Stakeholder mapping report - final version
... Eco Cities is a joint initiative between the University of Manchester and Bruntwood, drawing on the expertise of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, Centre for Urban Regional Ecology and Brooks World Poverty Institute. The project will focus on the response of urban areas to the impacts of ...
... Eco Cities is a joint initiative between the University of Manchester and Bruntwood, drawing on the expertise of the Manchester Architecture Research Centre, Centre for Urban Regional Ecology and Brooks World Poverty Institute. The project will focus on the response of urban areas to the impacts of ...
elg15f15 - University of Oregon
... teachers, what data literacy means in the 21st century has changed radically. Teachers have been prepared for the past 30 years to focus predominantly on small, student-collected data sets designed to solve well-defined problems. What is required today, particularly for environmental data, is a syn ...
... teachers, what data literacy means in the 21st century has changed radically. Teachers have been prepared for the past 30 years to focus predominantly on small, student-collected data sets designed to solve well-defined problems. What is required today, particularly for environmental data, is a syn ...
Community Adaptation Plan Bluefields, Jamaica
... Importantly, Bluefields has one of the first marine protected areas in Jamaica to be managed by the community. Farming is another important income-generating activity in Bluefields. The area’s rich soil makes it perfect for agriculture and there is a growing local movement towards organic or ‘ital’ ...
... Importantly, Bluefields has one of the first marine protected areas in Jamaica to be managed by the community. Farming is another important income-generating activity in Bluefields. The area’s rich soil makes it perfect for agriculture and there is a growing local movement towards organic or ‘ital’ ...
Making sense of the early-2000s warming slowdown
... slowdown are statistically different from trends over some earlier period. These ...
... slowdown are statistically different from trends over some earlier period. These ...
effects of changing climate on weather and human activities
... changes in atmospheric composition, are in the realm of climate. For example, interactions between the atmosphere and the tropical Pacific Ocean result in the phenomenon known as El Niño, which is responsible for disruptions in weather patterns all over the world. Technically, El Niño is a warming o ...
... changes in atmospheric composition, are in the realm of climate. For example, interactions between the atmosphere and the tropical Pacific Ocean result in the phenomenon known as El Niño, which is responsible for disruptions in weather patterns all over the world. Technically, El Niño is a warming o ...
Strengthening Sovereignty
... stand out as instructive examples of the two main countervailing forces in climate change: injurious and ameliorative, respectively. This paper makes three key findings. One, climate change is slow- and fast-moving with impacts that are short- and long-lived. Observed changes are outpacing predictio ...
... stand out as instructive examples of the two main countervailing forces in climate change: injurious and ameliorative, respectively. This paper makes three key findings. One, climate change is slow- and fast-moving with impacts that are short- and long-lived. Observed changes are outpacing predictio ...
National Security and the Threat of Climate Change
... change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush noted in his State of the Union speech, “Our ...
... change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush noted in his State of the Union speech, “Our ...
a new report
... change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush noted in his State of the Union speech, “Our ...
... change, including setting targets for long term reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. 3. The U.S. should commit to global partnerships that help less developed nations build the capacity and resiliency to better manage climate impacts. As President Bush noted in his State of the Union speech, “Our ...
Climate Change Policies and Trade Policies: The New Joint
... well as international transportation issues, and a study for the European Parliament (2007) has developed a wide-ranging list of climate-trade issues for the attention of the E.U. institutions. A report from the (U.S.) National Foreign Trade Council (2007) has analyzed WTO-compatibility and other in ...
... well as international transportation issues, and a study for the European Parliament (2007) has developed a wide-ranging list of climate-trade issues for the attention of the E.U. institutions. A report from the (U.S.) National Foreign Trade Council (2007) has analyzed WTO-compatibility and other in ...
Climate change is simple: We do something or we`re
... scientists — and wonks/journos who like to talk like scientists — are squirmy about this notion. There’s not going to be one point when it’s suddenly “too late” to stop climate change. No one knows for certain when those thresholds might be passed, and if they are, we won’t know it happened until mu ...
... scientists — and wonks/journos who like to talk like scientists — are squirmy about this notion. There’s not going to be one point when it’s suddenly “too late” to stop climate change. No one knows for certain when those thresholds might be passed, and if they are, we won’t know it happened until mu ...
MRED 2001 research
... and mean temperature of the warmest month), moisture regimes (annual aridity index, ie, evapotranspiration/precipitation and annual precipitation), and variation in landform (topography). This is a new physicogeographical regions system, but the ecophysiological constraints of plants, as shown in th ...
... and mean temperature of the warmest month), moisture regimes (annual aridity index, ie, evapotranspiration/precipitation and annual precipitation), and variation in landform (topography). This is a new physicogeographical regions system, but the ecophysiological constraints of plants, as shown in th ...
“Human Rights and Climate Change”. At its 7th session the
... Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Environmental Defenders Office (NSW) is a not-for-profit community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law and has an active program of casework, scientific education and advice, education and law reform. EDO is committed to climate justice ...
... Torres Strait Islander peoples. The Environmental Defenders Office (NSW) is a not-for-profit community legal centre specialising in public interest environmental law and has an active program of casework, scientific education and advice, education and law reform. EDO is committed to climate justice ...
