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Adaptation, adaptive capacity and vulnerability
This paper reviews the concept of adaptation of human communities to global changes, especially climate change, in the context of adaptive capacity and vulnerability. It focuses on scholarship that… Expand
An Anatomy of Adaptation to Climate Change and Variability
- B. Smit, I. Burton, Richard J. T. Klein, J. Wandel
- Psychology
- 1 April 2000
Adaptation to climate variability and change is important both for impact assessment (to estimate adaptations which are likely to occur) and for policy development (to advise on or prescribe… Expand
Adaptation to climate change in the context of sustainable development and equity
- B. Smit, O. Pilifosova, +7 authors E. Harvey
- Business
- 2001
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Adaptation options in agriculture to climate change: a typology
- B. Smit, M. Skinner
- Business
- 1 March 2002
Adaptation in agriculture to climate change is important for impact andvulnerability assessment and for the development of climate change policy. A wide variety of adaptation options has been… Expand
Adaptation in Canadian Agriculture to Climatic Variability and Change
The effects of climatic variability and change on Canadian agriculture have become an important research field since the early 1980s. In this paper, we seek to synthesize this research, focusing on… Expand
Vulnerability to climate change in the Arctic: A case study from Arctic Bay, Canada
Abstract This paper develops a vulnerability-based approach to characterize the human implications of climate change in Arctic Bay, Canada. It focuses on community vulnerabilities associated with… Expand
A Framework for Assessing the Vulnerability of Communities in the Canadian Arctic to Risks Associated with Climate Change
Adaptation to climate change is recognized as an important policy issue by international bodies such as the United Nations and by various national governments. Initiatives to identify adaptation… Expand
Migration as an Adaptation to Climate Change
- Robert McLeman, B. Smit
- Geography
- 30 March 2006
This article presents a conceptual model to investigate population migration as a possible adaptive response to risks associated with climate change. The model reflects established theories of human… Expand
Human adaptation to climatic variability and change
- J. Smithers, B. Smit
- Geography
- 1 July 1997
Recent developments in both the policy arena and the climate impacts research community point to a growing interest in human adaptation to climatic variability and change. The importance of… Expand
Case study and analogue methodologies in climate change vulnerability research.
- J. Ford, E. Keskitalo, +4 authors B. Smit
- Geography
- 1 May 2010
Assessing vulnerability is an important component of human dimensions of climate change (HDCC) research. Vulnerability assessments identify and characterize who and what are sensitive to climatic r… Expand