A Review of Assessment and Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change Impacts on the Coastal Areas in South China

<p>This paper develops a participatory methodology to integrate farmer’s vision in the design of an adaptation strategy to global change in the Jucar River basin. It aims at answering three questions: How farmers perceive climate change impacts; which adaptation measures they consider; and how they assess these measures. Participatory workshops with different actors were held in two areas (La Ribera and La Mancha Oriental). This methodology has allowed identifying the local impacts and consequences of global change, and the difficulties of the adaptation processes to climate change scenarios.</p>

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Socioeconomic Study of Climate Change and its Impacts on Livelihoods of People Living Around the Coastal Areas of the Gambia

Journal of Accounting Business and Finance Research ◽

10.20448/2002.131.26.36 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 26

Author(s):

Momodou Mustapha Fanneh

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

Tree Planting ◽

Community Residents ◽

Access To Water ◽

Hospital Cleanliness ◽

And Coping

The research aims to assess the effects of climate change on the livelihood of people living around the coastal areas and coping strategies used. The study uses a quantitative method with semi-structured interview questionnaire and convenient sampling method and conducts a survey of coastal community residents in Banjul, Barra, Bakau, Tanji, Sanyang, Gunjur, and Kartong and uses a descriptive analysis. Majority of respondents are self-employed as fishermen, and fish dryers, fish smokers, ship builders and boat riders. Most of the borrowing is done individually and the line of credit is mostly below D20,000 and more than 85% receive less than that amount. More than 60% of the respondents have no access to land and 4.71% stated that they do not have access to water. Most of the respondents rank their friends as their source of borrowing followed by families and banks. About 93% stated that it takes them less than 40 minutes to get to the nearest health facility. Adaptation strategies employed to deal with health problems during variable and extreme climate are going to hospital, cleanliness, eating healthy using herbal medicine. More than 85% of the respondents did not experience shortage of food in a year. But price of food has been increasing over the last 5 years. Finally, respondents favored adaptation strategy is saving followed by involving in other livelihood activities, government assistance, cleaning the environment, tree planting and protection of coastal areas.

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Ecotourism as an Adaptation Strategy for Mitigating Climate Change Impacts on Local Communities Around Protected Areas in Ghana

Handbook of Climate Change Resilience ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-93336-8_159 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 537-555

Author(s):

Yaw Boakye Agyeman

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Protected Areas ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Local Communities

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Effect of border policy on exposure and vulnerability to climate change

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2007597117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (43) ◽

pp. 26692-26702

Author(s):

Hélène Benveniste ◽

Michael Oppenheimer ◽

Marc Fleurbaey

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

International Migration ◽

Population Distribution ◽

Migration Policy ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Lack Of Information ◽

Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽

International Climate Policy ◽

Border Policy

Migration may be increasingly used as adaptation strategy to reduce populations’ exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts. Conversely, either through lack of information about risks at destinations or as outcome of balancing those risks, people might move to locations where they are more exposed to climatic risk than at their origin locations. Climate damages, whose quantification informs understanding of societal exposure and vulnerability, are typically computed by integrated assessment models (IAMs). Yet migration is hardly included in commonly used IAMs. In this paper, we investigate how border policy, a key influence on international migration flows, affects exposure and vulnerability to climate change impacts. To this aim, we include international migration and remittance dynamics explicitly in a widely used IAM employing a gravity model and compare four scenarios of border policy. We then quantify effects of border policy on population distribution, income, exposure, and vulnerability and of CO2 emissions and temperature increase for the period 2015 to 2100 along five scenarios of future development and climate change. We find that most migrants tend to move to areas where they are less exposed and vulnerable than where they came from. Our results confirm that migration and remittances can positively contribute to climate change adaptation. Crucially, our findings imply that restrictive border policy can increase exposure and vulnerability, by trapping people in areas where they are more exposed and vulnerable than where they would otherwise migrate. These results suggest that the consequences of migration policy should play a greater part in deliberations about international climate policy.

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Perceived Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Strategy of Indigenous Community (Chepangs) in Rural Mid-hills of Nepal

Forestry: Journal of Institute of Forestry, Nepal ◽

10.3126/forestry.v16i0.28353 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

pp. 48-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pragya Khanal ◽

Bishnu H. Wagle ◽

Suraj Upadhaya ◽

Prayash Ghimire ◽

Suman Acharya

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Local Level ◽

National Level ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Adaptation Strategies ◽

