Green Resilience: Climate Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies
... Reflections on Policy, Research, Capacity Building and Funding Needs With this background on how the process of connecting adaptation and mitigation, we can now delve into how climate A+M fits into the policy, research, and funding aspects at the community and national levels. Susan Ruffo provided a ...
... Reflections on Policy, Research, Capacity Building and Funding Needs With this background on how the process of connecting adaptation and mitigation, we can now delve into how climate A+M fits into the policy, research, and funding aspects at the community and national levels. Susan Ruffo provided a ...
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
... Baker, administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said about global warming that ‘‘[t]here’s a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know—except maybe Newton’s second law of dynamics’’ (Warrick, 1997, p. A1). However, on December 3, 2002, the Washin ...
... Baker, administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said about global warming that ‘‘[t]here’s a better scientific consensus on this than on any issue I know—except maybe Newton’s second law of dynamics’’ (Warrick, 1997, p. A1). However, on December 3, 2002, the Washin ...
Change is in the air
... South Africa covers less than 1% of the world’s land surface area and is home to nearly 10% of the world’s plant species, about 7% of the world’s vertebrates and 5.5% of all known insect diversity, making it a biodiversity treasure trove. South Africa’s biodiversity is a spellbinding natural draw ca ...
... South Africa covers less than 1% of the world’s land surface area and is home to nearly 10% of the world’s plant species, about 7% of the world’s vertebrates and 5.5% of all known insect diversity, making it a biodiversity treasure trove. South Africa’s biodiversity is a spellbinding natural draw ca ...
A values-based approach to vulnerability and adaptation to climate
... suggested that ‘underlying values and worldviews strongly condition the way many members of the American public currently think about this risk and public policy options to mitigate global climate change.’ This, of course, is true not only for the general public but also for scientists who engage in ...
... suggested that ‘underlying values and worldviews strongly condition the way many members of the American public currently think about this risk and public policy options to mitigate global climate change.’ This, of course, is true not only for the general public but also for scientists who engage in ...
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... to capture the effects of adaptation strategies that farmers undertake to mitigate expected risks. Short rainy season is projected to suffer the most from climate change in East Africa (Aggarwal et al, 2003). Therefore this study focuses on measuring the impacts of short rainy season precipitation v ...
... to capture the effects of adaptation strategies that farmers undertake to mitigate expected risks. Short rainy season is projected to suffer the most from climate change in East Africa (Aggarwal et al, 2003). Therefore this study focuses on measuring the impacts of short rainy season precipitation v ...
Managing Climate Risk Integrating Adaptation into World Bank Group Operations World Bank Group
... Climate risk management focuses on better management of climate variability in all relevant sectors. The starting point is to determine vulnerability to the current climate conditions, including variability and weather extremes. The next step is to assess how vulnerabilities might change as a result ...
... Climate risk management focuses on better management of climate variability in all relevant sectors. The starting point is to determine vulnerability to the current climate conditions, including variability and weather extremes. The next step is to assess how vulnerabilities might change as a result ...
50 years of urbanization in Africa: Assessing the role of climate change
... Climate researchers predict future climate change using various emission scenarios as inputs to several different assessment models. The underlying scenarios range from aggressive mitigation of greenhouse gases to a continuation of current trends. While there is fairly broad consensus about global a ...
... Climate researchers predict future climate change using various emission scenarios as inputs to several different assessment models. The underlying scenarios range from aggressive mitigation of greenhouse gases to a continuation of current trends. While there is fairly broad consensus about global a ...
Producing the Climate: States, Scientists, and the
... as we shall see clearly in the climate case, political actors can play a central role in knowledge production, so a model of science and politics that separates the two domains can be misleading. Scholars working from a discursive or Foucauldian perspective do not take the constitution of global pol ...
... as we shall see clearly in the climate case, political actors can play a central role in knowledge production, so a model of science and politics that separates the two domains can be misleading. Scholars working from a discursive or Foucauldian perspective do not take the constitution of global pol ...
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... effect” naturally helps to keep the Earth’s temperature at a level that can support life on the planet. The atmosphere isn't the only part of the Earth that has carbon. The oceans store large amounts of carbon, and so do plants, soil, and deposits of coal, oil, and natural gas deep underground. Carb ...
