NPS SWAN report - UAF SNAP - University of Alaska Fairbanks
... response strategies for the National Park System and the Alaska Region, respectively (NPS 2010a, NPS 2010b). Scenario planning was identified in both strategies as a high priority for understanding potential climate change impacts to park resources, assets and operations. As a result, the NPS and Un ...
... response strategies for the National Park System and the Alaska Region, respectively (NPS 2010a, NPS 2010b). Scenario planning was identified in both strategies as a high priority for understanding potential climate change impacts to park resources, assets and operations. As a result, the NPS and Un ...
Climate Change Financing - SÜDWIND
... important for reasons of effectiveness and efficiency. This is particularly true for adaptation measures, where activities that focus rather on vulnerability issues and activities that have a stronger focus on the impacts of climate change and adaptation are situated along a continuum. Therefore, it ...
... important for reasons of effectiveness and efficiency. This is particularly true for adaptation measures, where activities that focus rather on vulnerability issues and activities that have a stronger focus on the impacts of climate change and adaptation are situated along a continuum. Therefore, it ...
View PDF - Hofstra Law
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
... defined anthropogenic (human-induced) global warming as a legitimate social problem deserving of federal policy action. At the same time, a coordinated anti-environmental countermovement mobilized in the United States to challenge the legitimacy of climate change as a problem on which society should ...
Hydrology - Tufts University School of Engineering
... and local hydrologic regimes?. For hydrologic design and water resources planning, the answers are vital. In this paper, we review the issues involved, and state-of-the-art knowledge of global warming and the hydrologic cycle. The controversy about anthropogenic greenhouse warming effects on the glo ...
... and local hydrologic regimes?. For hydrologic design and water resources planning, the answers are vital. In this paper, we review the issues involved, and state-of-the-art knowledge of global warming and the hydrologic cycle. The controversy about anthropogenic greenhouse warming effects on the glo ...
Báo cáo đánh giá tính tổn thương BĐKH trong hoạt động
... With a total area of 1200 ha accounting for 43% of total production in the Northern region, Giao Thuy’s clam aquaculture creates jobs for 1400 people and provides a source of food and protein for local people. However, it is recognised that the local community aquaculture groups are more exposed and ...
... With a total area of 1200 ha accounting for 43% of total production in the Northern region, Giao Thuy’s clam aquaculture creates jobs for 1400 people and provides a source of food and protein for local people. However, it is recognised that the local community aquaculture groups are more exposed and ...
How Corporations Have Influenced the U.S. Dialogue on Climate
... of [the observed] warming, and highly likely we are responsible for all of it” (NRC 2010). Overwhelmingly, the world’s climate scientists today believe that climate change is occurring and that human activities are the primary cause. ...
... of [the observed] warming, and highly likely we are responsible for all of it” (NRC 2010). Overwhelmingly, the world’s climate scientists today believe that climate change is occurring and that human activities are the primary cause. ...
American Teens` Knowledge of Climate Change
... answers are indicated with a (!). Unknown or uncertain answers are indicated with a (*). All results show percentages among all respondents, unless otherwise labeled. Totals may occasionally sum to more than 100 percent due to rounding. The term “order of items randomized” refers to a standard surve ...
... answers are indicated with a (!). Unknown or uncertain answers are indicated with a (*). All results show percentages among all respondents, unless otherwise labeled. Totals may occasionally sum to more than 100 percent due to rounding. The term “order of items randomized” refers to a standard surve ...
Resilient Buffalo Niagara
... During the same period, the number of hydro-meteorological events has also increased from less than 10 per year to more than 340 per year (Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 2007). Historically, natural climatic variability has been the primary cause of extreme events, but the ...
... During the same period, the number of hydro-meteorological events has also increased from less than 10 per year to more than 340 per year (Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), 2007). Historically, natural climatic variability has been the primary cause of extreme events, but the ...
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... risk associated with future climate scenarios. The mean indicators of economic impacts are important because policy makers and farmers could use this information to predict the aggregate effect of climate change on domestic agricultural market supply. However, these indicators neither represent the ...
... risk associated with future climate scenarios. The mean indicators of economic impacts are important because policy makers and farmers could use this information to predict the aggregate effect of climate change on domestic agricultural market supply. However, these indicators neither represent the ...
Incorporating estuaries as a source or sink of
... marine climate drivers. However, along the New South Wales coast, many more people live on the margins of estuaries or other coastal water bodies than along the open shoreline. The impact of climate change will be felt differently within estuaries. Their response to climate change is mediated by est ...
... marine climate drivers. However, along the New South Wales coast, many more people live on the margins of estuaries or other coastal water bodies than along the open shoreline. The impact of climate change will be felt differently within estuaries. Their response to climate change is mediated by est ...
