Innovation in the realm of institutional complexity
... illustrate the challenges that these changes incur. One case is from Kvaernerbyen, an area in central Oslo, the capitol of Norway, which in the past few years has been refurbished and subject to a large housing project. On 2nd September 2015, the local river, which floats through the area was floodi ...
... illustrate the challenges that these changes incur. One case is from Kvaernerbyen, an area in central Oslo, the capitol of Norway, which in the past few years has been refurbished and subject to a large housing project. On 2nd September 2015, the local river, which floats through the area was floodi ...
1 - QUBES hub
... i. Regional Long-term Temperature Trends The data for these exercises are provided for you by your lab instructor. You will work in pairs to analyze the data. An important component of climate change studies is the analysis of temperature change over long timescales in the region of interest. For ou ...
... i. Regional Long-term Temperature Trends The data for these exercises are provided for you by your lab instructor. You will work in pairs to analyze the data. An important component of climate change studies is the analysis of temperature change over long timescales in the region of interest. For ou ...
assembly committee on natural resources
... COMMENTS: 1) Background. The 5th assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that atmospheric concentrations of global warming pollutants have risen to levels unseen in the past 800,000 years. Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industr ...
... COMMENTS: 1) Background. The 5th assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) notes that atmospheric concentrations of global warming pollutants have risen to levels unseen in the past 800,000 years. Carbon dioxide concentrations have increased by 40% since pre-industr ...
European Journal of Legal Studies
... discernible real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases since the mid 1990s. In order for a future global climate change agreement to be successful, the article argues that there are nine fundamental factors that must be borne in mind, and concludes that no breakthroughs will take place r ...
... discernible real world reductions in emissions of greenhouse gases since the mid 1990s. In order for a future global climate change agreement to be successful, the article argues that there are nine fundamental factors that must be borne in mind, and concludes that no breakthroughs will take place r ...
Observations On Environmental Change in South Africa
... addresses issues of ‘People and Environmental Change’. The subsequent chapters describe a variety of pertinent environmental issues grouped into broad large-scale ecosystem topics spanning the atmosphere to the oceans. The book ends with a concluding chapter. South Africans, across the board, are de ...
... addresses issues of ‘People and Environmental Change’. The subsequent chapters describe a variety of pertinent environmental issues grouped into broad large-scale ecosystem topics spanning the atmosphere to the oceans. The book ends with a concluding chapter. South Africans, across the board, are de ...
Use of Indigenous Knowledge as a Strategy for Climate Change
... can be classified as two major kinds of modification in the production systems: (a) increased diversification and (b) protecting sensitive growth stages by managing the crops to ensure that these critical stages do not coincide with very harsh climatic conditions such as midseason droughts [22]. In ...
... can be classified as two major kinds of modification in the production systems: (a) increased diversification and (b) protecting sensitive growth stages by managing the crops to ensure that these critical stages do not coincide with very harsh climatic conditions such as midseason droughts [22]. In ...
Document
... system, with an emphasis on observing, understanding, and predicting global environmental changes involving interactions between land, atmosphere, water, ice, biosphere, societies, technologies, and economies. Humans – by decoupling their life cycle from natural conditions – have altered “natural” b ...
... system, with an emphasis on observing, understanding, and predicting global environmental changes involving interactions between land, atmosphere, water, ice, biosphere, societies, technologies, and economies. Humans – by decoupling their life cycle from natural conditions – have altered “natural” b ...
Forest, Climate Change, and the Forest
... Two decades of certifying sustainable forest management In the last 20 years, FSC certification has become a globally recognized tool for promoting sustainable forest management. Its widespread international success rests on more than two decades of work with foresters, the processing industry, and ...
... Two decades of certifying sustainable forest management In the last 20 years, FSC certification has become a globally recognized tool for promoting sustainable forest management. Its widespread international success rests on more than two decades of work with foresters, the processing industry, and ...
Presentation ()
... Quantify an increase in extinction risk due to climate change based on linkages with snowpack ...
