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... factors determining the rainy season characteristics, farming systems, field crop production and livestock rearing. Both interannual and intraseasonal rainfall variability constrains crop production in the tropics and subtropics. In semi-arid tropics, unreliable rainfall combined with high evaporati ...
... factors determining the rainy season characteristics, farming systems, field crop production and livestock rearing. Both interannual and intraseasonal rainfall variability constrains crop production in the tropics and subtropics. In semi-arid tropics, unreliable rainfall combined with high evaporati ...
Psychology`s Contributions to Understanding and Addressing
... possible positive consequences, such as people taking collective responsibility for solving a shared problem, that may aid individual coping and community responses. Third, psychology can help describe, explain, and also inform our responses to climate change. The consequences of climate change both ...
... possible positive consequences, such as people taking collective responsibility for solving a shared problem, that may aid individual coping and community responses. Third, psychology can help describe, explain, and also inform our responses to climate change. The consequences of climate change both ...
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... (especially tube-well) irrigation, and the expansion of multiple-cropping. A number of studies of the productivity growth in Indian agriculture associated with the Green Revolution have been completed. Most prior studies have treated the three main components of the Green Revolution as exogenous var ...
... (especially tube-well) irrigation, and the expansion of multiple-cropping. A number of studies of the productivity growth in Indian agriculture associated with the Green Revolution have been completed. Most prior studies have treated the three main components of the Green Revolution as exogenous var ...
20 July 2012 - Productivity Commission
... happy to skip through the front half, that was just the stock standard statement about what South Australia is doing. But basically we recognise that adaptation is a local response requiring decision-makers and in South Australia it's about ensuring decision-making at the right scale, so defining th ...
... happy to skip through the front half, that was just the stock standard statement about what South Australia is doing. But basically we recognise that adaptation is a local response requiring decision-makers and in South Australia it's about ensuring decision-making at the right scale, so defining th ...
Chhatra Bahadur Khadka Tribhuvan University
... household survey with semi-structured questionnaires, interview with key informants, group discussion, formal and informal discussion with random sampling method. Thirty years Meteorological data (Rainfall and temperature) was collected to study the rainfall and temperature pattern and different pub ...
... household survey with semi-structured questionnaires, interview with key informants, group discussion, formal and informal discussion with random sampling method. Thirty years Meteorological data (Rainfall and temperature) was collected to study the rainfall and temperature pattern and different pub ...
Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... Climate change poses risks to California and to the rest of the world. California’s policy makers have recognized these risks, and have become courageous first-movers in addressing this global issue. But to reach the ambitious goals for emissions reductions set by the state government, further polic ...
... Climate change poses risks to California and to the rest of the world. California’s policy makers have recognized these risks, and have become courageous first-movers in addressing this global issue. But to reach the ambitious goals for emissions reductions set by the state government, further polic ...
Climate change, the environment and armed con
... David King, stated that, ‘climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism.’14 ‘Margaret Beckett, the British Foreign Secretary between May 2006 and June 2007, consciously made ‘climate security’ a central plank of British foreign policy during her short stint at the ...
... David King, stated that, ‘climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism.’14 ‘Margaret Beckett, the British Foreign Secretary between May 2006 and June 2007, consciously made ‘climate security’ a central plank of British foreign policy during her short stint at the ...
AFRICA`S BEST READ - Department of Environmental Affairs
... As a direct result of Khan’s many initiatives, Strelitzia Secondary School achieved second place in the Climate Change Leadership awards for linking recycling, tree planting, food gardening and water conservation programmes to climate change, and actively introducing climate change programmes in sch ...
... As a direct result of Khan’s many initiatives, Strelitzia Secondary School achieved second place in the Climate Change Leadership awards for linking recycling, tree planting, food gardening and water conservation programmes to climate change, and actively introducing climate change programmes in sch ...
