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capacidade de adaptacao limitada

English translation: limited adaptive or adaptation capacity/ limited capacity for adaptation

21:46 Aug 29, 2005
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / adequacao de significado
Portuguese term or phrase: capacidade de adaptacao limitada
Ola a todos,

Qual a melhor traducao para: "... os dados coletados nos permitem concluir que estes pequenos produtores tem uma capacidade de adaptacao limitada..."

Minha pergunta se deve ao fato de que ainda tenho dificuldades com a palavra "capacidade" em ingles, isto e, quase nunca sei quando e o momento adequado de emprega-la.
Obrigada desde ja.
Kantian
Local time: 20:23
English translation:limited adaptive or adaptation capacity/ limited capacity for adaptation
Explanation:
limited adaptive/ adaptation capacity/ limited adaptation for capacity

climate change hazards and/or their limited adaptive capacity. Most less-developed regions ... the possibility of adaptation of ecosystems is very limited. ...
www.greenpeace.org.br/clima/pdf/spm19-02.pdf

An organization with limited adaptive capacity relative. to the other two areas of capacity could be represented by a Venn diagram with a smaller ...

www.managementconsultingservices.org/ pdfs/Building%20Adaptive%20Capacityfinal.pdf
... multiple pressures, and the limited adaptation capacity of many wetlands owing to the. severe alteration of their hydrological regimes; ...
www.gbf.ch/Session_Administration/

upload/cop8_climate_change_guidance.pdf
This limited capacity for adaptation contrasts dramatically with the extensive and rapid adaptation exhibited by adult primates exposed to comparable ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
db=PubMed&list_uids=2795163&dopt=Abstract

Selected response from:

Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Grading comment
Obrigada. O termo capability me fez lembrar da teoria das caidades http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue15/Benicourt15.htm - Mas sempre me sinto insegura quanto a optunidade correta de usa-lo. ja que neste trecho eu nao estava citnado ninguem fiquei em duvida se este seria mesmo o termo e o momento mais apropriado para usa-lo. Obrigada.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +5ability
António Ribeiro
4 +3limited adaptive or adaptation capacity/ limited capacity for adaptation
Claudio Mazotti
3 +2limited adaptability
Security
5limited c apability to adapt
Muriel Vasconcellos


  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
limited adaptability


Explanation:
see if its fits

Security

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Luiza Modesto: Gostei.
3 mins
agree  Vasco Mota Pereira
1 hr
neutral  Deborah do Carmo: limited ability to adapt is by far the better and more natural option here
2 hrs
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29 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
limited adaptive or adaptation capacity/ limited capacity for adaptation


Explanation:
limited adaptive/ adaptation capacity/ limited adaptation for capacity

climate change hazards and/or their limited adaptive capacity. Most less-developed regions ... the possibility of adaptation of ecosystems is very limited. ...
www.greenpeace.org.br/clima/pdf/spm19-02.pdf

An organization with limited adaptive capacity relative. to the other two areas of capacity could be represented by a Venn diagram with a smaller ...

www.managementconsultingservices.org/ pdfs/Building%20Adaptive%20Capacityfinal.pdf
... multiple pressures, and the limited adaptation capacity of many wetlands owing to the. severe alteration of their hydrological regimes; ...
www.gbf.ch/Session_Administration/

upload/cop8_climate_change_guidance.pdf
This limited capacity for adaptation contrasts dramatically with the extensive and rapid adaptation exhibited by adult primates exposed to comparable ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&
db=PubMed&list_uids=2795163&dopt=Abstract



Claudio Mazotti
Brazil
Works in field
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Obrigada. O termo capability me fez lembrar da teoria das caidades http://www.paecon.net/PAEReview/issue15/Benicourt15.htm - Mas sempre me sinto insegura quanto a optunidade correta de usa-lo. ja que neste trecho eu nao estava citnado ninguem fiquei em duvida se este seria mesmo o termo e o momento mais apropriado para usa-lo. Obrigada.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Karen Haggerty
32 mins
  -> tks a lot!
agree  Enza Longo
42 mins
  -> tks a lot!
agree  Mariana Moreira
1 hr
  -> tks a lot!
neutral  Deborah do Carmo: the natural approach in English is to steer clear of the - ion construction, where possible as this "latinises" the text - limited ability to adapt is better in this case
2 hrs
  -> you better eliminate all such constructions from the language... lol
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
ability


Explanation:
Eu diria que "ability" é o termo epropriado para este contexto.

...limited ability to adapt

António Ribeiro
Local time: 09:23
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 24

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jane Lamb-Ruiz (X): yes, that's right ability to adapt
1 hr
agree  Deborah do Carmo: spot on, not adaptation as suggested
1 hr
agree  Philippe Maillard
3 hrs
agree  Henrique Magalhaes
10 hrs
agree  Eugenia Lourenco
13 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
limited c apability to adapt


Explanation:
.

Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 16:23
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 160
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