changing risks in changing climate
... demography, land-use and other socio-economic changes (Figure I). Development plans from municipalities, regional or national governments can provide exposure and vulnerability changes in the risk assessment, too. The Danube Macro-region has been already strongly affected by climate variability and ...
... demography, land-use and other socio-economic changes (Figure I). Development plans from municipalities, regional or national governments can provide exposure and vulnerability changes in the risk assessment, too. The Danube Macro-region has been already strongly affected by climate variability and ...
CLIMATE CHANGE IN NORTHERN AFRICA
... years ago), and we show that some expansion of grassland into the Sahara is theoretically possible, if the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases well above pre-industrial values and if vegetation growth is not disturbed. Depending on the rate of CO2 increase, vegetation migration into the Sahara c ...
... years ago), and we show that some expansion of grassland into the Sahara is theoretically possible, if the atmospheric CO2 concentration increases well above pre-industrial values and if vegetation growth is not disturbed. Depending on the rate of CO2 increase, vegetation migration into the Sahara c ...
What is the Paris Agreement, and How Will It Be Implemented?
... to only 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This goal is important because studies have shown that many aspects of nature do not work the way they should when the average global temperature is more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 2. The second goal is to build resili ...
... to only 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This goal is important because studies have shown that many aspects of nature do not work the way they should when the average global temperature is more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. 2. The second goal is to build resili ...
Public Policy and Climate Change: Land-use
... Projected Impacts of Climate Change Expected climatic changes in the region include: Sea level rise Saline intrusion into freshwater aquifers Coastal flooding and erosion Increased temperatures Heat stress Coral bleaching Biodiversity loss Increased emergence of vector borne diseases Changes in rai ...
... Projected Impacts of Climate Change Expected climatic changes in the region include: Sea level rise Saline intrusion into freshwater aquifers Coastal flooding and erosion Increased temperatures Heat stress Coral bleaching Biodiversity loss Increased emergence of vector borne diseases Changes in rai ...
What is this thing called `natural`? The nature
... for the pristine and pure, and his revolt against society, end in misery and death. In this story, the wilderness represents both the untouched and pure, which are worth aiming for, and the untamed and violent, which threaten and destroy human lives. This depiction of the wilderness illustrates huma ...
... for the pristine and pure, and his revolt against society, end in misery and death. In this story, the wilderness represents both the untouched and pure, which are worth aiming for, and the untamed and violent, which threaten and destroy human lives. This depiction of the wilderness illustrates huma ...
Planning Horizons no.2 | Future
... I am proud to be President during the Institute’s Centenary Year of 2014. I am also proud to be a planner. Planning was established as a discrete profession in response to the challenges of the day and a fundamental belief that the world needs planning. A century later, it is timely to review the ch ...
... I am proud to be President during the Institute’s Centenary Year of 2014. I am also proud to be a planner. Planning was established as a discrete profession in response to the challenges of the day and a fundamental belief that the world needs planning. A century later, it is timely to review the ch ...
3. the climate change policy framework
... Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by human activities and that policies enacted to date have not been substantial enough to counteract the growth in global emissions driven by increasing fossil fuel consumption, forest clea ...
... Climate Change (2007) are “that global warming since the mid-20th century was unequivocal and caused primarily by human activities and that policies enacted to date have not been substantial enough to counteract the growth in global emissions driven by increasing fossil fuel consumption, forest clea ...
6 POTENTIAL CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS FOR JOHANNESBURG
... Water is the one of the most vulnerable resources in South Africa, because the country’s rainfall is so unpredictable, and because its climate is so arid. “Runoff was found to be highly sensitive to changes in precipitation” (DWAF, 2004, 51). As revealed previously, precipitation will decrease, and ...
... Water is the one of the most vulnerable resources in South Africa, because the country’s rainfall is so unpredictable, and because its climate is so arid. “Runoff was found to be highly sensitive to changes in precipitation” (DWAF, 2004, 51). As revealed previously, precipitation will decrease, and ...
