Environmental and Climate Change in Latin America and the
... problems are linked to land-use change, caused by i.a. short-term economic gains, bad governance, weak institutions, and perverse economic incentives. The LAC is rich in natural resources, which provides tremendous opportunities to improve welfare for the people. The challenge is to balance the need ...
... problems are linked to land-use change, caused by i.a. short-term economic gains, bad governance, weak institutions, and perverse economic incentives. The LAC is rich in natural resources, which provides tremendous opportunities to improve welfare for the people. The challenge is to balance the need ...
Environmental Issues, Climate Changes, and Energy Security in
... Climate change is a substantial energy security concern not only because direct flooding and natural disasters can damage power plants and transmission lines, disrupt the delivery of imported energy fuels, and destroy crops for biofuels but also because it has severe impacts on food security, health ...
... Climate change is a substantial energy security concern not only because direct flooding and natural disasters can damage power plants and transmission lines, disrupt the delivery of imported energy fuels, and destroy crops for biofuels but also because it has severe impacts on food security, health ...
Hydrological Responses to Climate Change in the Water Receiving
... in temperature, while precipitation decreases slightly, and runoff decreases drastically over the past 50 years. Secondly, the applicability of SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model based on the DEM (Digital Elevation Model), land use and soil type was verified in the basin. Results show the m ...
... in temperature, while precipitation decreases slightly, and runoff decreases drastically over the past 50 years. Secondly, the applicability of SWAT (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) model based on the DEM (Digital Elevation Model), land use and soil type was verified in the basin. Results show the m ...
RADIATIVE AND CLIMATE EFFECTS OF AEROSOLS OVER THE
... suggested. The uncertainties are not only from the precipitation efficiency is increased and the lack of observation data, but also from numerical dehydration rate of the lower atmosphere is larger. simulation itself. The dehydration-greenhouse This would lead to a decrease of the downward feedbacks ...
... suggested. The uncertainties are not only from the precipitation efficiency is increased and the lack of observation data, but also from numerical dehydration rate of the lower atmosphere is larger. simulation itself. The dehydration-greenhouse This would lead to a decrease of the downward feedbacks ...
Russia`s Decisive Role in the Kyoto Protocol
... the Russian economy by making it more economically efficient and more competitive.13 For example, the IPCC suggests that “hundreds of technologies and practices for end-use energy efficiency in buildings, transport, and manufacturing industries account for more than half of this [emissions reduction ...
... the Russian economy by making it more economically efficient and more competitive.13 For example, the IPCC suggests that “hundreds of technologies and practices for end-use energy efficiency in buildings, transport, and manufacturing industries account for more than half of this [emissions reduction ...
Strategic Framework 2014–2017: SDC Global Programme Climate
... food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more than rich countries. Development progress already achieved is being increasingly jeopardized by the negativ ...
... food shortage, water supply crises and the impacts of extreme weather events. Additionally, Climate Change is a most relevant development challenge, as it affects developing countries far more than rich countries. Development progress already achieved is being increasingly jeopardized by the negativ ...
NRDC: Climate Change, Water, and Risk: Current Water Demands
... and increased PET in most regions indicates that many areas will face decreases in overall available precipitation, affecting their water supplies. Projected available precipitation will vary greatly depending on geographic region. It is expected to average less than 2 inches per year for many areas ...
... and increased PET in most regions indicates that many areas will face decreases in overall available precipitation, affecting their water supplies. Projected available precipitation will vary greatly depending on geographic region. It is expected to average less than 2 inches per year for many areas ...
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... Uncertainty can of course be reduced through learning. This consideration leads to a second-order, or meta- form of uncertainty: what new information will be revealed to resolve the present uncertainties? To what extent can and will research accelerate the pace of learning? Given the possibility of ...
... Uncertainty can of course be reduced through learning. This consideration leads to a second-order, or meta- form of uncertainty: what new information will be revealed to resolve the present uncertainties? To what extent can and will research accelerate the pace of learning? Given the possibility of ...
Climate change, phenological shifts, eco
... is embedded in the mechanistic approach and there is continuous exchange between the two. It is not realistic to aim for an understanding of all causal relationships underlying eco-evolutionary processes and to translate them into a set of equations. Hence, models will include correlations, which ma ...
... is embedded in the mechanistic approach and there is continuous exchange between the two. It is not realistic to aim for an understanding of all causal relationships underlying eco-evolutionary processes and to translate them into a set of equations. Hence, models will include correlations, which ma ...
Climate change and global water resources
... experiencing water stress (using more than 20% of their available resources). Climate change has the potential to impose additional pressures in some regions. This paper describes an assessment of the implications of climate change for global hydrological regimes and water resources. It uses climate ...
... experiencing water stress (using more than 20% of their available resources). Climate change has the potential to impose additional pressures in some regions. This paper describes an assessment of the implications of climate change for global hydrological regimes and water resources. It uses climate ...
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... identified uncertainties might unfold. These stories portray both the positive and negative consequences of a future 30-40 years away and include economic, cultural, and ecological elements. A real strength of this process is that, because the stories are developed by individuals who are familia ...
... identified uncertainties might unfold. These stories portray both the positive and negative consequences of a future 30-40 years away and include economic, cultural, and ecological elements. A real strength of this process is that, because the stories are developed by individuals who are familia ...
Livelihoods and Climate Change - International Institute for
... seasons, shifting eco-zones and thawing permafrost have all been observed in different regions around the world. Compounded by human pressures and modifications to the environment, these changes threaten to further entrench global inequities, as those with the least stand to suffer the most. There i ...
