case study: weyerhaeuser - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
... Over time, Weyerhaeuser has developed robust management responses to build resilience across the growing cycle of its timberlands—from planting to final harvest— against losses from storms, pest infestation, wildfires, and drought. The company regularly updates its forest timber inventories, growth ...
... Over time, Weyerhaeuser has developed robust management responses to build resilience across the growing cycle of its timberlands—from planting to final harvest— against losses from storms, pest infestation, wildfires, and drought. The company regularly updates its forest timber inventories, growth ...
Climate change impacts on coastal fisheries and
... The overall nature of future changes to the climate is predictable (e.g. temperatures will rise), but uncertainty remains in their magnitude. In Australia, climate change is predicted to increase the mean temperature of air and water, cause sea-levels to rise (see Figure 2 for predictions for each s ...
... The overall nature of future changes to the climate is predictable (e.g. temperatures will rise), but uncertainty remains in their magnitude. In Australia, climate change is predicted to increase the mean temperature of air and water, cause sea-levels to rise (see Figure 2 for predictions for each s ...
Workplace heat stress in the context of rising
... psychological well-being. Changes in weather and climate affect health, both directly and indirectly. More intense and frequent extreme events directly give rise to several weather-related diseases1. On the other hand, changes in water, air and food (both quality and quantity), ecosystems, agricultu ...
... psychological well-being. Changes in weather and climate affect health, both directly and indirectly. More intense and frequent extreme events directly give rise to several weather-related diseases1. On the other hand, changes in water, air and food (both quality and quantity), ecosystems, agricultu ...
National Adaptation to Climate Change
... The NAPA was prepared with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with the assistance from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Preparation of NAPA began in October 2004 and the process was halted because of the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004. NAPA work rec ...
... The NAPA was prepared with support from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) with the assistance from United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Preparation of NAPA began in October 2004 and the process was halted because of the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004. NAPA work rec ...
Impact of Antarctic regional warming: Sea level rise from
... when sub-shelf melting is sustained at increased levels12 . However, the FRIS glaciers are highly buttressed by the large ice shelf, which can suppress unstable retreat9–11 . A reduction in size and volume of the FRIS can be expected under the abrupt intrusion of warm water into the ice-shelf cavity ...
... when sub-shelf melting is sustained at increased levels12 . However, the FRIS glaciers are highly buttressed by the large ice shelf, which can suppress unstable retreat9–11 . A reduction in size and volume of the FRIS can be expected under the abrupt intrusion of warm water into the ice-shelf cavity ...
Innovation in the realm of institutional complexity
... relevance for our study. This model shows how actors construct and reconstruct complex institutional environments in their practical everyday work through different cycles by making sense of contradictory logics over time. These previous studies are important starting points for our study on climate ...
... relevance for our study. This model shows how actors construct and reconstruct complex institutional environments in their practical everyday work through different cycles by making sense of contradictory logics over time. These previous studies are important starting points for our study on climate ...
Please amend title - International Association for Impact
... environment are not adapted Changes to how we use land, water ...
... environment are not adapted Changes to how we use land, water ...
- CReaTE - Canterbury Christ Church University
... Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been rising since pre-industrial times, and by an average of 1.6% per year for the last 30 years (Rogner et al., 2007). Without policy interventions, they are expected to continue to rise in the future, with the likely effect of increased average glo ...
... Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been rising since pre-industrial times, and by an average of 1.6% per year for the last 30 years (Rogner et al., 2007). Without policy interventions, they are expected to continue to rise in the future, with the likely effect of increased average glo ...
Confronting Climate Change in California
... Confronting Climate Change in California aims to help make these linkages and adaptations, but the suggestions, instructions, and resources leave each teacher much freedom and require that the activities be adapted for the specific needs of your students. Additional copies of the report can be down ...
... Confronting Climate Change in California aims to help make these linkages and adaptations, but the suggestions, instructions, and resources leave each teacher much freedom and require that the activities be adapted for the specific needs of your students. Additional copies of the report can be down ...
Temperature change and its effects on the Great Lakes climate
... There are very few published theories of how an increase or decrease in temperature would affect Great Lakes Climate. However, the Union of Concerned Scientists and The Ecological Society of America published their findings, predictions, and impacts global warming would have in the following century ...
... There are very few published theories of how an increase or decrease in temperature would affect Great Lakes Climate. However, the Union of Concerned Scientists and The Ecological Society of America published their findings, predictions, and impacts global warming would have in the following century ...
F.3 External funding at IIASAand selected large externally funded
... policymakers to improve adaptation to future social, economic, and physical changes caused by climate change. The goal of the project is to enable policymakers to answer adaptation-related questions in different political contexts, on different geographical scales, and at different stages of policy ...
... policymakers to improve adaptation to future social, economic, and physical changes caused by climate change. The goal of the project is to enable policymakers to answer adaptation-related questions in different political contexts, on different geographical scales, and at different stages of policy ...
