Elphin Tom Joe
A5004434214- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Health and Medical Research Impacts
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
- Urban and Rural Development Challenges
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
- Thermoregulation and physiological responses
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Human Rights and Development
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
Pennsylvania State University
2023
World Resources Institute
2021-2022
This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how responses affect risk under particularly challenging conditions compound climate events. Across 39 countries, 45 response types hazards display anticipatory (9%), reactive (33%), maladaptive (41%) characteristics, as well hard (18%) soft (68%) limits adaptation. Low income, food insecurity, access institutional resources finance are most prominent 23 vulnerabilities observed...
Abstract Constraints and limits to adaptation are critical understanding the extent which human natural systems can successfully adapt climate change. We conduct a systematic review of 1,682 academic studies on responses identify patterns in constraints for different regions, sectors, hazards, response types, actors. Using definitions provided by Intergovernmental Panel Climate Change (IPCC), we find that most literature identifies but there is limited focused adaptation. Central South...
Abstract Extreme heat events impact people and ecosystems across the globe, they are becoming more frequent intense in a warming climate. Responses to span sectors geographic boundaries. Prior research has documented technologies or options that can be deployed manage extreme examples of how individuals, communities, governments other stakeholder groups adapting heat. However, comprehensive understanding current state implemented adaptations—where, why, what extent occurring—has not been...
Abstract An assessment of the global progress in climate change adaptation is urgently needed. Despite a rising awareness that should involve diverse societal actors and shared sense responsibility, little known about types actors, such as state non-state, their roles different responses well regions. Based on large n -structured analysis case studies, we show that, although individuals or households are most prominent implementing adaptation, they least involved institutional responses,...
Governments, businesses, and civil society organizations have diverse policy tools to incentivize adaptation. Policy can shape the type extent of adaptation, therefore, function either as barriers or enablers for reducing risk vulnerability. Using data from a systematic review academic literature on global adaptation responses climate change (n = 1549 peer-reviewed articles), we categorize types used We apply qualitative quantitative analyses assess contexts where particular are used, along...
Islands are at the center of discourses on climate change. Yet despite extensive work diverse island systems in a changing climate, we still lack an understanding change-related responses amongst islands and what shifting from might be called “tinkering” (perhaps heat warnings) to “transformational” adaptation relocation) means for these vastly different landmasses which often grouped together by default. Through systematic review change scientific literature, this paper critically reflects...
Over 1 billion people are living at the frontlines of climate change in mountain areas, where warming rates outpace global average and driving significant changes environments ecosystem services. These exacerbating socioeconomic difficulties faced by many communities, already intensifying vulnerabilities across areas globally. The situation is indicative pervasive consequential deficits adaptation, calls attention to need for a better understanding existing adaptation efforts, as well...
Abstract Food‐energy‐water (FEW) systems are increasingly vulnerable to natural hazards and climate change risks, yet humans depend on these for their daily needs, wellbeing, survival. We investigated how adaptations related FEW vulnerabilities occurring what the global community can learn about interactions across adaptations. conducted a analysis of data set derived from scientific literature present first large scale assessment ( n = 1,204) evidence‐based FEW‐related found that most...
Abstract We present the first systematic, global stocktake of academic literature on human adaptation. screen 48,316 documents and identify 1,682 articles that empirical research documenting efforts to reduce risk from climate change associated hazards. Coding synthesizing this highlights overall extent adaptation across regions sectors is low. Adaptations are largely local incremental rather than transformative. Behavioural adjustments by individuals households more prevalent any other type...
SummaryThis article provides a stocktake the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how responses affect risk under particularly challenging conditions of compound climate impacts. Across 39 countries, 45 response types hazards display anticipatory (9%), reactive (33%) maladaptive characteristics (41%), as well hard (18%) soft limits (68%) adaptation. Low income, food insecurity, access institutional resources finance are most prominent 23 vulnerabilities observed...
Sustainable agriculture has the potential of addressing major social and environmental challenges affecting in India. One ways to promote sustainable is through certification. This refers broad family voluntary standards set by third-party against which producers are independently audited certified. An appropriate sustainability framework can guide more effective food procurement accounting for context form demand architecture production systems. The study therefore presents a review five...
In this research short, we examine the potential of using GPT-4o, a state-of-the-art large language model (LLM) to undertake evidence synthesis and systematic assessment tasks. Traditional workflows for such tasks involve groups domain experts who manually review synthesize vast amounts literature. The exponential growth scientific literature recent advances in LLMs provide an opportunity complementing these traditional with new age tools. We assess efficacy GPT-4o do on sample from dataset...
Climate change disproportionately affects marginalized groups in society. Growing evidence suggests that adaptation responses without equity considerations may worsen inequality and increase vulnerability. Using data from a systematic review of peer-reviewed empirical research on to climate (n=1682), we present large-n assessment how social is integrated into across regions, sectors, groups. Roughly 60% literature addressed by documenting historically were involved planning, or targeted...
Abstract An assessment of the global progress in climate change adaptation is urgently needed. Despite a rising awareness that should involve diverse societal actors and shared sense responsibility, little known about types involved their roles—particularly between state non-state different regions. Based on large n-structured analysis case studies, we show that, although individuals or households are most prominent implementing adaptation, they least institutional responses, particularly...