Introducing the Transnational Climate Impacts Index
... Government Office for Science states that “the consequences for the UK of climate change occurring in other parts of the world could be as important as climate change directly affecting these shores” (Foresight International Dimensions of Climate Change 2011, p.7). However, despite this growing evid ...
... Government Office for Science states that “the consequences for the UK of climate change occurring in other parts of the world could be as important as climate change directly affecting these shores” (Foresight International Dimensions of Climate Change 2011, p.7). However, despite this growing evid ...
Climate Change Impacts on International Seaports
... threats to urban areas and indirect ramifications due to impacts of extreme events on the global economy and linked environmental ecosystems. The nature of these threats depends on how much and how quickly climate changes, what steps are taken to limit climate change, and what actions are taken to r ...
... threats to urban areas and indirect ramifications due to impacts of extreme events on the global economy and linked environmental ecosystems. The nature of these threats depends on how much and how quickly climate changes, what steps are taken to limit climate change, and what actions are taken to r ...
Strategy Guide on Climate Change: Implications and Strategies for the Community Sector
... ways to combat the harmful effects of climate change. The report analyses the roles of different actors in addressing climate justice. It places particular emphasis on the role that the community sector can play, and the partners which it must work with to highlight environmental issues. The report’ ...
... ways to combat the harmful effects of climate change. The report analyses the roles of different actors in addressing climate justice. It places particular emphasis on the role that the community sector can play, and the partners which it must work with to highlight environmental issues. The report’ ...
UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
... Executive Summary Observations show unequivocally that there have been two periods of planetary warming in the past 160 years. The first, from roughly 1910 through 1940, likely had very little of a human component, while the second, from 1976 through 1998, more likely did. Both warmings were of simi ...
... Executive Summary Observations show unequivocally that there have been two periods of planetary warming in the past 160 years. The first, from roughly 1910 through 1940, likely had very little of a human component, while the second, from 1976 through 1998, more likely did. Both warmings were of simi ...
Garamvölgyi - Climate change - Applied Ecology and Environmental
... complex and very individualistic. Inter-specific competition, which is higher under favourable growing conditions, reduces range shift velocity more than adverse macroclimatic conditions do, and habitat fragmentation can also lead to considerable time lags in range shifts. According to their simulat ...
... complex and very individualistic. Inter-specific competition, which is higher under favourable growing conditions, reduces range shift velocity more than adverse macroclimatic conditions do, and habitat fragmentation can also lead to considerable time lags in range shifts. According to their simulat ...
The earTh ScienTiST - Galen McKinley
... to NASA, the global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, continuing a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. On a daily basis, we hear about extreme events and changes in our environment. In ...
... to NASA, the global average surface temperature in 2011 was the ninth warmest since 1880, continuing a trend in which nine of the 10 warmest years in the modern meteorological record have occurred since the year 2000. On a daily basis, we hear about extreme events and changes in our environment. In ...
The Changing Climate and Adaptation Strategies for the Mississippi
... that farmers grow in a particular area. All of these strategies should be considered by farmers in the Mississippi Delta. The purpose of this thesis is to study climate changes in the Mississippi Delta along with the impacts those changes may have on agriculture in the region, and then to explore st ...
... that farmers grow in a particular area. All of these strategies should be considered by farmers in the Mississippi Delta. The purpose of this thesis is to study climate changes in the Mississippi Delta along with the impacts those changes may have on agriculture in the region, and then to explore st ...
Impacts of climate change on vegetation distribution. No. 1
... complex and very individualistic. Inter-specific competition, which is higher under favourable growing conditions, reduces range shift velocity more than adverse macroclimatic conditions do, and habitat fragmentation can also lead to considerable time lags in range shifts. According to their simulat ...
... complex and very individualistic. Inter-specific competition, which is higher under favourable growing conditions, reduces range shift velocity more than adverse macroclimatic conditions do, and habitat fragmentation can also lead to considerable time lags in range shifts. According to their simulat ...
The Montreal Protocol Protection of Ozone and Climate
... radiative forcing of climate and is generally evaluated at or near the top of the atmosphere using units of Watts per square meter (W/m2). Positive forcings generally lead to warming and negative forcings lead to cooling of earth’s surface. The potential for climate change from human activities incr ...
... radiative forcing of climate and is generally evaluated at or near the top of the atmosphere using units of Watts per square meter (W/m2). Positive forcings generally lead to warming and negative forcings lead to cooling of earth’s surface. The potential for climate change from human activities incr ...
Projected climate change impacts on North Sea and Baltic Sea
... few studies published show a large range in projected future primary production and hydrodynamic condition. With the addition of CMIP5 models and scenarios, the demand to explore the uncertainty in regional climate change projections increased. Moreover, the question arises how projections based on ...
... few studies published show a large range in projected future primary production and hydrodynamic condition. With the addition of CMIP5 models and scenarios, the demand to explore the uncertainty in regional climate change projections increased. Moreover, the question arises how projections based on ...
Impacts of Climate Change on all European islands
... locations, which will only aggravate the issue. The relevance of sea level for Europe as a whole and islands in particular is underlined by the fact that between 1950 and 2000 the population living in European coastal municipalities doubled to more than 70 millions inhabitants. The total value of ec ...
