Climate change in Strategic Environmental Assessment
... Over the last years, the bodies of knowledge and research on climate change have been growing, leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning g ...
... Over the last years, the bodies of knowledge and research on climate change have been growing, leading to a general consensus that climate change is actually happening today. Climate change, in its broadest sense, is thereby also beginning to play an increasingly important role in spatial planning g ...
Assessing the Determinants Facilitating Local Vulnerabilities and
... factors that aggregate at the local level to shape climate change outcomes. This unique conceptual background directly informs a mixed-methodological design that integrates surveys, climate trend modeling and geospatial mapping to evaluate how climate change is unfolding onthe-ground to influence lo ...
... factors that aggregate at the local level to shape climate change outcomes. This unique conceptual background directly informs a mixed-methodological design that integrates surveys, climate trend modeling and geospatial mapping to evaluate how climate change is unfolding onthe-ground to influence lo ...
The Rockefeller Foundation Initiative Asian Cities Climate Change
... 6. assess the management and leadership of the Initiative in providing thought leadership in the Foundation and with its technical and donor partners and grantees, in the field of climate change resilience. 7. make recommendations for mid-course corrections to the Foundation on the approach of the ...
... 6. assess the management and leadership of the Initiative in providing thought leadership in the Foundation and with its technical and donor partners and grantees, in the field of climate change resilience. 7. make recommendations for mid-course corrections to the Foundation on the approach of the ...
Climate Change Adaptation in Clayoquot Sound
... reduced by sea otter populations which also feed on these crab species. Other marine species, including the feather boa kelp and the Humboldt squid, appear to be moving north in response to the warming waters off the west coast of BC. Similar trends of movement northwards are predicted for terrestri ...
... reduced by sea otter populations which also feed on these crab species. Other marine species, including the feather boa kelp and the Humboldt squid, appear to be moving north in response to the warming waters off the west coast of BC. Similar trends of movement northwards are predicted for terrestri ...
Banner - Indigenous Peoples` Climate Change Portal
... demonstrate the community’s memories of weather events, including occurrences of famine and floods. Emphasizing the Dayak’s desire for crop diversity over crop productivity, Rubis discussed the Dayak practices of multi-cropping, diversification of padi varieties, and rotational farming as important ...
... demonstrate the community’s memories of weather events, including occurrences of famine and floods. Emphasizing the Dayak’s desire for crop diversity over crop productivity, Rubis discussed the Dayak practices of multi-cropping, diversification of padi varieties, and rotational farming as important ...
Climate Time Series Analysis
... Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge. Analysis connects the two other fields where climate scientists work, measurements and models. Climate time series analysis uses statistical methods to learn about the time evolution of climate. The most impo ...
... Climate is a paradigm of a complex system. Analysing climate data is an exciting challenge. Analysis connects the two other fields where climate scientists work, measurements and models. Climate time series analysis uses statistical methods to learn about the time evolution of climate. The most impo ...
The Implications of Global Climate Change for Mountain Gorilla
... including weather patterns, water supply, temperature extremes, even biotic communities, will be changing. This is a difficult endeavor because, not only can we not predict exactly how things will change, but we don’t know when they will achieve a new stable state. We can no longer plan for stasis. ...
... including weather patterns, water supply, temperature extremes, even biotic communities, will be changing. This is a difficult endeavor because, not only can we not predict exactly how things will change, but we don’t know when they will achieve a new stable state. We can no longer plan for stasis. ...
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... alternate livelihood opportunities, build assets and spread risks. These actions would also – in most cases automatically reduce vulnerability to climate risk even if there is no explicit consideration of such risks. From this perspective climate change might simply be one more reason to scale up mi ...
... alternate livelihood opportunities, build assets and spread risks. These actions would also – in most cases automatically reduce vulnerability to climate risk even if there is no explicit consideration of such risks. From this perspective climate change might simply be one more reason to scale up mi ...
Scoping study: Modelling the interaction between mitigation and adaptation
... associated with high levels of temperature rise. On the adaptation side, there are many aspects that are inherently difficult to capture in global scale simulations, for example local scale issues and the organisational and institutional contexts in which adaptation processes occur. Models fail to a ...
... associated with high levels of temperature rise. On the adaptation side, there are many aspects that are inherently difficult to capture in global scale simulations, for example local scale issues and the organisational and institutional contexts in which adaptation processes occur. Models fail to a ...
Modelling glacier change in the Everest region, Nepal Himalaya
... the APHRODITE subset, we prescribe daily precipitation– elevation functions from the 0.25◦ APHRODITE precipitation fields and resampled SRTM data. For each day, we calculate the mean precipitation in 500 m elevation bins (P 500 ) and prescribe a fitted linear interpolation function to estimate preci ...
