Resilient Midwestern Cities - Neighborhood Solutions Inc.
... The Ann Arbor Housing Commission is currently engaged in a high-efficiency overhaul of its entire portfolio of 18 public housing sites through renovation or rebuilding, according to Jennifer Hall, its executive director.27 Among the improvements are efficient lighting and appliances, efficient heat ...
... The Ann Arbor Housing Commission is currently engaged in a high-efficiency overhaul of its entire portfolio of 18 public housing sites through renovation or rebuilding, according to Jennifer Hall, its executive director.27 Among the improvements are efficient lighting and appliances, efficient heat ...
American Teens` Knowledge of Climate Change
... American Teens’ Knowledge of Climate Change reports results from a national study of what American teens in middle and high school understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts and potential solutions to global warming. This report describes how knowledge of climate change v ...
... American Teens’ Knowledge of Climate Change reports results from a national study of what American teens in middle and high school understand about how the climate system works, and the causes, impacts and potential solutions to global warming. This report describes how knowledge of climate change v ...
Assessment of Health and Climate Preparedness (PDF)
... Extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall events, floods, tornadoes, and severe erosion, can cause eventrelated morbidity and mortality from injuries, drowning, and infectious diseases, as well as impact people’s mental health. People who are displaced from their homes and/or have property dest ...
... Extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall events, floods, tornadoes, and severe erosion, can cause eventrelated morbidity and mortality from injuries, drowning, and infectious diseases, as well as impact people’s mental health. People who are displaced from their homes and/or have property dest ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... fatalities. In future, climatic conditions could exceed potentially lethal limits of heat stress even for individuals resting in the shade. The probability of exposed individuals experiencing such conditions in a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, an ...
... fatalities. In future, climatic conditions could exceed potentially lethal limits of heat stress even for individuals resting in the shade. The probability of exposed individuals experiencing such conditions in a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, an ...
climate change - Centre for Science and Policy
... fatalities. In future, climatic conditions could exceed potentially lethal limits of heat stress even for individuals resting in the shade. The probability of exposed individuals experiencing such conditions in a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, an ...
... fatalities. In future, climatic conditions could exceed potentially lethal limits of heat stress even for individuals resting in the shade. The probability of exposed individuals experiencing such conditions in a given year starts to become significant for a global temperature rise of around 5°C, an ...
THE BIG LIE - Council for American Students in International
... the planet uninhabitable by humans” and “threaten the biological health and survival of humanity.” 7 Even without such an unthinkable catastrophe, the impacts of climate change on humanity are expected to be devastating. Warming will cause sea level rise through thermal expansion of seawater and gla ...
... the planet uninhabitable by humans” and “threaten the biological health and survival of humanity.” 7 Even without such an unthinkable catastrophe, the impacts of climate change on humanity are expected to be devastating. Warming will cause sea level rise through thermal expansion of seawater and gla ...
Guidelines on Analysis of extremes in a changing climate in support
... ability to manage the risks associated with extreme events. Many practical problems require knowledge of the behaviour of extreme values. In particular, the infrastructures we depend upon for food, water, energy, shelter and transportation are sensitive to high or low values of meteorological variab ...
... ability to manage the risks associated with extreme events. Many practical problems require knowledge of the behaviour of extreme values. In particular, the infrastructures we depend upon for food, water, energy, shelter and transportation are sensitive to high or low values of meteorological variab ...
Small Island Economies
... Caribbean and southwest Pacific3 forty-three of them are located in the Caribbean and the Pacific regions. The group includes countries that are relatively rich by developing country standards, such as Singapore and Bahamas, but also some of the poorest countries in the world, including Comoros, Hai ...
... Caribbean and southwest Pacific3 forty-three of them are located in the Caribbean and the Pacific regions. The group includes countries that are relatively rich by developing country standards, such as Singapore and Bahamas, but also some of the poorest countries in the world, including Comoros, Hai ...
Low carbon resilient development and gender equality in the least
... least developed country governments. This includes planning for the potential effects of climate change on achieving national priorities such as poverty reduction and sustainable agriculture often called climate change adaptation as well as using international finance and national budgetary sources ...
... least developed country governments. This includes planning for the potential effects of climate change on achieving national priorities such as poverty reduction and sustainable agriculture often called climate change adaptation as well as using international finance and national budgetary sources ...
