Adaptation to Climate Change in Low‐Income Countries
... The uncertainties associated with adaptation decisions are often of a different character than those accommodated by the expected utility framework conventionally used by economists: uncertainty in the form of risk, where the set of possible outcomes is known and probabilities can be assigned to eac ...
... The uncertainties associated with adaptation decisions are often of a different character than those accommodated by the expected utility framework conventionally used by economists: uncertainty in the form of risk, where the set of possible outcomes is known and probabilities can be assigned to eac ...
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... security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in developing countries mainly through crop yield and livestock fodder losses (Murendo et al, 2011, IFAD, 2009). Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector is sensitive to climate change, variability and extreme events,particularly increased frequency of droughts a ...
... security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers in developing countries mainly through crop yield and livestock fodder losses (Murendo et al, 2011, IFAD, 2009). Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector is sensitive to climate change, variability and extreme events,particularly increased frequency of droughts a ...
How Environmental And Climate Risks Factor Into Global Corporate
... Accounting for extreme weather and natural catastrophes Our corporate criteria consider the impact of unfavorable weather on the rating profiles in many industries. The impact of weather includes extreme weather events, such as storms and floods, and unseasonal weather, including cold spells and hea ...
... Accounting for extreme weather and natural catastrophes Our corporate criteria consider the impact of unfavorable weather on the rating profiles in many industries. The impact of weather includes extreme weather events, such as storms and floods, and unseasonal weather, including cold spells and hea ...
Climate Action Planning Progress in the San Diego Region
... efficiency, and water efficient technologies in our region. To complement efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Executive Order 13514 also established the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, and charged it with developing recommendations for the federal government to better prepa ...
... efficiency, and water efficient technologies in our region. To complement efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Executive Order 13514 also established the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, and charged it with developing recommendations for the federal government to better prepa ...
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... Prabhakar and Shaw (2008) reveals that a major reason for these droughts in recent years is due to a link with EL Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is also the cause for low food grain production in the country. 1.3 Impact of climate change on agricultural sector Agriculture continues to be a ...
... Prabhakar and Shaw (2008) reveals that a major reason for these droughts in recent years is due to a link with EL Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which is also the cause for low food grain production in the country. 1.3 Impact of climate change on agricultural sector Agriculture continues to be a ...
North Africa: The Impact of Climate Change to
... Communications to the United Nations Framework (UNFCCC) on Climate Change, and on other peer-reviewed research literature and relevant reporting. It includes such impacts as sea-level rise, water availability, agricultural shifts, ecological disruptions and species extinctions, infrastructure at ris ...
... Communications to the United Nations Framework (UNFCCC) on Climate Change, and on other peer-reviewed research literature and relevant reporting. It includes such impacts as sea-level rise, water availability, agricultural shifts, ecological disruptions and species extinctions, infrastructure at ris ...
Social Aspects of Climate Change in Urban Areas in Low
... brings or is likely to bring are distributed unevenly within urban areas among different social groups. Location influences many impacts — for instance, storms, floods or heat waves usually hit particular parts of a city more severely than others. All impacts are influenced by the quality of housing ...
... brings or is likely to bring are distributed unevenly within urban areas among different social groups. Location influences many impacts — for instance, storms, floods or heat waves usually hit particular parts of a city more severely than others. All impacts are influenced by the quality of housing ...
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... The need for food for an increasing population often threatens natural resources as people strive to get the most out of land already in production or push into virgin territory for new agricultural land. The damage is increasingly evident: arable lands lost to erosion, salinity, desertification, an ...
... The need for food for an increasing population often threatens natural resources as people strive to get the most out of land already in production or push into virgin territory for new agricultural land. The damage is increasingly evident: arable lands lost to erosion, salinity, desertification, an ...
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... sector (includes agriculture) emissions target is in place up to 2020 (see Table 1). 3 A cursory examination of Spanish emissions data reveals that diffuse emissions make up 55% of all Spanish GHG emissions, of which the transport sector produces the largest proportion (accounting for more than 40% ...