Objective of the Aid Program - Independent review of aid effectiveness
... climate change need to be incorporated into the design of all aid initiatives. Fund additional climate aid to $A2.1billion per year The impacts of climate change are felt most harshly by the poor worldwide. As the ARDE 2009 highlights “unless the global community adequately addresses the challenges ...
... climate change need to be incorporated into the design of all aid initiatives. Fund additional climate aid to $A2.1billion per year The impacts of climate change are felt most harshly by the poor worldwide. As the ARDE 2009 highlights “unless the global community adequately addresses the challenges ...
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... Kyoto Protocol at Bali its first official act, the new Australian Government signalled a major policy shift, with Australia taking on a leadership role internationally and committing to a long term domestic target of a 60% reduction of 2000 emissions by ...
... Kyoto Protocol at Bali its first official act, the new Australian Government signalled a major policy shift, with Australia taking on a leadership role internationally and committing to a long term domestic target of a 60% reduction of 2000 emissions by ...
English - unfccc
... development. In 2005 the GDP was targeted to grow by 6.9% but it grew by 6.8%. This was attributed to severe drought that affected most parts of the country, triggering food shortage and power crisis. An economic survey conducted in 2005 showed that the agricultural sector (which is the main economi ...
... development. In 2005 the GDP was targeted to grow by 6.9% but it grew by 6.8%. This was attributed to severe drought that affected most parts of the country, triggering food shortage and power crisis. An economic survey conducted in 2005 showed that the agricultural sector (which is the main economi ...
Bolivia: Climate change, poverty and adaptation
... ● Bio-diversity: Bolivia is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. It covers a huge area of more than one million square kilometres (roughly the size of France, Germany and the UK combined) across a great variety of eco-systems including Andean mountains, the Chaco desert, humid and ari ...
... ● Bio-diversity: Bolivia is one of the most bio-diverse countries in the world. It covers a huge area of more than one million square kilometres (roughly the size of France, Germany and the UK combined) across a great variety of eco-systems including Andean mountains, the Chaco desert, humid and ari ...
Selecting Ensemble Members to Provide Regional Climate Change
... First, we seek to eliminate from our subset any model that is unable to simulate key processes in this region, where the climate is dominated by the Asian summer monsoon and its variability. The monsoon is the major driver of the timing, magnitude, and distribution of wetseason rainfall and thus rai ...
... First, we seek to eliminate from our subset any model that is unable to simulate key processes in this region, where the climate is dominated by the Asian summer monsoon and its variability. The monsoon is the major driver of the timing, magnitude, and distribution of wetseason rainfall and thus rai ...
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Climate Change and
... for the Initial National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (MoNRE 2003) and coastal zone vulnerability to sea level rise was investigated in the 1990s (MHC et al. 1996). Work is ongoing for the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC too, but ass ...
... for the Initial National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (MoNRE 2003) and coastal zone vulnerability to sea level rise was investigated in the 1990s (MHC et al. 1996). Work is ongoing for the Second National Communication to the UNFCCC too, but ass ...
English - Inter-American Development Bank
... changes, we might refer to them as having a rainy climate, meaning it rains frequently all year long. The weather in countries above and below the intertropical region are affected by seasons. For example, these climates may be rainy in the winter and dry in the summer. Weather refers to short-term ...
... changes, we might refer to them as having a rainy climate, meaning it rains frequently all year long. The weather in countries above and below the intertropical region are affected by seasons. For example, these climates may be rainy in the winter and dry in the summer. Weather refers to short-term ...
Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and
... earlier ice-break-up, which dictates habitat availability and the start of breeding, as found for two early arriving species, mallard and common goldeneye (e.g. Fredga & Dow 1983, Oja & Pöysä 2007). Positive relationships between warmer and drier springs and duck nest success have also been record ...
