Adapting to climate change: gaps and strategies for Central Asia
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Adapting to climate change: gaps and strategies for Central Asia Wanlu Liu 1,2 & Lulu Liu 1 & Jiangbo Gao 1 Received: 28 October 2019 / Accepted: 3 September 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
Adaptation is an urgent and critical way to cope with the impact of climate change. The Paris Agreement has noted that adaptation is a key component of the global response to climate change. Nations with lower incomes and greater vulnerability to climate change have and will continue to suffer from the potential or actual impacts of climate change due to their limited and fragmented adaptation. Here, we consider Central Asia as a case study due to its increasing temperature, increasing rainfall variability, worsening drought, rapid institutional changes after independence, and uneven economic investment in adaptation. This paper identifies five urgent fields (including the theoretical basis, technology and measure, law and regulation, funding, and the political system) and analyzes the gap between ideal and real adaptation, finds the direction for future adaptation, and provides adaptation strategies for similar nations by using CiteSpace, which is based on the Web of Science Core Collection from 1990 to 2019. The detailed strategies present four mainstream development directions: (1) improve the theoretical basis of adaptation and increase investment in research; (2) encourage research and development into targeted approaches of adaptation and acquire technology transfer from developed countries; (3) integrate adaptation into medium- and long-term plans for national sustainable development, widely involving non-government agencies in the process; and (4) obtain financial support from international organizations. Keywords Adaptation . Gaps . Strategies . Measures . Policy . Funding
Wanlu Liu and Lulu Liu are co-first authors and have equal contribution to this work.
* Jiangbo Gao [email protected] Wanlu Liu [email protected] Lulu Liu [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
1 Introduction Given increasing awareness of the inevitability of climate change, adaptation has become a core element of climate change research (Lioubimtseva et al. 2005; Smith et al. 2011). Adaptation to climate change is increasingly urgent, especially in developing nations, which are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (Patt et al. 2010; IPCC 2014; World Bank 2010; World Bank 2013) because the national infrastructure (e.g., municipal drain engineering, transportation networks and buildings) and climate-sensitive sectors (e.g., agriculture, forestry, and fishing) have limited adaptive capacity to handle climate change (Dawson et al. 2018; Panthi et al. 2016; Shah et al. 2020; Steiner et al. 2018). However, not all developing nations have equal goals for adaptation in the face of the scale and severity of future climate change. The gaps and demands of adaptation generally depend on natural environments, geogra
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