Land Use in Computable General Equilibrium Models: An Overview*
... CLUE are for China (Verburg et al., 1999) and for tropical South America (Wassenaar et al., 2007). The latter model works at the impressive spatial resolution of 3x3 km. SALU and IMAGE are examples of rule-based models. For instance, demand-driven expansion of agricultural production is met on the ...
... CLUE are for China (Verburg et al., 1999) and for tropical South America (Wassenaar et al., 2007). The latter model works at the impressive spatial resolution of 3x3 km. SALU and IMAGE are examples of rule-based models. For instance, demand-driven expansion of agricultural production is met on the ...
The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts
... keenly aware of these issues and are actively working on them. This paper is primarily addressed to economists. The economic models, which build on the science models, are used for cost–benefit analysis or policy assessments of climate impacts and action.5 The economic models add further underassess ...
... keenly aware of these issues and are actively working on them. This paper is primarily addressed to economists. The economic models, which build on the science models, are used for cost–benefit analysis or policy assessments of climate impacts and action.5 The economic models add further underassess ...
Global Warming: Current Issues And Implications
... Global warming and climate change affect every part of the earth though the effects or evidences might be different. Existing climatic regions have a range of effects resulting from climatic variations. Experience of past changes suggests that the mid and high latitudes suffer the greatest modificat ...
... Global warming and climate change affect every part of the earth though the effects or evidences might be different. Existing climatic regions have a range of effects resulting from climatic variations. Experience of past changes suggests that the mid and high latitudes suffer the greatest modificat ...
Behaviour Change - Appendix A
... meaningful way. We have to present Climate Change anew. We should really influence the way that development happens. We need to call the Environment Department to its role. We need to involve the community very practically in a way that offers added value. We want something very practical and applie ...
... meaningful way. We have to present Climate Change anew. We should really influence the way that development happens. We need to call the Environment Department to its role. We need to involve the community very practically in a way that offers added value. We want something very practical and applie ...
Sequestration and storage of carbon by trees in and around
... cover, planting, and inspiring natural regeneration. Measurements of the tree cover provide important basic structural data used to model urban tree cover functions such as air pollution control and carbon dioxide capture [19]. Understanding the relationship among the urban trees, people, and enviro ...
... cover, planting, and inspiring natural regeneration. Measurements of the tree cover provide important basic structural data used to model urban tree cover functions such as air pollution control and carbon dioxide capture [19]. Understanding the relationship among the urban trees, people, and enviro ...
How the United Nations System Supports Ambitious Action on
... These joint efforts are also increasingly underpinned by the ability of Governments and UN organizations to leverage the new international climate institutions launched under UNFCCC. These mechanisms promote financing, technology, adaptation, emissions reductions, capacity-building and more. For exa ...
... These joint efforts are also increasingly underpinned by the ability of Governments and UN organizations to leverage the new international climate institutions launched under UNFCCC. These mechanisms promote financing, technology, adaptation, emissions reductions, capacity-building and more. For exa ...
SG-RFC-2009-doc 8-6
... a baseline for observing and measuring climate change and its effects upon the planet, and to provide scientifically sound input to climate models. Climate science has advanced spectacularly through satellite observations. The radiometer flown on Explorer 7 from 1959 to 1961 made possible the direct ...
... a baseline for observing and measuring climate change and its effects upon the planet, and to provide scientifically sound input to climate models. Climate science has advanced spectacularly through satellite observations. The radiometer flown on Explorer 7 from 1959 to 1961 made possible the direct ...
Water, the West, and Our Changing Climate: Political and Ethical
... terms of population growth, and possible changes in the variety of uses, challenge predictions about availability. However, many people, (including lawmakers) especially in conservative states, such as Utah and Arizona, are skeptical of climate change itself. The fact that skepticism about climate s ...
... terms of population growth, and possible changes in the variety of uses, challenge predictions about availability. However, many people, (including lawmakers) especially in conservative states, such as Utah and Arizona, are skeptical of climate change itself. The fact that skepticism about climate s ...
Science aspects of the 2°C and 1.5°C global goals in the Cancun
... A number of different types of global targets have been proposed for use in international climate policy. These include global-mean warming targets, greenhouse-gas concentration equivalent goals, carbon dioxide concentration levels, and emissions in different years such as 2020 and 2050. In this sec ...
... A number of different types of global targets have been proposed for use in international climate policy. These include global-mean warming targets, greenhouse-gas concentration equivalent goals, carbon dioxide concentration levels, and emissions in different years such as 2020 and 2050. In this sec ...
Comment by: Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. Knappenberger
... Until this entire situation can be properly rectified, the SCC should be barred from use in this and all other federal rulemaking. It is better not to include any value for the SCC in cost/benefit analyses such as these, than to include a value which is knowingly improper, inaccurate and misleading ...
... Until this entire situation can be properly rectified, the SCC should be barred from use in this and all other federal rulemaking. It is better not to include any value for the SCC in cost/benefit analyses such as these, than to include a value which is knowingly improper, inaccurate and misleading ...
Southwest Reigon.indd - USA National Phenology Network
... This is one in a series of eight, geographic region-focused information sheets that summarizes documented changes in plant and animal phenology over the past century across the United States. This summary is based on long-term studies (10 years or more) published in the primary scientific literature ...
... This is one in a series of eight, geographic region-focused information sheets that summarizes documented changes in plant and animal phenology over the past century across the United States. This summary is based on long-term studies (10 years or more) published in the primary scientific literature ...
Prof. Dong Suocheng
... The key economic resource of the Yellow River Delta is an oil field, administered by the Shengli Oil Administrative Bureau. The climate of study region belongs to warm temperate continental monsoon climate with distinctive seasons and a rainy summer. The annual average temperature is 11.7-12.8 cent ...
