Assessing the Effects of Climate and Socioeconomic Factors on
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... endorsement by the Inter-American Development Bank, its Board of Executive Directors, or the countries they represent is expressed or implied. This paper may be reproduced with prior written consent of the author. ...
IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS)
... Climate change adaptation refers to adjustments in practices, processes or structures in response to projected or actual changes in climate (Dixon, 2003), with the goal of maintaining the capacity to deal with current and future changes. Developing effective adaptation options to the numerous extrem ...
... Climate change adaptation refers to adjustments in practices, processes or structures in response to projected or actual changes in climate (Dixon, 2003), with the goal of maintaining the capacity to deal with current and future changes. Developing effective adaptation options to the numerous extrem ...
Waterborne transport, ports and waterways: A review of
... IPCC takes the global lead on assessing and summarising information on past and future climate change. Individual countries or industries then focus on their particular interests, with the aim of providing specific guidance on climate change issues for actual use within that country or industry. For ...
... IPCC takes the global lead on assessing and summarising information on past and future climate change. Individual countries or industries then focus on their particular interests, with the aim of providing specific guidance on climate change issues for actual use within that country or industry. For ...
Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia: Working Paper 19 (334 kB) (opens in new window)
... Parry et al., 2005; Cline, 2007). A plethora of climate models converge in forecasting scenarios of increased temperatures for most of this area Dinar et al. 2008). The fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) states that at lower latitude, in tropical dry areas, crop productivity is ...
... Parry et al., 2005; Cline, 2007). A plethora of climate models converge in forecasting scenarios of increased temperatures for most of this area Dinar et al. 2008). The fourth Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2007) states that at lower latitude, in tropical dry areas, crop productivity is ...
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... functions in the model validation process. These include the maximizations of profit and the weighted ratio of calories-to-cost, which can also be thought of as a maximization of the rate of return (a “bang for buck” strategy). A nonlinear mean-variance analysis of profit was also conducted. In thes ...
... functions in the model validation process. These include the maximizations of profit and the weighted ratio of calories-to-cost, which can also be thought of as a maximization of the rate of return (a “bang for buck” strategy). A nonlinear mean-variance analysis of profit was also conducted. In thes ...
Climate Change Adaptation Roadmap
... excuse for delaying action. Every day, our military deals with global uncertainty. Our planners know that, as military strategist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight.” It is in this context that DoD is releasing a Climate Change Adaptation ...
... excuse for delaying action. Every day, our military deals with global uncertainty. Our planners know that, as military strategist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “all action must, to a certain extent, be planned in a mere twilight.” It is in this context that DoD is releasing a Climate Change Adaptation ...
How to motivate people about climate change
... cause, effect, and ameliorative action, personal responsibility messages may produce other, less helpful responses. Guilt, denial, sadness, and cognitive dissonance are all associated with recognizing one’s own role in the climate problem (Doherty and Clayton 2011). While in some situations these fa ...
... cause, effect, and ameliorative action, personal responsibility messages may produce other, less helpful responses. Guilt, denial, sadness, and cognitive dissonance are all associated with recognizing one’s own role in the climate problem (Doherty and Clayton 2011). While in some situations these fa ...
Infectious disease, development, and climate change: a
... ABSTRACT. We study the effects of development and climate change on infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Infant mortality and infectious disease are closely related, but there are better data for the former. In an international cross-section, per capita income, literacy, and absolute poverty s ...
... ABSTRACT. We study the effects of development and climate change on infectious diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Infant mortality and infectious disease are closely related, but there are better data for the former. In an international cross-section, per capita income, literacy, and absolute poverty s ...
Miocene tectonics and climate forcing of biodiversity, western United
... Figure 2. Sample diversity versus time for fossil localities, showing abrupt increase in ungulate and carnivore diversities by ca. 17.5 and ca. 17.0 Ma, respectively, and decline by ca. 11.25 Ma, followed by stasis to the present. Large boxes are meant to delineate broad time periods of increased or ...
... Figure 2. Sample diversity versus time for fossil localities, showing abrupt increase in ungulate and carnivore diversities by ca. 17.5 and ca. 17.0 Ma, respectively, and decline by ca. 11.25 Ma, followed by stasis to the present. Large boxes are meant to delineate broad time periods of increased or ...
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... Kenya's agriculture has three main food crops and two main export crops. 90% of smallholder farms plant maize and it accounts for 70% of national production. Wheat is next in importance to maize in production and can compete in transitional areas depending on relative producer prices. Wheat is often ...
... Kenya's agriculture has three main food crops and two main export crops. 90% of smallholder farms plant maize and it accounts for 70% of national production. Wheat is next in importance to maize in production and can compete in transitional areas depending on relative producer prices. Wheat is often ...
Diseases in tropical and plantation crops as affected by climate
... conditions as realistic as possible by working with natural light, intact soil monoliths, large samples of ecosystems and with in situ reference measurements. Studies on the effects of CO2 and O3 should be performed with methods that allow changes only in the target variable, whilst others remain co ...
... conditions as realistic as possible by working with natural light, intact soil monoliths, large samples of ecosystems and with in situ reference measurements. Studies on the effects of CO2 and O3 should be performed with methods that allow changes only in the target variable, whilst others remain co ...
