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  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,272 Views
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Envisioning Climate Change Adaptation Futures Using Storytelling Workshops

  • Rachel Harcourt,
  • Wändi Bruine de Bruin,
  • Suraje Dessai and
  • Andrea Taylor

10 June 2021

Engaging people in preparing for inevitable climate change may help them to improve their own safety and contribute to local and national adaptation objectives. However, existing research shows that individual engagement with adaptation is low. One c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,635 Views
9 Pages

9 December 2022

This study presents a new method, a subgroup method, of predicting future vulnerabilities to high temperatures. In this method, the total population is divided into subgroups based on characteristics such as age. The adaptation trends are extracted f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,820 Views
21 Pages

18 February 2024

In the field of climate change adaptation, the future matters. River futures influence the way adaptation projects are implemented in rivers. In this paper, we challenge the ways in which dominant paradigms and expert claims monopolise the truth conc...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,381 Views
14 Pages

A Forward Future-Based Approach to Optimizing Agriculture and Climate Change Adaptation in Lower Eastern Kenya

  • Lilian Wangui Ndungu,
  • John Bosco Kyalo Kiema,
  • David Nyangau Siriba,
  • Denis Macharia Muthike and
  • Samuel Wamathai Ndungu

30 November 2022

Kenya’s vulnerability to climate variability and change has been compounded by dependence on rain-fed agriculture with constrained capacity to adapt, a rapidly growing population, low-mechanized and low-input smallholder agricultural systems, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,139 Views
43 Pages

Artificial intelligence-enabled adaptive learning systems (AI-ALS) have been increasingly utilized in education. Schools are usually afforded the freedom to deploy the AI-ALS that they prefer. However, even before artificial intelligence autonomously...

  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
10,995 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2020

This work estimates that if the growth of polymer production continues at its current rate of 5% each year, the current annual production of 395 million tons of plastic will exceed 1000 million tons by 2039. Only 9% of the plastics that are currently...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,393 Views
9 Pages

Projections of the magnitude and pattern of possible health risks from climate change should be based on multiple climate and development scenarios to describe the range of uncertainties, to inform effective and efficient policies. For a better under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,173 Views
12 Pages

7 November 2017

Occupant factor is a critical element in the overall energy consumption of buildings. This study aims to reveal how occupant factors influence the energy consumption of example buildings in Seoul, Tokyo, and Hong Kong under climate change projections...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,455 Views
14 Pages

The Arctic Highlights Our Failure to Act in a Rapidly Changing World

  • Peter Schlosser,
  • Hajo Eicken,
  • Vera Metcalf,
  • Stephanie Pfirman,
  • Maribeth S. Murray and
  • Clea Edwards

7 February 2022

In this perspective on the future of the Arctic, we explore actions taken to mitigate warming and adapt to change since the Paris agreement on the temperature threshold that should not be exceeded in order to avoid dangerous interference with the cli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
629 Views
18 Pages

Ecological Outcomes and Societal Transformation: Multiple Visions for Adaptation in the Great Barrier Reef

  • Gillian Paxton,
  • Stewart Lockie,
  • Rana Dadpour,
  • Henry A. Bartelet and
  • Bruce Taylor

6 November 2025

Fears regarding the future of coral reefs are reflected in a growing scientific effort, worldwide, to help corals survive and adapt to the impacts of climate change through new management strategies. To be viable, these strategies must not only be ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,533 Views
23 Pages

Future Climate Projections and Uncertainty Evaluations for Frost Decay Exposure Index in Norway

  • Jørn Emil Gaarder,
  • Helga Therese Tilley Tajet,
  • Andreas Dobler,
  • Hans Olav Hygen and
  • Tore Kvande

11 September 2024

To implement the geographical and future climate adaptation of building moisture design for building projects, practitioners need efficient tools, such as precalculated climate indices to assess climate loads. Among them, the Frost Decay Exposure Ind...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,039 Views
8 Pages

Cities and Climate Change

  • John Rennie Short and
  • Abbey Farmer

27 November 2021

This review paper considers the disjuncture between the rapid pace of climate change and the more sluggish ability of cities to fully implement effective strategies of climate change adaptation and mitigation. We will refer to this as the ‘slow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,160 Views
22 Pages

