AN EVALUATION OF FARMERS` PERCEPTIONS OF AND
... have a larger pool of labor and as a result, they are more likely to adopt agricultural technologies than smaller households. Moreover, Yirga (2007) notes that the size of the household influences individuals’ adaptation to climate change in two perspectives. In the first perspective, households wit ...
... have a larger pool of labor and as a result, they are more likely to adopt agricultural technologies than smaller households. Moreover, Yirga (2007) notes that the size of the household influences individuals’ adaptation to climate change in two perspectives. In the first perspective, households wit ...
Latin America
... Climate, Extreme Events, and Water Resources In most of Latin America, there are no clear long-term tendencies in mean surface temperature. Some changes in regional atmospheric circulation have been detected. For instance, the south Atlantic anticyclone has intensified, and the subtropical jet strea ...
... Climate, Extreme Events, and Water Resources In most of Latin America, there are no clear long-term tendencies in mean surface temperature. Some changes in regional atmospheric circulation have been detected. For instance, the south Atlantic anticyclone has intensified, and the subtropical jet strea ...
Working Paper 183 - Averchenkova et al (opens in new window)
... risks for individuals, businesses, infrastructure, assets and economies (IPCC, 2014a). No single intervention will deliver adaptation to climate change, as efforts cutting across various sectors and timescales will be required. Adding to this complexity is the uncertainty and long-term timescales of ...
... risks for individuals, businesses, infrastructure, assets and economies (IPCC, 2014a). No single intervention will deliver adaptation to climate change, as efforts cutting across various sectors and timescales will be required. Adding to this complexity is the uncertainty and long-term timescales of ...
2.1 Causes of Vulnerability Associated with Climate Change
... and intensified tropical cyclones. The report concludes that it is very likely that global warming is largely driven by the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activity, and that this will lead to dangerous levels of warming and in the rise of sea levels. The W ...
... and intensified tropical cyclones. The report concludes that it is very likely that global warming is largely driven by the concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activity, and that this will lead to dangerous levels of warming and in the rise of sea levels. The W ...
Guiding Principles for City Climate Action Planning
... national governments to address the pressing needs of their citizens. To expand their capacity to take on the challenge of climate change, cities are joining forums that encourage collaboration between multiple levels of government, business, and civil society. Hundreds of cities worldwide have join ...
... national governments to address the pressing needs of their citizens. To expand their capacity to take on the challenge of climate change, cities are joining forums that encourage collaboration between multiple levels of government, business, and civil society. Hundreds of cities worldwide have join ...
Excel exercise #1
... greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were mainly due to natural phenomenon such as changes in the Earth’s orbit or volcanoes. Afterwards, human activity has increased dramatically the concentration of some greenhouse gases such as CO2 and NO2 in the atmosphere. Scientists estimate that the growing con ...
... greenhouse gases in the atmosphere were mainly due to natural phenomenon such as changes in the Earth’s orbit or volcanoes. Afterwards, human activity has increased dramatically the concentration of some greenhouse gases such as CO2 and NO2 in the atmosphere. Scientists estimate that the growing con ...
Observations: Surface and Atmospheric Climate Change
... The impact of random discontinuities on area-averaged values typically becomes smaller as the area or region becomes larger, and is negligible on hemispheric scales (Easterling et al., 1996). However, trends averaged over small regions, in particular, may be biased by systematic heterogeneities in t ...
... The impact of random discontinuities on area-averaged values typically becomes smaller as the area or region becomes larger, and is negligible on hemispheric scales (Easterling et al., 1996). However, trends averaged over small regions, in particular, may be biased by systematic heterogeneities in t ...
Friends of the Earth Annual Review 2014
... up our own help for all the pollinators on which we so depend. In 2015 we’ll work with others – politicians, businesses, communities – to create even more bee habitats, building on the huge success of our Bee Worlds in 2014, as well as pushing for tougher Government commitments. 2015 is also an impo ...
... up our own help for all the pollinators on which we so depend. In 2015 we’ll work with others – politicians, businesses, communities – to create even more bee habitats, building on the huge success of our Bee Worlds in 2014, as well as pushing for tougher Government commitments. 2015 is also an impo ...
Korea University International Summer Campus 2017 ISC392
... Earth’s ecosystems have evolved over millions of years. This process has resulted in diverse and complex biological communities living in balance with their environment (including mankind’s interconnection with Nature). In addition to their inherent values, diverse ecosystems also provide the founda ...
... Earth’s ecosystems have evolved over millions of years. This process has resulted in diverse and complex biological communities living in balance with their environment (including mankind’s interconnection with Nature). In addition to their inherent values, diverse ecosystems also provide the founda ...
Fossil Fuel Risk Bonds - Center for Sustainable Economy
... stage in the fossil fuel product life cycle and perhaps the costliest for taxpayers. As climate change unfolds, many sectors of the economy are threatened with declining productivity, output, jobs, and income as the human and natural resources they rely upon are damaged or made scarcer. As these sec ...
... stage in the fossil fuel product life cycle and perhaps the costliest for taxpayers. As climate change unfolds, many sectors of the economy are threatened with declining productivity, output, jobs, and income as the human and natural resources they rely upon are damaged or made scarcer. As these sec ...
Forests and climate change in Latin America : linking
... or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources in Honduras’), even though the project’s contribution to mitigation is not explicit in the project docu ...
... or maintaining carbon stocks. This is the case of the adaptation project in Honduras accepted by the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund and described above (‘Addressing Climate Change Risks on Water Resources in Honduras’), even though the project’s contribution to mitigation is not explicit in the project docu ...
