Climate change: agriculture and rural development as part
... • Adaptation is uncertain and economic appraisal difficult • Mitigation, a range of actions technically possible and economically feasible Food security goals • Policies to encourage a “low carbon” agriculture may impede the goal of producing more food in the short run, BUT ...
... • Adaptation is uncertain and economic appraisal difficult • Mitigation, a range of actions technically possible and economically feasible Food security goals • Policies to encourage a “low carbon” agriculture may impede the goal of producing more food in the short run, BUT ...
s1|2008 protected areas and biodiversity conservation special issue
... In recent years, this dichotomy of theoretical schools is losing ground in favour of a more complex and heterogeneous perspective on risk perception (Thompson and Rayner 1998, Renn 2005). For example, Dessai et al. (2004) concentrate on the concept of danger proposing to distinguish between external ...
... In recent years, this dichotomy of theoretical schools is losing ground in favour of a more complex and heterogeneous perspective on risk perception (Thompson and Rayner 1998, Renn 2005). For example, Dessai et al. (2004) concentrate on the concept of danger proposing to distinguish between external ...
1 The Politics of the Carbon Economy Peter Newell and Matthew
... general to most environmental problems; but climate change is also unique in how its origins are embedded in almost all practices which underpin contemporary economic development: mostly obviously through energy use but also for example transport and agriculture. This means powerful economic actors ...
... general to most environmental problems; but climate change is also unique in how its origins are embedded in almost all practices which underpin contemporary economic development: mostly obviously through energy use but also for example transport and agriculture. This means powerful economic actors ...
Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change
... circumstances. The average of various adaptation scenarios is taken. None of the five studies considers all four cases. This is unfortunate. The Darwin et al. (1995) study, for instance, is probably most realistic on long-term adaptation but does not include CO2 -fertilization. Therefore, the origin ...
... circumstances. The average of various adaptation scenarios is taken. None of the five studies considers all four cases. This is unfortunate. The Darwin et al. (1995) study, for instance, is probably most realistic on long-term adaptation but does not include CO2 -fertilization. Therefore, the origin ...
Climate change scenarios in Europe and their potential
... Parma 06-07 December 2007 – EFSA SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM ...
... Parma 06-07 December 2007 – EFSA SCIENTIFIC COLLOQUIUM ...
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... to grow by 12% per year and total energy demand is predicted to grow by 6.6% per year from 2010 to 2035 under a business-as-usual scenario. An alternative policy scenario suggest that a 10.8% saving in terms of primary energy consumption by 2035 could be achieved. Natural gas reserves are significan ...
... to grow by 12% per year and total energy demand is predicted to grow by 6.6% per year from 2010 to 2035 under a business-as-usual scenario. An alternative policy scenario suggest that a 10.8% saving in terms of primary energy consumption by 2035 could be achieved. Natural gas reserves are significan ...
climatic cataclysm
... Breaking Free of Oil, who is something of a climate change skeptic, suggests a simple thought experiment to illustrate the power of economic growth to affect climate change—a process that could create a climatic tipping point sooner rather than later. The world today has achieved an average GDP per ...
... Breaking Free of Oil, who is something of a climate change skeptic, suggests a simple thought experiment to illustrate the power of economic growth to affect climate change—a process that could create a climatic tipping point sooner rather than later. The world today has achieved an average GDP per ...
The effects of extreme drought on climate change beliefs, risk
... climate change and galvanizes them to take action has been the focus of growing attention in the risk management literature and in policy circles. There are several reasons for this important debate. First, the complex problem of climate change has rallied considerable intellectual and financial eff ...
... climate change and galvanizes them to take action has been the focus of growing attention in the risk management literature and in policy circles. There are several reasons for this important debate. First, the complex problem of climate change has rallied considerable intellectual and financial eff ...
State/Territory Government Department
... current understanding of the resilience of Indigenous communities to the effects of climate change is relatively limited anticipated that the study will provide more comprehensive outcomes on the specific impacts currently being experienced and those likely to be experienced in a changing climat ...
... current understanding of the resilience of Indigenous communities to the effects of climate change is relatively limited anticipated that the study will provide more comprehensive outcomes on the specific impacts currently being experienced and those likely to be experienced in a changing climat ...
The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts
... Stern: The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change 841 where the consequences are hard to predict and the effects may be irreversible.11 Scientists have indeed been helping us to understand the nature of the risks. Based on the mainstream scientific literature, at ...
... Stern: The Structure of Economic Modeling of the Potential Impacts of Climate Change 841 where the consequences are hard to predict and the effects may be irreversible.11 Scientists have indeed been helping us to understand the nature of the risks. Based on the mainstream scientific literature, at ...
Submission DR134 - Chairman of the Australian Building Codes
... The ABCB Climate Adaptation Report contains other recommendations for possible adaptation measures for other climate risks. These will be considered in the context of the ABCB’s annual work plan as discussed below. Whatever the emission scenario, climate change impacts both at a regional level in Au ...
... The ABCB Climate Adaptation Report contains other recommendations for possible adaptation measures for other climate risks. These will be considered in the context of the ABCB’s annual work plan as discussed below. Whatever the emission scenario, climate change impacts both at a regional level in Au ...
The Positive Feedback Loop between the Impacts of Climate
... (GAEZ) [14]. An overview of the main studies that have considered impacts of climate change on global crop yields is presented in Table 1 [9,10,12,13,15–17]. Although some crops and regions will apparently benefit from climate change, the studies reviewed converge on agreement that the overall globa ...
... (GAEZ) [14]. An overview of the main studies that have considered impacts of climate change on global crop yields is presented in Table 1 [9,10,12,13,15–17]. Although some crops and regions will apparently benefit from climate change, the studies reviewed converge on agreement that the overall globa ...
