Moldova Climate Adaptation Investment Planning

10.1596/28332 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Adaptation Investment

The Methow Beaver Project: the Challenges of an Ecosystem Services Experiment

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Philip Brick ◽  
Kent Woodruff
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Castor Canadensis ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Natural Resource Policy ◽  
Watershed Scale ◽  
Positive Role ◽  
Climate Conditions

This case explores the Methow Beaver Project (MBP), an ambitious experiment to restore beaver (Castor canadensis) to a high mountain watershed in Washington State, USA. The Pacific Northwest is already experiencing weather regimes consistent with longer term climate projections, which predict longer and drier summers and stronger and wetter winter storms. Ironically, this combination makes imperative more water storage in one of the most heavily dammed regions in the nation. Although the positive role that beaver can play in watershed enhancement has been well known for decades, no project has previously attempted to re-introduce beaver on a watershed scale with a rigorous monitoring protocol designed to document improved water storage and temperature conditions needed for human uses and aquatic species. While the MBP has demonstrated that beaver can be re-introduced on a watershed scale, it has been much more difficult to scientifically demonstrate positive changes in water retention and stream temperature, given hydrologic complexity, unprecedented fire and floods, and the fact that beaver are highly mobile. This case study can help environmental studies students and natural resource policy professionals think about the broader challenges of diffuse, ecosystem services approaches to climate adaptation. Beaver-produced watershed improvements will remain difficult to quantify and verify, and thus will likely remain less attractive to water planners than conventional storage dams. But as climate conditions put additional pressure on such infrastructure, it is worth considering how beaver might be employed to augment watershed storage capacity, even if this capacity is likely to remain at least in part inscrutable.

A Simulation of Generation Investment Planning Development under Competitive Environment

2008 ◽  
Vol 128 (2) ◽  
pp. 397-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akira Matsumoto ◽  
Ryoichi Hara ◽  
Hiroyuki Kita ◽  
Jun Hasegawa
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Environment ◽  
Investment Planning ◽  
Planning Development

Who Should Pay for Climate Adaptation? Public Attitudes and the Financing of Flood Protection in Florida

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 535-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Merrill ◽  
Jack Kartez ◽  
Karen Langbehn ◽  
Frank Muller-Karger ◽  
Catherine J. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Flood Protection

scholarly journals Evidence for local climate adaptation in early-life traits of Tasmanian populations of Eucalyptus pauciflora

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Archana Gauli ◽  
René E. Vaillancourt ◽  
Tanya G. Bailey ◽  
Dorothy A. Steane ◽  
Brad M. Potts
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Life Traits

scholarly journals Understanding institutional barriers in the climate change adaptation planning process of the city of Beirut: vicious cycles and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Zea-Reyes ◽  
Veronica Olivotto ◽  
Sylvia I. Bergh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Data Bank ◽  
Institutional Barriers ◽  
Political Interference ◽  
Poor Individual ◽  
Competing Priorities

AbstractCities around the world are confronted with the need to put in place climate adaptation policies to protect citizens and properties from climate change impacts. This article applies components of the framework developed by Moser and Ekström (2010) onto empirical qualitative data to diagnose institutional barriers to climate change adaptation in the Municipality of Beirut, Lebanon. Our approach reveals the presence of two vicious cycles influencing each other. In the first cycle, the root cause barrier is major political interference generating competing priorities and poor individual interest in climate change. A second vicious cycle is derived from feedbacks caused by the first and leading to the absence of a dedicated department where sector specific climate risk information is gathered and shared with other departments, limited knowledge and scientific understanding, as well as a distorted framing or vision, where climate change is considered unrelated to other issues and is to be dealt with at higher levels of government. The article also highlights the need to analyze interlinkages between barriers in order to suggest how to overcome them. The most common way to overcome barriers according to interviewees is through national and international support followed by the creation of a data bank. These opportunities could be explored by national and international policy-makers to break the deadlock in Beirut.

scholarly journals The tepary bean genome provides insight into evolution and domestication under heat stress

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samira Mafi Moghaddam ◽  
Atena Oladzad ◽  
Chushin Koh ◽  
Larissa Ramsay ◽  
John P. Hart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heat Stress ◽  
Common Bean ◽  
Sonoran Desert ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Human Consumption ◽  
Disease Resistance Gene ◽  
Gene Repertoire ◽  
Tepary Bean ◽  
Hot Environments ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractTepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolis A. Gray), native to the Sonoran Desert, is highly adapted to heat and drought. It is a sister species of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.), the most important legume protein source for direct human consumption, and whose production is threatened by climate change. Here, we report on the tepary genome including exploration of possible mechanisms for resilience to moderate heat stress and a reduced disease resistance gene repertoire, consistent with adaptation to arid and hot environments. Extensive collinearity and shared gene content among these Phaseolus species will facilitate engineering climate adaptation in common bean, a key food security crop, and accelerate tepary bean improvement.

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