Egypt - Met Office
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
... available to the researchers in the project was used, unless there were good scientific reasons for not doing so. For example, some impacts areas were omitted, such as many of those associated with human health. In this case, these impacts are strongly dependant on local factors and do not easily le ...
Physical Risks from Climate Change: A guide
... For each of these sectors, this guide includes a description of physical climate risks and business impacts, including some current realworld examples that illustrate the types of risks and impacts companies may increasingly experience because of climate change. In light of these risks, the guide pr ...
... For each of these sectors, this guide includes a description of physical climate risks and business impacts, including some current realworld examples that illustrate the types of risks and impacts companies may increasingly experience because of climate change. In light of these risks, the guide pr ...
Climate change and communicable diseases in the EU
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
... This handbook was developed as an aid for European Union (EU) Member States to assess and manage changes in the risk of infectious disease transmission posed by climate change. The handbook draws on current scientific knowledge as well as experiences and best practices from previous national risk, v ...
physical risks from climate change
... For each of these sectors, this guide includes a description of physical climate risks and business impacts, including some current realworld examples that illustrate the types of risks and impacts companies may increasingly experience because of climate change. In light of these risks, the guide pr ...
... For each of these sectors, this guide includes a description of physical climate risks and business impacts, including some current realworld examples that illustrate the types of risks and impacts companies may increasingly experience because of climate change. In light of these risks, the guide pr ...
Interactive influences of climate change and agriculture on aquatic
... water temperature associated with three climate change scenarios and loss of riparian buffers in two agricultural intensification scenarios may impact aquatic habitats. We also examined the cumulative effects of the interaction of extreme climate change and agricultural intensification scenarios. Ou ...
... water temperature associated with three climate change scenarios and loss of riparian buffers in two agricultural intensification scenarios may impact aquatic habitats. We also examined the cumulative effects of the interaction of extreme climate change and agricultural intensification scenarios. Ou ...
A Review of Climate Change Induced Effects on Avian Prey Species
... in western Iceland. After determining from the literature that a large portion of the western Icelandic arctic fox’s diet are rock ptarmigans and guillemots, I needed to evaluate what the literature says the effects of climate change on these species will be and how changes in these prey species mig ...
... in western Iceland. After determining from the literature that a large portion of the western Icelandic arctic fox’s diet are rock ptarmigans and guillemots, I needed to evaluate what the literature says the effects of climate change on these species will be and how changes in these prey species mig ...
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... Informational and cognitive barriers also can prevent decision makers from beginning or advancing the adaptation process [18]. A study on flood risk management in two Swedish municipalities [19] indicated that, although the stakeholders are aware of climate change, uncertainties remain about “what t ...
... Informational and cognitive barriers also can prevent decision makers from beginning or advancing the adaptation process [18]. A study on flood risk management in two Swedish municipalities [19] indicated that, although the stakeholders are aware of climate change, uncertainties remain about “what t ...
Climate Change and Public Health: MALARIA
... Is it human caused? As far as scientists are concerned, there is no debate about whether climate change is real or whether it is human-caused. The answer is a simple yes. Over 99% of scientists say that the Earth is warming and that the warming is anthropogenic. Scientists have run Global Climate M ...
... Is it human caused? As far as scientists are concerned, there is no debate about whether climate change is real or whether it is human-caused. The answer is a simple yes. Over 99% of scientists say that the Earth is warming and that the warming is anthropogenic. Scientists have run Global Climate M ...
Net primary production of terrestrial ecosystems in China
... Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases (e.g., N2O) will continue to increase in the next century as the result of increasing anthropogenic emissions of these trace gases. Increasing greenhouse gases will further increase the radiative forcing of climate. For doubled ...
... Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other long-lived greenhouse gases (e.g., N2O) will continue to increase in the next century as the result of increasing anthropogenic emissions of these trace gases. Increasing greenhouse gases will further increase the radiative forcing of climate. For doubled ...
Chapter 8: Cross-cutting issues
... overheating in summer and indoor air pollution, unless these risks are addressed at the same time (section 5.3.2). ...
... overheating in summer and indoor air pollution, unless these risks are addressed at the same time (section 5.3.2). ...
Response of hydrological processes to land
... researchers and policy makers. Kejie Watershed in the Salween River Basin in Yunnan, south-west China, has been reforested extensively during the past two decades. In terms of climate change, there has been a marked increase in temperature. The impact of these changes on hydrological processes requi ...
... researchers and policy makers. Kejie Watershed in the Salween River Basin in Yunnan, south-west China, has been reforested extensively during the past two decades. In terms of climate change, there has been a marked increase in temperature. The impact of these changes on hydrological processes requi ...
