Climate Change, Risk and Productivity: Analyses of Chinese
... Over the past decades, China’s agricultural sector has made great progress in supplying the country’s large population with sufficient amounts of food. However, as a consequence of continuing population growth and an increasing wealth, it is generally expected that the demand both for basic food com ...
... Over the past decades, China’s agricultural sector has made great progress in supplying the country’s large population with sufficient amounts of food. However, as a consequence of continuing population growth and an increasing wealth, it is generally expected that the demand both for basic food com ...
Exploring comparable post-2012 reduction efforts for Annex I
... Annex I countries and Advanced Developing Countries’. The project was conducted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and Ecofys–Germany. The project has been financed by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), as part of its National Research P ...
... Annex I countries and Advanced Developing Countries’. The project was conducted by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL) and Ecofys–Germany. The project has been financed by the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM), as part of its National Research P ...
Climate Futures for Tasmania: water and catchments technical report
... relatively small statewide changes. Annual runoff is likely to decrease significantly in Tasmania’s central highlands, with 30% less runoff in some areas. On average, annual runoff in eastern areas of the state are generally projected to increase, particularly in the lowlands. Runoff in the lower De ...
... relatively small statewide changes. Annual runoff is likely to decrease significantly in Tasmania’s central highlands, with 30% less runoff in some areas. On average, annual runoff in eastern areas of the state are generally projected to increase, particularly in the lowlands. Runoff in the lower De ...
Climate Models and Their Evaluation
... because of their large computational cost. Owing to the reduced resolution of EMICs and their simplified representation of some physical processes, these models only allow inferences about very large scales. Since the TAR, EMICs have been evaluated via several coordinated model intercomparisons whic ...
... because of their large computational cost. Owing to the reduced resolution of EMICs and their simplified representation of some physical processes, these models only allow inferences about very large scales. Since the TAR, EMICs have been evaluated via several coordinated model intercomparisons whic ...
IPCC-ar4-wg1-chapter8-ClimateModels.pdf
... because of their large computational cost. Owing to the reduced resolution of EMICs and their simplified representation of some physical processes, these models only allow inferences about very large scales. Since the TAR, EMICs have been evaluated via several coordinated model intercomparisons whic ...
... because of their large computational cost. Owing to the reduced resolution of EMICs and their simplified representation of some physical processes, these models only allow inferences about very large scales. Since the TAR, EMICs have been evaluated via several coordinated model intercomparisons whic ...
The Impact of Satellite-Derived Land Cover Uncertainty on Carbon
... HE land surface plays a central role in the Earth’s carbon cycle. Globally, anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions due to fossil fuel burning, cement production and land use change (mainly from tropical deforestation) averaged around 8.0 GtC y−1 during the 1990s, but with large uncertainties, ...
... HE land surface plays a central role in the Earth’s carbon cycle. Globally, anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2 ) emissions due to fossil fuel burning, cement production and land use change (mainly from tropical deforestation) averaged around 8.0 GtC y−1 during the 1990s, but with large uncertainties, ...
Tripura - Ministry of Environment and Forests
... and to integrate environment and climate change issues in development planning, policy and sectoral programmes and move towards a low carbon growth path. The Action Plan is prepared with an aim to execute it in a span of five years from 2012-17 with a midway review at the beginning of 3rd year, if n ...
... and to integrate environment and climate change issues in development planning, policy and sectoral programmes and move towards a low carbon growth path. The Action Plan is prepared with an aim to execute it in a span of five years from 2012-17 with a midway review at the beginning of 3rd year, if n ...
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... difficult, however, to select CO2 storage sites guaranteed characterised by such low leakage rates, let alone by 100% storage efficiency. Even while the geosciences leave most of the large physical CO2 leakage rate uncertainties for the moment unresolved, one may ask already now what the leakage rat ...
... difficult, however, to select CO2 storage sites guaranteed characterised by such low leakage rates, let alone by 100% storage efficiency. Even while the geosciences leave most of the large physical CO2 leakage rate uncertainties for the moment unresolved, one may ask already now what the leakage rat ...
