How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change?
... followed by the farm households that actually undertook an adaptation measure. 4 Farmers’ decision to adapt and what strategy to adopt is voluntary and based on individual selfselection. Farm households that adopted a particular strategy are not a random sample of the original population, they may h ...
... followed by the farm households that actually undertook an adaptation measure. 4 Farmers’ decision to adapt and what strategy to adopt is voluntary and based on individual selfselection. Farm households that adopted a particular strategy are not a random sample of the original population, they may h ...
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... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
... in a scenario with unchecked atmospheric CO2 concentration increase. We compare the modeled vegetation to a map of present-day potential vegetation distribution, and to paleovegetation distributions inferred from pollen data. The future scenario allows us then to assess the sensitivity of Arctic veg ...
Allergies and Asthma - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate
... Mother and daughter who lived in a moldy house presented with asthmatic symptoms that were refractory to treatment until they were moved to a different environment. (Ohio) Recent rainfall and flooding increased patient in-home exposure to mold and humidity, (this) resulted in asthma emergency visits ...
... Mother and daughter who lived in a moldy house presented with asthmatic symptoms that were refractory to treatment until they were moved to a different environment. (Ohio) Recent rainfall and flooding increased patient in-home exposure to mold and humidity, (this) resulted in asthma emergency visits ...
Chapter 6 | Synthesis 6. Synthesis 6.1 Introduction
... by tweaking model-parameters. The effective stratification of the Southern Ocean is particularly sensitive ...
... by tweaking model-parameters. The effective stratification of the Southern Ocean is particularly sensitive ...
Full Congressional testimonials
... interface between climate science and policy. As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network LLC, I have been working with decision makers to use weather and climate information to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events. I am increasingly concerned that both the climate ch ...
... interface between climate science and policy. As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network LLC, I have been working with decision makers to use weather and climate information to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events. I am increasingly concerned that both the climate ch ...
Sea Ice–Albedo Feedback and Nonlinear Arctic Climate Change
... warming, potentially inducing nonlinear climate changes. We can only be sure of establishing the presence or absence of nonlinear behaviors associated with ice-albedo feedback in experiments that warm to the point of complete ice removal. Beyond this point, there can be no further reductions in pola ...
... warming, potentially inducing nonlinear climate changes. We can only be sure of establishing the presence or absence of nonlinear behaviors associated with ice-albedo feedback in experiments that warm to the point of complete ice removal. Beyond this point, there can be no further reductions in pola ...
climate science
... interface between climate science and policy. As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network LLC, I have been working with decision makers to use weather and climate information to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events. I am increasingly concerned that both the climate ch ...
... interface between climate science and policy. As President of Climate Forecast Applications Network LLC, I have been working with decision makers to use weather and climate information to reduce vulnerability to extreme weather and climate events. I am increasingly concerned that both the climate ch ...
What explains variation in party salience on the environment? A
... politics have been examined, analysis of how the environment impacts on established parties – as well as on party competition - is surprisingly scarce, particularly in countries without an electorally successful green party. Additionally, research examining these issues has often been country-specif ...
... politics have been examined, analysis of how the environment impacts on established parties – as well as on party competition - is surprisingly scarce, particularly in countries without an electorally successful green party. Additionally, research examining these issues has often been country-specif ...
On the relationship between metrics to compare greenhouse gases
... following a pulse emission of a gas X compared to “the integral of the temperature change” following a pulse emission of CO2 . Such a measure has been discussed previously by, for instance, Fisher et al. (1990), Rotmans and den Elzen (1992), Shine et al. (2005, p. 298), IPCC (2009), Gillet and Matth ...
... following a pulse emission of a gas X compared to “the integral of the temperature change” following a pulse emission of CO2 . Such a measure has been discussed previously by, for instance, Fisher et al. (1990), Rotmans and den Elzen (1992), Shine et al. (2005, p. 298), IPCC (2009), Gillet and Matth ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
The Tragedy of the Risk-Perception Commons
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
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... choosing the investments path, given a production function for the final good, a budget constrain and kinetic equations for capital accumulation. WITCH can simulate all degrees of cooperation among the 12 macro-regions in which world countries are aggregated. The model can run in a cooperative mode ...
