Implementing climate change adaptation: lessons from India’s national adaptation fund on climate change (NAFCC)     

Ravi S. Prasad 《Climate Policy》2019,19(3):354-366

With poverty alleviation and sustainable development as key imperatives for a developing economy like India, what drives the resource-constrained state governments to prioritize actions that address climate change impacts? We examine this question and argue that without access to additional earmarked financial resources, climate action would get overshadowed by developmental priorities and effective mainstreaming might not be possible. A systematic literature review was carried out to draw insights from the current state of implementation of adaptation projects, programmes and schemes at the subnational levels, along with barriers to mainstreaming climate change adaptation. The findings from a literature review were supplemented with lessons emerging from the implementation of India’s National Adaptation Fund on Climate Change (NAFCC). The results of this study underscore the scheme’s relevance.

Key policy insights

• Experience with NAFCC implementation reveals that states require sustained ‘handholding’ in terms of financial, technical and capacity support until climate change issues are fully understood and embedded in the policy landscape.

• Domestic sources of finance are critically important in the absence of predictable and adequate adaptation finance from international sources.

• The dedicated window for climate finance fosters a spirit of competitive federalism among states and encourages enhanced climate action.

• Enhanced budgetary allocation to NAFCC to strengthen the state-level adaptation response and create capacity to mainstream climate change concerns in state planning frames, is urgently needed.

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基于逆推法和德尔菲法的地质灾害气象服务效益评估     

狄靖月  徐辉  许凤雯  杨寅  包红军  张国平 《气象》2019,45(5):705-712

地质灾害气象服务发挥越来越重要的作用,既有可量化的经济效益,也有不可忽视难以量化的、潜在的社会效益和生态效益。根据历年地质灾害调查与分析数据,运用逆推法结合德尔菲法,建立地质灾害气象服务效益评估模型,并根据已有研究及防汛经验对模型的系数进行量化。模型以地质灾害气象预报评分和灾害直接经济损失为输入,以防灾减灾效益值、防灾减灾效益百分率、气象服务直接经济效益、气象服务直接经济效益百分率为输出,可同时对各区域、各时间段的地质灾害过程进行气象服务效益分段评估,也可评估年度地质灾害气象服务效益。该模型在2017年地质灾害气象效益评估中表现良好,有一定指导意义。  相似文献   

The Location of Office Space in the Metropolitan Service Economy of the United States, 1985–1990     

Daniel Z. Sui  James O. Wheeler 《The Professional geographer》1993,45(1):33-43

As the economic base of most American metropolitan areas relies increasingly on services, office industries have shifted to a more pivotal role in the new metropolitan service economy. Using primary office-space usage data of the time period 1985–1990, the changing spatial patterns of this new metropolitan service economy are investigated. It is found that the primary office activities are predominantly concentrated in a relatively small number of the largest metropolitan areas. However, an emerging spatial dispersion in primary office activities is also exhibited. Such dispersion is extremely strong at the upper end of the urban hierarchy. The Sunbelt-Snowbelt dichotomy fails to reveal any differences in the growth pattern of the new metropolitan service economy. A more diversified growth pattern of primary office activities is observed. Concentrated dispersion is the major spatial characteristic of this new metropolitan service economy.  相似文献   

艾比湖湿地调节气候生态服务价值评价     

王继国 《湿地科学与管理》2007,3(2):38-41

增湿调温的气候调节功能是湿地重要的生态功能。位于干旱区的湿地,其增湿调温功能尤为明显。湿地自由水面巨大的水汽蒸发及湿地茂密植被剧烈的水汽蒸腾,是其增湿调温、调节气候的主要物质基础。通过计算艾比湖湿地年水汽蒸发、蒸腾量,得出其每年调节气候的生态服务价值为97788.86×104元,占艾比湖湿地总生态服务价值的31.9%,位居研究区各项生态价值之首。结果表明,增湿调温的气候调节功能是处于极端干旱地理条件下的艾比湖湿地最重要的生态服务功能。  相似文献   

公共服务设施可达性及其对新建住房价格 的影响——-以北京中心城为例   总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8  

