Climate change and pastoralists: perceptions and adaptation in montane Kenya

Climate Change and Adaptation

Adaptation and Climate Change

This paper deals with the often ignored issue of adaptation to human-induced climate change. Adaptation is not only inevitable but essential to fashioning the least-social-cost strategy to addressing climate change. The urgency for limiting climate change is inversely proportional to society's adaptability. Some limitation strategies are incompatible with adaptation goals (e.g., reducing CO2 ra...

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Effect of Climate Change on potato Production and assessment adaptation strategies in Fereydounshahr

In order to study was to evaluate future climate Fereydunshahr of Isfahan for the next hundred years and its effect on potato production in Fereydunshahr. To forecast future climate conditions in Fereydunshahr were collected daily climate data including maximum and minimum temperature, rainfall and sunshine hours in this region during the period 1982 to 2012. In this study was used to simulate ...

Climate Change and Agricultural Adaptation

Acknowledgements: This paper serves as background to the sixth presentation in a symposium series on Global Food Policy and Food Security hosted by the Center on Food Security and Environment at Stanford University, and supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. I would like to thank Wally Falcon and Michela Biasutti for comments on an earlier version of this manuscript. Abstract Food ...