All posts tagged: Climate Change

Assessing impacts of climate change and El Niño menace

Climate Change and El Nino

The knowledge of climate change impacts is often embedded in multifaceted and multiscaled contexts. The many facets include physical, ecological, and biological factors–as well as social, political, and economic ones–interacting on a spectrum of scales ranging from the individual to the household, the community, the region, the nation, and the world. Such complexities encompass both […]

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Applications of GIS in monitoring & mitigation of climate change

GIS for Climate Change

Geographical Information Systems (GIS), remote sensing and mapping play a vital role in climate change monitoring, adaptation and mitigation efforts. GIS enables collection, analysis, storage, dissemination and better understanding of climate-related data, hence informed decision-making by various climate adaptation actors. GIS plays an enabler role in the development of spatially-effective strategies to reduce greenhouse gas […]

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