Understanding Farmers` Perceptions and Adaptations to
... Adaptation is widely recognized as a vital component of any policy response to climate change. Studies show that without adaptation, climate change is generally detrimental to the agriculture sector; but with adaptation, vulnerability can largely be reduced (Easterling et al. 1993; Rosenzweig and Pa ...
... Adaptation is widely recognized as a vital component of any policy response to climate change. Studies show that without adaptation, climate change is generally detrimental to the agriculture sector; but with adaptation, vulnerability can largely be reduced (Easterling et al. 1993; Rosenzweig and Pa ...
Climate change impacts on groundwater hydrology
... Refsgaard, J. C., Sonnenborg, T., Butts, M., Christensen, J. H., Christensen, S., Drews, M., ... Vilhelmsen, T. N. (2016). Climate change impacts on groundwater hydrology – where are the main uncertainties and can they be reduced? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61(13), 2312-2324. DOI: 10.1080/026266 ...
... Refsgaard, J. C., Sonnenborg, T., Butts, M., Christensen, J. H., Christensen, S., Drews, M., ... Vilhelmsen, T. N. (2016). Climate change impacts on groundwater hydrology – where are the main uncertainties and can they be reduced? Hydrological Sciences Journal, 61(13), 2312-2324. DOI: 10.1080/026266 ...
A Preliminary Assessment of Ecosystem Vulnerability to Climate
... It is one thing to predict the effects of climate change on a species but quite another to try to predict the consequences on ecosystems, which are made of countless interacting biological and physical factors. While the relationship between species and ecosystem functions is far from being understo ...
... It is one thing to predict the effects of climate change on a species but quite another to try to predict the consequences on ecosystems, which are made of countless interacting biological and physical factors. While the relationship between species and ecosystem functions is far from being understo ...
Annex D – EEA contributors and resource planning
... EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral policy-making than was done in 2012, also building on information available in Climate-ADAPT. 2. Re ...
... EEA reports and information in Climate-ADAPT on those topics. Additionally, the sector-based chapters should include some more information on the consideration of climate change adaptation in sectoral policy-making than was done in 2012, also building on information available in Climate-ADAPT. 2. Re ...
Climate Science, the Public and the News Media
... of mainstream climate science are not being communicated very effectively and they highlight the importance of focusing effort on communicating the science in open, transparent ways that embrace two-way dialogue and engagement. 2) Effective communication of climate science needs new ways of engagin ...
... of mainstream climate science are not being communicated very effectively and they highlight the importance of focusing effort on communicating the science in open, transparent ways that embrace two-way dialogue and engagement. 2) Effective communication of climate science needs new ways of engagin ...
Analysis of Statistical Power Reconciles Drought
... probability of conflict, so large proportional changes in the risk of conflict correspond with sizable changes in the probability of conflict—changes that are large enough to be detected with statistics. The likelihood of conflict in THB’s sample is much lower than other studies because of two of t ...
... probability of conflict, so large proportional changes in the risk of conflict correspond with sizable changes in the probability of conflict—changes that are large enough to be detected with statistics. The likelihood of conflict in THB’s sample is much lower than other studies because of two of t ...
task force on climate remediation research
... land-use changes (e.g., reforestation). In reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (e.g., IPCC’s 2007 report) and in the America’s Climate Choice Reports (released in 2010) by the National Academy, CDR approaches have been considered in the context of climate change mitigatio ...
... land-use changes (e.g., reforestation). In reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (e.g., IPCC’s 2007 report) and in the America’s Climate Choice Reports (released in 2010) by the National Academy, CDR approaches have been considered in the context of climate change mitigatio ...
This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for examining the
... The within-country inequality with regard to the impact of climate change received, as of now, even less attention. The discussion of impact was focused initially on its physical side, i.e. on the impact on nature. With time, the social impact received attention, and evidence was presented regarding ...
... The within-country inequality with regard to the impact of climate change received, as of now, even less attention. The discussion of impact was focused initially on its physical side, i.e. on the impact on nature. With time, the social impact received attention, and evidence was presented regarding ...
Migration and Climate Change - Development Research Centre on
... decisions to leave their homes vary so widely: deciding causality between economic “pull” and environmental “push” is often highly subjective. And finally, disaggregating the role of climate change from other environmental, economic and social factors requires an ambitious analytical step into the d ...
... decisions to leave their homes vary so widely: deciding causality between economic “pull” and environmental “push” is often highly subjective. And finally, disaggregating the role of climate change from other environmental, economic and social factors requires an ambitious analytical step into the d ...
What Is El Niño? - Institute For Global Environmental Strategies
... Pacific that impacts weather worldwide. It is a phenomenon that results from the coupling of the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere. Sometimes the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean slacken and a wedge of warm water in the western Pacific spreads eastward toward the South American coast, where it trap ...
... Pacific that impacts weather worldwide. It is a phenomenon that results from the coupling of the Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere. Sometimes the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean slacken and a wedge of warm water in the western Pacific spreads eastward toward the South American coast, where it trap ...
