Climate change poses one of the most urgent challenges for cities today, creating unprecedented risks for individuals, communities, and various types of infrastructure—social, spatial, and physical. In response, many cities have begun developin...
Climate change is an existential threat to small island developing states. Policy coherence aims to create synergies and avoid conflicts between policies. Mainstreaming adaptation across multiple sectors and achieving greater coherence amongst polici...
This paper explores how climate change adaptation concerns were integrated into the Swedish forestry debate and policy process during the period of 1990–2012, and draws lessons on barriers and opportunities identified in this process. Using a framewo...
This paper is an interpretive reanalysis of 17 in-depth case studies of community-based climate adaptation sponsored by the Kresge Foundation between 2014–2016. Drawing from the political science and international relations literature, we use t...
Climate change adaptation (CCA) is argued to require coordinated policy responses because it is a complex, long-term, knowledge intensive, cross-sectoral, and multi-level governance challenge that involves many interdependencies and actors with diffe...
The increasingly severe effects of climate change have resulted in a shift in countries’ approach to climate policy. From an initial focus on mitigation efforts, adaptation to climate change is now given equal importance. Adaptation policies in...
Learning from policy experimentation is a promising way to approach the “wicked problem” of climate adaptation, which is characterised by knowledge gaps and contested understandings of future risk. However, although the role of learning in shaping pu...
Attention has recently been paid to how REDD+ mitigation policies are integrated into other sectoral policies, particularly those dealing with climate adaptation at the national level. But there is less understanding of how subnational policy and loc...
Climate change adaptation (CCA) policies require scientific input to focus on relevant risks and opportunities, to promote effective and efficient measures and ensure implementation. This calls for policy relevant research to formulate salient policy...
The issue of climate change and its related impacts is now a social reality. The paradigm shift today in climate change issues is focused on mitigation and adaptation. Besides mitigation, adaptation is considered as an essential strategy for reducing...
The game of pursuit–evasion has always been a popular research subject in the field of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Current evasion decision making based on reinforcement learning is generally trained only for specific pursuers, and it has...
11 March 2025
Climate change poses a significant threat to human health and wellbeing, yet its health impacts can be mitigated through effective local action. Green spaces offer numerous climate benefits to cities, including improving air quality, water management...
The Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) refers to a country’s climate action plan to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and adapt to climate change hazards. Each country is obliged to submit its NDCs to the UNFCCC, adhering to a guidelin...
Climate change affects domestic agricultural production, but national food self-sufficiency also depends on institutional and structural conditions that operate over different time horizons. This study examines these relationships using a balanced pa...
Against the backdrop of global warming, extreme heat events have become increasingly frequent and persistent across Chinese cities, posing severe threats to public health, industrial safety, and urban operations. Enhancing urban climate adaptation th...
Climate-related disasters are escalating in frequency and severity, yet global adaptation finance remains critically insufficiently structured to respond after disasters occur rather than before. This study empirically examines disaster loss data, cl...
Political polarization and policy uncertainty have become increasingly consequential for regional economic adjustment, yet their joint role in shaping socioeconomic resilience remains underdeveloped in the literature. This study advances the debate b...
The impacts of climate change are severe in rural communities because of their proximity to forest ecosystems. Colophospermum mopane woodlands are vital in supporting the livelihood of the rural communities in the mopane woodlands while contributing...
15 June 2015
The Mediterranean region is vulnerable to climatic changes. A warming trend exists in the basin with changes in rainfall patterns. It is expected that vector-borne diseases (VBD) in the region will be influenced by climate change since weather condit...
25 May 2025
This study employs walking interviews to examine the low-carbon practices, cultural adaptation, and policy awareness of older Chinese migrants in the UK within their everyday environments. A total of 20 participants were interviewed in public spaces...
Climate change presents serious challenges, especially in dry and semi-dry areas, and these challenges are most severe in sub-Saharan Africa, where people are dependent on rain-fed agriculture. To address this issue, a new type of reinforcement learn...
18 May 2022
(1) Background: The housing environment is crucial to the health of older Chinese people and is becoming an urgent policy initiative. This study explores factors that facilitate or impede the adoption of policy innovation on major housing adaptation...
National climate change policy and strategies set out a framework for planning and undertaking climate change adaptation as well as mitigation activities at the national and local levels. In this article, we examine the coherence and contradictions b...
Climate change raises serious concerns for policymakers that want to ensure the success of long-term policies. To guarantee satisfactory decisions in the face of deep uncertainties, adaptive policy pathways might be used. Adaptive policy pathways are...
SMEs constitute the backbone of the Syrian economy and have suffered manifold challenges due to the continuous Syrian war. COVID-19 added further pressures on Syrian SMEs and forced them to take certain adaptation strategies to survive. This paper ai...