Adaptation, migration or extirpation: climate change outcomes for
... range including differential adaptation of populations to recent local climates, central-peripheral structure in population density, genetic diversity levels and degree of local adaptation (Mimura and Aitken 2007a), differences between leading and trailing edge populations (Hampe and Petit 2005), or ...
... range including differential adaptation of populations to recent local climates, central-peripheral structure in population density, genetic diversity levels and degree of local adaptation (Mimura and Aitken 2007a), differences between leading and trailing edge populations (Hampe and Petit 2005), or ...
Integrating Climate-Change Adaptation into Sectoral Policies in Ireland Report Series No. 10
... This report is published as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Research Programme 2007-2013. The programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2007–2013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Loca ...
... This report is published as part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Change Research Programme 2007-2013. The programme is financed by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2007–2013. It is administered on behalf of the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Loca ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Saskatchewan`s Water Resources
... 2006) are not useful in water balance analyses and hydrological flow predictions in this dry environment, because potential rates display inverse behaviour to actual rates and cannot be directly related to any water resource variable (Armstrong et al., 2008; Fernandes et al., 2009). Groundwater rech ...
... 2006) are not useful in water balance analyses and hydrological flow predictions in this dry environment, because potential rates display inverse behaviour to actual rates and cannot be directly related to any water resource variable (Armstrong et al., 2008; Fernandes et al., 2009). Groundwater rech ...
Climate Regulation and the Limits of Cost
... However, the science does not produce fine-grained predictions with a high level of confidence. It is possible to predict that the median global temperature will rise but not that temperatures or rainfall will be disrupted in a crucial agricultural region. Yet the latter information is necessary fo ...
... However, the science does not produce fine-grained predictions with a high level of confidence. It is possible to predict that the median global temperature will rise but not that temperatures or rainfall will be disrupted in a crucial agricultural region. Yet the latter information is necessary fo ...
The Norwegian Earth System Model, NorESM1
... is positive, but smaller than 0.1 Wm−2 . More than 99 % of this excess heat is transferred to the oceans, which experience a statistically significant temperature increase. There are also small negative trends in the ocean salinity, the winter maximum sea-ice area in both hemispheres and the Atlanti ...
... is positive, but smaller than 0.1 Wm−2 . More than 99 % of this excess heat is transferred to the oceans, which experience a statistically significant temperature increase. There are also small negative trends in the ocean salinity, the winter maximum sea-ice area in both hemispheres and the Atlanti ...
Science Communication - Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program
... respondents said that environmental reporters need to be as objective as any other reporter, but nearly a third said they should occasionally advocate for the environment. Respondents were split on whether environmental reporters were too “green” or biased in favor of environmentalism, but they agre ...
... respondents said that environmental reporters need to be as objective as any other reporter, but nearly a third said they should occasionally advocate for the environment. Respondents were split on whether environmental reporters were too “green” or biased in favor of environmentalism, but they agre ...
Panama 2016 - Auburn University Honors College
... Auburn University and the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) introduce a unique 3 credits, Spring Study Abroad Program on Climate Change and Environmental Management in the Republic of Panama. This course is intended to give students a general understand ...
... Auburn University and the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean (CATHALAC) introduce a unique 3 credits, Spring Study Abroad Program on Climate Change and Environmental Management in the Republic of Panama. This course is intended to give students a general understand ...
Template for analysis of our place consultation results
... issues and challenges within it vary from place to place. For example, is it the case that the demand for affordable is uniform across the area or does it vary between settlements and should our policies reflect this. We feel that they should and this way we should produce spatial strategies that a ...
... issues and challenges within it vary from place to place. For example, is it the case that the demand for affordable is uniform across the area or does it vary between settlements and should our policies reflect this. We feel that they should and this way we should produce spatial strategies that a ...
The future of terrestrial mammals in the Mediterranean basin under
... considered the most recent and comprehensive ensembles of global and regional climate change simulations and obtained a robust and consistent picture for the future Mediterranean climate. The main features consist of an important decrease in precipitation, especially in summer, and of a pronounced w ...
... considered the most recent and comprehensive ensembles of global and regional climate change simulations and obtained a robust and consistent picture for the future Mediterranean climate. The main features consist of an important decrease in precipitation, especially in summer, and of a pronounced w ...
Download country chapter
... adaptation and mitigation efforts compared with other North African countries and the scope of Libya’s climate change policies is largely limited to participation in regional and global initiatives. Libya is a member of the League of Arab States and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which have both inte ...
... adaptation and mitigation efforts compared with other North African countries and the scope of Libya’s climate change policies is largely limited to participation in regional and global initiatives. Libya is a member of the League of Arab States and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which have both inte ...
Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture and the International Climate Change Policy Agenda
... though limited, has been set up through the Convention and is managed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Industrialized countries also agree to share technology with developing nations. The UNFCCC acknowledges that the share of GHG emissions produced by developing nations will grow in the fut ...
... though limited, has been set up through the Convention and is managed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Industrialized countries also agree to share technology with developing nations. The UNFCCC acknowledges that the share of GHG emissions produced by developing nations will grow in the fut ...
Build Case(s) - Institute For Research And Innovation In Sustainability
... New economic environment: more volatile, uncertain, complex, and structurally different Global climate change Geopolitical issues surrounding energy and water supplies Vulnerabilities of supply chains for food, medicine, talent Sobering threats to global security Based on face-to-face interviews wit ...
... New economic environment: more volatile, uncertain, complex, and structurally different Global climate change Geopolitical issues surrounding energy and water supplies Vulnerabilities of supply chains for food, medicine, talent Sobering threats to global security Based on face-to-face interviews wit ...