Navigating the complexity of petroleum futures markets—marked by extreme volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and macroeconomic shocks—demands adaptive and risk-sensitive strategies. This paper explores an Adaptive Risk-sensitive Transfo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,951 Views
12 Pages

28 February 2025

This study investigates how perceived parental criticism is associated with career confidence in students and workers, considering the mediating role of the fear of an uncertain future. In a rapidly changing labor market, students, as young individua...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
12,983 Views
20 Pages

31 July 2013

The Low Carbon Future Cities (LCFC) project aims at facing a three dimensional challenge by developing an integrated city roadmap balancing: low carbon development, gains in resource efficiency and adaptation to climate change. The paper gives an ove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,806 Views
16 Pages

Impact of Climate Change on the Energy and Comfort Performance of nZEB: A Case Study in Italy

  • Serena Summa,
  • Luca Tarabelli,
  • Giulia Ulpiani and
  • Costanzo Di Perna

2 November 2020

Climate change is posing a variety of challenges in the built realm. Among them is the change in future energy consumption and the potential decay of current energy efficient paradigms. Indeed, today’s near-zero Energy buildings (nZEBs) may los...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,037 Views
25 Pages

Designing the Adaptive Landscape: Leapfrogging Stacked Vulnerabilities

  • Rob Roggema,
  • Nico Tillie and
  • Matthijs Hollanders

4 February 2021

In the Anthropocene, climate impacts are expected to fundamentally change the way we live in, and plan and design for, our cities and landscapes. Long-term change and uncertainty require a long view, while current planning approaches and policy makin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
819 Views
33 Pages

9 November 2025

Historic urban cores face escalating pressures from climate change, rapid urbanization, and uncoordinated redevelopment, which often threaten their cultural identity and social cohesion, demanding innovative solutions that balance heritage conservati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,954 Views
18 Pages

Ecological Adaptation of Two Dominant Conifer Species to Extreme Climate in the Tianshan Mountains

  • Xuan Wu,
  • Liang Jiao,
  • Xiaoping Liu,
  • Ruhong Xue,
  • Changliang Qi and
  • Dashi Du

12 July 2023

With global warming, the frequency, intensity, and period of extreme climates in more areas will probably increase in the twenty first century. However, the impact of climate extremes on forest vulnerability and the mechanisms by which forests adapt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,409 Views
23 Pages

Simulating the Impacts of Tree, C3, and C4 Plant Functional Types on the Future Climate of West Africa

  • Christiana Funmilola Olusegun,
  • Philip G. Oguntunde and
  • Emiola O. Gbobaniyi

2 May 2018

This study investigates the future climatic impacts of different percentages of trees/shrubs, C4 and C3 plant functional types (PFTs) over the West Africa region. The ratio of co-existence among the different PFTs was done as a representation of agri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,205 Views
32 Pages

19 December 2024

The ridge–furrow plastic mulching technique has been widely applied due to its benefits of increasing temperature, conserving moisture, reducing evaporation, and boosting yields. Hydrus-2D is a computer model designed to simulate the two-dimens...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2,676 Views
22 Pages

The outbreak of COVID-19 signaled an unprecedented era of unforeseen events which, among others, affected in-person psychological therapy (IPT). On the one hand, it could be argued that psychological therapy had the foundations to make the transition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,360 Views
13 Pages

10 January 2020

On the brink of sophisticated generations of mobile starting with the fifth-generation (5G) and moving on to the future mobile technologies, the necessity for developing the wireless telecommunications waveform is extremely required. The main reason...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
7,740 Views
21 Pages

31 July 2023

The emerging literature concerning sustainable careers posits that career development is an adaptive and dynamic process of creating person–career fit, in pursuit of a career that is happy, healthy, and productive. Our goal is to advance this l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,423 Views
17 Pages

Expectations of Future Natural Hazards in Human Adaptation to Concurrent Extreme Events in the Colorado River Basin

  • Riccardo Boero,
  • Carl James Talsma,
  • Julia Andre Oliveto and
  • Katrina Eleanor Bennett

18 February 2022

Human adaptation to climate change is the outcome of long-term decisions continuously made and revised by local communities. Adaptation choices can be represented by economic investment models in which the often large upfront cost of adaptation is of...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,194 Views
18 Pages

Managing Circular Business Model Uncertainties with Future Adaptive Design

  • Thomas Nyström,
  • Katherine A. Whalen,
  • Derek Diener,
  • Marcel den Hollander and
  • Robert H. W. Boyer