王松涛  郑思齐  冯杰 《地理科学进展》2007,26(6):87-94

本文基于北京市公共服务设施的地理空间信息数据, 采用最短距离指标定量分析了商品 住房对教育、医疗、体育、文化、商业、绿地公园等6 大类公共服务设施的空间可达性( 以下简称 “可达性”) , 并通过Hedonic 特征价格模型定量分析可达性对商品住房价格的影响。研究结果表 明: 1) 按照“最短距离”可达性比较, 商品住房对绿地公园、医院和健身场所可达性最好, 而对大型 商场、文化设施、体育场馆的可达性较差; 2) 按照商品住房的区位和价格比较, 城市四环以内和高 价商品住房组别对公共服务设施的可达性明显优于其它组别; 3) 特征价格模型的定量分析表明, 重点高中、球类场馆、文化设施和绿地公园这4 种公共服务设施的可达性越好, 则商品住房价格 越高, 即目前北京市公共服务设施的规划布局在一定程度上被资本化入商品住房价格。  相似文献   

中国沿海省区中心城市服务业水平及发展规律分析     

王淑婧  王光军  陈忠暖 《云南地理环境研究》2007,19(6):62-68,74

将中国沿海省区17个中心城市服务业水平分为全面发展型、发达型、次发达型和欠发达型。通过服务业以及服务业与城市之间的关系分析得出：发达型、次发达型服务业的人均服务产品占有量与增加值比重以及就业比重均呈正相关关系,且相关性随着服务业绝对水平的提高而增强;欠发达型服务业的人均服务产品占有量与增加值比重以及就业比重均呈负相关的关系;任何水平类型的服务业的增加值比重与就业比重之间都为正相关。服务业绝对水平与城市人均GDP、城市综合竞争力、城市规模之间都呈正相关;比重规模与城市经济水平之间无明显相关性。  相似文献   

Carbon reduction, 'the public' and renewable energy: engaging with socio-technical configurations     

Gordon Walker  Noel Cass 《Area》2007,39(4):458-469

In the context of challenging targets for renewable energy generation, this paper draws out social implications of moves towards low carbon energy systems. As renewable energy develops as a heterogeneous category, many potential forms of social relation between 'publics' and technologies are emerging. Utilising perspectives from science and technology studies, we outline five modes in which renewable energy has been implemented in the UK and how these involve different configurations of technology and social organisation. We argue that a multiplicity of roles for 'the public' are implicated across this increasingly complex landscape, cutting across established categories and raising questions of meaning, differentiation, interrelation and access. Policy assumptions and conceptions are questioned, highlighting that dominant characterisations of public roles have been part of a concentration on particular socio-technical pathways to the exclusion of others.  相似文献   

Learning about learning: lessons from public engagement and deliberation on urban river restoration   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

JUDITH PETTS 《The Geographical journal》2007,173(4):300-311

This paper provides a new discussion of how people learn through deliberative processes, drawing upon empirical analysis of a novel public engagement process for urban river restoration. Such critical evaluation is rare and yet will be crucial to both theoretical development and learning about engagement practice, not least in a policy area subject to strong regulatory drivers for public participation. The analysis supports two important learning mechanisms – the use of 'gatekeepers' of knowledge, interests and values, and the privileging of narrative. It provides new evidence of instrumental and communicative learning about shared priorities and criteria for effective river restoration that evolved through the deliberative process and directly informed the restoration scheme. It is important to question whether and how such site or context-specific learning might inform other restoration schemes. Finally, the paper questions the often ignored issue of expert learning, not least the issue of the link between individual and organizational learning.  相似文献   

石家庄市采暖期气象服务系统   总被引：3，自引：1，他引：3  

车少静  傅炳珊  石志增 《气象》2002,28(5):50-52

在采暖期内为了做到既能让人们感到冷暖适宜，又能合理地减少采暖期内的采暖能源浪费，该文对石家庄市采暖期气象条件进行了详细分析，建立了与气象预报相结合的采暖气象服务系统，实际应用效果良好。  相似文献   

区调提速的紧迫性和可行性   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2       下载免费PDF全文

张洪涛庄育勋  其和日格 陈克强 《中国地质》2002,29(1):1-6

区域地质调查（区调）是国家重要的基础性工作。近年来，随着我国经济、社会的快速发，调整区调工作布局，加快区调工作步伐已迫在眉睫。本从国民经济、社会发展的需求和国家“十五”计划的要求出发，分析了全国区调工作的现状和发展趋势，对依靠科技进步，调整区调部署、加快区调进度的紧迫性、可行性及目标任务进行了论述，指出了尽快将区调工作纳入全面服务社会的轨道、2005年优先安排并完成青藏高原空白区1；25万区调工作、2010年前全面完成全国中比例尺区调任务并出版中国第一套相关基础地质系列图件的基本思路。章特别指出，区调提速一定要确保野外填图的质量，工作部署一定要坚持实事求是的原则。要依靠计算机、遥感等高新技术实现区调提速，要在提速过程中实现区调工作主流程的信息化。  相似文献