... the APHRODITE subset, we prescribe daily precipitation– elevation functions from the 0.25◦ APHRODITE precipitation fields and resampled SRTM data. For each day, we calculate the mean precipitation in 500 m elevation bins (P 500 ) and prescribe a fitted linear interpolation function to estimate preci ...
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... dependent and climate independent impacts (Nicholls et al. 2008), so urban areas that are unable to cope with the challenges they face today will have even greater difficulty overcoming future challenges imposed by climate change (IFRC 2010). For instance, in the case of many coastal cities, ongoing ...
... dependent and climate independent impacts (Nicholls et al. 2008), so urban areas that are unable to cope with the challenges they face today will have even greater difficulty overcoming future challenges imposed by climate change (IFRC 2010). For instance, in the case of many coastal cities, ongoing ...
- Deltas in Times of Climate Change
... home to many millions of people. However, deltas also face problems. Sea levels are rising and land is subsiding. As floods become more frequent, as salt water intrudes more aggressively and as heat waves become routine, these dangers combined with increasing populations put larger numbers of people ...
... home to many millions of people. However, deltas also face problems. Sea levels are rising and land is subsiding. As floods become more frequent, as salt water intrudes more aggressively and as heat waves become routine, these dangers combined with increasing populations put larger numbers of people ...
(2013) Evidence of multiple carbon sources and prey communities
... 13. Tape, K. D., Hallinger, M., Welker, J. M., and Ruess, R. W. (2012) Landscape heterogeneity of shrub expansion in Arctic Alaska. Ecosystems doi:10.1007/s10021-012-9540-4. 14. Elmendorf, S., Henry, G. H. R., Hollister, R. D., Welker, J. M. et al. (2012a) Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation ch ...
... 13. Tape, K. D., Hallinger, M., Welker, J. M., and Ruess, R. W. (2012) Landscape heterogeneity of shrub expansion in Arctic Alaska. Ecosystems doi:10.1007/s10021-012-9540-4. 14. Elmendorf, S., Henry, G. H. R., Hollister, R. D., Welker, J. M. et al. (2012a) Plot-scale evidence of tundra vegetation ch ...
Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
... Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA ...
... Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, USA ...
Synthesis of Climate Change Knowledge and Planning Practices
... scale useful for NRM planning has been very patchy. For example, studies of sea level rise have been carried out for the Torres Strait Islands (Green et al., 2009) but not for other NRM regions within the Wet Tropics Cluster yet. Tourism, agriculture, mining, fisheries, urban development, Indigenous ...
... scale useful for NRM planning has been very patchy. For example, studies of sea level rise have been carried out for the Torres Strait Islands (Green et al., 2009) but not for other NRM regions within the Wet Tropics Cluster yet. Tourism, agriculture, mining, fisheries, urban development, Indigenous ...
Climate Adaptation Plan 2014
... Recognizing that climate change is among the defining issues of the 21st century, Denver strives to be one of the most sustainable cities in the nation – an innovative and climate resilient city. We are committed to facing the challenges through preparedness, collaboration and cost-effective strateg ...
... Recognizing that climate change is among the defining issues of the 21st century, Denver strives to be one of the most sustainable cities in the nation – an innovative and climate resilient city. We are committed to facing the challenges through preparedness, collaboration and cost-effective strateg ...
PERCEPTIONS OF MAPLE PRODUCERS TOWARDS CLIMATE CHANGE
... the Northeast. Vermont and New York are the two highest maple-producing states in the US (USDA NASS, 2014). The Northern Forest (NF) region of these states is home to over 1,000 commercial maple producers. Due to climate change, however, changes in maple production are projected. Predictions vary re ...
... the Northeast. Vermont and New York are the two highest maple-producing states in the US (USDA NASS, 2014). The Northern Forest (NF) region of these states is home to over 1,000 commercial maple producers. Due to climate change, however, changes in maple production are projected. Predictions vary re ...
Linking Adaptation Research and Practice
... change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response to weather related (rather than risk factors) and of these, which are in response to expected future climate change. There are two clear difficulties. The first relates to the difficulty of iden ...
... change. By this we mean that it is difficult to identify which adaptations are taking place as a response to weather related (rather than risk factors) and of these, which are in response to expected future climate change. There are two clear difficulties. The first relates to the difficulty of iden ...
Playing the Climate Dominoes: Tipping Points and the Cost of
... Abstract: Greenhouse gas emissions can trigger irreversible regime shifts in the climate system, known as tipping points. Multiple tipping points affect each other’s probability of occurrence (a “domino effect”) and they reinforce each other’s economic impacts. Today’s optimal mitigation policy has ...
... Abstract: Greenhouse gas emissions can trigger irreversible regime shifts in the climate system, known as tipping points. Multiple tipping points affect each other’s probability of occurrence (a “domino effect”) and they reinforce each other’s economic impacts. Today’s optimal mitigation policy has ...
