All articles for the topic: Networks

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Impacts of climate change on global food trade networks

Learn about the potential cross-border impacts of climate change on global food trade, through the lens of three crops: wheat, rice and maize. Using a simple network model, this journal article projects changes to trade communities and network structures, as well as the effects that this will have on global food security.

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Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks

This framework provides a means of evaluating how the activities of a community or network have contributed to the improved performance of an organization, institution or even a country.

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Services and Role of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in India

ICTs can play a crucial role in supporting public outreach, building a data base, creating awareness for the adaptation against the impact of climate change.

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PARA-Agua - Chira-Piura

The project Partnering for Adaptation and Resilience (PARA-Agua) or "For Water" recognizes that climate change is negatively impacting water resources, agriculture and ecosystems in the LAC region

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How to scale out community-based adaptation to climate change

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The impacts of climate change are context specific and the resources and capacity available for adaptation are locally defined. As a result, adaptation activities must be localised...

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UNESCO: Islands of the Future – Building resilience in a changing world

The ‘Islands of the Future – Building resilience in a changing world’ booklet highlights UNESCO activities in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), covering the period from 2006-2013.

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INCA Network

This paper describes the development of an international participative network of Peruvian, Bolivian and German partners to investigate climate change impacts on small farmers in the Andes mountains.

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SNA review summary

This article, written by weADAPT authors, reviews several recent papers on quantitative social network analysis (SNA) in relation to adaptive governance, adaptive capacity and resilience.

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A review of applications of SNA

SNA review

This article reviews the applications of Social Network Analysis in eight diverse studies; details of the methods, questions asked, findings and tools used are given.

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Bosque Modelo Araucarias de Alto Malleco

BMAAM is a Model Forest located in Chile with legal status and part of the RIABM network.

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Social network characteristics

Social network mapping is used to help identify stakeholders in climate adaptation planning.

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Reseau National des Agro-sylvo-pastorale

Programme de fixation des jeunes (maraîchage, reboisement, élevage) dans leur terroir; accroissement des productions animales et céréalières grâce à l’application des paquets technologiques défini

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Governance, institutions and policy

Advancing new insights into good governance for sustainable development in the face of social and ecological change.

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Social Network Analysis

Social network analysis [SNA] is the mapping and measuring of relationships and flows of information between people, groups and organizations, and provides both a visual and a mathematical analysis.

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Social network mapping

Social network mapping is a form of knowledge mapping which helps stakeholders and researchers to identify, visualise and discuss social relationships within any situation or project. In this article we present the steps to carry out this exercise based on using the NetMap methodology.

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[Disambiguation: plural used for tagging descriptions of how networks are and can contribute to positive outcomes, and how they can and are being built in practice.]

A network is a group of people or organisations that are connected and interact with one another to work towards a common goal. Networks can be social, professional, thematic etc. in their nature. They can enable connections and interaction between individual actors that benefit the wider network, including peer support, knowledge sharing, cooperation, and coordination.

Wenger, E., Trayner, B., and de Laat, M. (2011) highlight the value of networks for enabling learning. They state: "The network aspect refers to the set of relationships, personal interactions, and connections among participants who have personal reasons to connect. It is viewed as a set of nodes and links with affordances for learning, such as information flows, helpful linkages, joint problem solving, and knowledge creation."

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