The Age of Consequences: The Foreign Policy
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
The age of consequences—the foreign policy and national security
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
The Age of Consequences - The Web site cannot be found
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
... threats are linked to energy use in the industrialized world, and, indeed, the solutions to both depend on transforming the world’s energy economy — America’s energy economy in particular. The security community must come to grips with these linkages, because dealing with ...
Xeni Gwet`in Community-based Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... as well as jeopardize certain tourism and energy projects. At the same time, long-term climate changes may not be all bad. A warmer climate could present new opportunities for agricultural growth, a longer tourist season and new eco-forestry development in the XGCA. These projected changes are by no ...
... as well as jeopardize certain tourism and energy projects. At the same time, long-term climate changes may not be all bad. A warmer climate could present new opportunities for agricultural growth, a longer tourist season and new eco-forestry development in the XGCA. These projected changes are by no ...
ecosystem-based adaptation - Fundação Grupo Boticário de
... The current scenario of climate change raises the need to find ways of mitigating, and adapting to, the negative effects which it provokes. Although mitigation has been emphasized in the international treaties signed in recent decades, in the last few years, adaptation has come to receive greater at ...
... The current scenario of climate change raises the need to find ways of mitigating, and adapting to, the negative effects which it provokes. Although mitigation has been emphasized in the international treaties signed in recent decades, in the last few years, adaptation has come to receive greater at ...
Rapid attribution of the August 2016 flood
... cannot be made based on general assessments of the connection of global warming and extreme rainfall. While attribution studies at a more traditional scientific pace (several months up to a year later) are important and add to scientific understanding of changing extremes, reporting results recently ...
... cannot be made based on general assessments of the connection of global warming and extreme rainfall. While attribution studies at a more traditional scientific pace (several months up to a year later) are important and add to scientific understanding of changing extremes, reporting results recently ...
Full Report - Evans School of Public Policy and Governance
... Although there is one predominant species of sorghum grown in Africa, Sorghum bicolor, Africa features a variety of millet species including pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum, finger or African millet Eleusine coracana, foxtail millet Setaria italica, kodo millet Paspalum scrobicalatum, and white foni ...
... Although there is one predominant species of sorghum grown in Africa, Sorghum bicolor, Africa features a variety of millet species including pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum, finger or African millet Eleusine coracana, foxtail millet Setaria italica, kodo millet Paspalum scrobicalatum, and white foni ...
Hegemony – Dartmouth 2012
... protection." In a candid expression of his feelings after conducting his analysis, Lee writes that "as someone who was heavily involved in providing technical support to policymakers through the research and development of methods for predicting cliff recession that took account of RSLR (see Lee et ...
... protection." In a candid expression of his feelings after conducting his analysis, Lee writes that "as someone who was heavily involved in providing technical support to policymakers through the research and development of methods for predicting cliff recession that took account of RSLR (see Lee et ...
Climate change and Ontario`s provincial parks
... knowledge gaps remain in many areas. As such, the results presented in this study should be taken as indicative, not predictive, of the magnitude of impact climate change may have on Ontario’s provincial parks. A historical climate regime was completed for a representative sample of eight provincial ...
... knowledge gaps remain in many areas. As such, the results presented in this study should be taken as indicative, not predictive, of the magnitude of impact climate change may have on Ontario’s provincial parks. A historical climate regime was completed for a representative sample of eight provincial ...
Methods of assessing human health vulnerability and public health
... Climate change is one of several unprecedented, large-scale, environmental changes that are affecting our planet.These changes reflect the overload of several of the Earth’s biophysical and ecological systems caused by the combined impact of growing human population and economic activities. Environm ...
... Climate change is one of several unprecedented, large-scale, environmental changes that are affecting our planet.These changes reflect the overload of several of the Earth’s biophysical and ecological systems caused by the combined impact of growing human population and economic activities. Environm ...
uganda`s economic development - Konrad-Adenauer
... resources, such as agriculture, forestry, water resources and wildlife, and therefore also a highly relevant factor for the country’s economic development potential. The unpredictability of the climate, captured in the broadest sense in the concept of climate change, is increasingly considered as on ...
... resources, such as agriculture, forestry, water resources and wildlife, and therefore also a highly relevant factor for the country’s economic development potential. The unpredictability of the climate, captured in the broadest sense in the concept of climate change, is increasingly considered as on ...
Indicators of the impact of Climate Change on Migratory Species
... marine mammals, fish and turtles. These are species groups for which there is generally better monitoring data and for which the relationships with climate change are best understood. Whilst we have attempted to obtain representative taxonomic coverage, completely representative coverage has not bee ...
