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The poster presents the study on adaptation effectiveness indicators both in top-down and bottom up processes in a concise manner. For more details on this work, please refer to these reports: Report on top-down indicators: http://pub.iges.or.jp/modules/envirolib/view.php?docid=4550 Report on bottom-up indicators and adaptation decision making...

Climate change will have significant impact on rural livelihoods and poverty undermining the developmental gains made by countries in Asia, as is evident from the literature reviewed. The review suggests that these impacts will vary widely from region to region and communities within a region and country depending on the existing vulnerability and...

A data base used for automated mapping of urban land cover (trees, grass, soil, concrete, asphalt, buildings, etc.) in satellite or aerial imagery. Published in the UCI Machine Learning Repository (http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Urban+Land+Cover), the largest machine learning data base worldwide. Researchers can use the data set to learn...

This presentation introduces the adaptation effectiveness indicators and adaptation prioritization using multi-criteira decision making methodologies developed under the Suishinhi project S8-3-4.

The presentation introduces about the multi-criteria analysis using analytical hierarchy process for prioritizing adaptation actions at the local level in the Gangetic Basin. The key messages are: Considerable variation from community to community; In drought-prone areas, boring wells were generally preferred over surface water. Water-saving...