Experiment Earth?
... change. The dialogue was supported by the NERC, the Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre (supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), the Royal Society, and the multi-agency Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. The aim was to identify and understand public views on ...
... change. The dialogue was supported by the NERC, the Sciencewise Expert Resource Centre (supported by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills), the Royal Society, and the multi-agency Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. The aim was to identify and understand public views on ...
Comparing Conceptualizations of Urban Climate Resilience in
... urban climate resilience, most notably in their focus on either “bouncing back” or “bouncing forward” after a disturbance. Practitioners have diverse understandings of the concept, but tend to favor potentially problematic “bouncing back” or engineering-based definitions of resilience. While local g ...
... urban climate resilience, most notably in their focus on either “bouncing back” or “bouncing forward” after a disturbance. Practitioners have diverse understandings of the concept, but tend to favor potentially problematic “bouncing back” or engineering-based definitions of resilience. While local g ...
Watershed Modeling to Assess the Sensitivity of Streamflow
... Watershed simulations were conducted using the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Hydrologic Simulation Program―FORTRAN (HSPF) models. Scenarios of future climate change were developed based on statistically and dynamically downscaled climate model simulations representative of the period 2041−20 ...
... Watershed simulations were conducted using the Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Hydrologic Simulation Program―FORTRAN (HSPF) models. Scenarios of future climate change were developed based on statistically and dynamically downscaled climate model simulations representative of the period 2041−20 ...
Regional Climate Projections
... available simulations. Advances have been made in developing probabilistic information at regional scales from the AOGCM simulations, but these methods remain in the exploratory phase. There has been less development extending this to downscaled regional information. However, downscaling methods hav ...
... available simulations. Advances have been made in developing probabilistic information at regional scales from the AOGCM simulations, but these methods remain in the exploratory phase. There has been less development extending this to downscaled regional information. However, downscaling methods hav ...
gReat plaiNs RegioNal teChNiCal iNput RepoRt
... sustainable and environmentally sound plans for the nation’s future. In fall of 2011, the NCA requested technical input from a broad range of experts in academia, private industry, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, professional societies, and impacted communities, with the ...
... sustainable and environmentally sound plans for the nation’s future. In fall of 2011, the NCA requested technical input from a broad range of experts in academia, private industry, state and local governments, non-governmental organizations, professional societies, and impacted communities, with the ...
Diagnosing Present and Future Permafrost from Climate Models
... year for which diagnostics are presented (e.g., the year 2000 uses data averaged over 1981–2000). As these models provide equilibrium solutions, the disappearance of permafrost based on their metrics does not necessarily mean that deep permafrost will have completely degraded from that area at the t ...
... year for which diagnostics are presented (e.g., the year 2000 uses data averaged over 1981–2000). As these models provide equilibrium solutions, the disappearance of permafrost based on their metrics does not necessarily mean that deep permafrost will have completely degraded from that area at the t ...
Country Newsletter: Rwanda November 2016
... Truly transformative change occurs through addressing power imbalances at societal and institutional levels. This requires the actions of many to effect change at multiple levels. For this reason, our approach to development will continue to centre around communities and our local partner organisati ...
... Truly transformative change occurs through addressing power imbalances at societal and institutional levels. This requires the actions of many to effect change at multiple levels. For this reason, our approach to development will continue to centre around communities and our local partner organisati ...
Curriculum Vitae - CHG - University of California, Santa Barbara
... Duties: Developed geo-spatial rainfall modeling techniques, analyzed African climate variability & drought for FEWS NET, taught Tropical Meteorology, Physical Climatology, Geographic ...
... Duties: Developed geo-spatial rainfall modeling techniques, analyzed African climate variability & drought for FEWS NET, taught Tropical Meteorology, Physical Climatology, Geographic ...
Pennsylvania Climate Impact Assessment Report to
... This report presents an assessment of the impacts of projected global climate change for Pennsylvania. This assessment was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) which, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act, Act 70 of 2008, is required to develop a repor ...
... This report presents an assessment of the impacts of projected global climate change for Pennsylvania. This assessment was sponsored by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) which, pursuant to the Pennsylvania Climate Change Act, Act 70 of 2008, is required to develop a repor ...
Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern
... red and blue contours, alongside light pink and blue shading beneath, denote negative and positive trends, respectively), sea surface temperature (SST, purple–red shading), and 10-m winds (vectors). Only SST trends equatorward of the climatological September sea-ice extent (SIE, black contour) are s ...
... red and blue contours, alongside light pink and blue shading beneath, denote negative and positive trends, respectively), sea surface temperature (SST, purple–red shading), and 10-m winds (vectors). Only SST trends equatorward of the climatological September sea-ice extent (SIE, black contour) are s ...
Abrupt climate change as an important agent of ecological change... Northeast U.S. throughout the past 15,000 years
... spectra separated by 500-yr intervals are used to detect rapid change events in the regional vegetation history. To do so, we first linearly interpolate the pollen data to 250-yr intervals, and then calculate SCDs between every pair of interpolated pollen spectra separated by 500 years in each record ...
... spectra separated by 500-yr intervals are used to detect rapid change events in the regional vegetation history. To do so, we first linearly interpolate the pollen data to 250-yr intervals, and then calculate SCDs between every pair of interpolated pollen spectra separated by 500 years in each record ...
Zero poverty, zero emissions - Overseas Development Institute
... The eradication of extreme poverty is the minimum ethical floor of the global development agenda. With projections suggesting eradication is possible by 2030, the goal of ‘zero extreme poverty1 by 2030’ is a compelling objective. It has become a central target underpinning the Sustainable Developmen ...
... The eradication of extreme poverty is the minimum ethical floor of the global development agenda. With projections suggesting eradication is possible by 2030, the goal of ‘zero extreme poverty1 by 2030’ is a compelling objective. It has become a central target underpinning the Sustainable Developmen ...
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... carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in ways that will affect the productivity of crop and livestock systems (Hatfield et al., 2008). For livestock, climate change could affect the costs and returns of production by altering (1) the price and availability of feed crops, (2) the location and produ ...
... carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in ways that will affect the productivity of crop and livestock systems (Hatfield et al., 2008). For livestock, climate change could affect the costs and returns of production by altering (1) the price and availability of feed crops, (2) the location and produ ...
A Climate Risk Management Approach to Disaster
... 3.0 Risk and Disaster: the Basic Causes. ............................................................................................................................ 13 4.0 Global Change, Complexity and Uncertainty ..................................................................................... ...
... 3.0 Risk and Disaster: the Basic Causes. ............................................................................................................................ 13 4.0 Global Change, Complexity and Uncertainty ..................................................................................... ...
Terminal Evaluation - Evaluation Resource Center
... The aim of the present joint terminal evaluation is to describe and assess the impact of the implementation of all the environmental, socio-economic and institutional components of the ACCC project, as applied at local, national and regional levels. The joint evaluation was carried out on behalf of ...
... The aim of the present joint terminal evaluation is to describe and assess the impact of the implementation of all the environmental, socio-economic and institutional components of the ACCC project, as applied at local, national and regional levels. The joint evaluation was carried out on behalf of ...
Weather and Climate Extremes in a Changing Climate. Regions of
... Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. This is part of a series of 21 SAPs produced by the CCSP aimed at providing current assessments of climate change science to inform public debate, policy, and operational decisions. These reports are also intended to help the CCSP develop future program research ...
... Caribbean, and U.S. Pacific Islands. This is part of a series of 21 SAPs produced by the CCSP aimed at providing current assessments of climate change science to inform public debate, policy, and operational decisions. These reports are also intended to help the CCSP develop future program research ...
Water: The Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and
... providing a national perspective that summarizes and integrates the findings emerging from the regional and sectoral studies and that then draws conclusions about the importance of the consequences of climate change and variability for the United States. The draft synthesis report was released for p ...
... providing a national perspective that summarizes and integrates the findings emerging from the regional and sectoral studies and that then draws conclusions about the importance of the consequences of climate change and variability for the United States. The draft synthesis report was released for p ...
