Regional: Glacial Melt and Downstream Impacts on Indus
... and water stress, sea-level rise, floods and droughts, and tropical cyclones would diminish food security in many countries. Runoff and water availability may decrease in arid and semi-arid areas, threatening human health by possible increased exposure to vector-borne infectious diseases and heat st ...
... and water stress, sea-level rise, floods and droughts, and tropical cyclones would diminish food security in many countries. Runoff and water availability may decrease in arid and semi-arid areas, threatening human health by possible increased exposure to vector-borne infectious diseases and heat st ...
Dissipating the fuzziness around interdisciplinarity: The
... Late last century saw an increasing realisation of significant environmental changes on a global scale, characterised by high levels of dynamism and complexity, and important stakes. Perhaps foremost among these global changes is the issue of climate change, which will form the context of this paper. ...
... Late last century saw an increasing realisation of significant environmental changes on a global scale, characterised by high levels of dynamism and complexity, and important stakes. Perhaps foremost among these global changes is the issue of climate change, which will form the context of this paper. ...
Gauteng Climate Change Risk and vulnerability assessment
... climate change. Impacts generally refer to effects on lives, livelihoods, health, ecosystems, economies, societies, cultures, services, and infrastructure due to the interaction of climate changes or hazardous climate events occurring within a specific time period and the vulnerability of an exposed ...
... climate change. Impacts generally refer to effects on lives, livelihoods, health, ecosystems, economies, societies, cultures, services, and infrastructure due to the interaction of climate changes or hazardous climate events occurring within a specific time period and the vulnerability of an exposed ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... perceive physical climate impacts as a unique problem in need of a tailored solution, or as a business-as-usual problem for which existing practices suffice (Winn et al., 2011). This article examines the adaptation process and how firms select between alternative stimuli and decide how much effort t ...
... perceive physical climate impacts as a unique problem in need of a tailored solution, or as a business-as-usual problem for which existing practices suffice (Winn et al., 2011). This article examines the adaptation process and how firms select between alternative stimuli and decide how much effort t ...
Bony et al., 2006
... climate sensitivity estimates among models thus primarily results from the spread of cloud feedbacks, but also with a substantial contribution of the combined water vapor–lapse rate and surface albedo feedbacks. This spread in climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity is not a new issue. It is a lon ...
... climate sensitivity estimates among models thus primarily results from the spread of cloud feedbacks, but also with a substantial contribution of the combined water vapor–lapse rate and surface albedo feedbacks. This spread in climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity is not a new issue. It is a lon ...
Future changes in Mekong River hydrology
... used the same GCM (ECHAM 4), and projected that climate change will lead to more variable conditions and slightly increased annual runoff. Simulations carried out by Aerts et al. (2006) and Ward et al. (2007) suggest that anthropogenic climate change in the coming century may have as large an impact ...
... used the same GCM (ECHAM 4), and projected that climate change will lead to more variable conditions and slightly increased annual runoff. Simulations carried out by Aerts et al. (2006) and Ward et al. (2007) suggest that anthropogenic climate change in the coming century may have as large an impact ...
How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback
... climate sensitivity estimates among models thus primarily results from the spread of cloud feedbacks, but also with a substantial contribution of the combined water vapor–lapse rate and surface albedo feedbacks. This spread in climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity is not a new issue. It is a lon ...
... climate sensitivity estimates among models thus primarily results from the spread of cloud feedbacks, but also with a substantial contribution of the combined water vapor–lapse rate and surface albedo feedbacks. This spread in climate feedbacks and climate sensitivity is not a new issue. It is a lon ...
Climate Change Impacts and Risk Management
... emergency services and hospitals while more intense storms and rising sea levels may increase the vulnerability of coastal housing and infrastructure. ...
... emergency services and hospitals while more intense storms and rising sea levels may increase the vulnerability of coastal housing and infrastructure. ...
... Context of Forest Service Interest The Forest Service contributes to LSC as one of many interests in the intricate web of conservation. The Forest Service is itself an internal community of interests and service. By creation of the Forest Service, more than a century ago, the Mission Areas of the ag ...
An Action Theory of Adaptation to Climate Change - diss.fu
... on this distinction. There is also a difference between meteorological effects as temperature and precipitation patterns on the one hand, and more or less indirect effects as sea level rise or a changed frequency of river floods (we further discuss this issue below). A stimulus is only relevant for ...
... on this distinction. There is also a difference between meteorological effects as temperature and precipitation patterns on the one hand, and more or less indirect effects as sea level rise or a changed frequency of river floods (we further discuss this issue below). A stimulus is only relevant for ...
Global Change Impacts on Australian Rangelands
... by 12% and substantially increase variability of stocking rates compared with the present thus having strongly negative impacts on farm income. These assessments do not explicitly take into account increased frequency of El Niño events - an increasing concern. It is important to also note that the l ...
... by 12% and substantially increase variability of stocking rates compared with the present thus having strongly negative impacts on farm income. These assessments do not explicitly take into account increased frequency of El Niño events - an increasing concern. It is important to also note that the l ...
Sharing responsibility to divest from fossil fuels
... others will contribute their share toward the joint goal’ (313).7 Since all humans on earth cannot act jointly, they are not collectively responsible for reducing emissions. I agree with Schwenkenbecher, who reveals a shortcoming of the obvious and reasonable approach. While this approach works well ...
