Effectively addressing climate risk through adaptation for
... ▫ A Katrina-like hurricane becomes a once in every generation event ▫ 7% of total capital investment for the Gulf Coast area; 3% of annual GDP ▫ This is equivalent to reconstructing New Orleans buildings 6X over – Impact of severe hurricane in the near-term could also have a significant impact on an ...
... ▫ A Katrina-like hurricane becomes a once in every generation event ▫ 7% of total capital investment for the Gulf Coast area; 3% of annual GDP ▫ This is equivalent to reconstructing New Orleans buildings 6X over – Impact of severe hurricane in the near-term could also have a significant impact on an ...
Ayni, Ayllu - Kings College
... ly agreed that the innovations in agricultural practices are based on pre-existing cultural values and traditional knowledge. For example, one specific change remarked upon in all of the focus group discussions was that certain potato crops can no longer be cultivated in the lower zones of the Park, ...
... ly agreed that the innovations in agricultural practices are based on pre-existing cultural values and traditional knowledge. For example, one specific change remarked upon in all of the focus group discussions was that certain potato crops can no longer be cultivated in the lower zones of the Park, ...
Abrupt climate change: can society cope?
... more important for policy purposes than abrupt climate change per se, especially since ‘abrupt’ as used by the palaeoclimate community has different meanings to ‘abrupt’ as used in more popular discourse. We also have to look backwards in time, and to other geographical regions, to find analogues (§ 3 ...
... more important for policy purposes than abrupt climate change per se, especially since ‘abrupt’ as used by the palaeoclimate community has different meanings to ‘abrupt’ as used in more popular discourse. We also have to look backwards in time, and to other geographical regions, to find analogues (§ 3 ...
Climate Change Impact Assessment in Taiwan Chung
... yearly averaged contribution of those events to the annual precipitation. An ...
... yearly averaged contribution of those events to the annual precipitation. An ...
WEST AFRICA SAHEL
... levels of tributaries and prevent seasonal fish migrations to rich flood plains for feeding and breeding. The coastal waters of Mauritania are among the richest fishing grounds in the world due to a large upwelling ecosystem and are commercially exploited by foreign fleets. Fisheries account for abo ...
... levels of tributaries and prevent seasonal fish migrations to rich flood plains for feeding and breeding. The coastal waters of Mauritania are among the richest fishing grounds in the world due to a large upwelling ecosystem and are commercially exploited by foreign fleets. Fisheries account for abo ...
Science - Global Policy Lab
... policies, such as weather index insurance (17). As with climate change management, success in this arena depends critically on our quantitative understanding of the causal effect that climatic conditions have on populations. Quantifying climatic influence on societies and economies Recent advances i ...
... policies, such as weather index insurance (17). As with climate change management, success in this arena depends critically on our quantitative understanding of the causal effect that climatic conditions have on populations. Quantifying climatic influence on societies and economies Recent advances i ...
Application of Self-Organizing-Maps Technique in Downscaling
... Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse gas conce ...
... Climate Models (GCMs) (Feenstra et al., 1997). GCMs represent physical processes in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere, and land surface. They are widely known to be the most advanced tools currently available for simulating the response of the global climate system to increasing greenhouse gas conce ...
Assessment of technological innovation for climate - unu
... Climate change has obvious and direct effects on agricultural production. Climate change is considered to have a substantial effect on the living condition of the rural poor, especially in developing countries. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fourth assessment report cited th ...
... Climate change has obvious and direct effects on agricultural production. Climate change is considered to have a substantial effect on the living condition of the rural poor, especially in developing countries. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in its fourth assessment report cited th ...
Climate Justice in Rural Southeastern United States: A Review of
... The racial and ethnic make-up of the region’s inhabitants is variable throughout the Southeastern U.S., with overall higher percentages of Caucasians, followed by African Americans and then Latinos/Hispanics. Caucasians comprise anywhere from 53% (Georgia) to 92% (West Virginia) of the population in ...
... The racial and ethnic make-up of the region’s inhabitants is variable throughout the Southeastern U.S., with overall higher percentages of Caucasians, followed by African Americans and then Latinos/Hispanics. Caucasians comprise anywhere from 53% (Georgia) to 92% (West Virginia) of the population in ...
Faculty of Science and Agriculture Dissertation submitted in partial
... the subject. A Kruskal-Wallis H test on demographic data for water access revealed that the demographic results are independent of choice of data acquired from different data providers (χ2(2) = 1.26, p = 0.533, with a mean ranked population scores of 7.4 for ECSECC, 6.8 for Quantec and 9.8 for Stats ...
... the subject. A Kruskal-Wallis H test on demographic data for water access revealed that the demographic results are independent of choice of data acquired from different data providers (χ2(2) = 1.26, p = 0.533, with a mean ranked population scores of 7.4 for ECSECC, 6.8 for Quantec and 9.8 for Stats ...
Public perception of cold weather events as evidence for
... idea that people apply the evidence of their own eyes to draw conclusions about abstract phenomena (Horlick-Jones et al. 2007). This may at times lead to higher trust being placed in direct, personal experiences than in secondary information sources (e.g. through the media) (Bickerstaff and Walker 2 ...
... idea that people apply the evidence of their own eyes to draw conclusions about abstract phenomena (Horlick-Jones et al. 2007). This may at times lead to higher trust being placed in direct, personal experiences than in secondary information sources (e.g. through the media) (Bickerstaff and Walker 2 ...
Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Cities
... Over the past 150 years, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen 31 per cent, a value unprecedented in the last 420,000 years 18 . While the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has risen, there is also an expanding body of evidence indicating that there has been a real and s ...
