Climate, Disaster and Development Journal

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2017)

This features six articles on: 1) assessing of a planned observing site toward quantifying atmospheric carbon; 2) demonstrating the use of statistical downscaling technique to determine future precipitation scenarios; 3) assessing the role of traditional ecological knowledge in disaster risk management of island communities; 4) exploring the potential of the tourism industry in small island developing states in financing its own climate change adaptation; 5) assessing the adaptive capacity of indigenous peoples to changing climate; and 6) determining the effects of flooding and assessing the adaptive capacity of farming households.
Volume
2
Issue
2
Published
2017-07-26

Review article

6 articles
Review articleOpen access

Total Carbon Column Observing Network Philippines: Toward Quantifying Atmospheric Carbon in Southeast Asia

Voltaire A. Velazco, Isamu Morino, Osamu Uchino, Nicholas M. Deutscher, Beata Bukosa, Dmitry A. Belikov, Yu Oishi, Takashi Y. Nakajima, Ronald C. Macatangay, Takahiro Nakatsuru, Shamil Maksyutov, Florian M. Schwandner, David W. T. Griffith (Author)

TCCON (Total Carbon Column Observing Network) is dedicated to the precise measurements of greenhouse gases such as CO 4 . TCCON measurements are used extensively for satellite validation, for atmospheric…

Review articleOpen access

Adaptive Capacity of Indigenous Peoples to Changing Climate: The case of the Aytas of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines

Samantha Geraldine De los Santos, Maria Ana T. Quimbo, Dulce D. Elazegui, Margaret M. Calderon, Cristino L. Tiburan, Jr., Flordeliza A. Sanchez (Author)

The livelihoods of Aytas of Floridablanca, Pampanga, Philippines are dependent on natural resources, which are prone to climate change impacts. To assess their adaptive capacity, this paper analyzed the…