Which Species Are Most At Risk?
... Because the animals of the Arctic are so specialized to the extreme conditions in which they live, species diversity is low and the food web is relatively simple. The depletion of even one species when those conditions change could have a ripple effect on the entire food web. To avert disaster in th ...
... Because the animals of the Arctic are so specialized to the extreme conditions in which they live, species diversity is low and the food web is relatively simple. The depletion of even one species when those conditions change could have a ripple effect on the entire food web. To avert disaster in th ...
Climate Change and Small Island Developing States
... experience these phenomena. Similarly, although global increases in adverse heatrelated health effects might be balanced by decreases in adverse cold-related health effects, most SIDS experience limited cold-related effects. Expected health impacts include increasing insect-borne diseases and ecosys ...
... experience these phenomena. Similarly, although global increases in adverse heatrelated health effects might be balanced by decreases in adverse cold-related health effects, most SIDS experience limited cold-related effects. Expected health impacts include increasing insect-borne diseases and ecosys ...
Climate Change: Issues and Events
... in our region and resources needed. In the long-term, the programme aims at enhancing sustainable natural resources management, food security, livelihoods of rural populations, facilitate adaptation to climate change, and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The overall goal of the programme is to ...
... in our region and resources needed. In the long-term, the programme aims at enhancing sustainable natural resources management, food security, livelihoods of rural populations, facilitate adaptation to climate change, and reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The overall goal of the programme is to ...
ISEES_GrandChallengeQuestions
... ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration), they do not add up to the whole. From a carbon cycle perspective, we have not been able to add up the global carbon budget; about one third of the carbon that we put into the atmosphere has been disappearing into the biosphere (Schimel 1997, Schlesinger 199 ...
... ecosystem photosynthesis and respiration), they do not add up to the whole. From a carbon cycle perspective, we have not been able to add up the global carbon budget; about one third of the carbon that we put into the atmosphere has been disappearing into the biosphere (Schimel 1997, Schlesinger 199 ...
Hot Politics ABOUT THE FILM FRONTLINE and the Center for
... 1890s: Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and an American, P.C. Chamberlain, independently target carbon dioxide as a warming gas and suggest that the burning of fossil fuels could lead to global warming, describing what is known as the "greenhouse effect." • 1927: Yugoslavian Mulin Milankovic propo ...
... 1890s: Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius and an American, P.C. Chamberlain, independently target carbon dioxide as a warming gas and suggest that the burning of fossil fuels could lead to global warming, describing what is known as the "greenhouse effect." • 1927: Yugoslavian Mulin Milankovic propo ...
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... uses regardless of whether there is climate change. Today, the U.S. irrigates oneseventh of harvested cropland, or one-third the value of crops. Expansion of irrigation in response to climate change will be difficult. The report concludes that policy makers should encourage adaptations so that the s ...
... uses regardless of whether there is climate change. Today, the U.S. irrigates oneseventh of harvested cropland, or one-third the value of crops. Expansion of irrigation in response to climate change will be difficult. The report concludes that policy makers should encourage adaptations so that the s ...
On the Conflict Shoreline
... affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. ...
... affiliate of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. ...
Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability - Beck-Shop
... Pushed by the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change is imposed on the national and international agendas as a major public concern. Important human and financial resources are engaged both for research and policy making, but the way this issue is being defin ...
... Pushed by the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate change is imposed on the national and international agendas as a major public concern. Important human and financial resources are engaged both for research and policy making, but the way this issue is being defin ...
Million Species
... I.II,}"C bodied animals is further enhanced because of other correlated 11 .lil s such as their requirement oflarge foraging area, greater food in 1.1"(" high habitat specificity, and lower reproductive rates (West and I ~i'( 'WII, 2(05). Why thcn (in evolutionary terms) be big? Three reasons are t ...
... I.II,}"C bodied animals is further enhanced because of other correlated 11 .lil s such as their requirement oflarge foraging area, greater food in 1.1"(" high habitat specificity, and lower reproductive rates (West and I ~i'( 'WII, 2(05). Why thcn (in evolutionary terms) be big? Three reasons are t ...
African crops yield another catastrophe for the IPCC
... The origin of this claim was a report written for a Canadian advocacy group by Ali Agoumi, a Moroccan academic who draws part of his current income from advising on how to make applications for "carbon credits". As his primary sources he cited reports for three North African governments. But none of ...
... The origin of this claim was a report written for a Canadian advocacy group by Ali Agoumi, a Moroccan academic who draws part of his current income from advising on how to make applications for "carbon credits". As his primary sources he cited reports for three North African governments. But none of ...
elninocyclones - Global Change System for Analysis, Research
... The very high resolution modelling work suggests that increases in the intensity of tropical cyclones will be accompanied by increases in mean and maximum precipitation rates. In the cases studied, precipitation in the vicinity of the storm centre increased by 20% whereas peak rates increased by 30 ...
... The very high resolution modelling work suggests that increases in the intensity of tropical cyclones will be accompanied by increases in mean and maximum precipitation rates. In the cases studied, precipitation in the vicinity of the storm centre increased by 20% whereas peak rates increased by 30 ...
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... one may expect that its administrative costs are larger than they would be with private party transactions. Of course, it is not at all obvious that the costs of implementing CRP in the US will be representative of implementation costs of similar programs in the developing world. Bureaucratic ineffi ...
... one may expect that its administrative costs are larger than they would be with private party transactions. Of course, it is not at all obvious that the costs of implementing CRP in the US will be representative of implementation costs of similar programs in the developing world. Bureaucratic ineffi ...