... locations, which will only aggravate the issue. The relevance of sea level for Europe as a whole and islands in particular is underlined by the fact that between 1950 and 2000 the population living in European coastal municipalities doubled to more than 70 millions inhabitants. The total value of ec ...
The Network Location of the Policy Entrepreneur
... advocacy activity, the score was 0. If the actor’s reports or publications were intended to be policy-relevant (i.e. expressed the intention or claim that the document could inform policy), the score was 1. If the actor’s activities were related to policy advocacy, but advocacy was not their primary ...
... advocacy activity, the score was 0. If the actor’s reports or publications were intended to be policy-relevant (i.e. expressed the intention or claim that the document could inform policy), the score was 1. If the actor’s activities were related to policy advocacy, but advocacy was not their primary ...
Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate
... ith the rise of scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change, increasingly detailed scientific inquiries have been made into potential future climatic influences on global migration patterns.1–8 Environmental changes, of which climate variability and change represent one set of examples, have ...
... ith the rise of scientific evidence of anthropogenic climate change, increasingly detailed scientific inquiries have been made into potential future climatic influences on global migration patterns.1–8 Environmental changes, of which climate variability and change represent one set of examples, have ...
An Integrated Assessment of Changes in the Thermohaline Circulation
... reveals widely differing views about the probability of a shutdown being triggered this century, with some estimates even exceeding the 50% level for scenarios with high global temperature rise. Narrowing down this uncertainty will first of all require a better physical understanding of what determi ...
... reveals widely differing views about the probability of a shutdown being triggered this century, with some estimates even exceeding the 50% level for scenarios with high global temperature rise. Narrowing down this uncertainty will first of all require a better physical understanding of what determi ...
Impacts of Large-Scale Reforestation Programmes on Regional
... mitigating climate change; these include maintaining biodiversity, improving water quality, reducing soil erosion and reducing desertification over particular regions (Foley et al. 2003; Jackson et al. 2005). For all these reasons, various reforestation projects have been implemented around the worl ...
... mitigating climate change; these include maintaining biodiversity, improving water quality, reducing soil erosion and reducing desertification over particular regions (Foley et al. 2003; Jackson et al. 2005). For all these reasons, various reforestation projects have been implemented around the worl ...
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... been chosen larger than could realistically be expected in order to guarantee that the model is robust in regard to minor changes in trend or variance. Other sets of multipliers, {1, 2, 0.5} and {1, 1.05, 0.95}, have been tested. The former, even stronger set of assumptions leads to a convergence to ...
... been chosen larger than could realistically be expected in order to guarantee that the model is robust in regard to minor changes in trend or variance. Other sets of multipliers, {1, 2, 0.5} and {1, 1.05, 0.95}, have been tested. The former, even stronger set of assumptions leads to a convergence to ...
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... It is widely recognized that changes in the environment can influence human movement patterns and behavior (ADB, 2012; Foresight, 2011). Human migration has long been a voluntary and involuntary strategy in response to environmental change (McLeman and Smith, 2006; Foresight, 2011). In the past few ...
... It is widely recognized that changes in the environment can influence human movement patterns and behavior (ADB, 2012; Foresight, 2011). Human migration has long been a voluntary and involuntary strategy in response to environmental change (McLeman and Smith, 2006; Foresight, 2011). In the past few ...
Planning Climate Resilient Cities: Early Lessons from Early Adapters
... level rise include accommodation strategies such as beach nourishment, the installation of protective structures such as groins and seawalls, and retreat measures that restrict development and other human activity, including provisions to relocate current residents (Kirshen, Knee, and Ruth 2008). Wh ...
... level rise include accommodation strategies such as beach nourishment, the installation of protective structures such as groins and seawalls, and retreat measures that restrict development and other human activity, including provisions to relocate current residents (Kirshen, Knee, and Ruth 2008). Wh ...
Climate change, migration and critical
... population displacements and migrations in the coming decades, with the potential to create instability and conflict in the most vulnerable regions. An oft-cited prediction by Myers (2002) suggests that climate change and other environmental factors could lead to 200 million people being displaced b ...
... population displacements and migrations in the coming decades, with the potential to create instability and conflict in the most vulnerable regions. An oft-cited prediction by Myers (2002) suggests that climate change and other environmental factors could lead to 200 million people being displaced b ...
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
... leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, the situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State bord ...
... leave their homes or places of habitual residence, in particular as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of armed conflict, the situations of generalized violence, violations of human rights or natural or human made disasters, and who have not crossed an internationally recognized State bord ...
Impacts of climate-related geo-engineering on biological
... effect of similar but artificially induced forcings that mimic natural radiative perturbations in order to stabilize surface climate. Injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere, not unlike the effects from large volcanic eruptions, and a direct reduction of insolation, similar to total sola ...
... effect of similar but artificially induced forcings that mimic natural radiative perturbations in order to stabilize surface climate. Injection of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere, not unlike the effects from large volcanic eruptions, and a direct reduction of insolation, similar to total sola ...