an analysis of factors affecting climate change adaptation strategies
... Climate change has resulted in several effects which include floods, droughts and shifts in marginal agriculture systems leading to a reduction in agriculture output which has led to food insecurity in the country. Following some analysis, adaptation has been suggested as the way to combat the effec ...
... Climate change has resulted in several effects which include floods, droughts and shifts in marginal agriculture systems leading to a reduction in agriculture output which has led to food insecurity in the country. Following some analysis, adaptation has been suggested as the way to combat the effec ...
Chapter 1: Introduction - Committee on Climate Change
... UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017: Evidence Report • What is the urgency of action needed for different risks and opportunities? • What are the uncertainties, limitations and confidence in the underlying evidence and analysis for different risks and opportunities? In addressing these questions ...
... UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017: Evidence Report • What is the urgency of action needed for different risks and opportunities? • What are the uncertainties, limitations and confidence in the underlying evidence and analysis for different risks and opportunities? In addressing these questions ...
Climate Change Scenarios for the Congo Basin
... vulnerable (Parry and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate, 2007). Every area has a specific adaptive capacity to each existing hazard. For example, country A has a high adaptive capacity, meaning solutions available, to deal with heavy rainfall, country B does not and is therefore vulnerable to flood ...
... vulnerable (Parry and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate, 2007). Every area has a specific adaptive capacity to each existing hazard. For example, country A has a high adaptive capacity, meaning solutions available, to deal with heavy rainfall, country B does not and is therefore vulnerable to flood ...
Detectability of Anthropogenic Changes in Annual Temperature and
... change patterns for the means and extremes of temperature and precipitation. It establishes where changes in extremes are significantly different from those in seasonal means and where changes are consistent between the models. Section 4 describes estimates of signal-tonoise ratios for mean-to-extre ...
... change patterns for the means and extremes of temperature and precipitation. It establishes where changes in extremes are significantly different from those in seasonal means and where changes are consistent between the models. Section 4 describes estimates of signal-tonoise ratios for mean-to-extre ...
Coastal Zones and Urbanization
... A report (Hallegatte et al., 2013)1 issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in August 2013 forecasts a troubling future for life in coastal cities around the world. By 2050 – less than 40 years from now – large coastal cities can expect a nine-fold increase in flood risk ...
... A report (Hallegatte et al., 2013)1 issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in August 2013 forecasts a troubling future for life in coastal cities around the world. By 2050 – less than 40 years from now – large coastal cities can expect a nine-fold increase in flood risk ...
Incentives for Sustainability in the European Union:
... literature and news. Global reactions to the mounting scientific evidence have evolved rapidly in recent years, as an increased sense of urgency has emerged. On September 27, 2013, the IPCC announced that there is a 95% probability that climate change has been caused by humans. This announcement, in ...
... literature and news. Global reactions to the mounting scientific evidence have evolved rapidly in recent years, as an increased sense of urgency has emerged. On September 27, 2013, the IPCC announced that there is a 95% probability that climate change has been caused by humans. This announcement, in ...
1 CENTURY-SCALE SHORELINE CHANGES OF FIVE
... Shinanogawa River. Niigata beach is one of the most eroded beaches because of the decrease of sediment supply from Shinanogawa River as a result of the construction of diversion aqueducts in 1922, and subsidence caused by pumping up of natural gas. Sekiya diversion aqueduct was in the west of Shinan ...
... Shinanogawa River. Niigata beach is one of the most eroded beaches because of the decrease of sediment supply from Shinanogawa River as a result of the construction of diversion aqueducts in 1922, and subsidence caused by pumping up of natural gas. Sekiya diversion aqueduct was in the west of Shinan ...
Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific
... and floods) and geological origin (including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis). These hazards often lead to disasters, which affect thousands of people and exacerbate existing development challenges in the region. Climate change predictions identify changes for the Pacific including an i ...
... and floods) and geological origin (including volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis). These hazards often lead to disasters, which affect thousands of people and exacerbate existing development challenges in the region. Climate change predictions identify changes for the Pacific including an i ...