... marine mammals, fish and turtles. These are species groups for which there is generally better monitoring data and for which the relationships with climate change are best understood. Whilst we have attempted to obtain representative taxonomic coverage, completely representative coverage has not bee ...
The Geography of Solving Global Environmental Problems
... However, if we are going to have a meaningful conversation about solving global problems, we cannot avoid really hard problems. Climate change is not only a problem that may be impossible to solve, but also one that raises difficult questions about how we should conceptualize international law. This ...
... However, if we are going to have a meaningful conversation about solving global problems, we cannot avoid really hard problems. Climate change is not only a problem that may be impossible to solve, but also one that raises difficult questions about how we should conceptualize international law. This ...
S Moser Final Report 11 11 08
... Between adrenalin-rushing science fiction movies like Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow (2004) on the one hand and the sober, yet increasingly somber, scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the other (e.g., IPCC 2007a,b), a shelf of academic books has been fill ...
... Between adrenalin-rushing science fiction movies like Roland Emmerich’s The Day After Tomorrow (2004) on the one hand and the sober, yet increasingly somber, scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the other (e.g., IPCC 2007a,b), a shelf of academic books has been fill ...
Abrupt climate change as an important agent of ecological change... Northeast U.S. throughout the past 15,000 years
... 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 (Dieffenbacher-Krall and Nurse, 2005; Li et al., 2007; Newby et al., ...
... 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 (Dieffenbacher-Krall and Nurse, 2005; Li et al., 2007; Newby et al., ...
Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change
... Experts engage in more deliberative thinking than laypersons by utilizing scientific data to estimate the likelihood and consequences of climate change. [2.4.6] Cost‐benefit analysis (CBA) and cost‐effectiveness analysis (CEA) can enable decision makers to examine costs and benefits, but these me ...
... Experts engage in more deliberative thinking than laypersons by utilizing scientific data to estimate the likelihood and consequences of climate change. [2.4.6] Cost‐benefit analysis (CBA) and cost‐effectiveness analysis (CEA) can enable decision makers to examine costs and benefits, but these me ...
CLIMATE CHANGE, MIGRATION, AND THE PUGET SOUND REGION
... These changes will create challenges for human, natural, and economic systems in Pacific Northwest communities, very likely requiring public service managers to make significant changes in how systems are designed and managed in order to deal with these impacts. Despite the challenges that Northwest ...
... These changes will create challenges for human, natural, and economic systems in Pacific Northwest communities, very likely requiring public service managers to make significant changes in how systems are designed and managed in order to deal with these impacts. Despite the challenges that Northwest ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... Environment, Community and Local Government and the EPA will work together on the preparation of these guidelines. In order to ensure effective monitoring and review, it is important that adaptation plans identify those who will be responsible for monitoring the plan, the criteria against which plan ...
... Environment, Community and Local Government and the EPA will work together on the preparation of these guidelines. In order to ensure effective monitoring and review, it is important that adaptation plans identify those who will be responsible for monitoring the plan, the criteria against which plan ...
key parameters for trend detection
... measurement uncertainties are probably high, such that monthly averages are likely to be no more accurate than 1 hPa. Issues and priorities Few records exist before 1961 and there is no global archive before this period. No centre is archiving the data as such, although it is a CLIMAT variable, ...
... measurement uncertainties are probably high, such that monthly averages are likely to be no more accurate than 1 hPa. Issues and priorities Few records exist before 1961 and there is no global archive before this period. No centre is archiving the data as such, although it is a CLIMAT variable, ...
Impacts of climate change on disadvantaged UK coastal communities
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
... Coastal areas are likely to be more vulnerable to climate change than inland areas because, in addition to changes in flooding, temperature and precipitation, they will also be affected by a rise in sea level and wave heights. Both direct effects (such as accelerated coastal erosion and more powerfu ...
National Climate Change Adaptation Framework
... Environment, Community and Local Government and the EPA will work together on the preparation of these guidelines. In order to ensure effective monitoring and review, it is important that adaptation plans identify those who will be responsible for monitoring the plan, the criteria against which plan ...
... Environment, Community and Local Government and the EPA will work together on the preparation of these guidelines. In order to ensure effective monitoring and review, it is important that adaptation plans identify those who will be responsible for monitoring the plan, the criteria against which plan ...
The Long-Run Effects of Climate Change on Conflict
... technology can mitigate the reduction, then for two regions with the same temperature today, the one that was warmer in the past will have technology that is more suitable for higher temperatures and thus experience a smaller reduction from the contemporaneously high temperatures. The underlying eco ...
... technology can mitigate the reduction, then for two regions with the same temperature today, the one that was warmer in the past will have technology that is more suitable for higher temperatures and thus experience a smaller reduction from the contemporaneously high temperatures. The underlying eco ...