全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Improving climate change adaptation in least developed Asia.

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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.envsci.2012.04.009
ISBN	1462-9011
	Improving climate change adaptation in least developed Asia.
	Sovacool, Benjamin K; D'Agostino, Anthony Louis; Meenawat, Harsha; Rawlani, Amireeta
发表日期	2012-08
出处	Environmental Science and Policy
出版者	Elsevier Inc.
出版年	2012
页码	112-125
语种	英语
摘要	This article investigates the climate vulnerabilities of four least developed Asian countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, and the Maldives—before discussing how efforts are underway to strengthen infrastructural, organizational, and community-based adaptation. Infrastructural adaptation refers to the assets, technologies, or “hardware” that can withstand climate change impacts, such as climate-proofed irrigation systems, roads, or electricity networks. Organizational adaptation refers to the endurance of an effective institution or set of institutions, usually government ministries or departments, in charge of planning and policy, as well as its capacity to develop and revise climate policies. Social adaptation refers to the cohesion of communities and the livelihoods of the people that compose them. We argue that resilient adaptation infrastructures can recover quickly from climate disruptions, resilient organizations can cope with new stresses and changes and still function, resilient communities have assets such as education or wealth that enable them to survive or even thrive in the face of climate-related challenges. Ongoing adaptation efforts in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, and the Maldives are examples of projects that simultaneously attempt to enhance all three dimensions of adaptation. Data for these cases comes primarily from a review of country National Adaptation Programs of Action (NAPAs) supplemented with research interviews and site visits.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58314/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
引用统计
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468045
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sovacool, Benjamin K,D'Agostino, Anthony Louis,Meenawat, Harsha,et al. Improving climate change adaptation in least developed Asia.. 2012.