Impacts of climate change on Australian marine life
... can absorb and still remain capable of returning to its pre-disturbance state. Scenario Scenarios outline different possible futures for the planet. Scenarios can be very simple (e.g. CO2 increasing at 1 % per year) or more realistic (e.g. the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) SRES sc ...
... can absorb and still remain capable of returning to its pre-disturbance state. Scenario Scenarios outline different possible futures for the planet. Scenarios can be very simple (e.g. CO2 increasing at 1 % per year) or more realistic (e.g. the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) SRES sc ...
showing AIT - Department for Education
... encourage pupils to explore questions in a way that is familiar to them. An Inconvenient Truth (“AIT”) is a film that has had a big impact. Its aim is to make the science and the arguments about global warming and climate change and its effects accessible to all audiences. It also presents a powerfu ...
... encourage pupils to explore questions in a way that is familiar to them. An Inconvenient Truth (“AIT”) is a film that has had a big impact. Its aim is to make the science and the arguments about global warming and climate change and its effects accessible to all audiences. It also presents a powerfu ...
Mainstreaming Climate Change in CAADP processes in
... concentration levels. According to the same report, this projected change is larger than any other climate change over the last 10,000 years and is likely to have significant impact on global environment, such as a rise in sea levels, flooding, and droughts; with negative impact on food security, an ...
... concentration levels. According to the same report, this projected change is larger than any other climate change over the last 10,000 years and is likely to have significant impact on global environment, such as a rise in sea levels, flooding, and droughts; with negative impact on food security, an ...
Regional Assessment
... The Oceania region is very prone to natural disasters having experienced two Category 5 cyclones in as many years; Tropical Cyclone (TC) Pam struck Vanuatu on 13 March 2015 and TC Winston struck Fiji on 20 February 2016. Severe TC Winston is the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the Southern hemisp ...
... The Oceania region is very prone to natural disasters having experienced two Category 5 cyclones in as many years; Tropical Cyclone (TC) Pam struck Vanuatu on 13 March 2015 and TC Winston struck Fiji on 20 February 2016. Severe TC Winston is the strongest cyclone ever recorded in the Southern hemisp ...
Motivated Recall in the Service of the Economic System
... Canada, and the United Kingdom. More interestingly, concern about climate change at the country level correlates, r ⫽ ⫺.54, with the country’s CO2 emissions per capita (Pew Research Center, 2015b), suggesting that climate change skepticism may be linked to economic consumption practices. In the Unit ...
... Canada, and the United Kingdom. More interestingly, concern about climate change at the country level correlates, r ⫽ ⫺.54, with the country’s CO2 emissions per capita (Pew Research Center, 2015b), suggesting that climate change skepticism may be linked to economic consumption practices. In the Unit ...
Urban Areas - Southwest Climate Assessment Report
... assessment of climate change in the southwest united states ...
... assessment of climate change in the southwest united states ...
Climate Change and the Chugach and Tongass National Forests
... This document is one of eight regional reports that provided input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. This Alaska Technical Regional Report looks at current changes and synthesizes relevant new science and information since publication of the first Alaska regional report in 19992. This report ...
... This document is one of eight regional reports that provided input to the 2013 National Climate Assessment. This Alaska Technical Regional Report looks at current changes and synthesizes relevant new science and information since publication of the first Alaska regional report in 19992. This report ...
“Venues for Contestation ” within the United Nations Framework
... perspective ‘fall into the category of reasons for actions which are not the same as causes of actions.’20 The idea of norm specificity commonly equates to the concept of norms as rules rather then reasons. The tension between specificity and flexibility is further enhanced when we bring in Ogley’s ...
... perspective ‘fall into the category of reasons for actions which are not the same as causes of actions.’20 The idea of norm specificity commonly equates to the concept of norms as rules rather then reasons. The tension between specificity and flexibility is further enhanced when we bring in Ogley’s ...
Foreign Action, Domestic Windfall
... government, it is widely acknowledged that this metric likely underestimates the full benefits to the United States and to the world of carbon mitigation. Nevertheless, it can be used to calculate preliminary, conservative estimates of how the United States directly benefits from foreign actions on ...