16 September 2021

Designing products that can adapt to changes over time is crucial for managing product-related business risks in circular business models. However, there is limited circular economy research on how product adaptivity can contribute to more circular p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,342 Views
28 Pages

Adapting to Industry 4.0 in France: Essential Competencies for a Future-Ready Workforce

  • Cristina Rodrigues Piazer Turcato,
  • Bruno Pedroso,
  • Maik Arnold and
  • Claudia Tania Picinin

30 November 2024

This paper identifies skills required for workers in Industry 4.0 in France and provides insights to guide the development of a future research agenda. The research draws on a bibliometric analysis of 80 papers, mapping the technical and interpersona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
18,017 Views
12 Pages

8 February 2024

Climate change adaptation is a critical response to the challenges posed by climate change and is important for building resilience. Progress in adaptation efforts has been made globally, nationally, and locally through international agreements, nati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,288 Views
22 Pages

Coastal Adaptation Pathways and Tipping Points for Typical Mediterranean Beaches under Future Scenarios

  • Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla,
  • Vicente Gracia and
  • Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla

Coastal zones experience increasing climatic and human pressures, which lead to growing risks and tipping points (TPs) under future scenarios and natural resource scarcity. To avoid crossing TPs with irreversible coastal losses, this paper proposes t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
227 Citations
23,415 Views
15 Pages

29 December 2020

The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is an ancient traditional crop in the Mediterranean Basin. In the Mediterranean region, traditional olive orchards are distinguishable by their prevailing climatic conditions. Olive trees are indeed considered one of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
10,275 Views
17 Pages

22 June 2023

The effort to preserve historic buildings for the future has always been on the agenda of experts on local and global scales and been supported by many initiatives and strategies. Within the scope of this research, the concept of “adaptive reus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,132 Views
25 Pages

21 June 2022

Agriculture production has been found to be the most sensitive sector to climate change. Northeast China (NEC) is one of the world’s major regions for spring maize production and it has been affected by climate change due to increases in temper...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,522 Views
30 Pages

The global climate is changing. Predicting the impacts this will have on buildings is the first step in the process of finding suitable building adaptation measures. Future climate adaptation of buildings and infrastructure is a growing field of rese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
12,328 Views
14 Pages

Models of Future Teachers’ Adaptation to New Post-Pandemic Digital Educational Scenarios

  • Ángela Martín-Gutiérrez,
  • María Dolores Díaz-Noguera,
  • Carlos Hervás-Gómez and
  • Gloria Luisa Morales-Pérez

1 November 2022

The aim of this study was to determine the post-pandemic learning adaptation scenarios from the perspective of university students from the Faculty of Education Science of the University of Seville (Spain) as a function of the competencies identified...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,241 Views
12 Pages

The term “urban planning for the contemporary age” describes the process of creating and overseeing urban areas to meet the many complex issues of the current times, such as social justice, climate change, growing urbanisation, and techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,283 Views
23 Pages

Future Water: A Multi-University International Web Seminar

  • Michael Pointl,
  • João Marques,
  • Frances C. Pick,
  • Camilo Salcedo,
  • Ina Vertommen,
  • Mohamad Zeidan,
  • Joby Boxall,
  • Maria C. Cunha,
  • Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch and
  • Donghwi Jung
  • + 3 authors

28 June 2024

Historically, water utilities have relied on tried-and-true practices in the design and operation of their infrastructure, tapping new resources and expanding networks as needed. However, as the effects of climate change and/or urbanization increasin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
17,192 Views
19 Pages

28 March 2013

Global catastrophes, such as nuclear war, pandemics and ecological collapse threaten the sustainability of human civilization. To date, most work on global catastrophes has focused on preventing the catastrophes, neglecting what happens to any catast...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,071 Views
27 Pages

Conventional approaches in architecture and urban planning still rest on modernist, deterministic assumptions that downplay the nonlinearity and deep uncertainty that characterize contemporary cities. Sustainability, although crucial, has often been...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,762 Views
21 Pages

19 June 2025

Urbanisation in the context of climate change and rapid population growth presents an urgent need for innovative and sustainable urban planning. This study introduces the Green Blueprint, an original, spatially grounded, and evidence-informed concept...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,816 Views
15 Pages

