Migration as a sustainable adaptation strategy
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
Climate Change Effects On Wind Speed
... oncern about the effects of climate change has been one of the motivating forces behind the rapid development of wind energy projects. However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that “there is evidence for long-term changes in the large-scale atmospheric circulation, such as a pol ...
... oncern about the effects of climate change has been one of the motivating forces behind the rapid development of wind energy projects. However, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states that “there is evidence for long-term changes in the large-scale atmospheric circulation, such as a pol ...
Teacher manual - Government of Grenada
... Development for initiating and supporting the development of this toolkit which our future leaders can use now. We commend the material authored by the Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Programme in Grenada (ICCAS), in particular the Environment Division and the Deutsche Gesellschaft f ...
... Development for initiating and supporting the development of this toolkit which our future leaders can use now. We commend the material authored by the Integrated Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Programme in Grenada (ICCAS), in particular the Environment Division and the Deutsche Gesellschaft f ...
2. Reconciling adaptation and migration
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
... Climate migration is increasingly identified as one of the major challenges resulting from climate change,2 while its scope is only very roughly estimated between 50 million and 1 billion climate migrants by 2050.3 Climate migration results in particular from a rise of the sea level threatening low ...
Gendering climate change”
... to the international society‟s ability to cooperate in coping with this new reality. The consequences of the climate changes are unequally distributed. The developing countries, due to both their geographical position and their social and economic capabilities, are far more vulnerable to the changin ...
... to the international society‟s ability to cooperate in coping with this new reality. The consequences of the climate changes are unequally distributed. The developing countries, due to both their geographical position and their social and economic capabilities, are far more vulnerable to the changin ...
pdf Do We Understand What Is Driving Climate Change?
... scientific puzzle, if it did not make any difference to the world’s climate when we change the amount of infrared radiation that can escape by altering the concentration of greenhouse gases, even though their current concentrations are responsible for a warming effect of as much as 30°C compared wit ...
... scientific puzzle, if it did not make any difference to the world’s climate when we change the amount of infrared radiation that can escape by altering the concentration of greenhouse gases, even though their current concentrations are responsible for a warming effect of as much as 30°C compared wit ...
Final Project Overview:
... Conclusion: This was a challenging but worthwhile project. But once I figured out a mini-lab to model rising sea level as glacial ice is lost with warming the rest fell into place nicely. I had thought to have them propose local solutions but the recent research regarding loss of West Antarctic ice ...
... Conclusion: This was a challenging but worthwhile project. But once I figured out a mini-lab to model rising sea level as glacial ice is lost with warming the rest fell into place nicely. I had thought to have them propose local solutions but the recent research regarding loss of West Antarctic ice ...
First Year Booklet 2016-17
... conflict-endorsing venture. The staggering influx of oil monies often readily captures people’s imagination and gives rise to intense associations of petrodollars with freedom and opportunity, if not domination and doom. For many, it becomes a ‘fantastic form’ that seems capable of g ...
... conflict-endorsing venture. The staggering influx of oil monies often readily captures people’s imagination and gives rise to intense associations of petrodollars with freedom and opportunity, if not domination and doom. For many, it becomes a ‘fantastic form’ that seems capable of g ...
Up in smoke? Asia and the Pacific - iied iied
... Increasingly intense rainfall, particularly during summer monsoon, could increase the risk of flooding. Already a large number of floods have occurred in China in the last few years, mainly over the middle and lower basins of the Yangtze (Changjiang), Huaihe and Haihe. In arid regions of China, temp ...
... Increasingly intense rainfall, particularly during summer monsoon, could increase the risk of flooding. Already a large number of floods have occurred in China in the last few years, mainly over the middle and lower basins of the Yangtze (Changjiang), Huaihe and Haihe. In arid regions of China, temp ...
WARMER PERIODS IN THE SLOVAK MOUNTAINS ACCORDING
... previous year, January and February. The aim is to find warmer periods in the existing time series and to characterise their climatic patterns. The problem is solved by two different methods. In the first case we go out from the warmer seasons, where this warmer period continual exists at least five ...
... previous year, January and February. The aim is to find warmer periods in the existing time series and to characterise their climatic patterns. The problem is solved by two different methods. In the first case we go out from the warmer seasons, where this warmer period continual exists at least five ...
