Climate Change Adaptations in Rural Planning

Climate-Change Adaptations in Land-Use Planning; A Scenario-Based Approach

Socio-economic and climatic changes are expected to alter the current land-use patterns in the Netherlands. In order to study these uncertain developments and propose adaptation and mitigation strategies to cope with the possible changes in the physical and societal environment a set of future scenarios is developed. These scenarios integrate possible socioeconomic and climatic changes and are ...

Climate Change and Conservation Planning in Minnesota

Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient.

All human-environment systems adapt to climate and its natural variation. Adaptation to human-induced change in climate has largely been envisioned as increments of these adaptations intended to avoid disruptions of systems at their current locations. In some places, for some systems, however, vulnerabilities and risks may be so sizeable that they require transformational rather than incrementa...

Climate change and evolutionary adaptations at species' range margins.

During recent climate warming, many insect species have shifted their ranges to higher latitudes and altitudes. These expansions mirror those that occurred after the Last Glacial Maximum when species expanded from their ice age refugia. Postglacial range expansions have resulted in clines in genetic diversity across present-day distributions, with a reduction in genetic diversity observed in a ...

Adaptations of forest ecosystems to air pollution and climate change.