Special Issue "Adaptation Strategies for Climate Change"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Air, Climate Change and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Chiranjeewee Khadka
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Department of Landscape Carbon Storage, Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, České Budějovice 370 05, Czech Republic
Interests: forest ecosystem; climate change adaptation; biodiversity indicators and integrated assessment; sustainable forest management and criteria and indicators (C&I); multi-criteria decision making, assessment, and mapping; trade-off analysis and decision support systems; forest planning and management; participatory planning and methods; socio-economic and policy analysis
Prof. Dr. Pavel Cudlin
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Department of Landscape Carbon Storage, Global Change Research Centre, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Interests: root and mycorrhizal ecology; impacts of environmental change on forest ecosystems; changes in land use and carbon budget in the landscape; biodiversity role in ecosystem functioning and ecosystem service provision; adaptation measures to environmental change in forest-agriculture landscape
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Dear Colleagues,

Adaptation strategies for global change address a wide range of interactions between people and the changing world, including global climate change, socio-ecological aspects of sustainability challenges, deforestation and forest degradation, desertification, land-use change, biodiversity loss, and ecosystem functions and services.

This Special Issue provides a forum to review, analyze, and stimulate the development, testing, and implementation of adaptation strategies at regional, national, and global scales. A primary goal of this Special Issue is to compile contributions that address human well-being and natural health effects related to climate change, including analysis and modelling of ecosystem services, socio-ecological research and sustainable governance of ecosystems, assessment of the vulnerability of human society and ecosystems, assessment of the adaptive capacity of human society, and the design of politically acceptable adaptation measures. Manuscripts should provide and present substantial information and analysis on adaptation strategies and initiatives that address efforts to reduce the risks, as well as the human and natural health consequences of global climate change. Analysis of the planning, design, and implementation of specific climate change adaptation measures of future impact scenarios, and enhancing knowledge and improving the data and information based on climate change impacts are both welcomed. Research is highly encouraged that is conducted in partnership with affected communities and stakeholders of climate change impacts, risks, and vulnerabilities, which enables planners and decisions-makers to make the right decisions and offer examples of effective and best strategies to integrate and prevent health effects and foster sustainability. Paper are welcomed on climate change adaptation strategies papers that use qualitative or quantitative approaches for the preparation and implementation of adaptation strategies for climate change, and that work with rational decision-making with different scenarios based on not only nature-based options and solutions but also those defined by diverse stakeholder groups.

Our potential topics include the following:

  • Research that reviews, analyzes, and stimulates policy development, testing, and implementation of climate change adaptation strategies at regional, national, and global scales
  • Best practices to reduce climate change impacts
  • Community-based adaptation strategies
  • Assessment of vulnerability and adaptive capacity
  • Ecosystem mapping and valuations
  • Socio-ecological research and sustainable governance of ecosystems
  • Future scenario planning, and nature and community-based solutions
  • Participatory approaches and GIS modelling of geo-environmental changes

Dr. Chiranjeewee Khadka
Prof. Dr. Pavel Cudlin
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • climate vulnerability assessment
  • community-based adaptation strategies
  • community-based research
  • participatory approaches and mapping
  • sustainability

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Soil and Water Management Practices as a Strategy to Cope with Climate Change Effects in Smallholder Potato Production in the Eastern Highlands of Ethiopia
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6420; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116420 - 04 Jun 2021
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Low soil fertility and climate change-induced low soil moisture are major problems constraining potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production in the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. Climate events are projected to become more pervasive. Therefore, research was conducted with the objective of analyzing smallholder [...] Read more.
Low soil fertility and climate change-induced low soil moisture are major problems constraining potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) production in the eastern highlands of Ethiopia. Climate events are projected to become more pervasive. Therefore, research was conducted with the objective of analyzing smallholder potato farmers’ adaptation strategies to cope with the issues of low soil fertility and low soil moisture that are exacerbated by climate change. The research involved surveying eight purposively selected peasant associations in four major potato-producing districts in east and west Hararghe zones. The survey employed a multistage sampling procedure. Data were collected from 357 households using a standard questionnaire, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, index ranking, and analysis of variance for survey data. The observed climate data for the period of 1988 to 2017 were analyzed. The Mann-Kendall trend test, standard anomaly index, precipitation concentration index, and coefficient of variation were used to analyze the observed climate data. The survey results revealed the farmers, on average, applied 159 kg urea, 165 kg NPS (63 kg P2O5, 31 kg N and 12 kg S), and 1.8 ton of farmyard manure per hectare for producing potatoes. Most smallholder farmers (68.91%) used supplemental irrigation for potato production during the main growing season. The method of irrigation the farmers used was overwhelmingly the furrow method (92.72%). Analyzing the climate data showed that the mean annual temperature increased whereas the mean annual rainfall decreased during the 30-year period. It was concluded that climate change is markedly affecting potato production; in response to this, most of the farmers used supplemental irrigation to cope with moisture stress, all of them applied mineral fertilizers, and some of them additionally applied organic fertilizer to alleviate the problems of soil degradation and nutrient depletion. This implies that soil moisture and nutrient stresses are the major problems constraining potato production against which the farmers need policy and institutional supports to consolidate their coping strategies and build resilience against climate change. Full article
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