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... environmental & socio-economic shocks Goal 11- Sustainable Cities: reduce disaster-caused deaths and losses Goal 13 – Climate Change: resilience to climate hazards & natural disasters ...
... environmental & socio-economic shocks Goal 11- Sustainable Cities: reduce disaster-caused deaths and losses Goal 13 – Climate Change: resilience to climate hazards & natural disasters ...
CPUC Workshop on Societal Cost Test
... • OMB guidelines recommend 3% for government projects * “OMB (2003) cites evidence of a 3.1 percent pre-tax rate for ten-year U.S. Treasury notes. According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (2005), funds continuously reinvested in 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds from 1789 to the present wou ...
... • OMB guidelines recommend 3% for government projects * “OMB (2003) cites evidence of a 3.1 percent pre-tax rate for ten-year U.S. Treasury notes. According to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (2005), funds continuously reinvested in 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds from 1789 to the present wou ...
Ambiguity in Australian emissions markets
... particular site. They found that the bid price and market prices of the ambiguous assets were consistently below that of the unambiguous assets. Bossaerts et al (2010) found that these ambiguity averse investors have an indirect affect on prices because they change the per capital amount of risk tha ...
... particular site. They found that the bid price and market prices of the ambiguous assets were consistently below that of the unambiguous assets. Bossaerts et al (2010) found that these ambiguity averse investors have an indirect affect on prices because they change the per capital amount of risk tha ...
The Global Fossil Fuel Divestment and Clean Energy - Divest
... companies for climate damages around the world. In addition, the fossil fuel industry finds itself under investigation for potentially fraudulent climate denial and failure to disclose climate risk, following a series of investigative reports by nongovernmental organizations and journalists. Togethe ...
... companies for climate damages around the world. In addition, the fossil fuel industry finds itself under investigation for potentially fraudulent climate denial and failure to disclose climate risk, following a series of investigative reports by nongovernmental organizations and journalists. Togethe ...
Assets and Adaptation - Overseas Development Institute
... there is a strong physicalist/naturalist strand that places most emphasis on ‘violent forces of nature’, and a weaker strand of where ‘the limits of human rationality and consequent interpretation of nature lead to tragic misjudgements in our interactions with it’ (Blaikie et al. 1994: 11). The seco ...
... there is a strong physicalist/naturalist strand that places most emphasis on ‘violent forces of nature’, and a weaker strand of where ‘the limits of human rationality and consequent interpretation of nature lead to tragic misjudgements in our interactions with it’ (Blaikie et al. 1994: 11). The seco ...
GOVERNMENT LIABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE: SELECTED LEGAL ISSUES RELATED TO FLOOD
... expected in the coming years. This is particularly true where scientific studies quantify climate change and increases in the frequency and intensity of flooding. To reduce flood damages from climate change, governments can strengthen their floodplain regulations including revised floodplain maps, i ...
... expected in the coming years. This is particularly true where scientific studies quantify climate change and increases in the frequency and intensity of flooding. To reduce flood damages from climate change, governments can strengthen their floodplain regulations including revised floodplain maps, i ...
Thermophilic Fungi to Dominate Aflatoxigenic/Mycotoxigenic Fungi
... increasingly is becoming more tropical. Hot and dry weather in Europe [16] contributed to a 2003 outbreak of A. flavus on crops in Italy, uncommon previously. A. flavus was able to colonize ripening maize by outcompeting the more common Fusarium species [15,34]. This caused an increase in aflatoxin ...
... increasingly is becoming more tropical. Hot and dry weather in Europe [16] contributed to a 2003 outbreak of A. flavus on crops in Italy, uncommon previously. A. flavus was able to colonize ripening maize by outcompeting the more common Fusarium species [15,34]. This caused an increase in aflatoxin ...
Common garden experiments reveal uncommon responses
... most empirical studies of recent responses to warming focus on individual species and/or locations (but see Pelini et al. 2011) as invariant units of analysis. However, the rate, magnitude, and direction of the responses to warming or other climatic changes by different individuals ...
... most empirical studies of recent responses to warming focus on individual species and/or locations (but see Pelini et al. 2011) as invariant units of analysis. However, the rate, magnitude, and direction of the responses to warming or other climatic changes by different individuals ...
international conventions, agencies, agreements and programmes
... with UNESCO and IUCN and ending with FAO, Ramsar and CITES; (2) 1988 – 1995, from IPCC to WTO and SPS; and finally (3) UN-REDD in 2008 and MICCA in 2010. This chronology reflects the change in emphasis internationally from concern for individual humans, animals and plants, linking conservation to th ...
... with UNESCO and IUCN and ending with FAO, Ramsar and CITES; (2) 1988 – 1995, from IPCC to WTO and SPS; and finally (3) UN-REDD in 2008 and MICCA in 2010. This chronology reflects the change in emphasis internationally from concern for individual humans, animals and plants, linking conservation to th ...
Impacts of future deforestation and climate change on the hydrology
... a river routing scheme (Biemans et al., 2009; Guimberteau et al., 2012; Langerwisch et al., 2013). The climate of the Amazon Basin is notoriously difficult to model and there is a wide between-GCM variation in the estimated precipitation and its changes (Boisier et al., 2015). This introduces a firs ...