... effect” naturally helps to keep the Earth’s temperature at a level that can support life on the planet. The atmosphere isn't the only part of the Earth that has carbon. The oceans store large amounts of carbon, and so do plants, soil, and deposits of coal, oil, and natural gas deep underground. Carb ...
Policy makers lament women`s vulnerablity to HIV infection, yet for
... Two years ago, thousands of scientists came together in the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). We agreed that the climate system was warming unequivocally and that, if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity continue, the world would see further warming, accompan ...
... Two years ago, thousands of scientists came together in the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC). We agreed that the climate system was warming unequivocally and that, if current rates of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity continue, the world would see further warming, accompan ...
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... and the salinity budget in the ocean. By partially insulating the ocean from the atmosphere it also changes air–sea heat flux, CO2 flux, and evaporation. Nevertheless, most theories and simple models have no role for sea ice. Because of the strong seasonal cycle of sea ice, it was taken as a fast-re ...
... and the salinity budget in the ocean. By partially insulating the ocean from the atmosphere it also changes air–sea heat flux, CO2 flux, and evaporation. Nevertheless, most theories and simple models have no role for sea ice. Because of the strong seasonal cycle of sea ice, it was taken as a fast-re ...
Annual Report 2016 - National Center for Science Education
... of Representatives, began assembling their cabinet and setting their policy priorities. We are concerned that their very public rejection of established scientific conclusions will make it even more difficult for teachers to cover evolution and climate change accurately and completely. As we have fo ...
... of Representatives, began assembling their cabinet and setting their policy priorities. We are concerned that their very public rejection of established scientific conclusions will make it even more difficult for teachers to cover evolution and climate change accurately and completely. As we have fo ...
Business in a Climate- Constrained World
... published in 2004. The great value in adopting a wedge-based approach is that it constitutes what author Clay Shirky describes as a “‘plausible promise’: a strategy that has sufficient ambition to be truly meaningful, while at the same ...
... published in 2004. The great value in adopting a wedge-based approach is that it constitutes what author Clay Shirky describes as a “‘plausible promise’: a strategy that has sufficient ambition to be truly meaningful, while at the same ...
problems in evaluating regional and local trends in temperature
... scales (Watson et al., 1996), many management decisions affecting climate-change policy and most mitigation efforts may be at local and regional scales. Thus, it is critically important to assess the direction and magnitude of climate change at local and regional scales. Such regional information is ...
... scales (Watson et al., 1996), many management decisions affecting climate-change policy and most mitigation efforts may be at local and regional scales. Thus, it is critically important to assess the direction and magnitude of climate change at local and regional scales. Such regional information is ...
- Wiley Online Library
... scales (Watson et al., 1996), many management decisions affecting climate-change policy and most mitigation efforts may be at local and regional scales. Thus, it is critically important to assess the direction and magnitude of climate change at local and regional scales. Such regional information is ...
... scales (Watson et al., 1996), many management decisions affecting climate-change policy and most mitigation efforts may be at local and regional scales. Thus, it is critically important to assess the direction and magnitude of climate change at local and regional scales. Such regional information is ...
Summary for Policymakers
... evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. It builds upon the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Repo ...
... evidence of climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes and simulations using climate models. It builds upon the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Repo ...
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... the long-term obligations that will likely characterize carbon programs and contracts. Early participants run the risk of being caught by the additionality principle that will not credit projects unless they were started after the official mitigation begun. Further future prices are likely to be hig ...
... the long-term obligations that will likely characterize carbon programs and contracts. Early participants run the risk of being caught by the additionality principle that will not credit projects unless they were started after the official mitigation begun. Further future prices are likely to be hig ...
Interactions of the carbon cycle, human activity, and the climate system
... check on how confident we are in assessing the magnitude of the human disturbance and attributing it to its component fluxes. Because the human disturbance occurs on top of an active natural carbon cycle, which in part hides the human disturbance, the requirements for accuracy are high. Thus, a key ...
... check on how confident we are in assessing the magnitude of the human disturbance and attributing it to its component fluxes. Because the human disturbance occurs on top of an active natural carbon cycle, which in part hides the human disturbance, the requirements for accuracy are high. Thus, a key ...
