Adaptation to climate change in the developing world.
Adaptation to climate change in the developing world.
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DOI：
10.1191/1464993403ps060oa
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发表时间：
2003-01-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Hulme, M.
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作者：
Adger, W. N.;Huq, S.;Hulme, M.
我们探讨了气候变化背景下风险和脆弱性的本质，并审查了发展中国家当前适应行动和未来适应协调国际行动的证据。我们认为，所有社会从根本上来说都是适应性的，并且在过去的许多情况下，社会已经适应了气候变化和类似的风险。然而，某些部门对气候变化带来的风险更为敏感，社会中的某些群体比其他群体更容易受到气候变化带来的风险的影响。所有社会都需要增强适应能力，以应对当前和未来超出其经验应对范围的气候变化。气候变化对发展的挑战是当前的。观测到的气候变化、当前的气候变化和未来的变化预期正在改变发展战略的进程，发展机构和政府正在为这一适应挑战做好规划。因此，在地方自然资源管理规模和国际协定和行动规模上提出的主要挑战是在相互竞争的可持续发展目标的背景下提高适应能力。
We explore the nature of risk and vulnerability in the context of climate change and review the evidence on present-day adaptation in developing countries and on coordinated international action on future adaptation. We argue that all societies are fundamentally adaptive and there are many situations in the past where societies have adapted to changes in climate and to similar risks. However, some sectors are more sensitive and some groups in society more vulnerable to the risks posed by climate change than others. All societies need to enhance their adaptive capacity to face both present and future climate change outside their experienced coping range. The challenges of climate change for development are in the present. Observed climate change, present-day climate variability and future expectations of change are changing the course of development strategies and development agencies and governments are now planning for this adaptation challenge. The primary challenge, therefore, posed at both the scale of local natural resource management and at the scale of international agreements and actions, is to promote adaptive capacity in the context of competing sustainable development objectives.