GEOG306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Small Island Developing States, Beach Nourishment, Global Governance
9 May 2019
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Why adaptation: global temperature increase of 0. 5-2 degrees are unavoidable, 192 countries have signed a global agreement in 2015, dire impacts for low-lying nations, poor developing countries in sub-saharan africa, the arctic, and small island developing states. 2005): has actions happening at various levels, including national, regional and local, and through different means, including projects, programmes, policies or strategies. In other words, we need to adapt both to those slightly warmer, drier summers that are happening each year by planting different crops, but we also need to adapt to sudden floods or stronger hurricanes. Incentives for relocation: compensatory payments, enforcement of building codes, beach nourishment. Global issue, local problem: the physical impacts of climate change are very specific to a place, context, culture, and geography, the success and viability of adaptation actions will depend on the local characteristics of that specific place, ex.
