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(Universidad de Chile, 2009)Actualmente, la adaptación se reconoce como un elemento esencial para proteger a las sociedades contra los efectos de la variabilidad y el cambio climático. Los indicadores e índices de adaptación han comenzado a reconocerse ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2009)Mientras el ser humano avanza en la comprensión del mundo que habita, crece la aceptación de la teoría que postula que las llamadas catástrofes naturales en realidad son desastres socio-naturales: eventos que no dependen ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2005)
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(Departamento de Ciencias Ambientales y Recursos Naturales Renovables, Facultad de Ciencias Agronómicas, Universidad de Chile; Fundación para la Innovación Agraria, FIA, Ministerio de Agricultura, 2009)Es de amplio consenso que el cambio climático es uno de los mayores problemas que deberá enfrentar la sociedad en el presente siglo. La reciente publicación del cuarto informe del Grupo Intergubernamental de Expertos ...
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(© German Committee for Disaster Reduction, 2009)The community "Agüita de la Perdiz" is located within the city of Concepción which is the second largest city in Chile. Due to the fact that the area is only accessible by one single road,the community is characterized ...
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(Universidad Autónoma Estado de México, 2017)This article presents a discourse analysis of four digital media press in Chile with regard to mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The research, unprecedented for the Chilean case, is aimed at acknowledging the ...
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(2016)There is growing recognition that routine climate change framing is insufficient for addressing the challenges presented by this change, and that different framings of climate change shape stakeholders' practices and guide ...
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(Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008, 2009)A prototype multi-purpose index is proposed for use in the evaluation of practices for adaptation to climate variability and change. The Index of Usefulness of Practices for Adaptation (IUPA) allows the user to assign ...
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(MDPI, 2017)Droughts are a recurrent and complex natural hazard whose frequency and magnitude are expected to increase with climate change. Despite the advances in responding and adapting to droughts (with the development of new ...
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(MDPI, 2020)Climate change is increasing the occurrence of natural disasters worldwide, and more frequent and intense fires represent one of the most destructive expressions of this trend. Chile is highly vulnerable to climate change, ...
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(Universidad de Chile, 2006)El aumento de la frecuencia e intensidad de los fenómenos climáticos extremos producto de la variabilidad y el cambio climático está provocando un aumento de los desastres asociados al clima, tales como sequías e inundaciones. ...
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(2007)Purpose – This paper seeks to propose measures to improve management of rainfall-related disasters in Chile. Design/methodology/approach – This research was carried out as a case study in the semi-arid region of Chile ...
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(MDPI AG, 2017)Research on climate change policies can contribute to policy development by building an understanding of the barriers faced in policy processes, and by providing knowledge needed throughout policy cycles. This paper explores ...
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Resilience for disaster risk management in a changing climate: Practitioners’ frames and practices (Elsevier, 2015)There is a growing use of resilience ideas within the disaster risk management literature and policy domain. However, few empirical studies have focused on how resilience ideas are conceptualized by practitioners, as ...
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(Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2017)Este artículo analiza los distintos significados del concepto de participación, para avanzar hacia un modelo más inclusivo de gobernanza del cambio climático en Chile. Para ello, se presenta una revisión bibliográfica ...
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(Elsevier, 2018-06)The most critical question for climate research is no longer about the problem, but about how to facilitate the transformative changes necessary to avoid catastrophic climate-induced change. Addressing this question, ...
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(Springer, 2020)This article analyzes the impact of socio-natural disasters on social capital at a local level, studying the cases of the communities of Chanaral and Diego de Almagro after the flooding and mudflow disasters of 2015. ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of ...
