Sökning: "Adaptive security"

Visar resultat 21 - 25 av 52 uppsatser innehållade orden Adaptive security.

1. 21. “I am fighting the best I can” : Women’s adaptive capacity when facing rain variability in Paje,Zanzibar (Tanzania)

   Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi

   Författare :Felicia Folkeryd; [2020]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : Many of the world’s most impoverished populations rely on farming, hunting and gathering to eat and earn a living where people often have just enough food and assets to last through the next season, and ultimately inadequate reserves to fall back on in the event of a poor harvest. Rural resource-dependent livelihoods are embedded in high risks, as climate variability and climate extremes are additional stressors to poverty. LÄS MER

3. 22. Fostering Anticipatory Action via Social Protection Systems : A Case Study of the Climate Vulnerability of Flood-Exposed Social Security Allowance Beneficiaries in Bardiya District, Nepal

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Sabrina Desroches; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Climate disaster; climate vulnerability; climate resilience; social protection; Shock Responsive Social Protection; Adaptive Social Protection; Early Warning Systems; Forecast-based Financing; Floods; Nepal;

   Sammanfattning : Rationale – Climate disasters represent a significant and growing proportion of the humanitarian burden and are a key factor in increasing poverty and insecurity. A myriad of studies demonstrate that aid delivered in an ex-ante fashion can be effective in mitigating losses of life, assets and livelihoods associated with climate hazards. LÄS MER

4. 23. Resilience and Adaptivity of EU Pesticides Law - Assessing Theory and Legal Capacity

   Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Juridiska institutionen

   Författare :Henrik Jansson; [2019-08-09]
   Nyckelord :pesticides; agriculture; resilience; EU law; adaptive law;

   Sammanfattning : The utilisation of pesticides within agriculture may contribute to a transgression of the ecological boundaries of the Earth. However, pesticides play an essential role in sustaining human welfare by providing food security. LÄS MER

5. 24. Who’s responsible? : A study of strategies for handling climate migration

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Författare :My Andersson; [2019]
   Nyckelord :climate migration; climate change; framing; problem definition; sustainable development.;

   Sammanfattning : The issue of climate migration has long been struggling to make its way onto the international agenda. This study therefore set out to shed a light on eleven strategies for handling climate migration. The study builds on the work by Ransan-Cooper et al. LÄS MER

7. 25. Climate change effects on the sub-Saharan agriculture- a case study in Kenya on maize growth and adaptation options

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Författare :Alessia Signorelli; [2019]
   Nyckelord :physical geography; sub-saharan africa; agriculture; maize; climate change; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Sammanfattning : Climate change is progressively advancing, and is affecting the entire globe, with some areas more vulnerable than others. Among them, the sub-Saharan Africa, with a very low adaptive capacity, mainly relies on one economic sector: agriculture. Due to its high climate-dependency, agriculture is at elevated risk. LÄS MER