A Capacity Approach To Climate Change Modeling: Identifying Crop Management Adaptation Options

Looking into individual choices and local realities to define adaptation options to drought and climate change

Journal of Environmental Management ◽

10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112861 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 293 ◽

pp. 112861

Author(s):

Ana Iglesias ◽

Luis Garrote ◽

Isabel Bardají ◽

David Santillán ◽

Paloma Esteve

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Individual Choices ◽

Adaptation Options

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Revisiting the Functional Zoning Concept under Climate Change to Expand the Portfolio of Adaptation Options

Forests ◽

10.3390/f12030273 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 273

Author(s):

Samuel Royer-Tardif ◽

Jürgen Bauhus ◽

Frédérik Doyon ◽

Philippe Nolet ◽

Nelson Thiffault ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Multiple Use ◽

Management Options ◽

Ecological Processes ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Good Communication ◽

Management Objectives ◽

Functional Zoning ◽

Wide Range ◽

Adaptation Options

Climate change is threatening our ability to manage forest ecosystems sustainably. Despite strong consensus on the need for a broad portfolio of options to face this challenge, diversified management options have yet to be widely implemented. Inspired by functional zoning, a concept aimed at optimizing biodiversity conservation and wood production in multiple-use forest landscapes, we present a portfolio of management options that intersects management objectives with forest vulnerability to better address the wide range of goals inherent to forest management under climate change. Using this approach, we illustrate how different adaptation options could be implemented when faced with impacts related to climate change and its uncertainty. These options range from establishing ecological reserves in climatic refuges, where self-organizing ecological processes can result in resilient forests, to intensive plantation silviculture that could ensure a stable wood supply in an uncertain future. While adaptation measures in forests that are less vulnerable correspond to the traditional functional zoning management objectives, forests with higher vulnerability might be candidates for transformative measures as they may be more susceptible to abrupt changes in structure and composition. To illustrate how this portfolio of management options could be applied, we present a theoretical case study for the eastern boreal forest of Canada. Even if these options are supported by solid evidence, their implementation across the landscape may present some challenges and will require good communication among stakeholders and with the public.

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Subjective realities of climate change: how mental maps of impacts deliver socially sensible adaptation options

Sustainability Science ◽

10.1007/s11625-012-0179-z ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 159-172 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Diana Reckien ◽

Martin Wildenberg ◽

Michael Bachhofer

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Mental Maps ◽

Adaptation Options

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Determinants of Adaptation to Climate Change: A Gendered Analysis from Bahi and Kondoa Districts, Dodoma Region, Tanzania

Journal of Sustainable Development ◽

10.5539/jsd.v10n2p155 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 155

Author(s):

Okuli William Swai

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Multinomial Logit Model ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Men And Women ◽

Land Size ◽

Adaptation Options ◽

Main Factor

Although various long term adaptation measures are currently implemented by farmers to adapt to the effects of climate change in Tanzania, information regarding factors determining choice of adaptation options between men and women is scarce. A gendered analysis was done to analyze determinants of adaptation to climate change in Bahi and Kondoa Districts, Dodoma Region, Tanzania. A cross-sectional research design was adopted whereby the data was collected from a sample of 360 respondents, 12 focus groups and 18 key informants. Analysis of quantitative data involved descriptive statistics and multinomial logit model using Nlogit 3.0 and qualitative data were summarized by using content analysis. Results revealed that the main occupation and land size were the main factors that determined adaptation options for men during food shortage while for women, the main factor was marital status. The village/location of respondents was the main factor that determined climate change adaptation option for women to adapt crops to climate change whereas, for men, access to agricultural knowledge was the main factor that encouraged men to use improved seeds, manure and deep cultivation, instead of selecting and keeping enough seeds for the next season. It is concluded that factors determining choice of climate change adaptation between men and women are not the same, emphasizing the need for gender differentiated interventions to promote climate change adaptation. Thus, planners and policy makers from Agriculture, Livestock and Environment sectors; Tanzania NAPA and other development practitioners dealing with climate change should use gender sensitive interventions to manage climate change.

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