INFLUENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION ... LIVELIHOODS OF KURESOI DISTRICT COMMUNITY, NAKURU COUNTY KENYA
... This study addresses the influence of climate change mitigating strategies on rural livelihoods of Kuresoi District community, Nakuru County in Kenya. Climate change is a major challenge on livelihoods among communities living along Mau forest at Kuresoi district in Kenya. Most of the environment wa ...
... This study addresses the influence of climate change mitigating strategies on rural livelihoods of Kuresoi District community, Nakuru County in Kenya. Climate change is a major challenge on livelihoods among communities living along Mau forest at Kuresoi district in Kenya. Most of the environment wa ...
Assessing the impact of late Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions on
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
... the behavior of present-day megafauna in the African savanna (Owen-Smith, 1987). For example, today a large elephant in South Africa consumes 300 kg of vegetation daily (U. Schutte, personal communication, 2012). Therefore, the extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna could have allowed an additional ...
powerpoint presentation
... – Increased ice and snow cover increases albedo • (Positive coupling, denoted by arrow) – Increased albedo decreases temperature of atmos. • (negative coupling, denoted by circle) – Decreased temperature of atmos. Causes ice increase • (negative coupling, denoted by circle) – Two negatives cancel to ...
... – Increased ice and snow cover increases albedo • (Positive coupling, denoted by arrow) – Increased albedo decreases temperature of atmos. • (negative coupling, denoted by circle) – Decreased temperature of atmos. Causes ice increase • (negative coupling, denoted by circle) – Two negatives cancel to ...
Towards a typology for constrained climate model forecasts
... down by an arbitrary parameter representing uncertainty in the response magnitude. The goodness-of-fit between individual members of this pseudo-ensemble are then evaluated with some kind of weighted sum of squares, with the expected model-data differences due to internal climate variability, observa ...
... down by an arbitrary parameter representing uncertainty in the response magnitude. The goodness-of-fit between individual members of this pseudo-ensemble are then evaluated with some kind of weighted sum of squares, with the expected model-data differences due to internal climate variability, observa ...
Overview of linkages between gender and climate change – Africa
... reserves of natural resources. The region has been suffering from environmental and human rights abuses evident in the oil spills, gas flaring and the resulting destruction of natural resources as well as human rights abuses. Nigerian women mobilized themselves at the community level into social mov ...
... reserves of natural resources. The region has been suffering from environmental and human rights abuses evident in the oil spills, gas flaring and the resulting destruction of natural resources as well as human rights abuses. Nigerian women mobilized themselves at the community level into social mov ...
2015 Global Climate Legislation Study - summary for policymakers (English) (opens in new window)
... A transformation to a climate-neutral, clean energy economic model needs to occur soon. In those areas where it has begun, it is already delivering huge benefits in and between nations. Increasingly strong and co-ordinated domestic policies, laws and incentives encourage more ambitious climate actio ...
... A transformation to a climate-neutral, clean energy economic model needs to occur soon. In those areas where it has begun, it is already delivering huge benefits in and between nations. Increasingly strong and co-ordinated domestic policies, laws and incentives encourage more ambitious climate actio ...
The Future of Vascular Plant Diversity Under Four
... For the z-value, we used a compilation of 82 values from studies that surveyed species-area relationships in vascular plants. It has been shown that the z-value can vary with the type (Rosenzweig 1995) and scale (Crawley and Harral 2001) of sampling. Here, we analyzed the effect of the biome and of ...
... For the z-value, we used a compilation of 82 values from studies that surveyed species-area relationships in vascular plants. It has been shown that the z-value can vary with the type (Rosenzweig 1995) and scale (Crawley and Harral 2001) of sampling. Here, we analyzed the effect of the biome and of ...
Feeling the Heat - Development and Peace
... and collective action – we all need to work together. All eyes are now fixed on the 21st UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015 (COP21), at which all the nations of the world have committed to negotiating a binding universal agreement on climate change. This action must also be repli ...
... and collective action – we all need to work together. All eyes are now fixed on the 21st UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015 (COP21), at which all the nations of the world have committed to negotiating a binding universal agreement on climate change. This action must also be repli ...
