Beyond Mitigation: Planning for Climate Change Adaptation

Beyond Mitigation: Planning for Climate Change Adaptation

Integrating Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation with Urban planning for a Livable city in Tehran

Climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of Tehran. City has a commitment to decentralizatio...

integrating climate change adaptation and mitigation with urban planning for a livable city in tehran

climate change impacts are seen within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, so there is growing interest in the adaptation and mitigation plans and programs put forward by city authorities. this paper aims to provide a better understanding of the constraints which cities face them in this subject by analyzing the case of tehran. city has a commitment to decentralizatio...

Session 4 Managing Soils for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation

Intense interest in soil organic matter (SOM) over its role in the storage of terrestrial carbon (C) and in the release of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere manifests itself in a renewal of research efforts to assess the impacts of different soil management systems on C dynamics. This paper assesses the future role of selected systems for managing agricultural and pastoral land; addressing ...

Synergisms between climate change mitigation and adaptation: an insurance perspective

As the world’s largest industry, the insurance sector is both an aggregator of the impacts of climate change and a market actor able to play a material role in decreasing the vulnerability of human and natural systems. This article reviews the implications of climate change for insurers and provides specific examples of insurance-relevant synergisms between adaptation and mitigation in the buil...