... The key economic resource of the Yellow River Delta is an oil field, administered by the Shengli Oil Administrative Bureau. The climate of study region belongs to warm temperate continental monsoon climate with distinctive seasons and a rainy summer. The annual average temperature is 11.7-12.8 cent ...
A Credible Foundation for Long Term International
... viable new institution.2 Such has been the case over the last decade as attention has focused on designing the Kyoto Protocol, an elaborate new international institution without any real precedent that may do nothing to slow emissions. In this chapter we argue that a better alternative would be to t ...
... viable new institution.2 Such has been the case over the last decade as attention has focused on designing the Kyoto Protocol, an elaborate new international institution without any real precedent that may do nothing to slow emissions. In this chapter we argue that a better alternative would be to t ...
Manitoba`s Larger Emitters - International Institute for Sustainable
... To this end, the province has made significant progress in putting its GHG emissions reduction programs into practice. Manitoba launched the Climate Investment Pilot Program to help businesses measure and reduce their GHG emissions through the Corporate Capacity Building Grant and the Climate Mitiga ...
... To this end, the province has made significant progress in putting its GHG emissions reduction programs into practice. Manitoba launched the Climate Investment Pilot Program to help businesses measure and reduce their GHG emissions through the Corporate Capacity Building Grant and the Climate Mitiga ...
Global Warming - Science or Politics
... Copenhagen – About to Suck Money from Your Taxpayer’s Pockets Starting in 2020 certain countries, including Canada, are expected to jointly contribute US $100 billion dollars per year. The so-called richest nations will be forced to contribute the most. If the United Nations can tell us what to do w ...
... Copenhagen – About to Suck Money from Your Taxpayer’s Pockets Starting in 2020 certain countries, including Canada, are expected to jointly contribute US $100 billion dollars per year. The so-called richest nations will be forced to contribute the most. If the United Nations can tell us what to do w ...
ASME Newsletter 2014-01-20
... legislation to improve confidence in the fairness and transparency of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and rulemaking by reforming the science advisory process. The EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act would make changes to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) by "increasing transparen ...
... legislation to improve confidence in the fairness and transparency of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and rulemaking by reforming the science advisory process. The EPA Science Advisory Board Reform Act would make changes to the Science Advisory Board (SAB) by "increasing transparen ...
Oxfam-Diamond Valley Newsletter April 2016
... that have caused havoc, most acutely for the poor – typically farmers in developing countries and those who depend on their crops for food and trade. They don’t have the same assets or options as rich people. In Fiji, the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Winston are compounding existing vulnerabilities r ...
... that have caused havoc, most acutely for the poor – typically farmers in developing countries and those who depend on their crops for food and trade. They don’t have the same assets or options as rich people. In Fiji, the impacts of Tropical Cyclone Winston are compounding existing vulnerabilities r ...
Building Place-Based Climate Change Education
... these national Parks and Refuges is listed in the table to the right. The surveys were administered in paper form (7 percent) as well as on Apple iPads (93 percent), using an iSurvey electronic template. All of the results were saved, synced, and uploaded to a password-protected ...
... these national Parks and Refuges is listed in the table to the right. The surveys were administered in paper form (7 percent) as well as on Apple iPads (93 percent), using an iSurvey electronic template. All of the results were saved, synced, and uploaded to a password-protected ...
ESM - Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology
... Coupled models drift towards a more equilibrated state. Initial rapid cooling of SST followed by warming trend. Significant subsurface drifts seen through multiple centuries of simulation. Vertical redistribution of heat with tendency of cooling in upper layers and warming in the subsurface – Delwo ...
... Coupled models drift towards a more equilibrated state. Initial rapid cooling of SST followed by warming trend. Significant subsurface drifts seen through multiple centuries of simulation. Vertical redistribution of heat with tendency of cooling in upper layers and warming in the subsurface – Delwo ...
Cultural Responses to Climate Change During the Late Holocene
... drought has revealed that its tremendous socioeconomic impact was, in part, due to wanton agricultural practices and overcapitalization just before the drought, when rainfall had been more abundant (5). A subsequent decadal-scale drought in the 1950s (Fig. 1, A and B) was also severe but less widesp ...
... drought has revealed that its tremendous socioeconomic impact was, in part, due to wanton agricultural practices and overcapitalization just before the drought, when rainfall had been more abundant (5). A subsequent decadal-scale drought in the 1950s (Fig. 1, A and B) was also severe but less widesp ...
Coping with the uncertainties in the climate change adaptation of
... cost and the product of the risk aversion index and the standard deviation of the total cost. This riskaversion cost function was initially proposed as a simple measure of social risk based on loss of life; it can also be used in economic decision making (Jonkman et al. 2003). However, only a few ap ...
... cost and the product of the risk aversion index and the standard deviation of the total cost. This riskaversion cost function was initially proposed as a simple measure of social risk based on loss of life; it can also be used in economic decision making (Jonkman et al. 2003). However, only a few ap ...
Hurteau et al. 2014 - Earth Systems Ecology Lab
... large wildfires (Westerling and Bryant, 2008; Pechony and Shindell, 2010; Westerling et al., 2011) and may also increase fire severity. Based on two general circulation model projections under a doubling of atmospheric CO2, Flannigan et al. (2000) projected that mean fire severity in California (measur ...
... large wildfires (Westerling and Bryant, 2008; Pechony and Shindell, 2010; Westerling et al., 2011) and may also increase fire severity. Based on two general circulation model projections under a doubling of atmospheric CO2, Flannigan et al. (2000) projected that mean fire severity in California (measur ...