Bronze Age Review - ePrints Soton
... least either changes in precipitation or evapotranspiration could cause a bog water table to vary over the period of moisture deficit – the summer. Under present climatic conditions in the UK bog water tables during the summer are probably most sensitive to precipitation (Charman, 2007). However, it ...
... least either changes in precipitation or evapotranspiration could cause a bog water table to vary over the period of moisture deficit – the summer. Under present climatic conditions in the UK bog water tables during the summer are probably most sensitive to precipitation (Charman, 2007). However, it ...
Corporate Social Responsibility, Negative Externalities
... These studies all share a common focus on the effects of firm-specific negative events. However, when considering ecological and social issues, there are not always discrete negative events that can be attributed to individual companies. Instead, many environmental and social issues develop over tim ...
... These studies all share a common focus on the effects of firm-specific negative events. However, when considering ecological and social issues, there are not always discrete negative events that can be attributed to individual companies. Instead, many environmental and social issues develop over tim ...
The Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean
... The following symbols have been used in this study: A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals n.a. is used to indicated that data are not available The use of a hyphen (-) between years, for example, 2010-2019, signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning a ...
... The following symbols have been used in this study: A full stop (.) is used to indicate decimals n.a. is used to indicated that data are not available The use of a hyphen (-) between years, for example, 2010-2019, signifies an annual average for the calendar years involved, including the beginning a ...
Climate Change Scenarios for New Zealand Rainfall
... what is available. Support for the basic assumption has been given above, but counterarguments can be advanced. A primary one is that, despite the basic physics being invariant, the potential exists for climate processes to change so that, for example, changes in circulation patterns could increase ...
... what is available. Support for the basic assumption has been given above, but counterarguments can be advanced. A primary one is that, despite the basic physics being invariant, the potential exists for climate processes to change so that, for example, changes in circulation patterns could increase ...
Using the UKCP09 probabilistic scenarios to model the amplified
... step of the uncertainty cascade to try to quantify the uncertainty in the impact response. However, this approach has yet to be fully endorsed by geomorphic modellers, possibly due to their long model run times and the added complexity of sediment transport. As a result, to date there are few, if an ...
... step of the uncertainty cascade to try to quantify the uncertainty in the impact response. However, this approach has yet to be fully endorsed by geomorphic modellers, possibly due to their long model run times and the added complexity of sediment transport. As a result, to date there are few, if an ...
Resolving a Paradox: Can Regionalism Help to Promote A Global
... system was institutionalized in 1994 when the Marrakech Agreement established the World Trade Organization (WTO). Environmental issues requiring global cooperation, such as climate change, are primarily addressed within multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). Over the past 20 years more than 2 ...
... system was institutionalized in 1994 when the Marrakech Agreement established the World Trade Organization (WTO). Environmental issues requiring global cooperation, such as climate change, are primarily addressed within multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). Over the past 20 years more than 2 ...
November-December
... will not notice the rising temperature until it is too late. Is this a metaphor for the difficulty of reacting to an impending disaster that creeps up slowly until our species is overcome? If you have paid even a bit of attention to the U.S. Senate this year, you will realize that we can become the ...
... will not notice the rising temperature until it is too late. Is this a metaphor for the difficulty of reacting to an impending disaster that creeps up slowly until our species is overcome? If you have paid even a bit of attention to the U.S. Senate this year, you will realize that we can become the ...
The psychology of climate change communication - UvA-DARE
... Many people can recite at least a few things they could do to help mitigate global climate change, but are not. Why not? Somehow, and despite a lot of media attention following the release of An Inconvenient Truth, messages about climate change and what people need to do to help prevent it seem to h ...
... Many people can recite at least a few things they could do to help mitigate global climate change, but are not. Why not? Somehow, and despite a lot of media attention following the release of An Inconvenient Truth, messages about climate change and what people need to do to help prevent it seem to h ...
