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In this section you will learn about adaptation in

• urban centres
• rural areas

Vulnerability of Prairie communities to climate change depends upon their adaptive capacity and how directly exposed they are to the impacts.

Vulnerability to climate change will increase if stresses are repetitious and continuous (as anticipated) and can be amplified if the stresses occur in combination and if they occur too frequently to allow recuperation. (1)

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NRCan: Impacts to adaptation IISD - Climate change adaptation Frazer Basin Council

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