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Development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate
... one sector to be assessed with respect to another sector. Single sector studies are clearly limited by their inability to treat all of the processes that may be important in affecting a sector. It becomes clear when undertaking assessments in this way that the various regional-scale sectors are inte ...
... one sector to be assessed with respect to another sector. Single sector studies are clearly limited by their inability to treat all of the processes that may be important in affecting a sector. It becomes clear when undertaking assessments in this way that the various regional-scale sectors are inte ...
Creation and evolution of the oceanic lithosphere: contributions from
... compositional layering, and a lack of sub-solidus plastic deformation. The lack of continuous sampling has made it impossible to determine whether and where these features are present in both fast-spread and slow-spread lower crust. It is crucial to obtain such samples via ocean drilling, both in te ...
... compositional layering, and a lack of sub-solidus plastic deformation. The lack of continuous sampling has made it impossible to determine whether and where these features are present in both fast-spread and slow-spread lower crust. It is crucial to obtain such samples via ocean drilling, both in te ...
Not just about sunburn - the ozone hole`s - Research Online
... illustrates the importance of timely societal and legislative action to alleviate recognised ...
... illustrates the importance of timely societal and legislative action to alleviate recognised ...
Inuit vulnerability and adaptive capacity to climate change in
... vulnerability being viewed in terms of estimated changes in physical and biological variables that may be relevant to human occupancy and livelihoods. Arctic climate impact studies have improved our understanding of the potential severity of the broad affects of climate change on ecosystems, but the ...
... vulnerability being viewed in terms of estimated changes in physical and biological variables that may be relevant to human occupancy and livelihoods. Arctic climate impact studies have improved our understanding of the potential severity of the broad affects of climate change on ecosystems, but the ...
Community-based Climate Change Action Grants
... nations to provide finance to vulnerable countries. In our region, there was a particular focus on small island Pacific countries, judged to be among the most vulnerable and having the least capacity to invest internally. Numerous programs were rolled out post 2010 in the Pacific Region to establish ...
... nations to provide finance to vulnerable countries. In our region, there was a particular focus on small island Pacific countries, judged to be among the most vulnerable and having the least capacity to invest internally. Numerous programs were rolled out post 2010 in the Pacific Region to establish ...
FOOT OF THE CONTINENTAL SLOPE IN ARTICLE 76
... horizontal surfaces across terraces and ponded mid-slope basins. The morphology of the seabed where the continental slope merges with the deep ocean floor may be an abrupt boundary where the smooth and near-horizontal surface of the abyssal plain borders the continental slope, or it may be a complex ...
... horizontal surfaces across terraces and ponded mid-slope basins. The morphology of the seabed where the continental slope merges with the deep ocean floor may be an abrupt boundary where the smooth and near-horizontal surface of the abyssal plain borders the continental slope, or it may be a complex ...
Complete Higher Tier Q Booklet File
... Describe one action that can be taken to reduce the impact of earthquakes (2) Explain how volcanoes are formed on either constructive or destructive plate boundaries (4) For a named earthquake or volcanic eruption, describe its economic impacts. (4) Describe one method that can be used to predict wh ...
... Describe one action that can be taken to reduce the impact of earthquakes (2) Explain how volcanoes are formed on either constructive or destructive plate boundaries (4) For a named earthquake or volcanic eruption, describe its economic impacts. (4) Describe one method that can be used to predict wh ...
Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching
... The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy launched the Global Marine Initiative in 2002 to protect and restore the most resili ...
... The mission of The Nature Conservancy is to preserve the plants, animals and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by protecting the lands and waters they need to survive. The Conservancy launched the Global Marine Initiative in 2002 to protect and restore the most resili ...
Kelp Forest
... bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana and an understory mostly comprised of Pterygophora californica and Laminaria setchelli. After initiation of the thermal outfall, bull kelp was replaced by the giant kelp Macro ...