The business aviation community has long been committed to
... Business aviation is a vital tool for businesses and economic development and is an integral part of the international transportation system. It facilitates commerce and investment, connects people and communities around the globe, helps relieve famine, and delivers vital relief to those in need or ...
... Business aviation is a vital tool for businesses and economic development and is an integral part of the international transportation system. It facilitates commerce and investment, connects people and communities around the globe, helps relieve famine, and delivers vital relief to those in need or ...
Climate Change Strategy 2009-2014
... opportunity to participate in this emerging area and to be an attractive location for business and innovative industry to prosper. This strategy considers how such opportunities may be realised and identifies potential areas for Council and community involvement, particularly in the generation of re ...
... opportunity to participate in this emerging area and to be an attractive location for business and innovative industry to prosper. This strategy considers how such opportunities may be realised and identifies potential areas for Council and community involvement, particularly in the generation of re ...
The Paris Climate Agreement Is a Treaty Requiring Senate Review
... Although nations’ INDCs and climate-finance goals are technically non-binding, those voluntary commitments become solemn promises once a nation deposits its “instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession” for the Paris Agreement.17 Promise keeping is a time-honored attribute of our ...
... Although nations’ INDCs and climate-finance goals are technically non-binding, those voluntary commitments become solemn promises once a nation deposits its “instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession” for the Paris Agreement.17 Promise keeping is a time-honored attribute of our ...
Four Case Studies in the United States
... activities are exacerbated by climate change, itself mostly a human-induced phenomenon. Fortunately, manmade problems are amenable to manmade solutions. Climate change cannot be stopped entirely, but it can be limited significantly through national and international action to reduce the amount of gr ...
... activities are exacerbated by climate change, itself mostly a human-induced phenomenon. Fortunately, manmade problems are amenable to manmade solutions. Climate change cannot be stopped entirely, but it can be limited significantly through national and international action to reduce the amount of gr ...
Human Factors Explain the Increased Losses from Weather and
... FIG. 1. Annual losses (in 1997 dollars) to insured property in the United States the weather events causing losses from weather extremes during 1949–97 (Changnon et al. 1997). > $1 billion have not been increasing in frequency over time and these 22 ing climate (Lecomte 1993; Flavin 1994; American v ...
... FIG. 1. Annual losses (in 1997 dollars) to insured property in the United States the weather events causing losses from weather extremes during 1949–97 (Changnon et al. 1997). > $1 billion have not been increasing in frequency over time and these 22 ing climate (Lecomte 1993; Flavin 1994; American v ...
FAQ 4.2 | Are Glaciers in Mountain Regions Disappearing?
... Over periods longer than about 50 years, the response is more coherent and less dependent on local environmental details, which means that long-term trends in glacier development can be well modelled. Such models are built on an understanding of basic physical principles. For example, an increase in ...
... Over periods longer than about 50 years, the response is more coherent and less dependent on local environmental details, which means that long-term trends in glacier development can be well modelled. Such models are built on an understanding of basic physical principles. For example, an increase in ...
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... The forestry model is built upon the model described in Sohngen et al., 1999, and used by Sohngen and Mendelsohn, 2003, to analyze global sequestration potential. The model used in this analysis contains an expanded set of timber types, as described in Sohngen and Mendelsohn, 2006). There are 146 di ...
... The forestry model is built upon the model described in Sohngen et al., 1999, and used by Sohngen and Mendelsohn, 2003, to analyze global sequestration potential. The model used in this analysis contains an expanded set of timber types, as described in Sohngen and Mendelsohn, 2006). There are 146 di ...
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... the catastrophic outcome by using the estimates from expert elicitation studies of the likelihood of large-impact, low-probability events (Lenton et al., 2008; Kriegler et al., 2009). Using this framework, we analyse how the risk of a catastrophe shapes the combination between adaptation and mitigat ...