... a river routing scheme (Biemans et al., 2009; Guimberteau et al., 2012; Langerwisch et al., 2013). The climate of the Amazon Basin is notoriously difficult to model and there is a wide between-GCM variation in the estimated precipitation and its changes (Boisier et al., 2015). This introduces a firs ...
Carbon Storage in Rangelands - UC Cooperative Extension
... Private ranchers can be part of the solution to climate change by using management practices that improve soil organic matter and plant productivity, minimize erosion, and optimize carbon sequestration. Specific management recommendations for carbon sequestration will depend on many factors includin ...
... Private ranchers can be part of the solution to climate change by using management practices that improve soil organic matter and plant productivity, minimize erosion, and optimize carbon sequestration. Specific management recommendations for carbon sequestration will depend on many factors includin ...
Carbon-nitrogen interactions regulate climate
... atmosphere causes a net release or reduced uptake of carbon dioxide from both land and oceans, contributing to a positive feedback that enhances radiatively-forced climate change (Matthews et al., 2007; Friedlingstein et al., 2006). These studies, however, have not included an explicit treatment of ...
... atmosphere causes a net release or reduced uptake of carbon dioxide from both land and oceans, contributing to a positive feedback that enhances radiatively-forced climate change (Matthews et al., 2007; Friedlingstein et al., 2006). These studies, however, have not included an explicit treatment of ...
Curriculum Vitae - Center for Research on Environmental
... Ben Orlove, Renzo Taddei, Guillermo Podestá and Kenneth Broad. Environmental citizenship in Latin America: Climate, intermediate organizations and political subjects. Latin American Research Review 46(S1):115-140. Carla Roncoli, Benjamin S. Orlove, Merit R. Kabugo and Milton M. Waiswa. Cultural styl ...
... Ben Orlove, Renzo Taddei, Guillermo Podestá and Kenneth Broad. Environmental citizenship in Latin America: Climate, intermediate organizations and political subjects. Latin American Research Review 46(S1):115-140. Carla Roncoli, Benjamin S. Orlove, Merit R. Kabugo and Milton M. Waiswa. Cultural styl ...
RESIN-D1.3-Conceptual Framework
... Environment Agency (EEA) identifies environmental, technical and societal sub-systems interacting within a broader urban system (Figure 2). Similarly, Da Silva et al. (2012) perceive cities as dynamic and porous systems interacting with their ‘enabling environment’. The notion of an enabling environ ...
... Environment Agency (EEA) identifies environmental, technical and societal sub-systems interacting within a broader urban system (Figure 2). Similarly, Da Silva et al. (2012) perceive cities as dynamic and porous systems interacting with their ‘enabling environment’. The notion of an enabling environ ...
BROOKINGS MOUNTAIN WEST LECTURE SERIES, 2009-2015 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
... Specific proposals for increasing opportunity, many supported by good evidence, are presented. “Deficits and Disaster,” September 14, 2010 The nation’s deficit path is unsustainable. The public debt is likely to increase by $1 trillion per year until 2020, and then increase at an ever increasing rat ...
... Specific proposals for increasing opportunity, many supported by good evidence, are presented. “Deficits and Disaster,” September 14, 2010 The nation’s deficit path is unsustainable. The public debt is likely to increase by $1 trillion per year until 2020, and then increase at an ever increasing rat ...
Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from US Agriculture September 30, 2013
... an important input to climate policy discussions, but bear the obvious caveat that future adjustment capabilities are constrained to what farmers were capable of in the recent past. Nevertheless, because our projections are less dependent on large out-of-sample extrapolation, and because they accoun ...
... an important input to climate policy discussions, but bear the obvious caveat that future adjustment capabilities are constrained to what farmers were capable of in the recent past. Nevertheless, because our projections are less dependent on large out-of-sample extrapolation, and because they accoun ...
Management & Engineering Company in China
... disclosure of the enterprise through the media, internet voluntarily or mandatorily. September 14, 2010, Environmental Protection Department issued the Listed Company Environment Information Disclosure Guidelines (drafts), it forces heavy pollution listed companies in SSE or SZSE to publish annual e ...
... disclosure of the enterprise through the media, internet voluntarily or mandatorily. September 14, 2010, Environmental Protection Department issued the Listed Company Environment Information Disclosure Guidelines (drafts), it forces heavy pollution listed companies in SSE or SZSE to publish annual e ...
Mk3.5 simulations
... Expect a well initialised model to provide improved projections over this time scale than a non-initialised model (inform initial state versus underlying trend) ...
... Expect a well initialised model to provide improved projections over this time scale than a non-initialised model (inform initial state versus underlying trend) ...
Potential Impacts of Changes in Climate on Water Quality in New
... et al., 2008). This shift has occurred due to the growing body of literature documenting the changes in the Earth’s climate. The National Climate Assessment (NCA; USGCRP, 2013) has reported that recent observations of the Northeast U.S. show warming and an increase in heavy precipitation events. Th ...
... et al., 2008). This shift has occurred due to the growing body of literature documenting the changes in the Earth’s climate. The National Climate Assessment (NCA; USGCRP, 2013) has reported that recent observations of the Northeast U.S. show warming and an increase in heavy precipitation events. Th ...