Antagonism, The Commons and Solidarity
... climate politics adds new complexity energy and contestations to established social and environmental justice debates and activism. Putting justice into climate politics has created new opportunities for social movements in the global south to reinforce the intersections between local environmental ...
... climate politics adds new complexity energy and contestations to established social and environmental justice debates and activism. Putting justice into climate politics has created new opportunities for social movements in the global south to reinforce the intersections between local environmental ...
Worksheet 1b SAV partial
... including for light penetration. This may be less of a problem if existing riprap is replaced with natural shoreline, but even ...
... including for light penetration. This may be less of a problem if existing riprap is replaced with natural shoreline, but even ...
Floods in the Sahel: an analysis of anomalies, Petra Tschakert
... Moreover, the continent was the second hardest hit in terms of number of events, area affected, and number of people killed, after Asia. Most literature (and media attention) on floods stems from Asia as well as the industrialized world. It focuses to a great extent on low-lying floodplains (e.g. th ...
... Moreover, the continent was the second hardest hit in terms of number of events, area affected, and number of people killed, after Asia. Most literature (and media attention) on floods stems from Asia as well as the industrialized world. It focuses to a great extent on low-lying floodplains (e.g. th ...
Annual report 2014
... Findus can now approach that sort of investment with more confidence and certainty after participating in the project A changing climate for business. A one-degree temperature rise Using a normal year as a starting point, without any extreme weather in the form of cloudbursts or heat waves, if the ...
... Findus can now approach that sort of investment with more confidence and certainty after participating in the project A changing climate for business. A one-degree temperature rise Using a normal year as a starting point, without any extreme weather in the form of cloudbursts or heat waves, if the ...
Committee on Climate Change: Review of the fourth carbon budget
... The assumption on 2020 emissions underpinning the budget is consistent with the EU‟s current target to reduce emissions in 2020 by 20% on 1990 levels. If a 30% target were to be agreed, which is the UK Government‟s objective, tightening of the budget might be justified. We set out more detail on thi ...
... The assumption on 2020 emissions underpinning the budget is consistent with the EU‟s current target to reduce emissions in 2020 by 20% on 1990 levels. If a 30% target were to be agreed, which is the UK Government‟s objective, tightening of the budget might be justified. We set out more detail on thi ...
Agricultural technologies for climate change in developing
... farmers who are still net food buyers. The political tensions and urban pressures associated with these vulnerabilities and attendant economic transformations could be particularly problematic. Agricultural technologies for mitigation and adaptation The core challenge of climate change adaptation an ...
... farmers who are still net food buyers. The political tensions and urban pressures associated with these vulnerabilities and attendant economic transformations could be particularly problematic. Agricultural technologies for mitigation and adaptation The core challenge of climate change adaptation an ...
Polar amplification as a preferred response in an idealized
... be shown to be at the heart of the findings in the present study. The importance of increased latent heat transport relative to that of the SAF for high-latitude warming was noted already by Manabe and Wetherald (1980). This study also showed that the climatic response to CO2 and solar constant chan ...
... be shown to be at the heart of the findings in the present study. The importance of increased latent heat transport relative to that of the SAF for high-latitude warming was noted already by Manabe and Wetherald (1980). This study also showed that the climatic response to CO2 and solar constant chan ...
James Hurrell*1, Gerald A. Meehl1, David Bader2
... The coarse resolution limits the accurate simulation of atmospheric (e.g., the MaddenJulian Oscillation (MJO) and synoptic weather systems) and oceanic (e.g., tropical instability waves) dynamics and, thus, their interactions with climate. A way forward is to better resolve the weather-climate link ...
... The coarse resolution limits the accurate simulation of atmospheric (e.g., the MaddenJulian Oscillation (MJO) and synoptic weather systems) and oceanic (e.g., tropical instability waves) dynamics and, thus, their interactions with climate. A way forward is to better resolve the weather-climate link ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... continuing climate change, at current rates, will pose increasingly severe challenges to development. By century’s end, it could lead to warming of 5°C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today, with more extreme weather events, most ecosystems stressed and ...