Attribution of extreme weather and climate
... examples include the European summer heat wave of 2003 that killed many thousands of people14,15 and the flooding in the UK in autumn, 2000.16 A position paper presented to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference in 2011 argued that there was a need to further develop care ...
... examples include the European summer heat wave of 2003 that killed many thousands of people14,15 and the flooding in the UK in autumn, 2000.16 A position paper presented to the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference in 2011 argued that there was a need to further develop care ...
Fisheries-dependent indicators of climate change in Western Australia
... The distribution and abundance of many marine fish and invertebrates and their subsequent recruitment to fisheries in WA is strongly influenced by the Leeuwin Current, best known for its effect on the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus (Lenanton et al. 2009). Over nearly 40 years the Department o ...
... The distribution and abundance of many marine fish and invertebrates and their subsequent recruitment to fisheries in WA is strongly influenced by the Leeuwin Current, best known for its effect on the western rock lobster Panulirus cygnus (Lenanton et al. 2009). Over nearly 40 years the Department o ...
Ireland’s Climate: the road ahead IR E
... Irish climate can only be assessed by using a global model that realistically simulates all of the physical processes that make up the climate system. Interest in the Irish climate has considerably increased in recent years due to international concerns regarding climate change and the linkage with ...
... Irish climate can only be assessed by using a global model that realistically simulates all of the physical processes that make up the climate system. Interest in the Irish climate has considerably increased in recent years due to international concerns regarding climate change and the linkage with ...
Our People, Our Planet, Our Power
... hidden. Environmental racism and structural inequality means that our communities are already more likely to live in areas with high exposure to air pollution, toxic waste sites, the urban heat island effect, and other environmental hazards.5 Climate change exacerbates these problems and their impac ...
... hidden. Environmental racism and structural inequality means that our communities are already more likely to live in areas with high exposure to air pollution, toxic waste sites, the urban heat island effect, and other environmental hazards.5 Climate change exacerbates these problems and their impac ...
Climate Change Impacts on Australia and the Benefits of Early
... Australia is one of the many global regions experiencing significant climate change as a result of global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activities. The average surface air temperature of Australia increased by 0.7°C over the past century – warming that has been accompanied by marke ...
... Australia is one of the many global regions experiencing significant climate change as a result of global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) from human activities. The average surface air temperature of Australia increased by 0.7°C over the past century – warming that has been accompanied by marke ...
Business in a Climate- Constrained World
... cumulatively add up to significant ambition to address climate change. We also offer an open invitation to collaborate on bold collective action. Identifying the right combination of interventions or wedges will require partnership, creativity, dialogue, and piloting approaches over the coming month ...
... cumulatively add up to significant ambition to address climate change. We also offer an open invitation to collaborate on bold collective action. Identifying the right combination of interventions or wedges will require partnership, creativity, dialogue, and piloting approaches over the coming month ...
The Politicization of Climate Change and Polarization in the American
... Yet, at the same time the environmental community was honoring the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore for receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to increase public knowledge about climate change, the Right—conservative think tanks, media figures (such as Rus ...
... Yet, at the same time the environmental community was honoring the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore for receiving the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to increase public knowledge about climate change, the Right—conservative think tanks, media figures (such as Rus ...
Climate Sensitivity, Sea Level, and Atmospheric
... and N2O vary almost synchronously with global temperature during the last 800,000 years when precise data are available from ice cores, the GHGs providing an amplifying feedback that magnifies the climate change instigated by orbit perturbations (Jouzel et al., 2007; Kohler et al., 2010; Masson-Delm ...
... and N2O vary almost synchronously with global temperature during the last 800,000 years when precise data are available from ice cores, the GHGs providing an amplifying feedback that magnifies the climate change instigated by orbit perturbations (Jouzel et al., 2007; Kohler et al., 2010; Masson-Delm ...
Personal experience and the `psychological distance` of
... adaptation behaviors were mediated by global concern about climate change, and concern about local impacts, respectively. These findings suggest that the utility of emphasizing psychological distance versus proximity may vary as a function of the target behavior, and how distant from the self that be ...
... adaptation behaviors were mediated by global concern about climate change, and concern about local impacts, respectively. These findings suggest that the utility of emphasizing psychological distance versus proximity may vary as a function of the target behavior, and how distant from the self that be ...
aberdeen beach case study
... an illustration of the serious problems caused by coastal erosion, and an example of issues which could become more frequent or increase in seriousness in the future as a result of climate change. ...
... an illustration of the serious problems caused by coastal erosion, and an example of issues which could become more frequent or increase in seriousness in the future as a result of climate change. ...
Contested science in the media: linguistic traces of
... experienced when reading interesting and well-argued discourse-based framing papers emanating from other research traditions (see the next section for some examples). Always hoping to find details of the elements considered in the analysis, I eventually came to realize that as a text linguist primar ...
... experienced when reading interesting and well-argued discourse-based framing papers emanating from other research traditions (see the next section for some examples). Always hoping to find details of the elements considered in the analysis, I eventually came to realize that as a text linguist primar ...