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... Africa’s population has just passed 1 billion and is due to double by 2050. FAO has estimated that subSaharan Africa is the region with the highest proportion of undernourished people on the continent (30 percent in 2010), compared with a 16 percent average for developing countries (FAO 2011a). FAO ...
... Africa’s population has just passed 1 billion and is due to double by 2050. FAO has estimated that subSaharan Africa is the region with the highest proportion of undernourished people on the continent (30 percent in 2010), compared with a 16 percent average for developing countries (FAO 2011a). FAO ...
Final Consultants Report
... suggests that the East Asia and Pacific Region would have the highest cost of adaptation in both wetter and drier scenarios (World Bank, 2009). Adaptation for agriculture and coastal zones will cost US$5 billion per year by 2020 for Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Viet Nam (Lohani, 2009). The r ...
... suggests that the East Asia and Pacific Region would have the highest cost of adaptation in both wetter and drier scenarios (World Bank, 2009). Adaptation for agriculture and coastal zones will cost US$5 billion per year by 2020 for Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Viet Nam (Lohani, 2009). The r ...
National Integrated Mitigation Planning in Agriculture: A review paper
... Agricultural mitigation is an objective in many developing countries: The report reviews 32 lowemission development plans in developing countries. Twenty-one of these consider GHG mitigation in the agriculture sector. Of the 55 countries that have submitted NAMA statements to the UNFCCC, 21 propose ...
... Agricultural mitigation is an objective in many developing countries: The report reviews 32 lowemission development plans in developing countries. Twenty-one of these consider GHG mitigation in the agriculture sector. Of the 55 countries that have submitted NAMA statements to the UNFCCC, 21 propose ...
Risky business: Engaging the public on sea level rise
... In adaptation planning, communication among decisionmakers, technical experts, stakeholders and the public about impacts and solutions can influence efforts at all levels; moreover, unsuccessful communication can become a barrier to policy adoption (Hurlimann et al., 2014; Moser and Ekstrom, 2010). C ...
... In adaptation planning, communication among decisionmakers, technical experts, stakeholders and the public about impacts and solutions can influence efforts at all levels; moreover, unsuccessful communication can become a barrier to policy adoption (Hurlimann et al., 2014; Moser and Ekstrom, 2010). C ...
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... will be in substituting mitigation to control global warming. While mitigation of climate change can be implemented already now, as noted above the limited evidence on the risks and impact of GE are such that considerate amount of time will be needed to establish the scientific background in order t ...
... will be in substituting mitigation to control global warming. While mitigation of climate change can be implemented already now, as noted above the limited evidence on the risks and impact of GE are such that considerate amount of time will be needed to establish the scientific background in order t ...
THE SCHMIDT FAMILY FOUNDATION
... For the 2008 summer season, the vacant lot at 12 Washington Street was made available to the Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority (NRTA) for use as a bus stop. NRTA and the Town’s Planning Department have envisioned a transportation facility in this location that would eventually accommodate ...
... For the 2008 summer season, the vacant lot at 12 Washington Street was made available to the Nantucket Regional Transportation Authority (NRTA) for use as a bus stop. NRTA and the Town’s Planning Department have envisioned a transportation facility in this location that would eventually accommodate ...
Climate change guidelines for forest managers
... The strong relationship between forests and climate implies that a dramatic change in one will influence the other. This feedback could be negative in some situations and positive in others. Sustainable forest management can help reduce the negative effects of climate change on forests and forest-de ...
... The strong relationship between forests and climate implies that a dramatic change in one will influence the other. This feedback could be negative in some situations and positive in others. Sustainable forest management can help reduce the negative effects of climate change on forests and forest-de ...
REPORT ON ACTIONS UNDERTAKEN IN RESPONSE AND
... c) Create transparent and clear criteria for reviewing PIFs, PPGs and other project documents including putting review sheets, or some version thereof, into the public domain, so that these are used only for issues that are crucial for the early preparatory phase – those issues relevant for the ela ...
... c) Create transparent and clear criteria for reviewing PIFs, PPGs and other project documents including putting review sheets, or some version thereof, into the public domain, so that these are used only for issues that are crucial for the early preparatory phase – those issues relevant for the ela ...