Growing challenges for Danube Carpathian region and a need to integrate mitigation and adaptation options

SciVee ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohdan Prots
Keyword(s):  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Carpathian Region ◽  
Adaptation Options

scholarly journals The future Barents Sea, risks, mitigation and adaptation options

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Planque ◽  
Per Arneberg ◽  
Mette Skern-Mauritzen ◽  
Tor Eldevik ◽  
Nina Mikkelsen
Keyword(s):  
Barents Sea ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
The Barents Sea ◽  
The Future ◽  
Joint Workshop ◽  
Adaptation Options

A joint workshop by the Nansen Legacy and Barents Risk projects, to explore the possible states of the Barents Sea by the horizon 2050, the associated risks and the possible ways to mitigate or adapt to them.

Wildfire risk adaptation: propensity of forestland owners to purchase wildfire insurance in the southern United States

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. 1376-1382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianbang Gan ◽  
Adam Jarrett ◽  
Cassandra Johnson Gaither
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Southern United States ◽  
Market Institutions ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Hurricane Activity ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Wildfire Regimes ◽  
Adaptation Options

The economic and ecological damages caused by wildfires are alarming. Because such damages are expected to increase with changes in wildfire regimes, this calls for more effective wildfire mitigation and adaptation strategies. Wildfire adaptation options for forestland owners include purchasing wildfire insurance, which provides compensation to those insured if a wildfire damages their properties. We attempt to (i) identify factors that influence the decision of family forestland owners in the southern United States to purchase wildfire insurance for their forestlands via logistic regression using landowner survey data and (ii) examine the propensity of these landowners to purchase wildfire insurance under climate change. We find that landowners are much more likely to purchase wildfire insurance if they are female or well educated or if their land is not classed as heirs’ property, has been hit by a hurricane, or has not been burned by wildfire previously. Because climate change is likely to alter future wildfire and hurricane activity in the region, more forestland owners are predicted to purchase wildfire insurance, although the magnitude of such an increase appears moderate under current market institutions. These results would be helpful for developing new wildfire insurance programs and increasing the participation of forestland owners in the wildfire insurance market.

scholarly journals Determinants and Policy Implications of Farmers’ Climate Adaptation Choices in Rural Cameroon

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bate Bate ◽  
Jude Kimengsi ◽  
Sani Amawa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Adaptation Options

The issue of climate change and its related impacts is now a social reality. The paradigm shift today in climate change issues is focused on mitigation and adaptation. Besides mitigation, adaptation is considered as an essential strategy for reducing the severity and cost of climate change impacts given the fact that additional future climate change is considered as being inevitable. In this paper, we analyze household socio-economic determinants of climate change adaptation and their policy implications. A survey of 130 farmers in four farm communities in Cameroon was conducted to capture the determinants of farmers’ adaptation to climate change. We employed the binary Logistic regression model to assess the determinants of climate adaptation. Results reveal that in the midst of climate change, 78.33% of farmers have adopted rainfall-related adaptation while 63.33% have resorted to temperature-related adaptation. Based on the binary logistic regression, access to road, access to non-farm income source, and membership of farmers’ groups were significant determinants for the adoption of temperature-related adaptation options. Furthermore, access to improved seeds was found to be the lone significant determinant for the adoption of rainfall-related adaptation options. All in all, much is required to strengthen farmers’ adaptive capacity and increase the range of adaptation options undertaken. As such, policies geared towards building farmers’ resilience should effectively capture the following tri-factors: provision of access roads linking farm communities to nearby urban centres, upscaling institutional interventions with regards to providing high quality and resistant seeds to farmers, and incentivizing farmers to create or join social groups in order to facilitate adaptation uptake.

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