Water management for wheat grown in sandy soil under climate
... treatments, in addition to farmer irrigation were tested. Two climate change scenarios obtained from Hadley climate change model were incorporated in CropSyst model to assess wheat yield responses to fertigation regimes under these scenarios. The results showed that the highest yield and the highest ...
... treatments, in addition to farmer irrigation were tested. Two climate change scenarios obtained from Hadley climate change model were incorporated in CropSyst model to assess wheat yield responses to fertigation regimes under these scenarios. The results showed that the highest yield and the highest ...
Preparing BC for Climate Migration
... days of the 2012 US presidential campaign, which forced climate change onto the platform; extreme drought in California and the US Midwest; flooding in Calgary and Toronto in 2013; and extreme cold across the continent from the 2013–14 “polar vortex.” Richer nations generally have superior adaptive ...
... days of the 2012 US presidential campaign, which forced climate change onto the platform; extreme drought in California and the US Midwest; flooding in Calgary and Toronto in 2013; and extreme cold across the continent from the 2013–14 “polar vortex.” Richer nations generally have superior adaptive ...
Systems thinking methodology in researching the impacts of climate
... and the web of controlling factors may lead to seemingly conflicting results. Furthermore, Dennis (2002) evaluated that soft systems methodology is likely the most beneficial approach as it enriches all the participants' knowledge and understanding of the situation, rather than a “scientific” search ...
... and the web of controlling factors may lead to seemingly conflicting results. Furthermore, Dennis (2002) evaluated that soft systems methodology is likely the most beneficial approach as it enriches all the participants' knowledge and understanding of the situation, rather than a “scientific” search ...
Earth`s Climate
... reflective than ocean water, so larger ice sheets reflect more sunlight into space, cooling the Earth even more. In turn, this cooling would lead to even more ice than before. This vicious cycle between colder temperatures, ice growth, and sunlight reflection is an example of a feedback loop. Feedba ...
... reflective than ocean water, so larger ice sheets reflect more sunlight into space, cooling the Earth even more. In turn, this cooling would lead to even more ice than before. This vicious cycle between colder temperatures, ice growth, and sunlight reflection is an example of a feedback loop. Feedba ...
Environmental prices, uncertainty, and learning
... Environmental economics has of course to contend with model uncertainty in representing both the economy and the environment. Moreover, perhaps the greatest source of model uncertainty is the crucial linkage between the two, specifically how the environment provides economic value, where the modelli ...
... Environmental economics has of course to contend with model uncertainty in representing both the economy and the environment. Moreover, perhaps the greatest source of model uncertainty is the crucial linkage between the two, specifically how the environment provides economic value, where the modelli ...
Recent warming in a 500-year palaeotemperature record from
... provide excellent chronological control and have been shown to record climatic variability (Leonard, 1985; Deslodges, 1994; Leeman and Neissen, 1994; Hardy et al., 1996; Lamoureux and Bradley, 1996; Gajewski et al., 1997). In the Arctic, varved lake sediments are more widespread than other sources o ...
... provide excellent chronological control and have been shown to record climatic variability (Leonard, 1985; Deslodges, 1994; Leeman and Neissen, 1994; Hardy et al., 1996; Lamoureux and Bradley, 1996; Gajewski et al., 1997). In the Arctic, varved lake sediments are more widespread than other sources o ...
Solar radiation management
Solar radiation management (SRM) projects (proposed and theoretical) are a type of climate engineering which seek to reflect sunlight and thus reduce global warming. Proposed examples include the creation of stratospheric sulfate aerosols. They would not reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere, and thus do not address problems such as ocean acidification caused by excess carbon dioxide (CO2). Their principal advantages as an approach to climate engineering is the speed with which they can be deployed and become fully active, as well as their potential low financial cost. By comparison, other climate engineering techniques based on greenhouse gas remediation, such as ocean iron fertilization, need to sequester the anthropogenic carbon excess before any reversal of global warming would occur. Solar radiation management projects can therefore be used as a climate engineering ""quick fix"" while levels of greenhouse gases can be brought under control by greenhouse gas remediation techniques.