... continuing climate change, at current rates, will pose increasingly severe challenges to development. By century’s end, it could lead to warming of 5°C or more compared with preindustrial times and to a vastly different world from today, with more extreme weather events, most ecosystems stressed and ...
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Nunavut Setting the
... global greenhouse gas emissions is extremely small, the Government of Nunavut remains engaged and involved in mitigation efforts. The current and projected impacts of climate change are likely to be significant to the environment, economy and daily lives of Nunavummiut. Therefore, we have an importa ...
... global greenhouse gas emissions is extremely small, the Government of Nunavut remains engaged and involved in mitigation efforts. The current and projected impacts of climate change are likely to be significant to the environment, economy and daily lives of Nunavummiut. Therefore, we have an importa ...
Cold surge activity over the Gulf of Mexico in a warmer climate
... A1B greenhouse gas emissions scenario for the end of the twentyfirst century. Their TL959L60-AGC present climate experiment was conducted with observed climatological SSTs averaged from 1982 to 1993 and for the future climate experiment, the simulation was done using SSTs, projected with the MRI-CGC ...
... A1B greenhouse gas emissions scenario for the end of the twentyfirst century. Their TL959L60-AGC present climate experiment was conducted with observed climatological SSTs averaged from 1982 to 1993 and for the future climate experiment, the simulation was done using SSTs, projected with the MRI-CGC ...
Download interview of David Wood by Zan Boag for the New Philosopher magazine PDF, 286.83 KB
... David C. Wood: The idea of progress through enlightenment may not be as new as we think. The legions that brought straight roads and the Pax Romana to half the world did not just think they were extending Rome’s tax base. Barbarians needed civilising. And yet this colonial reference sheds light on o ...
... David C. Wood: The idea of progress through enlightenment may not be as new as we think. The legions that brought straight roads and the Pax Romana to half the world did not just think they were extending Rome’s tax base. Barbarians needed civilising. And yet this colonial reference sheds light on o ...
compilation of experiences in the field of climate change
... Pastoralism can have both positive and negative impacts on biodiversity, but globally there are a growing number of initiatives which apply incentives to either promote the most environmentally healthy practices of pastoralism or to reduce disincentives that promote harmful management practices. In ...
... Pastoralism can have both positive and negative impacts on biodiversity, but globally there are a growing number of initiatives which apply incentives to either promote the most environmentally healthy practices of pastoralism or to reduce disincentives that promote harmful management practices. In ...
published
... where fire puts populations at risk (Moritz et al., 2014). However, research on climate change and wildfire risk also indicates that ‘the broad-scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over ...
... where fire puts populations at risk (Moritz et al., 2014). However, research on climate change and wildfire risk also indicates that ‘the broad-scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over ...
Projection of Effects of Climate Change on Rice Yield and Keys to
... General crop development models, including SIMRIW, are originally developed for the field-scale study, and the model parameters are cultivar-specific or region-specific. It is not realistic to apply all the parameters from each field-scale process to large-scale evaluation in Japan, since much infor ...
... General crop development models, including SIMRIW, are originally developed for the field-scale study, and the model parameters are cultivar-specific or region-specific. It is not realistic to apply all the parameters from each field-scale process to large-scale evaluation in Japan, since much infor ...
Detection
... change, while a range encompassing zero implies that this model-simulated signal is not detectable (Allen and Stott, 2000; Stott et al., 2000a). Signals are defined as the ensemble mean response to external forcing expressed in largescale (>5000 km) near-surface temperatures over the 1946 to 1996 pe ...
... change, while a range encompassing zero implies that this model-simulated signal is not detectable (Allen and Stott, 2000; Stott et al., 2000a). Signals are defined as the ensemble mean response to external forcing expressed in largescale (>5000 km) near-surface temperatures over the 1946 to 1996 pe ...