Assessment of governance strategies for climate adaptation in Flanders / Belgium
Climate discourse in recent decades has mainly focused on the issue of mitigation. Through a better understanding and assessment of climate challenges, adaptation arises as a complementary strategy to mitigation. Vulnerability in relation to climate change is seen as a function of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity. Adaptation can influence sensitivity while mitigating impacts on the exposure to climate change. (IPCC, 2007). Adaptation requires space for climate on a local scale and should therefore be incorporated into the structure of amy given place or region. Consequently, however... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | conference |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2010 |
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Ghent University
Department of Civil engineering |
Schlagwörter: | Earth and Environmental Sciences / policy / adaptation / Climate change |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26601617 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1114853 |