... seasons, shifting eco-zones and thawing permafrost have all been observed in different regions around the world. Compounded by human pressures and modifications to the environment, these changes threaten to further entrench global inequities, as those with the least stand to suffer the most. There i ...
Governments support for climate targets Governments support for
... For governments to end all fossil fuel subsidies, and to shift this capital to help scale affordable renewable energy solutions to enable a wider economic transformation. For both businesses and governments to ensure the benefits of responses to climate change flow to vulnerable and impoverished com ...
... For governments to end all fossil fuel subsidies, and to shift this capital to help scale affordable renewable energy solutions to enable a wider economic transformation. For both businesses and governments to ensure the benefits of responses to climate change flow to vulnerable and impoverished com ...
Article - University of Arizona
... and change on individual species, and their hosts. Research on exotic species is especially important – management tactics depend crucially on knowing whether insect pests are native or exotic. Improve models used to project tree/stand growth and other characteristics. Current models do not use clim ...
... and change on individual species, and their hosts. Research on exotic species is especially important – management tactics depend crucially on knowing whether insect pests are native or exotic. Improve models used to project tree/stand growth and other characteristics. Current models do not use clim ...
Climate-Smart Agriculture Sourcebook MODULE 7: Climate-smart crop production system
... to farmers, over and beyond those that are experienced ‘normally.’ The planet is facing more extreme weather events, such as heavy precipitation, higher coastal waters, geographic shifts in storm and drought patterns, and warmer temperatures (IPCC, 2012). Climate change is expected to cause substant ...
... to farmers, over and beyond those that are experienced ‘normally.’ The planet is facing more extreme weather events, such as heavy precipitation, higher coastal waters, geographic shifts in storm and drought patterns, and warmer temperatures (IPCC, 2012). Climate change is expected to cause substant ...
DOC - Europa.eu
... – that human activity contributes to the increase in the likelihood and adverse impacts of (extreme) flood events and that climate change will cause an increase of floods as well, – that while it is impossible to prevent flooding totally, it is feasible to reduce the risk to human life, economic ass ...
... – that human activity contributes to the increase in the likelihood and adverse impacts of (extreme) flood events and that climate change will cause an increase of floods as well, – that while it is impossible to prevent flooding totally, it is feasible to reduce the risk to human life, economic ass ...
- Covenant University
... warming itself has not been a phenomenon emerging from a vacuum. It is the “glocalization” of the environment, namely, the abuse or misuse of the local physical and biological environment in communities across the globe, with long-term and malignant influence on the global environment. Thus, nations ...
... warming itself has not been a phenomenon emerging from a vacuum. It is the “glocalization” of the environment, namely, the abuse or misuse of the local physical and biological environment in communities across the globe, with long-term and malignant influence on the global environment. Thus, nations ...
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... volume) in the population of Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus), investigated during 36 years (1980–2015), in relation to spring temperatures. This species is a common, sedentary, hole-nesting and socially monogamous passerine bird in research area. Research took place in Mokrice area in north-western ...
... volume) in the population of Tree Sparrows (Passer montanus), investigated during 36 years (1980–2015), in relation to spring temperatures. This species is a common, sedentary, hole-nesting and socially monogamous passerine bird in research area. Research took place in Mokrice area in north-western ...
Climate Dynamics and Global Change
... are the variations at low and high la.titudes not out of phase with each other? 2. What is preventing significant variation of equatorial temperatures? The crucial point here is that the changing equator-to-pole temperature differences wouldappear to call for profound changes in the heat flux out of ...
... are the variations at low and high la.titudes not out of phase with each other? 2. What is preventing significant variation of equatorial temperatures? The crucial point here is that the changing equator-to-pole temperature differences wouldappear to call for profound changes in the heat flux out of ...
SMC MS Guide - Science.indd - San Mateo County Office of Education
... dioxide has the molecular properties of a gas, but the same atom in a sugar molecule has the molecular properties of a solid. 7. What happened to the energy trapped by the plants? The energy was stored in the plant until the plant decomposed or was eaten. Then as the respiration process began, the e ...
... dioxide has the molecular properties of a gas, but the same atom in a sugar molecule has the molecular properties of a solid. 7. What happened to the energy trapped by the plants? The energy was stored in the plant until the plant decomposed or was eaten. Then as the respiration process began, the e ...
Potential effects of climate change and adaptive
... In a rapidly changing climate, decision-makers require a sense of the vulnerability of ecological and social systems to create goals and objectives for the future and propose actions to reduce or eliminate that vulnerability. In this context, vulnerability is the degree to which a system is suscepti ...
... In a rapidly changing climate, decision-makers require a sense of the vulnerability of ecological and social systems to create goals and objectives for the future and propose actions to reduce or eliminate that vulnerability. In this context, vulnerability is the degree to which a system is suscepti ...
climate-change scepticism and asserted rights to private property
... for climate scepticism is more contested. The latter is often understood as a social ill (Hamilton 2010, Washington and Cook 2011). Washington and Cook (2011, p. 154), for instance, describe it as ‘a delusion that has become a pathology’. Their arguments are scientifically sound but miss the richnes ...
... for climate scepticism is more contested. The latter is often understood as a social ill (Hamilton 2010, Washington and Cook 2011). Washington and Cook (2011, p. 154), for instance, describe it as ‘a delusion that has become a pathology’. Their arguments are scientifically sound but miss the richnes ...