Over the last decade many large world cities have scaled up efforts at climate adaptation, a primary focus of which is protecting population health. With extreme weather disasters increasing worldwide, public health agencies are among local institutions under greatest stress; Covid-19 pandemic has only heightened pressure on these agencies. Yet limited literature examining adaptation actions ac...

As users are becoming more mobile and information services are increasingly being personalised, the need for computer systems to adapt to the user is also increasing. One important aspect of this adaptation is the ability to solve problems in a dynamic environment. We propose a multiagent based approach to dynamically planning and problem solving. This approach allows for construction of plans ...

The impacts of climate change on air quality (tropospheric ozone pollution, particulate matter atmospheric deposition effect, and extreme weather events) greatly threaten most creatures the earth who need to breathe fresh non-toxic air. To respond concerning air, many countries have proposed corresponding adaptation plans reduce these impacts. In this study, a Climate Change Adaptation Plan Air...

The paper provides an overview on the authoring process in the adaptive learning environment with support of advanced leaning strategies. We explain the concept of the metadata model and adaptation process implemented in the L learning environment. We provide a summary of experiences from different projects using L, point out the most common difficulties during the authoring process and describ...

To deal with large uncertainties about future climate and socio-economic developments, planners in deltas are adopting an integrative adaptive planning approach referred to as Adaptive Delta Management (ADM). Bangladesh has used the ADM for development of its plan; Plan 2100 (BDP 2100). The success policy strategies delta plan critically depends on a specific adaptation livelihoods local commun...

The aim of this study was to investigate the localized training for teachers during reform education system in Kuwait between 2015 and 2017. It focuses on analyzing professional development plans that were delivered four core subjects elementary middle public schools. A mixed-method approach employed, using quantitative one-way ANOVA in-depth interviews school visits collect analyze data. resul...