... Over the past 150 years, the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration has risen 31 per cent, a value unprecedented in the last 420,000 years 18 . While the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases has risen, there is also an expanding body of evidence indicating that there has been a real and s ...
Making Science Useful to Decision Makers: Climate
... and forecast producers show that mutual learning informed by climate information can occur among different disciplines and between scientists and managers. We focus on the role of knowledge networks as vehicles for bridging the gap between knowledge and action. These are composed of policy makers, s ...
... and forecast producers show that mutual learning informed by climate information can occur among different disciplines and between scientists and managers. We focus on the role of knowledge networks as vehicles for bridging the gap between knowledge and action. These are composed of policy makers, s ...
Climate change prediction over complex areas: spatial variability of
... latitudes of the other outputs were given in different rotated coordinate systems. Thus, as the projections were different, the outputs of the different models could not be compared directly. In order to make the available information comparable, we interpolated the seasonal and annual climatic vari ...
... latitudes of the other outputs were given in different rotated coordinate systems. Thus, as the projections were different, the outputs of the different models could not be compared directly. In order to make the available information comparable, we interpolated the seasonal and annual climatic vari ...
Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
... fixed, e.g., current snowmaking technologies within the US generally require conditions below 28ºF wetbulb for operation. In the case of consumers, however, scientific knowledge is more limited. For example, though it has been established that the typical tourist prefers an average daily temperature ...
... fixed, e.g., current snowmaking technologies within the US generally require conditions below 28ºF wetbulb for operation. In the case of consumers, however, scientific knowledge is more limited. For example, though it has been established that the typical tourist prefers an average daily temperature ...
Climate Change & Resource Development Scenarios for the
... The, ‘Climate change and resource development scenarios for the Nechako watershed,’ project was envisioned to address a research need identified in a previous project, ‘Preparing proactively for the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems in the Nechako River Basin’ (als0 funded by th ...
... The, ‘Climate change and resource development scenarios for the Nechako watershed,’ project was envisioned to address a research need identified in a previous project, ‘Preparing proactively for the impacts of climate change on natural and human systems in the Nechako River Basin’ (als0 funded by th ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... relationship can be divided into good, poor or disastrous segments or coping capacity can be delimited by a critical threshold. More complex criteria, perhaps based on vulnerability analysis (TP3, Activities 2 and 3), may represent factors such as the ability to grow next season’s seed supply, grow ...
... relationship can be divided into good, poor or disastrous segments or coping capacity can be delimited by a critical threshold. More complex criteria, perhaps based on vulnerability analysis (TP3, Activities 2 and 3), may represent factors such as the ability to grow next season’s seed supply, grow ...
A Climate of Concern: Climate Change and Health Strategy
... The evidence is clear, and it has been for some time. Climate change is a reality and it is already having an impact on our health. Whether our focus is on the creeping effects of gradual climate change or the unexpected and often violent effects of severe weather, serious health implications exist. ...
... The evidence is clear, and it has been for some time. Climate change is a reality and it is already having an impact on our health. Whether our focus is on the creeping effects of gradual climate change or the unexpected and often violent effects of severe weather, serious health implications exist. ...
Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts
... is dictated more by historical contingencies than current climate conditions, that any apparent relationship between human populations and climate is indirect and likely to be mediated by the distribution of resources, that the current association between humans and climate may not persist in a rapi ...
... is dictated more by historical contingencies than current climate conditions, that any apparent relationship between human populations and climate is indirect and likely to be mediated by the distribution of resources, that the current association between humans and climate may not persist in a rapi ...
full text ( 360kb) - USF College of Marine Science
... the St. Lawrence River and other eastern outlets may have influenced North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation and hence regional to global climate. In particular, low-density meltwater may have inhibited deep convection in the North Atlantic and reduced northward heat transport, leading to regiona ...
... the St. Lawrence River and other eastern outlets may have influenced North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) formation and hence regional to global climate. In particular, low-density meltwater may have inhibited deep convection in the North Atlantic and reduced northward heat transport, leading to regiona ...
Public Understanding of Climate Change in the United States
... Increasing certainty about these fundamental climate change phenomena is reflected in ever more definitive language in consensus judgments of the scientific community, such as the IPCC Assessment Reports of 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007 and other independent assessments of the evidence (e.g., Karl et a ...
... Increasing certainty about these fundamental climate change phenomena is reflected in ever more definitive language in consensus judgments of the scientific community, such as the IPCC Assessment Reports of 1990, 1995, 2001, and 2007 and other independent assessments of the evidence (e.g., Karl et a ...
The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed
... The land surface is a key component of climate models. It controls the partitioning of available energy at the surface between sensible and latent heat, and it controls the partitioning of available water between evaporation and runoff. The land surface is also the location of the terrestrial carbon ...
... The land surface is a key component of climate models. It controls the partitioning of available energy at the surface between sensible and latent heat, and it controls the partitioning of available water between evaporation and runoff. The land surface is also the location of the terrestrial carbon ...
Revisiting the urban - Durham Research Online
... policy-makers, and transnational corporations. In both cases, we found that these ‘spheres of authority’, which were constituted through sets of social, economic and political relations that cut across scales, served to sideline issues of climate protection and urban sustainability. This analysis le ...
... policy-makers, and transnational corporations. In both cases, we found that these ‘spheres of authority’, which were constituted through sets of social, economic and political relations that cut across scales, served to sideline issues of climate protection and urban sustainability. This analysis le ...