Modeling dynamics of tundra plant communities on the Yamal
... analysis suggests that changes in nutrient uptake rates may result in different shrub responses to grazing pressure. Heavy grazing caused plant communities to shift from shrub tundra toward moss, graminoid-dominated tundra in subzones C and D when evergreen shrub growth rates were decreased in the m ...
... analysis suggests that changes in nutrient uptake rates may result in different shrub responses to grazing pressure. Heavy grazing caused plant communities to shift from shrub tundra toward moss, graminoid-dominated tundra in subzones C and D when evergreen shrub growth rates were decreased in the m ...
ORGANIZATIONAL INVOLVEMENT IN CARBON MITIGATION: THE NEW ZEALAND PUBLIC SECTOR Stephen Jeffrey Birchall
... navigating the challenges presented by the earthquakes throughout the last few years was made easier. And most importantly, I would like to thank my partner Emily. It has been through her dedicated support and continued encouragement (and preparation of many meals!) that I have been able to complete ...
... navigating the challenges presented by the earthquakes throughout the last few years was made easier. And most importantly, I would like to thank my partner Emily. It has been through her dedicated support and continued encouragement (and preparation of many meals!) that I have been able to complete ...
Design and implementation of a coastal eco
... synergies, links and differences between the two approaches. It also identifies how climate resilience can (and should) be included into the design of EbA approaches at a national planning level and on the ground interventions. It then provides clarity on how to apply EbA principles into ICZM policy ...
... synergies, links and differences between the two approaches. It also identifies how climate resilience can (and should) be included into the design of EbA approaches at a national planning level and on the ground interventions. It then provides clarity on how to apply EbA principles into ICZM policy ...
Chapters X and XI: Appendices and Bibliography
... emphasising local solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. A2 describes a very heterogeneous world with high population growth, slow economic development and slow technological change. No likelihood has been attached to any of the SRES scenarios. {WGIII TS.1, SPM} Climate mod ...
... emphasising local solutions to economic, social, and environmental sustainability. A2 describes a very heterogeneous world with high population growth, slow economic development and slow technological change. No likelihood has been attached to any of the SRES scenarios. {WGIII TS.1, SPM} Climate mod ...
Protected areas helping peopel cope with climate change
... protected areas, especially those conserved by indigenous peoples, lose less forest than other management systems*. But these co-benefits for climate, biodiversity and society are often missed or ignored. This book clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly t ...
... protected areas, especially those conserved by indigenous peoples, lose less forest than other management systems*. But these co-benefits for climate, biodiversity and society are often missed or ignored. This book clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly t ...
Protected areas helping people cope with climate change
... protected areas, especially those conserved by indigenous peoples, lose less forest than other management systems*. But these co-benefits for climate, biodiversity and society are often missed or ignored. This book clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly t ...
... protected areas, especially those conserved by indigenous peoples, lose less forest than other management systems*. But these co-benefits for climate, biodiversity and society are often missed or ignored. This book clearly articulates for the first time how protected areas contribute significantly t ...
Abrupt climate change as an important agent of ecological change... Northeast U.S. throughout the past 15,000 years
... Holocene climate trends in the North Atlantic region were also punctuated by a series of ice-rafting events (Bond et al., 1997) and by other cool periods documented in Greenland (Alley, 2000). Rapid lake-level changes in the northeast U.S. may be related to these episodes in the North Atlantic (Dief ...
... Holocene climate trends in the North Atlantic region were also punctuated by a series of ice-rafting events (Bond et al., 1997) and by other cool periods documented in Greenland (Alley, 2000). Rapid lake-level changes in the northeast U.S. may be related to these episodes in the North Atlantic (Dief ...
Climate Vulnerability Monitor
... action: Bangladesh has committed never to exceed the average per capita emissions of the developing countries. Costa Rica aims to be carbon neutral by 2021. But there are limits to what individual countries can achieve. Solving the climate challenge requires broadest international cooperation. And y ...
... action: Bangladesh has committed never to exceed the average per capita emissions of the developing countries. Costa Rica aims to be carbon neutral by 2021. But there are limits to what individual countries can achieve. Solving the climate challenge requires broadest international cooperation. And y ...