The influence of climate change on flood risks in France
... especially on the most extremes floods that are also the rarest. It makes it more difficult to apply statistical methods, calibrate and validate models. Second, there is an uncertainty on future emissions of greenhouse gases, which translates into an uncertainty on the intensity of future global cli ...
... especially on the most extremes floods that are also the rarest. It makes it more difficult to apply statistical methods, calibrate and validate models. Second, there is an uncertainty on future emissions of greenhouse gases, which translates into an uncertainty on the intensity of future global cli ...
A Framework for the Development of New Socio
... combustion, but explicit representations of changes in land use and the energy system. Such emissions scenarios have become the standard for investigating the robustness of a wide variety of mitigation strategies. Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulat ...
... combustion, but explicit representations of changes in land use and the energy system. Such emissions scenarios have become the standard for investigating the robustness of a wide variety of mitigation strategies. Concurrently, the climate impacts community has used the outputs from General Circulat ...
Fisheries, aquaculture and climate change
... A number of changes already evident can be attributed to the impacts of rising GHG emissions. Global average air temperatures rose by 0.74°C in the period 1906–2005 (IPCC, 2007a). Global average sea surface temperatures have also risen since 1950 as the ocean has absorbed 80% of heat added to the cl ...
... A number of changes already evident can be attributed to the impacts of rising GHG emissions. Global average air temperatures rose by 0.74°C in the period 1906–2005 (IPCC, 2007a). Global average sea surface temperatures have also risen since 1950 as the ocean has absorbed 80% of heat added to the cl ...
Current and future vulnerabilities to climate change in Ireland Report Series No. 29
... This report is published as part of the Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for the Environment (STRIVE) 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, C ...
... This report is published as part of the Science, Technology, Research and Innovation for the Environment (STRIVE) 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, C ...
Summary of the Garnaut Climate Change Review Final Report
... communities that human-induced climate change is happening. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 that the warming of the climate system is ‘unequivocal’ and that there is a greater than 90 per cent chance that ‘the global average net ...
... communities that human-induced climate change is happening. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007 that the warming of the climate system is ‘unequivocal’ and that there is a greater than 90 per cent chance that ‘the global average net ...
Climate Change and Insecurity in the Global South
... change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community may engage with some perspectives from the Global South, it is also to be hoped that as these actors beco ...
... change as part of their brief, as have civil society groups that work on defence, conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Whilst this paper is offered in the hope that the Western defence community may engage with some perspectives from the Global South, it is also to be hoped that as these actors beco ...
What Do Editorial Cartoons about the 21st United
... When judging the success of the new deal, economist Lord Stern named it the beginning of acceleration “along the path towards low-carbon economic growth.”23 As Alain Guillemoles, economic observer for French national newspaper La Croix, pointed out during the COP21, there are quite a few of companie ...
... When judging the success of the new deal, economist Lord Stern named it the beginning of acceleration “along the path towards low-carbon economic growth.”23 As Alain Guillemoles, economic observer for French national newspaper La Croix, pointed out during the COP21, there are quite a few of companie ...
Template: Tribal Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... If you haven’t started the planning process: A number of guidebooks and resources have been developed by different organizations and agencies that provide frameworks and tools for climate change assessment and adaptation planning. A place to get started is the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. This ...
... If you haven’t started the planning process: A number of guidebooks and resources have been developed by different organizations and agencies that provide frameworks and tools for climate change assessment and adaptation planning. A place to get started is the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit. This ...
Policy options for, and constraints on, effective adaptation for rivers
... estuarine systems in Australia will be a significant challenge in a rapidly changing climate. The broad aims of climate change adaptation policies are to reduce vulnerability and increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of ecosystems to climate change impacts. There are a range of adaptation po ...
... estuarine systems in Australia will be a significant challenge in a rapidly changing climate. The broad aims of climate change adaptation policies are to reduce vulnerability and increase the adaptive capacity and resilience of ecosystems to climate change impacts. There are a range of adaptation po ...
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... groundwater basins dry up. In order to avert such undesirable effects, some degree of coordination is necessary among the agents that utilize the resource. Indeed, it is often the case that, were agents able to come together and negotiate a mutually beneficial and binding agreement, everyone could b ...
... groundwater basins dry up. In order to avert such undesirable effects, some degree of coordination is necessary among the agents that utilize the resource. Indeed, it is often the case that, were agents able to come together and negotiate a mutually beneficial and binding agreement, everyone could b ...
Food Security of Northern Indigenous Peoples in a Time of
... find caribou. If hunters do not have the ability to follow caribou or if there are no more caribou (extirpation) they may switch to lesser sources of food. By lesser we mean that the effort expanded to secure food is greater than the return, or the return is less then what would have been received, ...
... find caribou. If hunters do not have the ability to follow caribou or if there are no more caribou (extirpation) they may switch to lesser sources of food. By lesser we mean that the effort expanded to secure food is greater than the return, or the return is less then what would have been received, ...
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... 2002; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). Nonetheless, developing a multiple regression model requires determining the appropriate set of weather factors affecting crop yields. Previous literature has identified the importance of temperature and precipitation (Lobell, Cahill, and Field, 2007) and their ...
... 2002; Tannura, Irwin, and Good, 2008). Nonetheless, developing a multiple regression model requires determining the appropriate set of weather factors affecting crop yields. Previous literature has identified the importance of temperature and precipitation (Lobell, Cahill, and Field, 2007) and their ...