CSIR Contribution to Defining Adaptive Capacity in the Context of Environmental Change

Abstract

The research is focused on understanding and identifying vulnerabilities in developing regions that inherently have fewer institutional capabilities to handle large-scale changes. The qualitative and quantitative analysis of adaptive capacity compares areas in the Mississippi and Nile Basin. The Mississippi case area serves as a more controlled case study with the Nile Basin representing a context with more limited historical data. Environmental change and human behavior over the hundred year time scale (1910-2010) are being used for the analysis. The comparison of environmental change (eg. precipitation and temperature trends) and the corresponding human behavioural responses (eg food access and migration patterns) will provide an input to metric creation, contingent on evidence that changes in local stability are related to environmental change. These metrics will be used to measure areas of vulnerability within both study regions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616366

Entities

People

  • Karen Nortje
  • Marius Claassen

Organizations

  • Council for Scientific and Industrial Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Case Studies
  • Climate Change
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Dams
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Fusion
  • Drainage Basins
  • Environment
  • Environmental Security
  • Ethiopia
  • Flood Control
  • Floods
  • Health Care
  • Human Behavior
  • Mississippi River
  • Regression Analysis
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

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  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.