The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change
... biased. To address this concern I directly control for a host of relevant geographic and historical control variables. Each variable is interacted with a full set of time indicator variables to allow for ‡exible e¤ects over time. I control for soil suitability for potato and wheat cultivation (Nunn, ...
... biased. To address this concern I directly control for a host of relevant geographic and historical control variables. Each variable is interacted with a full set of time indicator variables to allow for ‡exible e¤ects over time. I control for soil suitability for potato and wheat cultivation (Nunn, ...
The effectiveness of climate finance: a review of the Adaptation Fund
... the recipients of funding (type of institution; geographic distribution); the level at which funds have worked; Instruments through which funding was delivered (such as grants, performance based grants; concessional loans, guarantees, equity, etc); and the types of technologies and approaches that h ...
... the recipients of funding (type of institution; geographic distribution); the level at which funds have worked; Instruments through which funding was delivered (such as grants, performance based grants; concessional loans, guarantees, equity, etc); and the types of technologies and approaches that h ...
Curriculum Vitae - CHG - University of California, Santa Barbara
... Duties: Developed geo-spatial rainfall modeling techniques, analyzed African climate variability & drought for FEWS NET, taught Tropical Meteorology, Physical Climatology, Geographic ...
... Duties: Developed geo-spatial rainfall modeling techniques, analyzed African climate variability & drought for FEWS NET, taught Tropical Meteorology, Physical Climatology, Geographic ...
PDF - iied iied - International Institute for Environment
... 2.1 Case study area: city of Quy Nhon Situated beside the Thi Nai lagoon, Quy Nhon City has undergone dramatic changes in its land-use patterns due to very rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. The physical growth of the city was caused by the development of residential and industrial activity a ...
... 2.1 Case study area: city of Quy Nhon Situated beside the Thi Nai lagoon, Quy Nhon City has undergone dramatic changes in its land-use patterns due to very rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. The physical growth of the city was caused by the development of residential and industrial activity a ...
Academic paper: Vulnerability: A generally applicable conceptual
... feeding the rivers of this arid region are expected to have disappeared by that time whereas an assessment focussing on current risks might regard Florida as more vulnerable because it already suffers substantial damage from hurricanes at present. ...
... feeding the rivers of this arid region are expected to have disappeared by that time whereas an assessment focussing on current risks might regard Florida as more vulnerable because it already suffers substantial damage from hurricanes at present. ...
climate change and african forest and wildlife resources
... carbon cycle, play vital roles in climatic change and variability. Climate, on the other hand, affects the function and structure of forests. Understanding this vital relation is critical in developing appropriate policies and technology options that can contain the adverse effects of climate change ...
... carbon cycle, play vital roles in climatic change and variability. Climate, on the other hand, affects the function and structure of forests. Understanding this vital relation is critical in developing appropriate policies and technology options that can contain the adverse effects of climate change ...
Considering Vermont`s Future in a Changing Climate: The First
... directly to the impacts of climate change as they pertain to our rural towns, cities and communities, including impacts on Vermont tourism and recreation, agriculture, natural resources and energy. A Call for Action in Vermont Climate change is no longer a thing of the future; it is affecting Vermon ...
... directly to the impacts of climate change as they pertain to our rural towns, cities and communities, including impacts on Vermont tourism and recreation, agriculture, natural resources and energy. A Call for Action in Vermont Climate change is no longer a thing of the future; it is affecting Vermon ...
Summer climate and heatwaves in Europe
... North Atlantic Oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
... North Atlantic Oscillation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
UNEP Regional Office for Africa
... (UNEP) Emission Gap Report confirms that the current mitigation pledges – unless strengthened – will set the world on course for global warming of between 2.5 to 5°C. Further to this, there is indication that temperature rises are likely to be progressively higher in Africa with other climate relate ...
... (UNEP) Emission Gap Report confirms that the current mitigation pledges – unless strengthened – will set the world on course for global warming of between 2.5 to 5°C. Further to this, there is indication that temperature rises are likely to be progressively higher in Africa with other climate relate ...