... earlier ice-break-up, which dictates habitat availability and the start of breeding, as found for two early arriving species, mallard and common goldeneye (e.g. Fredga & Dow 1983, Oja & Pöysä 2007). Positive relationships between warmer and drier springs and duck nest success have also been record ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... regions (UNFCCC, 2005, 2007). Coral bleaching occurs if coral cannot adapt fast enough to increasing sea surface temperatures. These events have the capacity to eliminate more than 90% of the corals on a reef, destroying the ecosystem, leaving islands exposed to ocean waves and storms, and eliminati ...
... regions (UNFCCC, 2005, 2007). Coral bleaching occurs if coral cannot adapt fast enough to increasing sea surface temperatures. These events have the capacity to eliminate more than 90% of the corals on a reef, destroying the ecosystem, leaving islands exposed to ocean waves and storms, and eliminati ...
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Climate Change Adaptation Strategy
... Climate change can no longer be completely prevented. The mean temperature in Finland is expected to rise by more than the global average. The speed of such change is a major challenge to society and to nature. It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhou ...
... Climate change can no longer be completely prevented. The mean temperature in Finland is expected to rise by more than the global average. The speed of such change is a major challenge to society and to nature. It is vitally important to mitigate the progress of climate change and to reduce greenhou ...
FiELDiNG CLiMATE CHANGE iN CULTURAL
... other social scientists, such as sociologists and cultural geographers who work on vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change. In describing methods used to gather data for her ethnography on climate and economic change in rural Mexico, geographer Hallie Eakin (2006, 213) acknowledg ...
... other social scientists, such as sociologists and cultural geographers who work on vulnerability and adaptation to global environmental change. In describing methods used to gather data for her ethnography on climate and economic change in rural Mexico, geographer Hallie Eakin (2006, 213) acknowledg ...
perspectives on climate change - Canadian Institute of Planners
... feel the impacts of climate change should be included in planning reports. It appears that the demand for including climate change impacts in planning decisions arises from planners themselves, as only 38% in the most recent survey indicated that concerns about climate change impacts are driven by ...
... feel the impacts of climate change should be included in planning reports. It appears that the demand for including climate change impacts in planning decisions arises from planners themselves, as only 38% in the most recent survey indicated that concerns about climate change impacts are driven by ...
Chapter 9. Establishing Common Ground: Finding Better Ways to
... with it is slowing down the process of implementing solutions. Even if high-level decision makers want to put in place the policies, incentives, and ready-to-be-deployed technologies required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are unable do so to the extent needed because they have to answer t ...
... with it is slowing down the process of implementing solutions. Even if high-level decision makers want to put in place the policies, incentives, and ready-to-be-deployed technologies required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they are unable do so to the extent needed because they have to answer t ...
Adapting to climate change
... represent strong and credible climate science. They begin to quantify the uncertainties we face and so will help us to understand the risks that lie ahead. The Projections show – through three different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios – how our future climate could change dramatically should the ...
... represent strong and credible climate science. They begin to quantify the uncertainties we face and so will help us to understand the risks that lie ahead. The Projections show – through three different greenhouse gas emissions scenarios – how our future climate could change dramatically should the ...
Beyond generic adaptive capacity: exploring the adaptation space of
... capacity is translated, or not, into actual adaptation to climate change by focusing on the main organizations of the water supply and wastewater (WW) sector of the Stockholm region. The article identifies and analyzes the factors that influence the feasibility and attractiveness of the adaptation o ...
... capacity is translated, or not, into actual adaptation to climate change by focusing on the main organizations of the water supply and wastewater (WW) sector of the Stockholm region. The article identifies and analyzes the factors that influence the feasibility and attractiveness of the adaptation o ...
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... instead severe storm occurrences within otherwise natural weather patterns. However, consensus in the scientific community indicates that major storms and other events including inundation of coastal roads from sea level rise, erosion of roadways and bridge supports from heavy precipitation, road an ...
... instead severe storm occurrences within otherwise natural weather patterns. However, consensus in the scientific community indicates that major storms and other events including inundation of coastal roads from sea level rise, erosion of roadways and bridge supports from heavy precipitation, road an ...