... others will contribute their share toward the joint goal’ (313).7 Since all humans on earth cannot act jointly, they are not collectively responsible for reducing emissions. I agree with Schwenkenbecher, who reveals a shortcoming of the obvious and reasonable approach. While this approach works well ...
Protecting People and the Environment by the Stroke of a
... Effectively addressing climate change involves not only mitigating its intensity by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also planning for adaptation to those climate change impacts that have now become inevitable—from rising storm surges and more frequent droughts to amplified air pollution and s ...
... Effectively addressing climate change involves not only mitigating its intensity by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but also planning for adaptation to those climate change impacts that have now become inevitable—from rising storm surges and more frequent droughts to amplified air pollution and s ...
Financing Climate Policies through Climate Bonds
... GHG emissions have run alongside output and population growth. According to the most recent IPCC report, average global temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees Celsius since 1880. IPCC (2015) suggests that the period 1983 2012 was likely the warmest 20 year period in the last 1400 years. The trajector ...
... GHG emissions have run alongside output and population growth. According to the most recent IPCC report, average global temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees Celsius since 1880. IPCC (2015) suggests that the period 1983 2012 was likely the warmest 20 year period in the last 1400 years. The trajector ...
Climate change and the slow reorientation of the American car
... implementation of this new policy often leads to struggles between administrative agencies and the industry, which is likely to resist and fight back. In phase 5, the problem affects mass consumer preferences (because of changing views on appropriate behaviour or because of public policies), which cr ...
... implementation of this new policy often leads to struggles between administrative agencies and the industry, which is likely to resist and fight back. In phase 5, the problem affects mass consumer preferences (because of changing views on appropriate behaviour or because of public policies), which cr ...
Climate Change and the Evolution of Property Rights
... rights encourage moral hazard, increasing the costs of adaptation to a warmer world, and may stand directly in the way of societal adaptation. In addition, the gains from adaptive change are likely to be diffuse, while the losses will be sharply concentrated. In many ways, as a selective pressure on ...
... rights encourage moral hazard, increasing the costs of adaptation to a warmer world, and may stand directly in the way of societal adaptation. In addition, the gains from adaptive change are likely to be diffuse, while the losses will be sharply concentrated. In many ways, as a selective pressure on ...
publishable final report - Klima
... energy demand and cooling peak loads. However, the changes which have to occur in order to reach climate mitigation targets are much more fundamental than the impact of climate change on the energy system. Thus, the Austrian energy system can cope with climate change at very moderate costs, if corre ...
... energy demand and cooling peak loads. However, the changes which have to occur in order to reach climate mitigation targets are much more fundamental than the impact of climate change on the energy system. Thus, the Austrian energy system can cope with climate change at very moderate costs, if corre ...
3/97 - Population Health Sciences
... Authored first resolution on Health and Climate Change that was passed by the American Public Health Association, 1995. Consultations Presidential Advisory Committee, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (in establishing Environmental Health Center), Nov. 20-21, 2005 National Center for Atmospheric Re ...
... Authored first resolution on Health and Climate Change that was passed by the American Public Health Association, 1995. Consultations Presidential Advisory Committee, Rensselaer Polytechnical Institute (in establishing Environmental Health Center), Nov. 20-21, 2005 National Center for Atmospheric Re ...
Hamilton Community Climate Change Action Plan
... Observed changes in Hamilton since the 1970s show that the average mean temperature has increased by 0.9°C, we are seeing warmer seasonal temperatures, and annual precipitation has increased by 26mm (a 3% increase in annual average precipitation). In recent years, we have already seen ...
... Observed changes in Hamilton since the 1970s show that the average mean temperature has increased by 0.9°C, we are seeing warmer seasonal temperatures, and annual precipitation has increased by 26mm (a 3% increase in annual average precipitation). In recent years, we have already seen ...
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... aspects. It might be the major concern to human being because warming will be directly related to food consumption and human health if it especially decreases agricultural production. It is not surprising that global warming has been receiving a lot of people’s attention. According to Oreskes (2004) ...
... aspects. It might be the major concern to human being because warming will be directly related to food consumption and human health if it especially decreases agricultural production. It is not surprising that global warming has been receiving a lot of people’s attention. According to Oreskes (2004) ...
Scenario Planning for Solar Radiation Management
... can be derived from these scenarios was beyond the scope of both the workshop and this report. Nonetheless, we consider the scenarios presented herein as an important set of possible futures against which proposals for an SRM governance system9 can be compared, in order to evaluate how effective suc ...
... can be derived from these scenarios was beyond the scope of both the workshop and this report. Nonetheless, we consider the scenarios presented herein as an important set of possible futures against which proposals for an SRM governance system9 can be compared, in order to evaluate how effective suc ...
The evolution of, and revolution in, land surface schemes designed
... whereby changes in clouds or precipitation feedback to modify the initial perturbation to albedo (Figure 2). Given the key role that H and λE play in the climate system, it is necessary to simulate the diurnal, seasonal and longer term variations in these fluxes as well as possible. This has become ...
... whereby changes in clouds or precipitation feedback to modify the initial perturbation to albedo (Figure 2). Given the key role that H and λE play in the climate system, it is necessary to simulate the diurnal, seasonal and longer term variations in these fluxes as well as possible. This has become ...