... Quantify an increase in extinction risk due to climate change based on linkages with snowpack ...
Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
Climate Change PowerPoint
... Temperatures are rising Sea levels are rising The ocean is acidifying Climate change is reflected in water cycle changes and in extreme weather ...
... Temperatures are rising Sea levels are rising The ocean is acidifying Climate change is reflected in water cycle changes and in extreme weather ...
FINANCING THE BLUE ECONOMY IN SMALL STATES POLICY
... vast and largely untapped. The World Wildlife Fund identifies over 30 potential sources, including through grants, donations, revenues from the fishing industry, energy, mining and biodiversity prospecting (Spergel and Moye 2004). A recent survey notes that development finance institutions such as t ...
... vast and largely untapped. The World Wildlife Fund identifies over 30 potential sources, including through grants, donations, revenues from the fishing industry, energy, mining and biodiversity prospecting (Spergel and Moye 2004). A recent survey notes that development finance institutions such as t ...
Find some land, build a house?
... Brazil leads the world in production and use, making about 16 billion litres per year of ethanol from its sugarcane industry. Sixty percent of new cars can run on a fuel mix which includes 85% ethanol. A recent UK government publication declared that biofuels reduced emissions "by 50-60% compared to ...
... Brazil leads the world in production and use, making about 16 billion litres per year of ethanol from its sugarcane industry. Sixty percent of new cars can run on a fuel mix which includes 85% ethanol. A recent UK government publication declared that biofuels reduced emissions "by 50-60% compared to ...
StudyQuestions4
... 18. What is some of the evidence that the Earth's climate system has been changing significantly in recent decades? Include at least five different kinds of evidence. 19. How do the climate changes of the last 150 years compare with long-term changes that came before? 20. Can changes in volcanic ac ...
... 18. What is some of the evidence that the Earth's climate system has been changing significantly in recent decades? Include at least five different kinds of evidence. 19. How do the climate changes of the last 150 years compare with long-term changes that came before? 20. Can changes in volcanic ac ...
Emerging responses to climate change in pastoral systems
... are location-specific and cannot be scaled up easily to other areas. However, they offer starting points for joint action by pastoralists, researchers, development agents and government authorities to support pastoralists’ efforts to deal with change. The study revealed that pastoralists have consid ...
... are location-specific and cannot be scaled up easily to other areas. However, they offer starting points for joint action by pastoralists, researchers, development agents and government authorities to support pastoralists’ efforts to deal with change. The study revealed that pastoralists have consid ...
Governing climate change: the politics of risk society?
... undergoing a process of (unseen) ‘selfconfrontation’ (Figure 2). Risks are produced within modernity, but their distanciated, unpredictable and imperceptible nature means that the institutions of modernity can not ‘comprehend or legitimize’ them (Beck 1994, 10; 1996a, 32). The politics of risk socie ...
... undergoing a process of (unseen) ‘selfconfrontation’ (Figure 2). Risks are produced within modernity, but their distanciated, unpredictable and imperceptible nature means that the institutions of modernity can not ‘comprehend or legitimize’ them (Beck 1994, 10; 1996a, 32). The politics of risk socie ...
Anthropogenic carbon release rate unprecedented during the past
... effects of carbonate dissolution are minimal16 . Despite the lack of accurate stratigraphic age control, these records have the greatest potential to resolve the relative phasing between carbon cycle and climate changes. Our advance here is to recognize that an age model is not strictly necessary to ...
... effects of carbonate dissolution are minimal16 . Despite the lack of accurate stratigraphic age control, these records have the greatest potential to resolve the relative phasing between carbon cycle and climate changes. Our advance here is to recognize that an age model is not strictly necessary to ...
31 Meaningful technology development and transfer: A
... Technology development and transfer, as intended in the Convention, goes well beyond R&D agreements as discussed in Toman’s chapter in this book – the Convention acknowledges that it is also about credible mechanisms that allow developing countries to ‘catch up’ technologically, to develop their own ...
