." In Climate Change Adaptation in Pacific Countries, 271–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50094-2_16.

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Conference papers on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Kaluwin, C. "Adaptation Policies – Addressing Climate Change Impacts in the Pacific Region." In Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific: OAP 95. WORLD SCIENTIFIC, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9789812811936_0009.

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P, Friis-Hansen, Garré L, and Eriksson K. "Managing Uncertainties in Risk-based Adaptation to Climate Change." In 5th Asian-Pacific Symposium on Structural Reliability and its Applications. Singapore: Research Publishing Services, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.3850/978-981-07-2219-7_p259.

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Wadley, Greg, Adam Bumpus, and Ray Green. "Citizen involvement in the design of technology for climate change adaptation projects in the Pacific." In OzCHI '14: the Future of Design. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2686612.2686640.

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Aronson, Richard B., Imre Hronszky, and Gordon L. Nelson. "Overview—Climate Change and Adaptation." In SUSTAINABILITY 2009: THE NEXT HORIZON: Conference Proceedings. AIP, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3208030.

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Mylne, M. "Climate change and business adaptation." In IET Seminar on Engineering a Safer Global Climate: The Power Sector's Response. IEE, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ic:20080652.

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Teaga Rajan, Santa Kumar, Nik Zarina Suryana Nik Khansani, and Jing Zhi Kueh. "Sustainable and Responsible Exploration and Production Operations Through Sustainable Risk Assessment Register and Matrix – A Suggestion for the Industry." In SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition. SPE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/210630-ms.

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Abstract Carbon emissions due to oil and gas exploration and production activities remains significant. In general, the industry widely continues its conventional operations, while it slowly navigates its way through energy transition towards net zero carbon emissions. This paper presents a suggestion on the importance of incorporating a sustainable risk assessment register and matrix in all current operations planning to address carbon footprint before the industry fully transitions itself into a net zero modest of operandi. Due to the growing demand in considering socially responsible criteria's in managing day-to-day oil and gas business through the principals of Environment, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG), carbon emissions are the key focus area in this implementation of a sustainable risk assessment register and matrix for the oil & gas industry. The five different risk assessment categories which oil and gas companies should consider when addressing carbon emissions through a dedicated sustainable risk assessments register and matrix for each operational activity are classified as: qualitative, quantitative, generic, site-specific and dynamic risk assessments. Actual quantification of expected carbon emissions which is not commonly in practice [CM1]now becomes utmost important as an input to define mitigating actions, working towards carbon capture and/or eliminating carbon emissions. Creative problem solving such as through the adaptation of new technologies, process improvement and revamping well unloading program to reduce carbon emissions [CM2]through a sustainable risk assessment register and matrix, will allow the industry to demonstrate actual data and efforts in addressing climate change issues as the industry transitions to net zero carbon. The Reservoir, Wells and Facility Management (RWFM) organization becomes crucial to pull together and facilitate different stakeholders’ involvement throughout the lifecycle of a project to ensure every aspect of the project planning takes into consideration risks exclusively associated to carbon emission and work towards minimizing or eliminating them. The development of this sustainable risk assessment register and matrix will contribute to social implications by acting as a reference point for all oil and gas operators and service providers in the world to produce sustainably and responsibly at the current moment while the industry makes a shift to net zero emission. This initiative will also provide an opportunity for the oil and gas industry through the collaboration of RWFM to work in accordance and embrace Sustainable Development Goal 7 and Goal 13 (SDG 7 and SDG 13) of the United Nations.
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KOPPE, Baerbel. "Climate change - Adaptation options for seaports." In Conférence Méditerranéenne Côtière et Maritime - Coastal and Maritime Mediterranean Conference. Editions Paralia, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5150/cmcm.2017.039.

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Eriksson, Kjell, and Peter Friis-Hansen. "Risk Based Adaptation to Climate Change." In World Renewable Energy Congress – Sweden, 8–13 May, 2011, Linköping, Sweden. Linköping University Electronic Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/ecp11057572.

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Audefroy, J. F. "Climate change adaptation strategies in Mexico." In ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT 2016. Southampton UK: WIT Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/eid160171.

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Andersson-Sköld, Y., C. Hultén, K. Rankka, G. Nilsson, B. Rydell, B. Lind, E. Ottosson, H. Rosqvist, and P. Starzec. "Geotechnical approaches to climate change adaptation." In AIR POLLUTION 2006. Southampton, UK: WIT Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.2495/air06043.

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Reports on the topic "Pacific climate change adaptation"

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Dilshad, T., A. Syed, T. Hassan, N. Uddin, J. Ferdous, and S. Gupta. Seminar Proceedings on Climate Change Adaptations in River Basins: Upstream and Downstream Linkages; 5 September 2018 at Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.53055/icimod.895.

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US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS. Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, June 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada617444.

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Carrión, Gloria. Trade and Climate Change Adaptation. Geneva, Switzerland: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.7215/co_in_20091023a.

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R., Bartlett, Bharati L., Pant D., Hosterman H., and McCornick P. Climate change impacts and adaptation in Nepal. International Water Management Institute (IWMI), 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5337/2010.227.

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Kahn, Matthew. Climate Change Adaptation: Lessons from Urban Economics. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w20716.

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Sveinsson, Oli G. B. Energy in Iceland: Adaptation to Climate Change. Edited by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi. United Nations University Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources (UNU-FLORES), 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.53325/adwy8262.

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Morelli, Toni Lyn, Sharon Yeh, Nikola M. Smith, Mary Beth Hennessy, and Constance I. Millar. Climate project screening tool: an aid for climate change adaptation. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/psw-rp-263.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for Peru. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133213.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for Nicaragua. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133214.

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Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy. Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for Honduras. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133215.

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