There is growing demand among stakeholders across public and private institutions for
spatially-explicit information regarding vulnerability to climate change at the local scale …

Recent reports and scholarship suggest that adapting to current climate variability may
represent a 'no regrets' strategy for adapting to climate change. Addressing 'adaptation …

Periodic forest fires occur in sub-tropical deciduous forest of Ayodhya hill region which is
extended part of Eastern Ghats Mountain Range (India). This forest provides diverse …

Municipal planning represents a key avenue for local adaptation, but is subject to
recognised constraints. To date, these constraints have focused on simplistic factors such as …

Research on the barriers and limits to climate change adaptation identifies many factors, but
describes few processes whereby adaptation is constrained or may indeed fail to avoid …

Forests fires in northern Iran have always been common, but the number of forest fires has
been growing over the last decade. It is believed, but not proven, that this growth can be …

Internationally, there is increasing responsibility on local governments to prepare and adapt
to global climate change through climate adaptation planning. This study evaluated seven …

Maps synthesizing climate, biophysical and socioeconomic data have become part of the
standard tool‐kit for communicating the risks of climate change to society. Vulnerability maps …

The rural population in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH), which constitutes more than half of
the total population, experienced serious incidences of extreme weather events in the past …

Climate change vulnerability assessment (CCVA) can inform adaptation policy and help in
incorporating climate futures in planning. The literature on CCVA stems from a number of …