Bradford, Mark A., et al. "Climate fails to predict wood decomposition
... analyse the mean of these observations2,3,5,12,17 , precluding detection of the relative effect of local-scale controls. To overcome this limitation we had 32 observations for a standard wood substrate at each of five locations. We proposed (Hypothesis 1a) that if climate is a predominant control on ...
... analyse the mean of these observations2,3,5,12,17 , precluding detection of the relative effect of local-scale controls. To overcome this limitation we had 32 observations for a standard wood substrate at each of five locations. We proposed (Hypothesis 1a) that if climate is a predominant control on ...
Climate Change Risk Assessment
... a form of resilience. Another example of resilience is the development of well-designed emergency response plans, which can increase resilience by quickly providing information and travel alternatives when highway facilities are closed and by facilitating rapid restoration of damaged facilities. By ...
... a form of resilience. Another example of resilience is the development of well-designed emergency response plans, which can increase resilience by quickly providing information and travel alternatives when highway facilities are closed and by facilitating rapid restoration of damaged facilities. By ...
Dynamic Planet Exam Questions Tectonic Activity: Possible exam
... Outline why an unreliable water supply can cause problems for farmers (2) Using examples describe the impact of an unreliable water supply on people (6) Consequences of human activity on water quality Describe how two human activities can result in a decline in water quality (4) Describe how ...
... Outline why an unreliable water supply can cause problems for farmers (2) Using examples describe the impact of an unreliable water supply on people (6) Consequences of human activity on water quality Describe how two human activities can result in a decline in water quality (4) Describe how ...
Protecting People Displaced by Weather
... As early as 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that one of the most significant impacts of climate change could be on human mobility.5 Since then, understanding of the various ways in which climate change and its environmental effects impact human movement has subst ...
... As early as 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that one of the most significant impacts of climate change could be on human mobility.5 Since then, understanding of the various ways in which climate change and its environmental effects impact human movement has subst ...
Detection and Attribution of Temperature Changes in the
... contributions from one or more external forcings to be explained. The same study concluded that global climate model simulations fail to reproduce the strong seasonality of Californian temperature trends, probably because of their coarse resolution and lack of timevarying land-use forcings. To our k ...
... contributions from one or more external forcings to be explained. The same study concluded that global climate model simulations fail to reproduce the strong seasonality of Californian temperature trends, probably because of their coarse resolution and lack of timevarying land-use forcings. To our k ...
Waterborne transport, ports and waterways: A review of
... It is estimated that about 4 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is due to anthropogenic causes, whereas the main emissions come from the seas (40 %), the vegetation (27 %) and the soil (27 %). Of the anthropogenic emission, transportation and traffic is responsible for about 23 % of energy-rel ...
... It is estimated that about 4 % of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission is due to anthropogenic causes, whereas the main emissions come from the seas (40 %), the vegetation (27 %) and the soil (27 %). Of the anthropogenic emission, transportation and traffic is responsible for about 23 % of energy-rel ...
Climate Change and Invasive Alien Species
... Adaptive strategies need to involve international co-operation and include research and development on monitoring, prediction, outbreak triggers, risk assessment and management strategies. Such approaches need to be developed at the regional scale CABI’s farmer field schools encourage uptake of indi ...
... Adaptive strategies need to involve international co-operation and include research and development on monitoring, prediction, outbreak triggers, risk assessment and management strategies. Such approaches need to be developed at the regional scale CABI’s farmer field schools encourage uptake of indi ...
Meteorology of the stratosphere - University of Reading, Meteorology
... Tripoli – Libya [email protected] ...
... Tripoli – Libya [email protected] ...
internists (american college of physicians)
... reality of climate change and our warming planet is unequivocal, and although there continues to be debate and dissenting views on whether climate change is largely the result of human activity, the American College of Physicians (ACP), on the basis of its review of the evidence as described in this ...
... reality of climate change and our warming planet is unequivocal, and although there continues to be debate and dissenting views on whether climate change is largely the result of human activity, the American College of Physicians (ACP), on the basis of its review of the evidence as described in this ...
Tree growth and climate in the Pacific Northwest, North America: a
... Northwest region of North America, although complex climate–growth relationships make it difficult to identify how radial growth will respond across different species distributions. We used a novel method to examine potential growth responses to climate change at a broad geographical scale with a fo ...
... Northwest region of North America, although complex climate–growth relationships make it difficult to identify how radial growth will respond across different species distributions. We used a novel method to examine potential growth responses to climate change at a broad geographical scale with a fo ...
Forests synchronize their growth in contrasting Eurasian regions in
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
... (SI Appendix, Tables S2 and S3), indicating that the increasing synchrony in tree growth is a widespread ecological phenomenon, although regionally dependent. Synchrony estimates could be sensitive to the number of available chronologies, a number that has decreased progressively in the most recent ...
Perceptions of Climate Change Adaptation from the Great Lakes
... their interactions with current stressors like land use change, pollution, and nonnative invasive species, pose significant challenges for natural resource managers ~Allan et al., 2013; Baron et al., 2009; Lawler, 2009!. Current greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere make continued climate change i ...
... their interactions with current stressors like land use change, pollution, and nonnative invasive species, pose significant challenges for natural resource managers ~Allan et al., 2013; Baron et al., 2009; Lawler, 2009!. Current greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere make continued climate change i ...