... Technology development and transfer, as intended in the Convention, goes well beyond R&D agreements as discussed in Toman’s chapter in this book – the Convention acknowledges that it is also about credible mechanisms that allow developing countries to ‘catch up’ technologically, to develop their own ...
Scott A. Hoekman: Greening America`s Communities
... housing developments receiving City funds will be required to meet the Green Communities criteria starting in 2010; part of City and County of Denver's official Climate Action Plan San Francisco: In 2005, first to make a commitment to green affordable housing in 2005 (in partnership with Enterpris ...
... housing developments receiving City funds will be required to meet the Green Communities criteria starting in 2010; part of City and County of Denver's official Climate Action Plan San Francisco: In 2005, first to make a commitment to green affordable housing in 2005 (in partnership with Enterpris ...
E1 Assemble Climate Change and Infrastructure Working Group
... damage assessment to estimate the extent of disaster and the impact on individuals and public facilities. This information is forwarded to the President so that he can issue a disaster declaration, which allows Federal funding for recovery efforts. Appendix B provides a listing of declarations for t ...
... damage assessment to estimate the extent of disaster and the impact on individuals and public facilities. This information is forwarded to the President so that he can issue a disaster declaration, which allows Federal funding for recovery efforts. Appendix B provides a listing of declarations for t ...
Tenure and climate adaptability.
... Context affects Bangladesh’s city dwellers’ ability to adapt to climate change. Security of tenure is particularly important for poor urban dwellers. Different types of tenure arrangements – legal, illegal or informal – lead to differing levels of security. Bangladesh faces the prospect of rural-urb ...
... Context affects Bangladesh’s city dwellers’ ability to adapt to climate change. Security of tenure is particularly important for poor urban dwellers. Different types of tenure arrangements – legal, illegal or informal – lead to differing levels of security. Bangladesh faces the prospect of rural-urb ...
skeptical science - The Science and Public Policy Institute
... that do show some warming from the 1930s but they're (even) much less reliable than the U.S. record. The U.S. record simply does matter, despite its mistakes. Moreover, the U.S. temperatures are what the Americans should be primarily interested in, anyway. The idea that the global temperatures are m ...
... that do show some warming from the 1930s but they're (even) much less reliable than the U.S. record. The U.S. record simply does matter, despite its mistakes. Moreover, the U.S. temperatures are what the Americans should be primarily interested in, anyway. The idea that the global temperatures are m ...
Climate Change Impacts on Energy in the Great Lakes Basin
... plants, the extent of these decreases is unknown. Uncerwave (Krier 2012). Conditions inside the containment tainty regarding the magnitude and interactions of clibuilding became too warm to accomplish daily tasks and mate change effects make reliable estimates of their imthe plant remained closed fo ...
... plants, the extent of these decreases is unknown. Uncerwave (Krier 2012). Conditions inside the containment tainty regarding the magnitude and interactions of clibuilding became too warm to accomplish daily tasks and mate change effects make reliable estimates of their imthe plant remained closed fo ...
Climate Change Mitigation Options in British Columbia`s Forests: A
... since 1990, it is estimated that BC’s forests have removed from the atmosphere an amount of carbon approximately equivalent to that of the annual emissions from all the other sectors of BC combined (~64 million tonnes of CO2 in 2013 [6]). Approximately the same amount of carbon is also transferred a ...
... since 1990, it is estimated that BC’s forests have removed from the atmosphere an amount of carbon approximately equivalent to that of the annual emissions from all the other sectors of BC combined (~64 million tonnes of CO2 in 2013 [6]). Approximately the same amount of carbon is also transferred a ...
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
... are quasi-static functions that are actually valid only for a single point in time. The parameters in traditional mitigation cost functions (see Nordhaus, 1994) are constant (at least for long periods), i.e., the cost of subsequent emission reductions is the same regardless of preceding reduction ef ...
... are quasi-static functions that are actually valid only for a single point in time. The parameters in traditional mitigation cost functions (see Nordhaus, 1994) are constant (at least for long periods), i.e., the cost of subsequent emission reductions is the same regardless of preceding reduction ef ...