Procedural Rights as a Crucial Tool to Combat Climate Change
... could be reached by 2016.2 Perhaps we can rescue ourselves from that planetary emergency if we come to see human-caused global climate change as violating fundamental human rights. Just a few years ago a well recognized symbol of climate change was the polar bear.' People concerned about global warm ...
... could be reached by 2016.2 Perhaps we can rescue ourselves from that planetary emergency if we come to see human-caused global climate change as violating fundamental human rights. Just a few years ago a well recognized symbol of climate change was the polar bear.' People concerned about global warm ...
Revisiting the urban - Durham Research Online
... held out the promise of being able to take into account the multiple sites and processes through which urban responses to climate change were configured and contested. We focused on two cases in the UK: urban planning in Newcastle and transport planning in Cambridgeshire. In both cases we found that ...
... held out the promise of being able to take into account the multiple sites and processes through which urban responses to climate change were configured and contested. We focused on two cases in the UK: urban planning in Newcastle and transport planning in Cambridgeshire. In both cases we found that ...
An Assessment of Sustainable Maize Production for Smallholder
... in South Africa as maize is a staple food. Smallholder maize production is often characterised by low yields, which are often significantly lower than the potential for the land. Sustainable maize production is not only a question of achieving reasonable yields, but of government policy on agricultu ...
... in South Africa as maize is a staple food. Smallholder maize production is often characterised by low yields, which are often significantly lower than the potential for the land. Sustainable maize production is not only a question of achieving reasonable yields, but of government policy on agricultu ...
intended nationally determined contribution of mongolia
... has multiplied since the rapid development of agriculture sector in 1980s; however, the crop yield per hectare fluctuated around 50 percent depending on weather conditions. Current year’s poor harvest shows that such situation is actual in nowadays as well. Moreover, climate change might have advers ...
... has multiplied since the rapid development of agriculture sector in 1980s; however, the crop yield per hectare fluctuated around 50 percent depending on weather conditions. Current year’s poor harvest shows that such situation is actual in nowadays as well. Moreover, climate change might have advers ...
Climate change and global water resources
... experiencing water stress (using more than 20% of their available resources). Climate change has the potential to impose additional pressures in some regions. This paper describes an assessment of the implications of climate change for global hydrological regimes and water resources. It uses climate ...
... experiencing water stress (using more than 20% of their available resources). Climate change has the potential to impose additional pressures in some regions. This paper describes an assessment of the implications of climate change for global hydrological regimes and water resources. It uses climate ...
climate change
... Leaving no one behind in the face of growing climate change impacts stands out as another litmus test for our resolve to deliver on the deals that the world struck in 2015 - and it does so at the crossroad of climate adaptation and wider sustainable development challenges. Across the globe, several ...
... Leaving no one behind in the face of growing climate change impacts stands out as another litmus test for our resolve to deliver on the deals that the world struck in 2015 - and it does so at the crossroad of climate adaptation and wider sustainable development challenges. Across the globe, several ...
Abatement vs. Adaptation and the Prospects for International
... no country abates, and in the first-best solution, every country abates and no country adapts. He then examines the treaty equilibria in a game where countries first choose whether or not to participate in an abatement treaty, and then choose whether or not to adapt individually. He shows that the a ...
... no country abates, and in the first-best solution, every country abates and no country adapts. He then examines the treaty equilibria in a game where countries first choose whether or not to participate in an abatement treaty, and then choose whether or not to adapt individually. He shows that the a ...
Cap and Trade or a Carbon Tax? How to Reduce CO Emissions
... the century, with a 50% chance of exceeding a rise of 5 degrees Centigrade. To get a sense of scale, this is the same increase as from the last ice age to the present (Arrow, 2008, p. 16). While not all the direct effects are known, a rise in sea level will wipe out some small island countries, and ...
... the century, with a 50% chance of exceeding a rise of 5 degrees Centigrade. To get a sense of scale, this is the same increase as from the last ice age to the present (Arrow, 2008, p. 16). While not all the direct effects are known, a rise in sea level will wipe out some small island countries, and ...