Treeline advance – driving processes and adverse factors
... he general trend of climatically-driven treeline advance is modified by regional, local and temporal variations. Treelines will not advance in a closed front parallel to the shift of any isotherm to higher elevations and more northern latitudes. The effects of varying topography on site conditions a ...
... he general trend of climatically-driven treeline advance is modified by regional, local and temporal variations. Treelines will not advance in a closed front parallel to the shift of any isotherm to higher elevations and more northern latitudes. The effects of varying topography on site conditions a ...
An Economic Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations
... heavily developed coastal areas, because they are for selected elements of the sectors for which extrapolations relating to climate data could be made. (Because of differences in method and data availability and the extent of coverage within sectors, these numbers are not directly comparable. For ex ...
... heavily developed coastal areas, because they are for selected elements of the sectors for which extrapolations relating to climate data could be made. (Because of differences in method and data availability and the extent of coverage within sectors, these numbers are not directly comparable. For ex ...
Conceptualizing urban adaptation to climate change. Findings from
... dependent and climate independent impacts (Nicholls et al. 2008), so urban areas that are unable to cope with the challenges they face today will have even greater difficulty overcoming future challenges imposed by climate change (IFRC 2010). For instance, in the case of many coastal cities, ongoing ...
... dependent and climate independent impacts (Nicholls et al. 2008), so urban areas that are unable to cope with the challenges they face today will have even greater difficulty overcoming future challenges imposed by climate change (IFRC 2010). For instance, in the case of many coastal cities, ongoing ...
Republic of Maldives
... The reverberating message here is that the commitments agreed on in the Kyoto Protocol fall way short of reversing the climatic trends. It is therefore absolutely essential that those who have made those commitments at least prove their ...
... The reverberating message here is that the commitments agreed on in the Kyoto Protocol fall way short of reversing the climatic trends. It is therefore absolutely essential that those who have made those commitments at least prove their ...
Torres Strait Regional Adaptation and Resilience Plan
... change will continue to bring to the Torres Strait. This Plan considers those impacts and proposes a number of strategies and actions that will prepare the region for the future. Climate change impacts are greater in vulnerable communities compared to those that are better resourced and less vulnera ...
... change will continue to bring to the Torres Strait. This Plan considers those impacts and proposes a number of strategies and actions that will prepare the region for the future. Climate change impacts are greater in vulnerable communities compared to those that are better resourced and less vulnera ...
BATES et al 2008 Climate Change and Water
... are vulnerable and have the potential to be strongly impacted by climate change, with wide-ranging consequences for human societies and ecosystems. Observed warming over several decades has been linked to changes in the large-scale hydrological cycle such as: increasing atmospheric water vapour cont ...
... are vulnerable and have the potential to be strongly impacted by climate change, with wide-ranging consequences for human societies and ecosystems. Observed warming over several decades has been linked to changes in the large-scale hydrological cycle such as: increasing atmospheric water vapour cont ...
Global warming
Global warming and climate change are terms for the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.Multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming. Although the increase of near-surface atmospheric temperature is the measure of global warming often reported in the popular press, most of the additional energy stored in the climate system since 1970 has gone into ocean warming. The remainder has melted ice, and warmed the continents and atmosphere. Many of the observed changes since the 1950s are unprecedented over decades to millennia.Scientific understanding of global warming is increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in 2014 that scientists were more than 95% certain that most of global warming is caused by increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases and other human (anthropogenic) activities. Climate model projections summarized in the report indicated that during the 21st century the global surface temperature is likely to rise a further 0.3 to 1.7 °C (0.5 to 3.1 °F) for their lowest emissions scenario using stringent mitigation and 2.6 to 4.8 °C (4.7 to 8.6 °F) for their highest. These findings have been recognized by the national science academies of the major industrialized nations.Future climate change and associated impacts will differ from region to region around the globe. Anticipated effects include warming global temperature, rising sea levels, changing precipitation, and expansion of deserts in the subtropics. Warming is expected to be greatest in the Arctic, with the continuing retreat of glaciers, permafrost and sea ice. Other likely changes include more frequent extreme weather events including heat waves, droughts, heavy rainfall, and heavy snowfall; ocean acidification; and species extinctions due to shifting temperature regimes. Effects significant to humans include the threat to food security from decreasing crop yields and the abandonment of populated areas due to flooding.Possible societal responses to global warming include mitigation by emissions reduction, adaptation to its effects, building systems resilient to its effects, and possible future climate engineering. Most countries are parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),whose ultimate objective is to prevent dangerous anthropogenic climate change. The UNFCCC have adopted a range of policies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to assist in adaptation to global warming. Parties to the UNFCCC have agreed that deep cuts in emissions are required, and that future global warming should be limited to below 2.0 °C (3.6 °F) relative to the pre-industrial level.