... government, it is widely acknowledged that this metric likely underestimates the full benefits to the United States and to the world of carbon mitigation. Nevertheless, it can be used to calculate preliminary, conservative estimates of how the United States directly benefits from foreign actions on ...
End of Program Report - Pacific Climate Change Science
... to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO and the Bureau of Me ...
... to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation. No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional, scientific and technical advice. To the extent permitted by law, CSIRO and the Bureau of Me ...
Robert Whittakers 1963 Arizona Mountain plant transect revisited
... sampling began at 3500 ft/1067 m and ended at 9111 ft/ 2777 m, excluding desertscrub at the base of the mountains. We have examined the Whittaker archives for the Santa Catalina Mountains at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and found no field notes, maps, or o ...
... sampling began at 3500 ft/1067 m and ended at 9111 ft/ 2777 m, excluding desertscrub at the base of the mountains. We have examined the Whittaker archives for the Santa Catalina Mountains at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and found no field notes, maps, or o ...
Future Climate Projections around Turkey by Global Climate Models
... Figure 4 shows the changes in seasonal mean precipitation at the end of the 21st century simulated by the 20-km mesh AGCM. Large decrease in precipitation is found in winter (DJF) around the southern coastal region of Turkey, particularly over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is noted that an area ...
... Figure 4 shows the changes in seasonal mean precipitation at the end of the 21st century simulated by the 20-km mesh AGCM. Large decrease in precipitation is found in winter (DJF) around the southern coastal region of Turkey, particularly over the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It is noted that an area ...
Effects of climate change on an emperor penguin population
... Weimerskirch, 2001; Ainley et al., 2007, 2010; Barbraud & Cotte, 2008; Forcada & Trathan, 2009). However, the mechanisms involved remain unclear and their relative importance is still debated (Ainley et al., 2007; Barbraud & Cotte, 2008). The effects of SIC on primary productivity and krill may casc ...
... Weimerskirch, 2001; Ainley et al., 2007, 2010; Barbraud & Cotte, 2008; Forcada & Trathan, 2009). However, the mechanisms involved remain unclear and their relative importance is still debated (Ainley et al., 2007; Barbraud & Cotte, 2008). The effects of SIC on primary productivity and krill may casc ...
Climate Leviathan - The Ohio State University
... inadequate terms—represent the first institutional manifestation of this dream of planetary regulation, a process that the dominant capitalist nation-states will surely accelerate and consolidate as climate-induced disruptions of accumulation and political stability become more urgent. Although bind ...
... inadequate terms—represent the first institutional manifestation of this dream of planetary regulation, a process that the dominant capitalist nation-states will surely accelerate and consolidate as climate-induced disruptions of accumulation and political stability become more urgent. Although bind ...
Barry - Climate change publications
... N. Nicholls, G.V. Gruza, T.R. Karl, E.A. Ogallo and D.E. Parker, eds., (6 key authors and 88 contributing authors/including R.G. Barry). In: Observed climate variability and change, Ch. 3. In: J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filko, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K. Maskell, eds., Climate cha ...
... N. Nicholls, G.V. Gruza, T.R. Karl, E.A. Ogallo and D.E. Parker, eds., (6 key authors and 88 contributing authors/including R.G. Barry). In: Observed climate variability and change, Ch. 3. In: J.T. Houghton, L.G. Meira Filko, B.A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K. Maskell, eds., Climate cha ...
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... represents more carbon than currently exists in all living things and twice as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere (Tarnocai et al. (2009)). Thawing of permafrost caused by polar amplification is expected to bring widespread changes in ecosystems, increase erosion, harm subsistence livelihoods, ...
... represents more carbon than currently exists in all living things and twice as much carbon as exists in the atmosphere (Tarnocai et al. (2009)). Thawing of permafrost caused by polar amplification is expected to bring widespread changes in ecosystems, increase erosion, harm subsistence livelihoods, ...
Learning about climate changethe Pacific way
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...
... Many educational resources available on climate change focus on its causes and its mitigation by reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. There are very few educational resources that address adaptation measures that are specific to Pacific islands. The focus of this resource is on the effects of ...