... the catastrophic outcome by using the estimates from expert elicitation studies of the likelihood of large-impact, low-probability events (Lenton et al., 2008; Kriegler et al., 2009). Using this framework, we analyse how the risk of a catastrophe shapes the combination between adaptation and mitigat ...
Language Work (para. 1)
... astonishing variety of landscapes and climates. Since life began, around 4,000 million years ago, it has gone through extraordinary changes in its climate and in the species that live on it. But now it seems that our planet is being transformed — not by natural events, but by the actions of one spec ...
... astonishing variety of landscapes and climates. Since life began, around 4,000 million years ago, it has gone through extraordinary changes in its climate and in the species that live on it. But now it seems that our planet is being transformed — not by natural events, but by the actions of one spec ...
Preserving the Ocean Circulation: Implications for Climate Policy
... some starting point to to an appropriate time horizon t . It is important to note that discounting in this objective function applies to utility, not money values, and serves the function of specifying a value judgment about the distribution of utility across generations. A positive pure rate of so ...
... some starting point to to an appropriate time horizon t . It is important to note that discounting in this objective function applies to utility, not money values, and serves the function of specifying a value judgment about the distribution of utility across generations. A positive pure rate of so ...
West Coast Sea Level Rise Implications for Infrastructure
... This is a graph of sea level rise in San Francisco Bay. The most important thing to note about this graph is that it is not a prediction. This is history. Rising Tides ...
... This is a graph of sea level rise in San Francisco Bay. The most important thing to note about this graph is that it is not a prediction. This is history. Rising Tides ...
Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA’s Endangerment Finding from Greenhouse Gases
... climate change (whether caused by greenhouse gas changes or not). In fact, it is the nature of our species to adapt to climate with clothing, shelter, and social structures. Because it is also natural for climate to change, we also adapt to change at the same time. As will be demonstrated below, som ...
... climate change (whether caused by greenhouse gas changes or not). In fact, it is the nature of our species to adapt to climate with clothing, shelter, and social structures. Because it is also natural for climate to change, we also adapt to change at the same time. As will be demonstrated below, som ...
Planning for Climate Change in the West
... can guide local actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. These state plans contain myriad policy options that not only quan- tify potential GHG emissions reductions, but also provide specific cost-effectiveness measures and policy language. Because the cost-effectiveness of these policy o ...
... can guide local actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. These state plans contain myriad policy options that not only quan- tify potential GHG emissions reductions, but also provide specific cost-effectiveness measures and policy language. Because the cost-effectiveness of these policy o ...
Written submissions received for the Adapting to Climate Change in
... There is concern about projected increases in climate-related natural disasters in Tasmania. Stakeholders indicated that the broader community is not clear who is responsible for natural disaster risk management and what can be done by various parties to minimise the associated risks. It was suggest ...
... There is concern about projected increases in climate-related natural disasters in Tasmania. Stakeholders indicated that the broader community is not clear who is responsible for natural disaster risk management and what can be done by various parties to minimise the associated risks. It was suggest ...
Scientific Shortcomings in the EPA`s Endangerment
... climate change (whether caused by greenhouse gas changes or not). In fact, it is the nature of our species to adapt to climate with clothing, shelter, and social structures. Because it is also natural for climate to change, we also adapt to change at the same time. As will be demonstrated below, som ...
... climate change (whether caused by greenhouse gas changes or not). In fact, it is the nature of our species to adapt to climate with clothing, shelter, and social structures. Because it is also natural for climate to change, we also adapt to change at the same time. As will be demonstrated below, som ...
Planning for Climate Change
... responsibilities to local authority and community levels in England. This guide is designed to respond to the localism agenda and is aimed primarily at local authorities, private sector practitioners, Local Enterprise Partnerships and Local Nature Partnerships who want both to tackle climate change ...
... responsibilities to local authority and community levels in England. This guide is designed to respond to the localism agenda and is aimed primarily at local authorities, private sector practitioners, Local Enterprise Partnerships and Local Nature Partnerships who want both to tackle climate change ...