WP C /Gap Analysis
... aim of removing redundancies and achieve an integrated view of the infrastructure as a whole. The resulting synthesis report, which is due about 1 year after the start of the SIOS-PP project, is envisaged to become the baseline for a common scientific strategy for the future SIOS infrastructure, wit ...
... aim of removing redundancies and achieve an integrated view of the infrastructure as a whole. The resulting synthesis report, which is due about 1 year after the start of the SIOS-PP project, is envisaged to become the baseline for a common scientific strategy for the future SIOS infrastructure, wit ...
The Psychological Distance of Climate Change
... choices that are more in line with their more abstract, core considerations and therefore appears to help self-control. In relation to this, psychologically distant representations seem to help people to make more confident predictions about the future, and to make clearer evaluations and behavioral ...
... choices that are more in line with their more abstract, core considerations and therefore appears to help self-control. In relation to this, psychologically distant representations seem to help people to make more confident predictions about the future, and to make clearer evaluations and behavioral ...
Smallholder Farmers` Perception of Climate Change and Variability
... not uniform in the country as some areas are severely impacted and hence more vulnerable to climate change than others. The impacts of climate change are expected to be more pronounced in the developing countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa because their livelihood is dependent on nature whic ...
... not uniform in the country as some areas are severely impacted and hence more vulnerable to climate change than others. The impacts of climate change are expected to be more pronounced in the developing countries particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa because their livelihood is dependent on nature whic ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... tem, climate drivers may include accumulated rainfall and evaporation, if supply is being addressed, or rainfall intensity and duration, if flooding is being addressed. On a coastline, climate variables contributing to storm surge, tidal regimes and sea level anomalies may be linked to thresholds re ...
... tem, climate drivers may include accumulated rainfall and evaporation, if supply is being addressed, or rainfall intensity and duration, if flooding is being addressed. On a coastline, climate variables contributing to storm surge, tidal regimes and sea level anomalies may be linked to thresholds re ...
Forests and climate change after Lima: Perspectives from the Asia-Pacific region
... Science has yet to unearth everything about climate change, about why it is happening, and what its real impacts are going to be. But one thing however is clear – climate change is happening, and it’s already affecting our lives. Many of the changes are unprecedented, and range from warming of the a ...
... Science has yet to unearth everything about climate change, about why it is happening, and what its real impacts are going to be. But one thing however is clear – climate change is happening, and it’s already affecting our lives. Many of the changes are unprecedented, and range from warming of the a ...
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... levels of most of these naturally occurring gases. Since the middle of the 19th century, human agriculture and industrialization have dispensed an enormous quantity of these green house gases into the atmosphere, where these have trapped enough heat to begin climate change. There are many evidences ...
... levels of most of these naturally occurring gases. Since the middle of the 19th century, human agriculture and industrialization have dispensed an enormous quantity of these green house gases into the atmosphere, where these have trapped enough heat to begin climate change. There are many evidences ...
Cities and the Governing of Climate Change
... community has begun to examine issues confronting urban climate adaptation in the global South (e.g., 22–25). As the research on urban responses to climate change has grown, so too has recognition of the potential importance of the city as a site for addressing the issue. Both the International Ener ...
... community has begun to examine issues confronting urban climate adaptation in the global South (e.g., 22–25). As the research on urban responses to climate change has grown, so too has recognition of the potential importance of the city as a site for addressing the issue. Both the International Ener ...
Agriculture, Climate Change and Carbon Sequestration
... influence agriculture? Climate change may have beneficial as well as detrimental consequences for agriculture. Some research indicates that warmer temperatures lengthen growing seasons and increased carbon dioxide in the air results in higher yields from some crops. A warming climate and decreasing ...
... influence agriculture? Climate change may have beneficial as well as detrimental consequences for agriculture. Some research indicates that warmer temperatures lengthen growing seasons and increased carbon dioxide in the air results in higher yields from some crops. A warming climate and decreasing ...
SUBREGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ADAPTATION AND
... frequently responsible for the more intense storms that strike California. Atmospheric rivers generally deliver high levels of precipitation, up to 50% of the state’s total precipitation in any given year. Some recent studies indicate that atmospheric rivers may strengthen as a result of climate cha ...
... frequently responsible for the more intense storms that strike California. Atmospheric rivers generally deliver high levels of precipitation, up to 50% of the state’s total precipitation in any given year. Some recent studies indicate that atmospheric rivers may strengthen as a result of climate cha ...
Long-term natural variability and 20th century climate change
... spanning the 60˚S-60˚N seasonally ice-free oceanic surface. The average RASST values within these partition elements are used as predictors in a multiple linear regression, with the global mean temperature as the predictand. This procedure is philosophically similar to that used to remove the intera ...
... spanning the 60˚S-60˚N seasonally ice-free oceanic surface. The average RASST values within these partition elements are used as predictors in a multiple linear regression, with the global mean temperature as the predictand. This procedure is philosophically similar to that used to remove the intera ...
Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change Vol 2
... Services Center’s publication Coastal Services. These articles showcase examples of the tools, programs, and projects that coastal managers currently have in place. From harnessing cutting-edge technology to changing development practices, and thinking about existing programs and projects in new way ...
... Services Center’s publication Coastal Services. These articles showcase examples of the tools, programs, and projects that coastal managers currently have in place. From harnessing cutting-edge technology to changing development practices, and thinking about existing programs and projects in new way ...
Introduction: Humidity and Climate Change
... greenhouse gas. These features are indicated pictorially in Fig. 1.2 (a much simplified diagram). The Clausius-Clapeyron relation yields exponential increases in the atmosphere’s water holding capacity with increasing T at approximately 7 % K-1 (Manabe & Wetherald, 1967; Allen & Ingram, 2002; Trenbe ...
