The social values at risk from sea
... those of a value-based approach to sea-level rise. Twenty years ago, SIA was facing similar challenges to those faced by researchers studying the social impacts of sea-level rise; social impacts were primarily determined through measurable and politically convenient indicators, such as population ch ...
... those of a value-based approach to sea-level rise. Twenty years ago, SIA was facing similar challenges to those faced by researchers studying the social impacts of sea-level rise; social impacts were primarily determined through measurable and politically convenient indicators, such as population ch ...
International Polar Year Canadian Science Report: Highlights
... our government’s Northern Strategy, which was announced by Prime Minister Harper in 2008, and has been a guiding set of principles for our government. A major national and international achievement has been our involvement in the IPY program, which has led to a commitment for construction of a state ...
... our government’s Northern Strategy, which was announced by Prime Minister Harper in 2008, and has been a guiding set of principles for our government. A major national and international achievement has been our involvement in the IPY program, which has led to a commitment for construction of a state ...
Using climate information for drought planning
... Planning is a task of basic problem-solving, and has been incorporated into many disciplines, including environmental issues related to land management, natural resources, water, and, more recently, drought (Bergman 2014). Water planners are used to dealing with uncertainty. The actual trajectory of ...
... Planning is a task of basic problem-solving, and has been incorporated into many disciplines, including environmental issues related to land management, natural resources, water, and, more recently, drought (Bergman 2014). Water planners are used to dealing with uncertainty. The actual trajectory of ...
Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change
... visualization of the relative vulnerability of different coastal parcels in the examined area. Index-based tools are particularly useful to make a first assessment of vulnerability of different coastal parcels to climate change, and support adaptation planning and regional integrated coastal zone ma ...
... visualization of the relative vulnerability of different coastal parcels in the examined area. Index-based tools are particularly useful to make a first assessment of vulnerability of different coastal parcels to climate change, and support adaptation planning and regional integrated coastal zone ma ...
Complete Text – Transcription of Methane Monster II
... Before we get into all of this today, let's just take a look at where we are here in summer of 2015, at least summer in the Northern Hemisphere and take a look at where we have been and were we are going. So first thing that we notice is 'It's hot outside.' In fact, if you look at the trend lines f ...
... Before we get into all of this today, let's just take a look at where we are here in summer of 2015, at least summer in the Northern Hemisphere and take a look at where we have been and were we are going. So first thing that we notice is 'It's hot outside.' In fact, if you look at the trend lines f ...
Expert Meeting on How to feed the world in 2050 . Critical evaluation of selected projections
... discuss price effects of biofuels and climate change in later sections). This would not be practical, even if we had complete access to all the model and data details, which we do not. However, of primary interest for the issue at hand (feeding the world in 2050) is what food and nutrition outcomes ...
... discuss price effects of biofuels and climate change in later sections). This would not be practical, even if we had complete access to all the model and data details, which we do not. However, of primary interest for the issue at hand (feeding the world in 2050) is what food and nutrition outcomes ...
Climate Impact on Groundwater Flow Processes in the Cedar Creek
... but still up to 50 g-C/(m2·year) [Mitsch et al., 2013; Turunen et al., 2002]. This is extremely important because as wetlands disappear we not only lose the ecologic diversity but also the sequestering ability wetlands have for carbon. On the other hand, northern peatlands only release 7.5 g-C/m2·ye ...
... but still up to 50 g-C/(m2·year) [Mitsch et al., 2013; Turunen et al., 2002]. This is extremely important because as wetlands disappear we not only lose the ecologic diversity but also the sequestering ability wetlands have for carbon. On the other hand, northern peatlands only release 7.5 g-C/m2·ye ...
Buying Time: a user`s manual for building resistance and
... hydrology, and habitat fragmentation, conservation practitioners must now address climate change. This manual aims to assist natural resource and protected area managers as they begin to consider how to respond to this growing threat. The need to respond couldn’t be clearer; effects of climate chang ...
... hydrology, and habitat fragmentation, conservation practitioners must now address climate change. This manual aims to assist natural resource and protected area managers as they begin to consider how to respond to this growing threat. The need to respond couldn’t be clearer; effects of climate chang ...
2006–2012 Climate Change Action Plan
... 1.1.1 Impacts of concern According to the best estimates of the Fourth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 published in 2007, average air temperature near the surface of Earth will increase from 1.8 to 4 degrees Celsius between now and 2100 across the planet. The warming ...
... 1.1.1 Impacts of concern According to the best estimates of the Fourth Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)1 published in 2007, average air temperature near the surface of Earth will increase from 1.8 to 4 degrees Celsius between now and 2100 across the planet. The warming ...
United Nations Development Assistance Framework
... At Marrakech Parties did not succeed to attain consent in relation to legal character of the mode of observance of obligations, in particular in relation to that, whether must be statutory normative approvals for non-fulfillment by the countries of the obligations. The decision-making this is carrie ...
... At Marrakech Parties did not succeed to attain consent in relation to legal character of the mode of observance of obligations, in particular in relation to that, whether must be statutory normative approvals for non-fulfillment by the countries of the obligations. The decision-making this is carrie ...
The social values at risk from sea-level rise
... defined as consequences that affect “the ways in which people live, work, play, relate to one another, organize to meet their needs and generally cope as members of society” (ICGPSIA, 1994); and 2) lists of social impact variables were developed, so that a wide range of impacts would be considered i ...