North Atlantic Ocean Wave Climate Change Scenarios for the
... al. 2001). Climate scenarios should represent future conditions that account for both human-induced climate change and natural climate variability. Such scenarios often make use of climate projections, by manipulating model outputs and combining them with observed climate data. Although global clima ...
... al. 2001). Climate scenarios should represent future conditions that account for both human-induced climate change and natural climate variability. Such scenarios often make use of climate projections, by manipulating model outputs and combining them with observed climate data. Although global clima ...
Rapid climate change and no-analog vegetation in lowland Central
... Through time, strength of AMOC and its associated interhemispheric heat flows have been associated with migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which largely controls the seasonal distribution of tropical precipitation. This atmospheric feature is the ascending limb of a larger circul ...
... Through time, strength of AMOC and its associated interhemispheric heat flows have been associated with migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), which largely controls the seasonal distribution of tropical precipitation. This atmospheric feature is the ascending limb of a larger circul ...
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... The second section proposes a “decision tree”, linking different beliefs on climate change, the achievability of different policies, and current international policy dynamics to various options to move forward on climate change. This “decision tree” investigates what to do with a 2°C target that bec ...
... The second section proposes a “decision tree”, linking different beliefs on climate change, the achievability of different policies, and current international policy dynamics to various options to move forward on climate change. This “decision tree” investigates what to do with a 2°C target that bec ...
Climate change impacts and adaptation strategies in the
... In China, climate change will also lead to changes in the distribution and structure of agricultural production, leading to greater fluctuations in output. Higher temperatures and fewer frost days may lengthen the growing season in northern China but, as in the EU, it is thought that these benefits ...
... In China, climate change will also lead to changes in the distribution and structure of agricultural production, leading to greater fluctuations in output. Higher temperatures and fewer frost days may lengthen the growing season in northern China but, as in the EU, it is thought that these benefits ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES John Whalley Working Paper 17498
... resulting change in trade flows is in no way incompatible with WTO rules and something over which the WTO cannot directly intervene. This size of impact also implies a reversal of trade growth from possible eventual global climate policy perhaps of a similar order of magnitude to the stimulus to wor ...
... resulting change in trade flows is in no way incompatible with WTO rules and something over which the WTO cannot directly intervene. This size of impact also implies a reversal of trade growth from possible eventual global climate policy perhaps of a similar order of magnitude to the stimulus to wor ...
Good Living for Whom? Bolivia`s Climate Justice Movement and the
... creative strategies employed by movements fighting to reclaim resources from the 1990s to the early 2000s. These movements were focused on mobilizing indigeneity, particularly Andean indigenous visions, as justification for resource reclamation and resource sovereignty. The concerns and politics reg ...
... creative strategies employed by movements fighting to reclaim resources from the 1990s to the early 2000s. These movements were focused on mobilizing indigeneity, particularly Andean indigenous visions, as justification for resource reclamation and resource sovereignty. The concerns and politics reg ...
Dynamics of Single Neurons
... • There is a minimum firing rate (58 Hz) • Can you infer the f-I curve from the HodgkinHuxley equations? Mike Famulare, CSE/NEUBEH 528 ...
... • There is a minimum firing rate (58 Hz) • Can you infer the f-I curve from the HodgkinHuxley equations? Mike Famulare, CSE/NEUBEH 528 ...
Accounting for tree line shift, glacier retreat and primary succession
... can be fit by a negative linear trend (P < 0.001) between 1850 and 2008. Historical shifts at the scale of the study area thus supported the use of a linear model to predict future trends in land cover dynamics (Fig. 3). Among the five resolutions that were tested, the 300-m-resolution FI model and ...
... can be fit by a negative linear trend (P < 0.001) between 1850 and 2008. Historical shifts at the scale of the study area thus supported the use of a linear model to predict future trends in land cover dynamics (Fig. 3). Among the five resolutions that were tested, the 300-m-resolution FI model and ...
Quest - Academy of Science of South Africa
... March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason – but El Niño is becoming a stronger weather system as the oceans warm and temperatures across the region rise. In Europe it is the start of winter – and ...
... March 2016 – too late for many. The El Niño weather system that affects this part of the world every five years or so is cited as the main reason – but El Niño is becoming a stronger weather system as the oceans warm and temperatures across the region rise. In Europe it is the start of winter – and ...
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... Although such models can replicate extant soil C pools on various scales9,10 , their ability to project soil C response in a changing environment remains unresolved11,12 . In the past 30 years, researchers have identified key processes and feedbacks that could be important for accurately simulating ...
... Although such models can replicate extant soil C pools on various scales9,10 , their ability to project soil C response in a changing environment remains unresolved11,12 . In the past 30 years, researchers have identified key processes and feedbacks that could be important for accurately simulating ...
Germany`s International Approach to Climate Change
... aims to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius. The successful outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun is still a powerful signal that the international community can indeed act collectively. Now it is important to build on this success and make further, g ...
... aims to limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius. The successful outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun is still a powerful signal that the international community can indeed act collectively. Now it is important to build on this success and make further, g ...