CIVL-8900-06 AND ENVE-8900-06

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 PRESENTATION AGENDA

Climate Change
01 Basic Introduction on Climate Change and the necessity
to have awareness of the climate change

Adaptation
02 Adaptation strategies are commonly applied to the
agricultural and wildlife sectors.

Examples
03 Some examples on climate change adaptation policies.

Conclusion
04 What have we learned from this session and the scope
for future studies?
 What is climate?

The word climate means the long-term weather patterns for a

particular area.
On Earth, we have different climates depending on where you
are. 

What is climate change?

Climate change is the process of our planet heating up. 

Our planet has warmed by an average of 1°C in the last 100
years.
This is already having huge impacts across the planet for people
and wildlife.
 Why is it happening?

The Earth’s climate is getting warmer because of human

activity. 

We burn fossils fuels like coal, oil and natural gas for energy,
to generate electricity, to power our cars and to use for heating
and cooking.

We also cut down trees across our planet to make space for
things like farming and expanding cities.
 Greenhouse gases

When we burn fossil fuels we release

greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere.

Greenhouse gases keep our
planet warm. 

By releasing more and more

greenhouse gases into the
atmosphere, we are causing our
planet to warm up very quickly. 
 Why does it matter?

Climate change is
damaging natural
environments across our
planet:

•More extreme weather

events 
•Sea level rise
•Melting ice caps and sea
ice
•Warming ocean
temperatures
 What can we do?
Take positive action
What can we do at home
or in society to try and
• Plant trees at
tackle climate
school or in your
change?
local community
• Write to your local
Thinking about energy Thinking about food
council, MP or
MSP
• Walk wherever possible on • Make changes
• Grow your own food at
short journeys
home around your
• Reduce the amount of
• Start meat and dairy-free surroundings
electricity and heat you use
days!
at school
What else might
• Find out what your school's
What else might you be you be able to
energy supplier is
able to do? do?
What else might you be
able to do?
 Climate
WHAT Change Adaptation
IS CLIMATE?

Adaptation: coping with climatic change

– taking measures to reduce the negative
effects, or exploit the positive ones, by
making appropriate adjustments.
• Adaptation is inevitable
• Developing countries will be most
affected.
• Strong adaptation policies and support
need to be in place very soon

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Approaches to Vulnerability and
WHAT ISAssessments
Adaptation CLIMATE?

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(Example) Conducting the Risk and Vulnerability
WHAT IS CLIMATE?
Assessment

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 Wildlands
WHAT Adaptation
IS CLIMATE?

• Codify Best Management Practices (BMPs) to

describe how water quality will be protected.

• Monitor BMPs to determine if they are

implemented and if they work.

• Roads are often the greatest impact in

wildland watersheds. Locate, design,
construct, monitor, and restore roads with
up-to-date science and technology that
minimizes impacts.

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 Wildlands
WHAT Adaptation
IS CLIMATE?

• Manage forests to reduce impacts on water

and watershed function (use BMPs)

• Use controlled fire where possible to reduce

fuel buildup and the potential for large
catastrophic fires.

• Subject all land use to Low-Impact Land Use

Planning.

• Conduct vulnerability assessment to set

priorities and inform decisions

• Overlay results with existing strategies,

constraints and opportunities to set priorities

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 Wildlands Adaptative Measure
WHAT IS CLIMATE?

For Example:
• Restoring groundwater levels in eroded
meadows and valley bottoms can increase
watershed resilience in many forested
watersheds.
• Warming and late-season drying trends
greatly increase the ecological importance of
wet mountain meadows and valley bottoms,
which provide myriad ecological services.
• Restoring groundwater levels in these places
adds resistance and resilience to watersheds,
reducing the vulnerability of ecosystem Bangladesh Example: Mangrove
services to climate change. tree replanting on embankments in
shrimp gher areas.

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 Agriculture Adaptation
WHAT IS CLIMATE?

• Improve crops for drought resistance

• Raise Irrigation efficiency
• Expand drip irrigation • Study land suitability for crop choices
• Improve rain-fed farming
• Select the best crop for suitable land
• Shift cropping patterns and crops
• Lift nutritional value • Promote crop rotation and mixed
crops
• Expand urban farming
• Promote sorjan systems • Support soil and water conservation

• Raise ground in low areas

• Plant shorter rotation crops

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Agriculture Adaptation
WHAT IS CLIMATE?

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Agriculture Adaptation
WHAT IS CLIMATE?

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Q&A SESSION

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 REFERENCE

Farmer, S. S. S. C. (2016, September 15). Managing Forests for Water: Challenges in the Anthropocene.

CompassLive.

https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/compass/2016/09/15/managing-forests-for-water-challenges-in-the-ant

hropocene/

Pravalprukskul, P. (2022, March 1). Krabi holistic approach to vulnerability and adaptation assessment.

weADAPT. https://www.weadapt.org/knowledge-base/adaptation-knowledge-platform-for-asia/

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%20framework%20for%20Vulnerability%20and%20Adaptation%20Assessments,vulnerability

%20of%20the%20sector%2C%20and%20identifying%20adaptation%20measures.

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