... bull kelp Nereocystis luetkeana and an understory mostly comprised of Pterygophora californica and Laminaria setchelli. After initiation of the thermal outfall, bull kelp was replaced by the giant kelp Macro ...
Chapter 26 Land/Sea Physical Interaction
... Land reclamation is a significant component of economic growth and development for many countries around the world. The need for space to accommodate an increasing world population, which is projected to exceed 8.1 billion by 2025 (United Nations, 2013), has been a contributing factor to the growing ...
... Land reclamation is a significant component of economic growth and development for many countries around the world. The need for space to accommodate an increasing world population, which is projected to exceed 8.1 billion by 2025 (United Nations, 2013), has been a contributing factor to the growing ...
Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives
... related to losses of traditional foods are important and must be considered. 4. Community well-being: Climate change and related changes to social-ecological systems can affect the health, well-being and resilience of communities within watersheds in many interrelated ways. Climate change has had a ...
... related to losses of traditional foods are important and must be considered. 4. Community well-being: Climate change and related changes to social-ecological systems can affect the health, well-being and resilience of communities within watersheds in many interrelated ways. Climate change has had a ...
Climate change
... today, making up almost 90% of the total losses from natural catastrophes in 2005. Climate change will also have severe consequences for many species as it will accelerate species extinctions and has the potential to lead to the irreversible loss of many species around the world. European impacts As ...
... today, making up almost 90% of the total losses from natural catastrophes in 2005. Climate change will also have severe consequences for many species as it will accelerate species extinctions and has the potential to lead to the irreversible loss of many species around the world. European impacts As ...
S TAT E O F T H E WO R... Into a Warming World 2 0
... techniques, and the pollution of water around coral reefs in South Asia have made them more vulnerable to cyclones and warmer sea temperatures. In this sense, social resilience to climate change may sometimes be at odds with ecological resilience: human adaptive strategies for socioeconomic developm ...
... techniques, and the pollution of water around coral reefs in South Asia have made them more vulnerable to cyclones and warmer sea temperatures. In this sense, social resilience to climate change may sometimes be at odds with ecological resilience: human adaptive strategies for socioeconomic developm ...
Ecosystems, their properties, goods and services
... which to summarise climate change impacts, being of large enough extent to conduct a global synthesis, yet having a response time relevant to anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystems provide many goods and services that are of vital importance for the functioning of the biosphere, and provide the ba ...
... which to summarise climate change impacts, being of large enough extent to conduct a global synthesis, yet having a response time relevant to anthropogenic climate change. Ecosystems provide many goods and services that are of vital importance for the functioning of the biosphere, and provide the ba ...
Arctic Climate and Water Change: Information Relevance for Assessment and Adaptation Arvid Bring
... its water and climate systems are in rapid transformation. Relevant and accessible information about water and climate is therefore vital to detect, understand and adapt to the changes. This thesis investigates hydrological monitoring systems, climate model data, and our understanding of hydro-clima ...
... its water and climate systems are in rapid transformation. Relevant and accessible information about water and climate is therefore vital to detect, understand and adapt to the changes. This thesis investigates hydrological monitoring systems, climate model data, and our understanding of hydro-clima ...
Climate Change Impacts on Land Use Planning and Coastal
... these impacts will affect many aspects of Caribbean coastal economic development. Strategic efforts to reduce this vulnerability are consistent with meeting the ecological challenges that small island coastal ecosystems are already having to contend with. These ecosystems and fringe landforms — amon ...
... these impacts will affect many aspects of Caribbean coastal economic development. Strategic efforts to reduce this vulnerability are consistent with meeting the ecological challenges that small island coastal ecosystems are already having to contend with. These ecosystems and fringe landforms — amon ...
Biodiversity Mainstreaming: Draft Synthesis Report of the 3rd
... governance deficits, lack of land rights, lack of institutional capacity or local empowerment, and inadequate support to withstand market failures. Traditional approaches to biodiversity conservation, focussed on the expansion and creation of Protected Areas (PAs) as a means of protecti ...