Marginalized Communities ◽

Indigenous Group ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is projected to increase in vulnerable areas of the world, and marginalized communities residing in rural areas are more vulnerable to the change. The perceptions of climate change and adaptation strategies made by such communities are important considerations in the design of adaptation strategies by policy-makers. We examined the most marginalized indigenous group "Chepang" communities' perceptions towards this change, variability, and their attitudes to adaptations and adapted coping measures in mid-hills of Nepal. We interviewed 155 individuals from two Chepang communities, namely, Shaktikhor and Siddhi in Chitwan district of Nepal. We also analyzed biophysical data to assess the variability. The findings showed that the Chepang community has experienced significant impacts of climate change and variability. They attributed crop disease, insect infestation, human health problem, and weather-related disaster as the impacts of climate change. Strategies they have adopted in response to the change are the use of intense fertilizers in farmland, hybrid seeds cultivation, crop diversification, etc. Local level and national level adaptation policies need to be designed and implemented as soon as possible to help climate vulnerable communities like Chepangs to cope against the impacts of climate change.

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Development of an integrated computational tool to assess climate change impacts on water supply–demand and flood inundation

Journal of Hydroinformatics ◽

10.2166/hydro.2013.018 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 710-730 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Pao-Shan Yu ◽

Tao-Chang Yang ◽

Chen-Min Kuo ◽

Shien-Tsung Chen

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Supply ◽

Impact Assessment ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Water Shortage ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Future Scenarios ◽

Assess Climate Change ◽

Southern Taiwan

This paper aims to propose a decision support system (DSS) for evaluating the climate change impacts on water supply–demand and inundation; and assessing the risks for water shortage and inundation under future scenarios. The proposed DSS framework is universal and flexible, which comprises five modules integrated by a geographic information system platform, including the modules of (1) scenario rainfall and temperature projection under climate change, (2) impact assessment of water supply–demand, (3) impact assessment of inundation, (4) assessment of vulnerability and risk, and (5) adaptation strategy. A case study in southern Taiwan was performed to demonstrate how the DSS provides information on the climate change impacts and risks under future scenarios. The information is beneficial to the authorities of water resources management for understanding the spatial risks for water shortage and inundation, and planning suitable adaptation strategies for the locations with larger risks.

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The Role of Local Champion In Community - Based Adaptation In Semarang Coastal Area

JURNAL PEMBANGUNAN WILAYAH & KOTA ◽

10.14710/pwk.v12i3.12901 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 263

Author(s):

Bintang Septiarani ◽

Wiwandari Handayani

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

Adaptation To Climate Change ◽

Community Based ◽

Government Organizations ◽

The Government ◽

Adaptation Processes ◽

Community Based Adaptation

Community-based adaptation (CBA) is a new approach that is attractive because it is a process of planning led by the community, based on community priorities, needs, knowledge and capacity - a process that should empower people to plan for climate change impacts (Hordijk and baud, 2010). Governance at the community level regarded to be a way to help them in adapting and maintain their livelihood on the coastal so that they can remain in the region. Governance in community engaged individual communities to group and jointly manages their livelihoods and conservation in their coastal areas. The intervention of the government and non-government organizations also play a role in the process of adaptation that occurs. This paper aim to elaborate the role of local champion in CBA process. Interesting findings from Tapak Village, Semarang who have done their community-based adaptation process is that the involvement of the community in the adaptation to climate change is greatly influenced by the presence of local champion in the region. The existence of networks between community and the relevant stakeholders in both the government and non-government organizations also became one of the supporting factors for the sustainability of community-based adaptation processes in coastal areas of Semarang City.

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Vulnerability to Inundation and Climate Change Impacts in California: Coastal Managers' Attitudes and Perceptions

Marine Technology Society Journal ◽

10.4031/002533206787353169 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 35-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 30

Author(s):

Susanne C. Moser ◽

John Tribbia

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Sea Level Rise ◽

Sea Level ◽

San Francisco ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

Federal Agencies ◽

Past Century ◽

Survey Results ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Coastal California has witnessed persistent sea-level rise (10-20 cm) along its southern and central open ocean coastal sections and in San Francisco Bay over the past century. This paper aims to understand the perceptions of local coastal managers in California of current inundation-related risks, the added risks from climate change, and vulnerability to the growing coastal problems. We also explore the extent to which coastal managers are beginning to think about and tackle these increasing management challenges. Survey results presented here suggest that inundation already creates critical management challenges in California, but other, non-inundation-related coastal problems also vie for managers' attention. Despite high awareness of global warming and moderately good understanding of potential impacts of climate change on coastal areas, currently pressing issues and limited staff time and resources constrain their ability to begin dealing with the growing risks from sea-level rise. The sobering conclusion is that California is inadequately preparing for the impacts of climate change on coastal areas at this time. Local government will need substantial support from state and federal agencies if the level of preparedness for climate change and other inundation-related risks is to be elevated in the future.

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