4.8 Aquatic Species Habitat Actions (High and Low)
... There is uncertainty as to the long-term effectiveness of riparian maturation in managed forestland. As a result, the effectiveness of riparian maturation in managed forestland was reduced from 100% to a range from 20% to 60% effective in the model to account for this uncertainty. Managed forestland ...
... There is uncertainty as to the long-term effectiveness of riparian maturation in managed forestland. As a result, the effectiveness of riparian maturation in managed forestland was reduced from 100% to a range from 20% to 60% effective in the model to account for this uncertainty. Managed forestland ...
energy darwinism ii - Climate Policy Observer
... expenditure and fuel) over the next quarter century will be unimaginably large, at around $200 trillion. The energy industry is faced with choices, and in this report, we outline two scenarios: 1) a business as usual or 'Inaction' on climate change scenario, and 2) a different energy mix that offers ...
... expenditure and fuel) over the next quarter century will be unimaginably large, at around $200 trillion. The energy industry is faced with choices, and in this report, we outline two scenarios: 1) a business as usual or 'Inaction' on climate change scenario, and 2) a different energy mix that offers ...
C. Survey on the impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage
... The potential impacts of Climate Change range from physical, to social and cultural aspects. As far as natural heritage is concerned, the vast majority of biomes may be adversely impacted by the effects of Climate Change. Experience and lessons learned on addressing Climate Change impacts stress the ...
... The potential impacts of Climate Change range from physical, to social and cultural aspects. As far as natural heritage is concerned, the vast majority of biomes may be adversely impacted by the effects of Climate Change. Experience and lessons learned on addressing Climate Change impacts stress the ...
Appendix L: Climate impacts and adaptation actions for shrub
... Future climate change may present additional challenges and needs for shrub-steppe habitat connectivity.3-4 First, climate change may impact shrub-steppe core habitat areas and corridors in ways that may make them more or less permeable to wildlife movement. Second, existing shrub-steppe core hab ...
... Future climate change may present additional challenges and needs for shrub-steppe habitat connectivity.3-4 First, climate change may impact shrub-steppe core habitat areas and corridors in ways that may make them more or less permeable to wildlife movement. Second, existing shrub-steppe core hab ...
Potential surface temperature and shallow groundwater temperature
... amount of radiation absorbed by the ground (Bonan, 2008). Futhermore, the length of the growing season is expected to increase with an upward shift in the AT regime. Under a deciduous canopy, an increase in early-spring and late-fall foliation/defoliation could affect both thermal and hydrological p ...
... amount of radiation absorbed by the ground (Bonan, 2008). Futhermore, the length of the growing season is expected to increase with an upward shift in the AT regime. Under a deciduous canopy, an increase in early-spring and late-fall foliation/defoliation could affect both thermal and hydrological p ...
- American Meteorological Society
... increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007). The relatively high confidence that we have in the impacts of climate change on snow hydrology may not translate to other aspects of the regional water balance. This leads us to a key question in studies of the gl ...
... increase throughout much of the globe in the coming decades (e.g., Meehl et al. 2007). The relatively high confidence that we have in the impacts of climate change on snow hydrology may not translate to other aspects of the regional water balance. This leads us to a key question in studies of the gl ...
Climate Change: Mastering the Public Health Role
... “Climate forcings” — whether natural or manmade (anthropogenic) — are events that cause changes in the atmosphere and are a significant cause of global climate change. Ironically, volcanoes actually cool the planet. But a far greater number of factors, natural or manmade, and especially in the form ...
... “Climate forcings” — whether natural or manmade (anthropogenic) — are events that cause changes in the atmosphere and are a significant cause of global climate change. Ironically, volcanoes actually cool the planet. But a far greater number of factors, natural or manmade, and especially in the form ...
The Changing Climate and Adaptation Strategies for the Mississippi
... and recently aquaculture products such as catfish. However, climate is changing and these changes may impact agriculture activities in the Mississippi Delta. Changing temperature and precipitation patterns are a common thread throughout the Southeast region of the United States with the Mississippi ...
... and recently aquaculture products such as catfish. However, climate is changing and these changes may impact agriculture activities in the Mississippi Delta. Changing temperature and precipitation patterns are a common thread throughout the Southeast region of the United States with the Mississippi ...