Against the backdrop of global climate change, enhancing urban adaptive capacity to climate shocks has become a critical issue for sustainable urban development. Based on this, this study treats the Climate-Adaptive City Pilot (CACP) policy in China...
26 November 2024
Climate change is among the greatest threats to health in the 21st century, requiring the urgent scaling-up of adaptation interventions. We aim to summarise adaptation interventions that were funded by the Belmont Forum and the European Union, the la...
The health system is now more complex, uncertain, interdependent, and dynamically interconnected than ever, making traditional planning decisions based on static, reductionist models increasingly impracticable. Systems analytics approaches such as sy...
Performance degradation caused by temporal-difference signal fluctuations and the inflexibility of fixed proximal constraints remains a key challenge in policy optimization algorithms. To address these issues, this article develops a Coherence-Adapti...
This paper investigates how climate shelter initiatives implemented in European cities interact with National Adaptation Strategies (NAS) and National Adaptation Plans (NAP), assessing the degree of vertical integration between local practices and na...
The adaptive reuse of cultural heritage has been recognized as a driver of the circular economy. It stimulates economic growth, boosts its inherent values, and reduces material usage and energy consumption. It can be regarded unviable due to financia...
Since 2011, countries across the tropical Atlantic have experienced severe influxes of the seaweed species Sargassum natans and Sargassum fluitans (henceforth, “sargassum”), with nearshore and onshore ecological, economic and social impac...
Migrant children’s discrimination perceptions directly affect their cultural adaptation in the city of influx. In response to migrant children, cities in China have issued relevant urban education policies such as the different-location college...
Determining where to stack the containers at the storage yard of a container terminal is an important problem because that decision critically affects the efficiency of container handling in the yard and, eventually, the efficiency of the vessel oper...
This study draws on the experience of selected European micro-regions in Germany, Poland, and Romania, representing different stages of a just transition, to identify applicable strategies for the Ukrainian context. The research aims to assess the sp...
It is well known that climate change exacerbates inequalities and vice versa. What is less known is that the most disadvantaged groups are also at risk of becoming non-negligible producers of emissions that cause climate change. Examples include the...
30 November 2020
Climate change strongly impacts the agricultural sector in West Africa, threatening food security and nutrition, particularly for populations with the least adaptive capacity. Little is known about national climate change policies in the region. This...
The distributed policy gradient (PG) method has become a mainstream technique for finding optimal policies in multi-agent reinforcement learning. However, global convergence guarantees, which are the most basic measures of theoretical convergence per...
4 March 2021
Climate change represents a serious threat to the health and well-being of populations. Today, many countries, regions, and cities around the world are implementing policies and strategies to adapt to climate change and mitigate its effects. A scopin...
Heterogeneous sensor and control degradation can destabilize direct sensor-to-action navigation. This study presents a fault-diagnosis-aware adaptive policy-switching framework that combines a calibrated seven-class temporal health-state classifier w...
Software-Defined Networking (SDN) enables centralised and programmable traffic control, but adaptive optimization in operational networks remains challenging when safe online exploration is limited and only historical controller traces are available....
It is not uncommon that collaborative governance is now generating new attention in Indonesia as a method of governing. This is because of the terrible historical experience of governance during the New Order era, including the state’s dominant...
Policy action is visible in national and international climate governance. However, policy-making and its implementation often fail to generate the desired outcomes that aim to adapt to the adverse impact of climate change in a developing nation, suc...
Climate change has become a serious threat to human life. This study aims to reveal the face of climate policies and the integration of urban adaptation into urban planning policies in the city of N’Djaména. To achieve this, we adopted a...
This study examines public perceptions and discourse on climate change using artificial intelligence (AI)-based analysis of social media data, with implications for climate adaptation and sustainability policy. A dataset of 29,576 posts from the X pl...
Adaptation to climate change and sustainable development have become core elements of international, European, and national policies and strategies. At worst, adaptation to climate change can trigger negative responses—maladaptation—in terms of raisi...
Network slicing is a cornerstone of 5G/6G vertical services, yet practical deployments require mobile network operators (MNOs) to adjust slice service level agreement (SLA) weights based on quality of experience (QoE), causing rapid non-stationary ob...
International policy development and expected climate change impacts such as flooding, landslides, and the extinction of sensitive species have forced countries around the Baltic Sea to begin working on national climate adaptation policies. Simultane...
An adaptive proportional integral robust (PIR) control method based on deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPGPIR) is proposed for n-link robotic manipulator systems with model uncertainty and time-varying external disturbances. In this paper, the u...
This study proposes a novel Adaptive Fermatean Fuzzy Set (AFFS) structure for multi-criteria decision-making problems characterized by high levels of uncertainty and hesitation in expert opinions. Unlike the fixed-exponent structure used in classical...
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