... choosing the investments path, given a production function for the final good, a budget constrain and kinetic equations for capital accumulation. WITCH can simulate all degrees of cooperation among the 12 macro-regions in which world countries are aggregated. The model can run in a cooperative mode ...
COLIN POLSKY - Florida Center for Environmental Studies
... • B.S., Mathematics, Honors, May 1994. • B.A., Plan II (Humanities), Special Honors; French, Highest Honors; May 1994 ...
... • B.S., Mathematics, Honors, May 1994. • B.A., Plan II (Humanities), Special Honors; French, Highest Honors; May 1994 ...
Climate Change Effects on Vegetation Distribution and
... now illustrate year-to-year variability in the C budget due to climatic variations such as drought and disturbances such as fire under more realistic climate change scenarios that include the influence of dynamic oceans and aerosol forcing. The existence of a large number of future climate change sc ...
... now illustrate year-to-year variability in the C budget due to climatic variations such as drought and disturbances such as fire under more realistic climate change scenarios that include the influence of dynamic oceans and aerosol forcing. The existence of a large number of future climate change sc ...
The Tragedy of the Risk
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
... scientific information. The most straightforward explanation is ignorance: the public knows too little science to understand the evidence or to avoid being misled by distortions of it. A subtler account puts the blame on widespread cognitive biases and related limitations on the capacity of citizens ...
The Cost of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa
... components further illustrates these vulnerabilities, with recent studies into health, agriculture and water all demonstrating that Africa is often more vulnerable to climate change along these dimensions than any other region. This vulnerability, coupled with the continent’s negligible contribution ...
... components further illustrates these vulnerabilities, with recent studies into health, agriculture and water all demonstrating that Africa is often more vulnerable to climate change along these dimensions than any other region. This vulnerability, coupled with the continent’s negligible contribution ...
263. Cass R. Sunstein, "The Availability Heuristic, Intuitive Cost
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
... It has become standard to say that with respect to risks, Europe and the United States can be distinguished along a single axis: Europe accepts the Precautionary Principle, and the United States does not. On this view, Europeans attempt to build a “margin of safety” into public decisions, taking car ...
and the new Industrial Revolution
... Whatever success there will be on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a certain amount of climate change is now unavoidable (IPCC, 2014). Managing the risks of climate change is therefore an essential part of green growth. This is a particular challenge in developing countries because they are forced ...
... Whatever success there will be on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, a certain amount of climate change is now unavoidable (IPCC, 2014). Managing the risks of climate change is therefore an essential part of green growth. This is a particular challenge in developing countries because they are forced ...
Uncertainty in science and its role in climate policy
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
... Tennekes [13]). That said, it is not at all clear how one is to extract probabilities from computer simulations of any kind, much less from those that extrapolate an entire planet to regimes which have never been observed. The diversity of our current climate models, or of any set of models to be de ...
drainage development in a changing environment:overview
... allow for timely land preparation: agricultural machinery can access to land early in the season, cultivate and prepare it for sowing. The cultivation period is thus extended, which is of importance because the daily sunlight periods in parts of the temperate zone represent the crucial production fa ...
... allow for timely land preparation: agricultural machinery can access to land early in the season, cultivate and prepare it for sowing. The cultivation period is thus extended, which is of importance because the daily sunlight periods in parts of the temperate zone represent the crucial production fa ...
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... to be accompanied by increases in the frequency of extreme temperature and precipitation events (Alpert et al., 2008). An investigation of precipitation and stream flow changes in the Middle East using a 20 km resolution global climate model suggests that, under an A1b scenario there will be a large ...
... to be accompanied by increases in the frequency of extreme temperature and precipitation events (Alpert et al., 2008). An investigation of precipitation and stream flow changes in the Middle East using a 20 km resolution global climate model suggests that, under an A1b scenario there will be a large ...
Global premature mortality due to anthropogenic outdoor air pollution and... past climate change
... the component of that burden attributable to past climate change. Using simulated concentrations for 2000 and 1850 and concentration–response functions (CRFs), we estimate that, at present, 470 000 (95% confidence interval, 140 000 to 900 000) premature respiratory deaths are associated globally and ...
... the component of that burden attributable to past climate change. Using simulated concentrations for 2000 and 1850 and concentration–response functions (CRFs), we estimate that, at present, 470 000 (95% confidence interval, 140 000 to 900 000) premature respiratory deaths are associated globally and ...