Identifying leverage points for strengthening adaptive capacity to climate change

Human Health and Climate Change: Leverage Points for Adaptation in Urban Environments

The design of adaptation strategies that promote urban health and well-being in the face of climate change requires an understanding of the feedback interactions that take place between the dynamical state of a city, the health of its people, and the state of the planet. Complexity, contingency and uncertainty combine to impede the growth of such systemic understandings. In this paper we sugges...

Strengthening Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture: Experience and Lessons from Lesotho

Strengthening confidence in climate change impact science

1Department of Zoology and Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4, 2National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA, 3Department of Global Change Research, Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, IMEDEA (UIB-CSIC), 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Spain, 4The UWA Oceans Institute...

Acclimation capacity underlies susceptibility to climate change.

Recent reports have presented meta-analyses of global biological impacts of climate change (1, 2). However, there is debate as to the level of confidence ascribed to the certainty that global climate change has caused the observed biological changes (3). Two important considerations in the assessment of how climate change will impact organisms are (i) how close organisms are to their thermal li...

Adaptive Strategies for Climate Change