... sector (includes agriculture) emissions target is in place up to 2020 (see Table 1). 3 A cursory examination of Spanish emissions data reveals that diffuse emissions make up 55% of all Spanish GHG emissions, of which the transport sector produces the largest proportion (accounting for more than 40% ...
Temperature (Word) - Narragansett Bay Estuary Program
... conclusions of Morrill and colleagues, as the river has warmed 0.95°C (1.7°F) from 1946-2008, driven by warming air temperatures (Seekell and Pace 2011). According to climate models produced through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Climate System Research Center at the Un ...
... conclusions of Morrill and colleagues, as the river has warmed 0.95°C (1.7°F) from 1946-2008, driven by warming air temperatures (Seekell and Pace 2011). According to climate models produced through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Climate System Research Center at the Un ...
Kelsey Lahr | University of Utah
... Climate Change, demonstrate the breadth of environmental discourses that can be mobilized in climate change communication. Personal testimony is crucial in making climate change comprehensible and narratable because it moves climate change out of the realm of the theoretical and abstract, into the r ...
... Climate Change, demonstrate the breadth of environmental discourses that can be mobilized in climate change communication. Personal testimony is crucial in making climate change comprehensible and narratable because it moves climate change out of the realm of the theoretical and abstract, into the r ...
Alberto Montanari - University of Bologna
... Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna, [email protected] (i.e. warmer 1000 years ago, Bemeshko, D., V.A. Schapov, Global and Planetary Change, 2001. ...
... Alberto Montanari, University of Bologna, [email protected] (i.e. warmer 1000 years ago, Bemeshko, D., V.A. Schapov, Global and Planetary Change, 2001. ...
Multimodel assessment of water scarcity under climate change
... Population Affected by Severe Changes in Water Resources. To put these discharge changes into a societal perspective, we reconcile them with the spatial distribution of population, using population projections from the newly developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (22). In the following, we w ...
... Population Affected by Severe Changes in Water Resources. To put these discharge changes into a societal perspective, we reconcile them with the spatial distribution of population, using population projections from the newly developed Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) (22). In the following, we w ...
Assessment of flash floods taking into account climate
... European flash flood events were studied. In 37 out of 50 cases, lag time was shorter than 6 h, the average response time being 4.98 h. Hence, it is very difficult to issue accurate warnings for these events in real time. Flash floods are very destructive natural hazards both in economic terms and r ...
... European flash flood events were studied. In 37 out of 50 cases, lag time was shorter than 6 h, the average response time being 4.98 h. Hence, it is very difficult to issue accurate warnings for these events in real time. Flash floods are very destructive natural hazards both in economic terms and r ...
PDO Annual has a period of 55-60 years
... A striking feature of the UN IPCC and the US CCSP Reports is a unilateral presentation of information, with an almost exclusive concentration on greenhouse gases, and particularly on the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, as the dominant cause of climate change and the recent modern warm period. ...
... A striking feature of the UN IPCC and the US CCSP Reports is a unilateral presentation of information, with an almost exclusive concentration on greenhouse gases, and particularly on the man-made emissions of carbon dioxide, as the dominant cause of climate change and the recent modern warm period. ...
Counting the Cost of Drought Induced Productivity Losses in an
... et al., 2007); TERM-H2O (Wittwer, 2012; Horridge and Wittwer, 2008), IMPACT (Rosegrant et al., 2008; Zhu et al., 2008) and IMPLAN (Giesecke, 2011). Given the aggregation and assumptions which are made when developing such models, their accuracy may be reduced. This is because the use of global model ...
... et al., 2007); TERM-H2O (Wittwer, 2012; Horridge and Wittwer, 2008), IMPACT (Rosegrant et al., 2008; Zhu et al., 2008) and IMPLAN (Giesecke, 2011). Given the aggregation and assumptions which are made when developing such models, their accuracy may be reduced. This is because the use of global model ...
Marine Climate Change in Australia
... with urbanization (Coleman et al. 2008, Connell et al. 2008). Similarly, changes to the distribution and abundance of fishes in southeastern Tasmania have been attributed to a combination of climate change and fishing pressure (Last et al. 2011). While all of these changes have been observed over a ...