... governance deficits, lack of land rights, lack of institutional capacity or local empowerment, and inadequate support to withstand market failures. Traditional approaches to biodiversity conservation, focussed on the expansion and creation of Protected Areas (PAs) as a means of protecti ...
Climate Change and the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary
... benthic; pelagic; and freshwater habitats. All habitat categories were vulnerable to various aspects of climate-related change. Chemical-biological impacts due to the changing properties of ocean water within OCNMS (i.e., increased ocean temperature, decreased oxygen concentration, increased acidity ...
... benthic; pelagic; and freshwater habitats. All habitat categories were vulnerable to various aspects of climate-related change. Chemical-biological impacts due to the changing properties of ocean water within OCNMS (i.e., increased ocean temperature, decreased oxygen concentration, increased acidity ...
global climate change
... Effects on Ecosystems • Ecosystems fluctuate along with their environments, so why can’t ecosystems just adapt to global climate change? • 1) Their ability to adapt to anything, anthropogenic or natural, is severely hampered now by novel destructions: mining, dams, pollution, habitat destruction, p ...
... Effects on Ecosystems • Ecosystems fluctuate along with their environments, so why can’t ecosystems just adapt to global climate change? • 1) Their ability to adapt to anything, anthropogenic or natural, is severely hampered now by novel destructions: mining, dams, pollution, habitat destruction, p ...
Regional Climate Change Adaptation Framework for the
... “By 2025 the Marine and Coastal Areas of the Mediterranean countries and their communities have increased their resilience to the adverse impacts of climate variability and change, in the context of Sustainable Development. This is achieved through common objectives, cooperation, solidarity, equity ...
... “By 2025 the Marine and Coastal Areas of the Mediterranean countries and their communities have increased their resilience to the adverse impacts of climate variability and change, in the context of Sustainable Development. This is achieved through common objectives, cooperation, solidarity, equity ...
Vulnerability of Great Barrier Reef plankton to climate
... producers in the GBR ecosystem37. Approximately 70 percent of the estimated 2.2 x 105 tonnes of carbon (C) fixed daily by primary producers in the GBR shelf ecosystem originates from phytoplankton production (58 x107 tonnes C per year) and, of this, two-thirds is fixed by picoplankton38. Micro- and ...
... producers in the GBR ecosystem37. Approximately 70 percent of the estimated 2.2 x 105 tonnes of carbon (C) fixed daily by primary producers in the GBR shelf ecosystem originates from phytoplankton production (58 x107 tonnes C per year) and, of this, two-thirds is fixed by picoplankton38. Micro- and ...
Oceanic climate and circulation changes during the past four
... Indonesian eruption in 1809 (Figure 3c). The two periods of lowest D14C values (1811– 1814, averaged 70.7 ± 1.1% sd; and 1823, 72.5%) in the Galápagos coral occurred several years after the two highest peaks in volcanic aerosol optical depth at the equator (1809– 1810 and 1815 – 1816) [Robertson ...
... Indonesian eruption in 1809 (Figure 3c). The two periods of lowest D14C values (1811– 1814, averaged 70.7 ± 1.1% sd; and 1823, 72.5%) in the Galápagos coral occurred several years after the two highest peaks in volcanic aerosol optical depth at the equator (1809– 1810 and 1815 – 1816) [Robertson ...
Sea Level Change in Western Australia
... The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The IPCC's mandate is as follows: The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an ...
... The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The IPCC's mandate is as follows: The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an ...
Sea Level Change in Western Australia
... The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The IPCC's mandate is as follows: The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an ...
... The IPCC is a scientific intergovernmental body set up by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The IPCC's mandate is as follows: The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an ...
An Introduction to the Science of Climate Change
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UNFCCC aims at reducing emissions of the gr ...
... The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is an international environmental treaty produced at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The UNFCCC aims at reducing emissions of the gr ...