Traits of Adaptive Outdoor Thermal Comfort in a Tropical Urban Microclimate

  • Chng Saun Fong,
  • Suneja Manavvi,
  • Radhakrishnan Shanthi Priya,
  • Logaraj Ramakreshnan,
  • Nik Meriam Sulaiman and
  • Nasrin Aghamohammadi

Urban heat islands (UHIs) are negatively impacting the quality of the urban environment and outdoor thermal comfort (OTC) levels, which have raised concerns regarding their impact on urban health and well-being. Understanding of OTC level is crucial,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
17,844 Views
26 Pages

Hemp Agronomy: Current Advances, Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities

  • John Sunoj Valiaparambil Sebastian,
  • Xuejun Dong,
  • Calvin Trostle,
  • Hanh Pham,
  • Madhumita V. Joshi,
  • Russell W. Jessup,
  • Mark D. Burow and
  • Tony L. Provin

6 February 2023

Hemp (Cannabis sativa L. ssp. sativa) has a long history of domestication due to its versatile use. Recently, different sectors in the economy are investigating hemp cultivation to increase agronomic production and to limit delta-9-tetrahydrocannabin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,914 Views
11 Pages

Deep Learning and Antibiotic Resistance

  • Stefan Lucian Popa,
  • Cristina Pop,
  • Miruna Oana Dita,
  • Vlad Dumitru Brata,
  • Roxana Bolchis,
  • Zoltan Czako,
  • Mohamed Mehdi Saadani,
  • Abdulrahman Ismaiel,
  • Dinu Iuliu Dumitrascu and
  • Simona Grad
  • + 3 authors

21 November 2022

Antibiotic resistance (AR) is a naturally occurring phenomenon with the capacity to render useless all known antibiotics in the fight against bacterial infections. Although bacterial resistance appeared before any human life form, this process has ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
23 Pages

7 November 2025

This study investigates the thermal resilience of naturally ventilated Lebanese residential buildings in the context of future climates, based on four climate zones: coastal (moderate and humid), low mountain (cool and seasonally variable), inland pl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
8,868 Views
15 Pages

21 April 2018

With regard to global climate change due to increasing concentration in greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide (CO2), it is important to examine its potential impact on crop development and production. We used statistically-downscaled climate...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
1,659 Views
37 Pages

Futures Literacy, as defined and promoted by UNESCO, is the capability to imagine, question, and use the future as a resource for better understanding the present and acting with intention. When applied to Cultural Heritage Education, it reframes her...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,927 Views
10 Pages

4 February 2013

If we wish to understand how our species can adapt to the coming tide of environmental change, then understanding how we have adapted throughout the course of evolution is vital. Evolutionary biologists have been exploring these questions in the last...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,187 Views
31 Pages

Surprising Drought Tolerance of Fir (Abies) Species between Past Climatic Adaptation and Future Projections Reveals New Chances for Adaptive Forest Management

  • Csaba Mátyás,
  • František Beran,
  • Jaroslav Dostál,
  • Jiří Čáp,
  • Martin Fulín,
  • Monika Vejpustková,
  • Gregor Božič,
  • Pál Balázs and
  • Josef Frýdl

22 June 2021

Research Highlights: Data of advanced-age provenance tests were reanalyzed applying a new approach, to directly estimate the growth of populations at their original sites under individually generated future climates. The results revealed the high res...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,754 Views
21 Pages

18 September 2023

The degree of success of river water diversion planning decisions is affected by uncertain environmental conditions. The adaptive water management framework incorporates this uncertainty at all stages of management. While the most effective form of a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,475 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2023

The transition to university is a process that presents young adults with several challenges in adaptation, especially students with disabilities. The current study investigated the differences in adaptation and academic performance between students...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,987 Views
25 Pages

Climate Adaptation, Drought Susceptibility, and Genomic-Informed Predictions of Future Climate Refugia for the Australian Forest Tree Eucalyptus globulus

  • Jakob B. Butler,
  • Peter A. Harrison,
  • René E. Vaillancourt,
  • Dorothy A. Steane,
  • Josquin F. G. Tibbits and
  • Brad M. Potts

5 April 2022

Understanding the capacity of forest tree species to adapt to climate change is of increasing importance for managing forest genetic resources. Through a genomics approach, we modelled spatial variation in climate adaptation within the Australian tem...

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