Regional Assessment
... was conducted to determine the status of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (EcoDRR) in Oceania, the role of biodiversity in Eco-DRR and conversely how Eco-DRR contributes to biodiversity in the region. Regional initiatives and frameworks in Eco-DRR were also reviewed. The economic case for Eco ...
... was conducted to determine the status of ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction (EcoDRR) in Oceania, the role of biodiversity in Eco-DRR and conversely how Eco-DRR contributes to biodiversity in the region. Regional initiatives and frameworks in Eco-DRR were also reviewed. The economic case for Eco ...
- Macquarie University ResearchOnline
... in climate space. The climate space required to describe species distributions is not a 1D space (i.e. species distributions cannot be represented accurately along a single axis such as mean annual temperature) but rather, at least a 2D (Iversen 1944; Hintikka 1963), 3D (Thompson et al. 1999) or 4D ...
... in climate space. The climate space required to describe species distributions is not a 1D space (i.e. species distributions cannot be represented accurately along a single axis such as mean annual temperature) but rather, at least a 2D (Iversen 1944; Hintikka 1963), 3D (Thompson et al. 1999) or 4D ...
Climate change and its impact on the livelihood of farmers and
... undertaken to ensure that global climate change does not continue to develop in such a way that it negatively impacts human life. The present international political strategy is to stabilize CO2 emissions and thus limit global climate change: Future temperature increase will depend on the point at w ...
... undertaken to ensure that global climate change does not continue to develop in such a way that it negatively impacts human life. The present international political strategy is to stabilize CO2 emissions and thus limit global climate change: Future temperature increase will depend on the point at w ...
1 Meeting the targets or re-imagining society? An empirical study
... as environmental NGOs, local officials in areas with CCS potential) and ‘tier 3’ (the general public). This focus on peripheral stakeholders and informed publics was because we sought to understand how overarching ethical and moral concepts informed people’s perceptions of CCS. Previous research sho ...
... as environmental NGOs, local officials in areas with CCS potential) and ‘tier 3’ (the general public). This focus on peripheral stakeholders and informed publics was because we sought to understand how overarching ethical and moral concepts informed people’s perceptions of CCS. Previous research sho ...
Report
... Over the past 250 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, land use changes, and agriculture have contributed to a significant increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (IPCC, 2007). As shown in Figure 1, greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, water vapor, and met ...
... Over the past 250 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels, land use changes, and agriculture have contributed to a significant increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations (IPCC, 2007). As shown in Figure 1, greenhouse gases including carbon dioxide, water vapor, and met ...
The Impacts of Climate Change on World Heritage Properties
... The potential impacts of Climate Change range from physical, to social and cultural aspects. As far as natural heritage is concerned, the vast majority of biomes may be adversely impacted by the effects of Climate Change. Experience and lessons learned on addressing Climate Change impacts stress the ...
... The potential impacts of Climate Change range from physical, to social and cultural aspects. As far as natural heritage is concerned, the vast majority of biomes may be adversely impacted by the effects of Climate Change. Experience and lessons learned on addressing Climate Change impacts stress the ...
Ontario Climate Change and Health Vulnerability and
... Annual mean temperature is projected to increase in the future, with the magnitude of projected increase largely dependent on future emissions of greenhouse gases. For example, by the middle of the 21st Century, winter (December–February) average temperature in Ontario is projected to increase by 3 ...
... Annual mean temperature is projected to increase in the future, with the magnitude of projected increase largely dependent on future emissions of greenhouse gases. For example, by the middle of the 21st Century, winter (December–February) average temperature in Ontario is projected to increase by 3 ...
Modelling the response of glaciers to climate warming
... way in many mountainous regions. People benefit from the presence of glaciers by using meltwater for hydropower reservoirs and irrigation systems. Glacier ice has been used extensively for cooling of cellars and caves. Exploitation of glaciers for tourism is also an important factor in some local ec ...
... way in many mountainous regions. People benefit from the presence of glaciers by using meltwater for hydropower reservoirs and irrigation systems. Glacier ice has been used extensively for cooling of cellars and caves. Exploitation of glaciers for tourism is also an important factor in some local ec ...