Forests and Climate Change
... and biogeography, which feed back to affect climate. Much of the natural vegetation of the world has been cleared for agriculture (Fig. 3D), and some models also include land-use change. Tropical Forests Climate model simulations show that tropical forests maintain high rates of evapotranspiration, ...
... and biogeography, which feed back to affect climate. Much of the natural vegetation of the world has been cleared for agriculture (Fig. 3D), and some models also include land-use change. Tropical Forests Climate model simulations show that tropical forests maintain high rates of evapotranspiration, ...
Economic and social benefits of meteorology and
... the improvement of decisions by economic stakeholders thanks to weather and climate information. These services are purchased by users in order to be able to offer optimally or demand a certain service or, with respect to security, these services aim at helping to prevent damage from extreme events. ...
... the improvement of decisions by economic stakeholders thanks to weather and climate information. These services are purchased by users in order to be able to offer optimally or demand a certain service or, with respect to security, these services aim at helping to prevent damage from extreme events. ...
Which early works are cited most frequently in climate change
... to only those which are co-cited with at least one selected cited reference using the menu items “Data” – "Retain Publications citing Selected Cited References". In a first step, we selected the marker reference in the table visualized by the CRExplorer. Note that also misspelled reference variants ...
... to only those which are co-cited with at least one selected cited reference using the menu items “Data” – "Retain Publications citing Selected Cited References". In a first step, we selected the marker reference in the table visualized by the CRExplorer. Note that also misspelled reference variants ...
Climate Change Mitigation in Los Angeles, US - UN
... Agreement and the Bali World Mayors and Local Governments Climate Protection Agreement) and major, global and mega-cities in climate change policy (e.g. through the networks Metropolis and C40). This shift has been accompanied by the growing recognition of cities as dominant locations of energy cons ...
... Agreement and the Bali World Mayors and Local Governments Climate Protection Agreement) and major, global and mega-cities in climate change policy (e.g. through the networks Metropolis and C40). This shift has been accompanied by the growing recognition of cities as dominant locations of energy cons ...
FACING THE STORM Indian Tribes, Climate
... native habitat along the River. Today, the threat is even greater because salt cedar is more drought-tolerant than cottonwoods, willows, mesquite and other native plants. Since 1999, Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, has dropped to 37 percent of its capacity, the lowest level in more than 5 ...
... native habitat along the River. Today, the threat is even greater because salt cedar is more drought-tolerant than cottonwoods, willows, mesquite and other native plants. Since 1999, Lake Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir, has dropped to 37 percent of its capacity, the lowest level in more than 5 ...
Choosing and Using Climate-Change Scenarios for Ecological
... expected to use climate information, but they struggle with its uncertainty. With the current proliferation of climate simulations and downscaling methods, scientifically credible strategies for selecting a subset for analysis and decision making are needed. Drawing on a rich literature in climate s ...
... expected to use climate information, but they struggle with its uncertainty. With the current proliferation of climate simulations and downscaling methods, scientifically credible strategies for selecting a subset for analysis and decision making are needed. Drawing on a rich literature in climate s ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... Projections for Namibia and the southern African region suggest significant vulnerability to the impacts of climate change (IPCC, 2001 and 2007), and the IPCC’s Third Assessment report and other recent studies suggest that by 2050, temperatures and rainfall over southern Africa will be 2 – 4°C highe ...
... Projections for Namibia and the southern African region suggest significant vulnerability to the impacts of climate change (IPCC, 2001 and 2007), and the IPCC’s Third Assessment report and other recent studies suggest that by 2050, temperatures and rainfall over southern Africa will be 2 – 4°C highe ...
Sustainability a cross-curriculum priority ACARA
... Develop an understanding that the Asia region plays an important role in scientific research and development, in areas such as medicine, natural resource management, nanotechnologies, communication technologies and natural disaster prediction and management. ...
... Develop an understanding that the Asia region plays an important role in scientific research and development, in areas such as medicine, natural resource management, nanotechnologies, communication technologies and natural disaster prediction and management. ...