Executive Summary - UNECE Environmental Policy web-site
... the final results and an analysis at the initial point. The first approach considers the vulnerability as a result of sequential analysis entailing to the final assessment of vulnerability or residual effects that occur after adaptation; while the second one - as the current inability of the system ...
... the final results and an analysis at the initial point. The first approach considers the vulnerability as a result of sequential analysis entailing to the final assessment of vulnerability or residual effects that occur after adaptation; while the second one - as the current inability of the system ...
Predicting regional climate change: living with uncertainty
... These recent model experiments exhibit biases in the same range as those in the IPCC First assessment report for control simulations with older models (Gates et al., 1990). If we compare the models we find that over most regions the intermodel range of temperature bias is of the order of 10 °K, and ...
... These recent model experiments exhibit biases in the same range as those in the IPCC First assessment report for control simulations with older models (Gates et al., 1990). If we compare the models we find that over most regions the intermodel range of temperature bias is of the order of 10 °K, and ...
The Need for (and Obstacles to) Regional Collective Action in Climate Adaptation
... climate adaptation. Several collective action problems confront the world’s efforts to ensure effective adaptation. First is the development of an international regime for funding climate adaptation by less developed nations. Significant funding will be needed. Yet developed nations individually hav ...
... climate adaptation. Several collective action problems confront the world’s efforts to ensure effective adaptation. First is the development of an international regime for funding climate adaptation by less developed nations. Significant funding will be needed. Yet developed nations individually hav ...
Warm Words II
... the ‘small actions’ repertoire – but this suffers even more in a local setting from a lack of energy, and an uncompelling element of domesticity. However, we found some local communications that stood out as energetic and compelling, and also bypassed some of the problems we identified at the nation ...
... the ‘small actions’ repertoire – but this suffers even more in a local setting from a lack of energy, and an uncompelling element of domesticity. However, we found some local communications that stood out as energetic and compelling, and also bypassed some of the problems we identified at the nation ...
RAJIV GANDHI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
... increase in smog can cause asthma in children. Smog related death from climate change is projected to increase by about 4.5 % from the 1990s to 2050s, According studies at Columbia and Johns Hopkins universities. A scientist at Yale University, Michelle Bell, looked at the 50 largest cities in easte ...
... increase in smog can cause asthma in children. Smog related death from climate change is projected to increase by about 4.5 % from the 1990s to 2050s, According studies at Columbia and Johns Hopkins universities. A scientist at Yale University, Michelle Bell, looked at the 50 largest cities in easte ...
Beyond species distribution modeling: A
... show how this approach can be implemented using the publicly available genetic dataset of the grey longeared bat, Plecotus austriacus, in the Iberian Peninsula. Forest cover gradient was the main landscape variable affecting genetic connectivity between colonies. Forest availability is likely to lim ...
... show how this approach can be implemented using the publicly available genetic dataset of the grey longeared bat, Plecotus austriacus, in the Iberian Peninsula. Forest cover gradient was the main landscape variable affecting genetic connectivity between colonies. Forest availability is likely to lim ...
- ePrints Soton
... and precipitation extremes, where individuals may be pushed to the limits of their environmental tolerances [12]. Their survival depends on the rate at which they can migrate to different elevations, latitudes or regions otherwise suitable in terms of environmental conditions [13]. Whilst some speci ...
... and precipitation extremes, where individuals may be pushed to the limits of their environmental tolerances [12]. Their survival depends on the rate at which they can migrate to different elevations, latitudes or regions otherwise suitable in terms of environmental conditions [13]. Whilst some speci ...
Clouds in a Warmer Climate: Friend or Foe?
... trends have on the cold rain processes, and the efficiency with which future storms precipitate? Because of the limitations of the simple model used here, the results of past studies are drawn upon to speculate on these issues. Future work will be needed to investigate which, if any, of these possib ...
... trends have on the cold rain processes, and the efficiency with which future storms precipitate? Because of the limitations of the simple model used here, the results of past studies are drawn upon to speculate on these issues. Future work will be needed to investigate which, if any, of these possib ...
Climate Change in Zambia
... • The Zambian Government should scale up its efforts to initiate and implement projects and strategies in the NAPA by mainstreaming them in national development policies and programs and allocating adequate funding for their effective implementation. • Government should ensure that the National REDD ...
... • The Zambian Government should scale up its efforts to initiate and implement projects and strategies in the NAPA by mainstreaming them in national development policies and programs and allocating adequate funding for their effective implementation. • Government should ensure that the National REDD ...