Adapting towards climate change impacts: Strategies for small-scale fishermen in Malaysia     

《Marine Policy》2017

As with the global scenario, a number of climate change ‘symptoms’ are being detected in Malaysia. Local scholars have looked into the problems of rising temperature, rising sea level, extreme rainfall and extreme winds, which are causing coastal and mangrove erosion and degradation of marine resources. In turn, these issues are affecting the small-scale fishermen who rely heavily on weather stability to conduct their social and economic routines. This paper analyses six adaptation strategies, namely, reducing the risks associated with fishing routines, strengthening social relationships, managing fishermen's climate change knowledge, facilitating the community's learning of alternative skills, involving fishermen in climate change adaptation planning, and enhancing fishermen's access to credit. These suggestions are hoped to provide basis for concerned parties to develop adaptation strategies that are in line with small-scale fishermen's needs, abilities and interests.  相似文献   

Using open‐ended geographic information system assessments to allow students to construct relevant geographies given the internationalisation of tertiary education in New Zealand          下载免费PDF全文

Thomas R. Etherington 《New Zealand geographer》2016,72(2):151-158

The geospatial skills shortage in New Zealand requires the development of more undergraduate geographic information system (GIS) courses. However, the internationalisation of New Zealand's tertiary education system has resulted in an increasingly diverse tertiary student population, which makes it challenging to teach GIS in a way that maximises relevance to all tertiary students. One approach to this challenge is to make use of the recent proliferation of openly available GIS data, and to internationalise GIS curricula by using open‐ended assessments that provide students with the opportunity to learn GIS by constructing their own geographies of relevance.  相似文献   

地震损失预测评估中的易损性分析   总被引：16，自引：1，他引：15  

陈Yong  陈棋福 《中国地震》1999,15(2):97-105

代表着地震易损性中最坏情形的哥斯达黎加土坯房和中国老旧民房有着几乎相同的易损性,而表示地震易损性中最好情形的哥斯达黎加高质量楼房和中国钢筋混泥土结构楼房,由于采用了现代设计和建筑技术,也有着相同的易损性。陈Ｙｏｎｇ等提出的宏观经济易损性位于常规易损性分类清单中的这两种极端情况之间,因为宏观经济损失是各种建筑设施损失的总和,故宏观经济易损性差于最好的建筑情况,而优于最坏的情况。采用宏观经济易损性的地  相似文献