... greenhouse gas. These features are indicated pictorially in Fig. 1.2 (a much simplified diagram). The Clausius-Clapeyron relation yields exponential increases in the atmosphere’s water holding capacity with increasing T at approximately 7 % K-1 (Manabe & Wetherald, 1967; Allen & Ingram, 2002; Trenbe ...
The Economic Cost of Climate Change in Africa
... Below is a short introduction to this report’s main findings and recommendations. ...
... Below is a short introduction to this report’s main findings and recommendations. ...
Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change
... Scientists, policy-makers, and the general public are increasingly aware that global patterns of environmental degradation are putting people at risk (Kasperson and Kasperson, 2001). These threats are global in both systemic (e.g., climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions) and cumulative terms ...
... Scientists, policy-makers, and the general public are increasingly aware that global patterns of environmental degradation are putting people at risk (Kasperson and Kasperson, 2001). These threats are global in both systemic (e.g., climate change due to greenhouse gas emissions) and cumulative terms ...
Dissemination of information on climate change: a case study KwaNgwanase in KwaZulu-Natal
... variability observed over time. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001) defines climate change as any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity indicating the many causes of climate change. The report by the Trustees of Colum ...
... variability observed over time. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2001) defines climate change as any change in climate over time, whether due to natural variability or as a result of human activity indicating the many causes of climate change. The report by the Trustees of Colum ...
Climate Change Impact Assessment 2010
... projections covering SCA catchment areas. Projections of future climate have large uncertainties because current models are unable to capture the complexity of feedback mechanisms in the earth-atmosphere-hydrosphere system. Although the science of climate modelling is rapidly improving, models and p ...
... projections covering SCA catchment areas. Projections of future climate have large uncertainties because current models are unable to capture the complexity of feedback mechanisms in the earth-atmosphere-hydrosphere system. Although the science of climate modelling is rapidly improving, models and p ...
Consumer behaviour and demand response of tourists to climate
... motivations, destination choice and timing of travel, as well as experience (Scott & Lemieux, 2010). Consequently, changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of climate resources will have important consequences for tourism demand at various scales. Changes in global demand patterns have been ...
... motivations, destination choice and timing of travel, as well as experience (Scott & Lemieux, 2010). Consequently, changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of climate resources will have important consequences for tourism demand at various scales. Changes in global demand patterns have been ...
Chinese and Russian policies on climate change
... and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased.”1 This warming of the climate system may be regarded by specialists as a scientific fact, but convincing public opinion of it throughout the world remains a huge problem. Adding to this difficult ...
... and ice have diminished, sea level has risen, and the concentrations of greenhouse gases have increased.”1 This warming of the climate system may be regarded by specialists as a scientific fact, but convincing public opinion of it throughout the world remains a huge problem. Adding to this difficult ...
Reasonably foreseeable futures
... change impacts, but considered them only with respect to the outcome of the project itself, while ignoring climate change impacts on the resources affected by the project. In 38 EISs (25%), the discussion of climate change considered only the project’s greenhouse gas emissions footprint, with no men ...
... change impacts, but considered them only with respect to the outcome of the project itself, while ignoring climate change impacts on the resources affected by the project. In 38 EISs (25%), the discussion of climate change considered only the project’s greenhouse gas emissions footprint, with no men ...
i SMALL HOLDER FARMERS` PERCEPTION ON CLIMATE
... physical dimension. It is therefore assumed that, these communities have an inborn adaptive knowledge from which to draw and survive in high-stress ecological and socio-economic conditions. Thus, the human responses are critical to understand and estimate its effects on production and food supply fo ...
... physical dimension. It is therefore assumed that, these communities have an inborn adaptive knowledge from which to draw and survive in high-stress ecological and socio-economic conditions. Thus, the human responses are critical to understand and estimate its effects on production and food supply fo ...
Evidence for parallel adaptation to climate across the natural range
... locales and hence similar climates (Beck et al. 2008). Thus, to remove the confounding influence of geographic proximity, we calculated an additional matrix of geographic great circle distance in R (R Development Core Team 2011). We used the VEGAN (Oksanen et al. 2011) package in R to calculate the ...
... locales and hence similar climates (Beck et al. 2008). Thus, to remove the confounding influence of geographic proximity, we calculated an additional matrix of geographic great circle distance in R (R Development Core Team 2011). We used the VEGAN (Oksanen et al. 2011) package in R to calculate the ...
Geographic disparities and moral hazards in the predicted impacts
... restricted most assessments of climate vulnerability to qualitative or regional approaches (Adger, 2006). Spatial variability in the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyso ...
... restricted most assessments of climate vulnerability to qualitative or regional approaches (Adger, 2006). Spatial variability in the magnitude and direction of the impacts of climate change makes it challenging but important to develop global indices of regional vulnerability to climate change (Dyso ...
Natural and Human Environment
... environmental quality are priorities of the Commonwealth’s transportation agencies. A sound transportation system must address the relationship between the movement of people and goods, and the impact upon the environment. The Commonwealth’s transportation agencies work closely with federal, state, ...
... environmental quality are priorities of the Commonwealth’s transportation agencies. A sound transportation system must address the relationship between the movement of people and goods, and the impact upon the environment. The Commonwealth’s transportation agencies work closely with federal, state, ...
Briefing Paper: Climate Change and Health
... Extreme weather events – as a consequence of climate change – are on the increase in industrialized as well as in developing countries (Huber 2011). While in Europe the consequences of heat waves – as in 2003 – are well documented this is not the case in developing countries. Without doubt the healt ...
... Extreme weather events – as a consequence of climate change – are on the increase in industrialized as well as in developing countries (Huber 2011). While in Europe the consequences of heat waves – as in 2003 – are well documented this is not the case in developing countries. Without doubt the healt ...