... with urbanization (Coleman et al. 2008, Connell et al. 2008). Similarly, changes to the distribution and abundance of fishes in southeastern Tasmania have been attributed to a combination of climate change and fishing pressure (Last et al. 2011). While all of these changes have been observed over a ...
Anticipated Effects of Climate Change on Coastal
... Biogeochemical properties of waters entering upwelling zones can have significant influence on local biological processes. Variability in source waters may be classified into two categories: 1) changes in the properties of surface waters that are supplied to the poleward regions of the predominant e ...
... Biogeochemical properties of waters entering upwelling zones can have significant influence on local biological processes. Variability in source waters may be classified into two categories: 1) changes in the properties of surface waters that are supplied to the poleward regions of the predominant e ...
Lea - Harvard University
... core TR163-19 integrates ;660 yr, the reconstructed SSTs approximate an equilibrium tropical climate value for that particular atmospheric CO 2 level. Therefore, it is possible to estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity by directly comparing tropical SSTs to known estimates of greenhouse forcing. D ...
... core TR163-19 integrates ;660 yr, the reconstructed SSTs approximate an equilibrium tropical climate value for that particular atmospheric CO 2 level. Therefore, it is possible to estimate equilibrium climate sensitivity by directly comparing tropical SSTs to known estimates of greenhouse forcing. D ...
Climate Change in Park City: An Assessment of Climate, Snowpack
... Maximum (top) and minimum (bottom) annual temperatures (in °F) at the Utah State University weather station in Logan from 1896 through 2008............................. 2-5 Maximum (top) and minimum (bottom) annual temperatures (in °F) at the Mountain Dell Dam weather station from 1949 through 2008. ...
... Maximum (top) and minimum (bottom) annual temperatures (in °F) at the Utah State University weather station in Logan from 1896 through 2008............................. 2-5 Maximum (top) and minimum (bottom) annual temperatures (in °F) at the Mountain Dell Dam weather station from 1949 through 2008. ...
100568 - Climate Change Adaptation NEW CS3.indd
... We can mitigate against the potential harmful effects of climate change by managing energy use and reducing green house gas emissions. Croydon has made a commitment to climate change mitigation in order to reduce the potential impact of climate change, taking advantage of the new low carbon economy ...
... We can mitigate against the potential harmful effects of climate change by managing energy use and reducing green house gas emissions. Croydon has made a commitment to climate change mitigation in order to reduce the potential impact of climate change, taking advantage of the new low carbon economy ...
Analyzing Urban Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change: A
... emissions. Cities occupy two percent of the world’s land mass and contribute more than twothirds of global GHG emissions. But cities should not only be blamed for their role as problem causers. They can also contribute substantially to problem-solving. The analysis of mega-cities as key areas of res ...
... emissions. Cities occupy two percent of the world’s land mass and contribute more than twothirds of global GHG emissions. But cities should not only be blamed for their role as problem causers. They can also contribute substantially to problem-solving. The analysis of mega-cities as key areas of res ...
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... An independent, non-profit organization that campaigns for positive change to protect the natural world and promote peace. Originally known as ‘Greenpeace Foundation’ and was initially founded in Vancouver, Canada, in 1971, to oppose the USA testing nuclear devices in Alaska before it changed it ...
... An independent, non-profit organization that campaigns for positive change to protect the natural world and promote peace. Originally known as ‘Greenpeace Foundation’ and was initially founded in Vancouver, Canada, in 1971, to oppose the USA testing nuclear devices in Alaska before it changed it ...
Wine Grape Suitability and Quality in a Changing Climate
... acidity is lost. However, the warmer the climate, generally the higher the sugar content is in the grapes. Thus, warmer climates mean lower acidity but higher sugar levels, while cooler climates mean higher acidity but lower sugar levels (Pandell 1999). Total acidity (sometime referred to as Titrata ...
... acidity is lost. However, the warmer the climate, generally the higher the sugar content is in the grapes. Thus, warmer climates mean lower acidity but higher sugar levels, while cooler climates mean higher acidity but lower sugar levels (Pandell 1999). Total acidity (sometime referred to as Titrata ...