... defined as consequences that affect “the ways in which people live, work, play, relate to one another, organize to meet their needs and generally cope as members of society” (ICGPSIA, 1994); and 2) lists of social impact variables were developed, so that a wide range of impacts would be considered i ...
Prodoc on Territorial Approach to Climate Chnage in Delta State
... challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in order to reduce threats to natural resources. 2. Adaptation is a context-based activity, with ...
... challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in order to reduce threats to natural resources. 2. Adaptation is a context-based activity, with ...
synthesis of the aichi nagoya international E conference 2010
... What will be your message to the Heads of States meeting on biodiversity on 20 September 2010 in New York and to the delegates to COP 10? The message to Heads of State should be about biodiversity and its importance to humanity as well as the urgency of dealing with the current biodiversity crisis a ...
... What will be your message to the Heads of States meeting on biodiversity on 20 September 2010 in New York and to the delegates to COP 10? The message to Heads of State should be about biodiversity and its importance to humanity as well as the urgency of dealing with the current biodiversity crisis a ...
Project Document - Deliverable Description
... challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in order to reduce threats to natural resources. 2. Adaptation is a context-based activity, with ...
... challenge by adapting to its impacts (through adaptation) in order to reduce threats to its population. Additionally, adaptation as well as GHG emissions reduction (through GHG mitigation1) is essential in order to reduce threats to natural resources. 2. Adaptation is a context-based activity, with ...
Fourth Carbon Budget Review – part 1
... often beyond what was envisaged when the fourth carbon budget was set. The UN process working towards global agreement continues slowly but broadly as expected; the aim is that there is a new agreement by the end of 2015 to deliver deep emissions cuts compatible with limiting warming to 2°C. Given t ...
... often beyond what was envisaged when the fourth carbon budget was set. The UN process working towards global agreement continues slowly but broadly as expected; the aim is that there is a new agreement by the end of 2015 to deliver deep emissions cuts compatible with limiting warming to 2°C. Given t ...
On the Current and Future Dry Spell Characteristics over Africa
... According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability. Global Climate Models (GCMs) participating in IPCC’s fourth Assessment Report suggest warmer temperatures, in the range of 2–7 °C for Afri ...
... According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) [1], Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate change and climate variability. Global Climate Models (GCMs) participating in IPCC’s fourth Assessment Report suggest warmer temperatures, in the range of 2–7 °C for Afri ...
Sean B. Hecht - UCLA Law Review
... developing these institutions and practices. But climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to the insurance industry, because factors such as increasing uncertainty and the potential for highly correlated losses will make it difficult to insure against climate change-related risks and will str ...
... developing these institutions and practices. But climate change poses an unprecedented challenge to the insurance industry, because factors such as increasing uncertainty and the potential for highly correlated losses will make it difficult to insure against climate change-related risks and will str ...
Mammalian responses to climate change at the Paleocene
... Wasatchian land-mammal age of the Eocene in North America have long been known to differ faunally. The Thanetian and Tiffanian-Clarkforkian on both continents are dominated by archaic mammalian orders such as Multituberculata, plesiadapiform Proprimates, and Condylarthra, while the younger Ypresian ...
... Wasatchian land-mammal age of the Eocene in North America have long been known to differ faunally. The Thanetian and Tiffanian-Clarkforkian on both continents are dominated by archaic mammalian orders such as Multituberculata, plesiadapiform Proprimates, and Condylarthra, while the younger Ypresian ...
The impact of climate change on dairy production
... The ending of the EU milk quota system in April 2015 presents new opportunities for growth in the sector. These opportunities have been identified as key potential contributors to growth in the wider economy in the ROI Food Wise 2025 report (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine [DAFM], 201 ...
... The ending of the EU milk quota system in April 2015 presents new opportunities for growth in the sector. These opportunities have been identified as key potential contributors to growth in the wider economy in the ROI Food Wise 2025 report (Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine [DAFM], 201 ...
Projected impacts of climate change and ocean
... major physiological drivers of their biogeography – temperature, food and light – we investigate (i) the global redistribution of planktonic Foraminifera under anthropogenic climate change and (ii) the alteration of the carbonate chemistry of foraminiferal habitat with ocean acidification. The prese ...
... major physiological drivers of their biogeography – temperature, food and light – we investigate (i) the global redistribution of planktonic Foraminifera under anthropogenic climate change and (ii) the alteration of the carbonate chemistry of foraminiferal habitat with ocean acidification. The prese ...
The Climate-Environment-Society Nexus in the
... episodes, some of which appear to have been associated with transient changes in climate at the global or hemispheric scale. The most important such events were episodes of cooling in the North Atlantic, recurring on millennial timescales. Bond et al.25 identify a number of such Atlantic cooling eve ...
... episodes, some of which appear to have been associated with transient changes in climate at the global or hemispheric scale. The most important such events were episodes of cooling in the North Atlantic, recurring on millennial timescales. Bond et al.25 identify a number of such Atlantic cooling eve ...
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... Of primary interest for the issue at hand are the food and nutrition outcomes associated with the different prices and quantities projected. FAO, and Chapter 1 in this volume, estimate changes in the incidence of undernourishment based on per capita food consumption expressed in kcal/person/day (FAO ...
... Of primary interest for the issue at hand are the food and nutrition outcomes associated with the different prices and quantities projected. FAO, and Chapter 1 in this volume, estimate changes in the incidence of undernourishment based on per capita food consumption expressed in kcal/person/day (FAO ...