Climate Choices for a Sustainable Southwest
... conservation groups, to set aside vast areas of the West to conserve extractive commodities such as timber and protect scenic beauty, wildlife, habitat, and open space. Twentytwo national parks, nearly 66 million acres of national forests, 74 wildlife refuges, and other protected areas cover more th ...
... conservation groups, to set aside vast areas of the West to conserve extractive commodities such as timber and protect scenic beauty, wildlife, habitat, and open space. Twentytwo national parks, nearly 66 million acres of national forests, 74 wildlife refuges, and other protected areas cover more th ...
Marine Science - Climate
... The potential implications of climate change for marine ecosystems, and goods and services derived from marine ecosystems, have prompted the formation of integrated interdisciplinary research partnerships to quantify these impacts in many regions throughout the world (Figure 1; Barange et al., 2011; ...
... The potential implications of climate change for marine ecosystems, and goods and services derived from marine ecosystems, have prompted the formation of integrated interdisciplinary research partnerships to quantify these impacts in many regions throughout the world (Figure 1; Barange et al., 2011; ...
Marine Science
... Rykaczewski and Dunne (2010) hypothesized that decreased ventilation in upwelling zones may increase production due to increased residence times (the period where producers are retained in the high production zone) and nutrient remineralization; however, we note that these benefits could be offset b ...
... Rykaczewski and Dunne (2010) hypothesized that decreased ventilation in upwelling zones may increase production due to increased residence times (the period where producers are retained in the high production zone) and nutrient remineralization; however, we note that these benefits could be offset b ...
Roles of religion and ethics in addressing climate
... with positivism further reinforce the marginalization of ethics and religion, stressing the Platonic separation of thought and action (Gore 1993) rather than encouraging the application of phronesis, the ethical practical wisdom prescribed by Aristotle for a well functioning society (Flyvbjerg 2002, ...
... with positivism further reinforce the marginalization of ethics and religion, stressing the Platonic separation of thought and action (Gore 1993) rather than encouraging the application of phronesis, the ethical practical wisdom prescribed by Aristotle for a well functioning society (Flyvbjerg 2002, ...
Estimating climate change effects on net primary production of
... 2.1 Climate data A spinup simulation was performed to create steady state conditions for the ecosystems from which future projections began. Biome-BGC requires daily estimates of maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, daylength, solar radiation and vapor pressure deficit. Temperature and pr ...
... 2.1 Climate data A spinup simulation was performed to create steady state conditions for the ecosystems from which future projections began. Biome-BGC requires daily estimates of maximum and minimum temperature, precipitation, daylength, solar radiation and vapor pressure deficit. Temperature and pr ...
a survey of regional planning for climate adaptation
... Funding to support analysis and planning for climate adaptation can have a significant effect on action. A number of RPOs around the U.S. have begun to incorporate climate change elements into their regional plans, including long-range transportation plans or Comprehensive Economic Development Stra ...
... Funding to support analysis and planning for climate adaptation can have a significant effect on action. A number of RPOs around the U.S. have begun to incorporate climate change elements into their regional plans, including long-range transportation plans or Comprehensive Economic Development Stra ...
2.0 air quality, climate and climate change
... in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels.” The variability of the earth’s climate has been the subject of much debate over the past decade as a result of the observation that emissions of air pollutants (greenhouse gases and ozon ...
... in arctic climate will also affect the rest of the world through increased global warming and rising sea levels.” The variability of the earth’s climate has been the subject of much debate over the past decade as a result of the observation that emissions of air pollutants (greenhouse gases and ozon ...
ethics and climate change cost-benefit analysis: stern and after
... more sophisticated model of quantitative risk assessment. Instead cost-benefit analysts respond by making ad hoc adjustments to the monetary value of the risk; valuations of life become context-specific. 9 So, whether due to income differences or differing perceptions of risk, the same objective ri ...
... more sophisticated model of quantitative risk assessment. Instead cost-benefit analysts respond by making ad hoc adjustments to the monetary value of the risk; valuations of life become context-specific. 9 So, whether due to income differences or differing perceptions of risk, the same objective ri ...
Revisiting the urban - Durham Research Online
... within urban arenas it is hard to imagine that just a short decade ago such agendas were far from common place. Although the rhetoric of sustainable development had taken hold on urban agendas in some cities by the late 1990s, few engaged with the more abstract issue of climate change. With the bene ...
... within urban arenas it is hard to imagine that just a short decade ago such agendas were far from common place. Although the rhetoric of sustainable development had taken hold on urban agendas in some cities by the late 1990s, few engaged with the more abstract issue of climate change. With the bene ...
Urban Planning for Climate Change – Position Paper of FIG Working
... These four mitigation tasks are frequently entitled “energy-efficient urban planning” (Sustainability Center Bremen 2009: 8) or climate-change relevant tasks (German Institute of Urban Affairs 2011: 33) and cover far more than only the sector energy. Therefore, the following paragraphs also exemplar ...
... These four mitigation tasks are frequently entitled “energy-efficient urban planning” (Sustainability Center Bremen 2009: 8) or climate-change relevant tasks (German Institute of Urban Affairs 2011: 33) and cover far more than only the sector energy. Therefore, the following paragraphs also exemplar ...
Adaptation to Climate Change in the Baltic Countries
... will lay the ground work for preparing a comprehensive EU adaptation strategy to be implemented during phase 2, commencing in 2013. Phase 1 focuses on the following key actions: 1) building a stronger knowledge base on the impact and consequences of climate change for the EU; 2) taking climate chang ...
... will lay the ground work for preparing a comprehensive EU adaptation strategy to be implemented during phase 2, commencing in 2013. Phase 1 focuses on the following key actions: 1) building a stronger knowledge base on the impact and consequences of climate change for the EU; 2) taking climate chang ...
Climatic Threat Spaces as a Tool to Assess Current and Future
... care should be taken regarding some environmental factors such as soils and pests, which are complexly related to climatic variations. In any case, all of these factors should be part of the “story” that must be documented to decide the weight of climatological factors on agricultural production. Th ...
... care should be taken regarding some environmental factors such as soils and pests, which are complexly related to climatic variations. In any case, all of these factors should be part of the “story” that must be documented to decide the weight of climatological factors on agricultural production. Th ...
Tonga Climate Change Policy
... Tonga and the Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. One of the major capacity development needs that was addressed in this report is to develop a National Climate Change Policy. At that time Government of Tonga has been aware of the importance of including environmental issues in its national strategic plan e ...
... Tonga and the Secretariat, Bonn, Germany. One of the major capacity development needs that was addressed in this report is to develop a National Climate Change Policy. At that time Government of Tonga has been aware of the importance of including environmental issues in its national strategic plan e ...
Global Warming Greenhouse effect Heat lost to
... CO2 has increased from 300 parts per million in 1920 (1) to nearly 380 parts per million in 2000 (1). In this 20 year period it has increased by 80 parts per million (1) which is almost a quarter of ...
... CO2 has increased from 300 parts per million in 1920 (1) to nearly 380 parts per million in 2000 (1). In this 20 year period it has increased by 80 parts per million (1) which is almost a quarter of ...
Towards Adaptive Spatial Planning for Climate Change
... the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the legal principles that structure spatial planning, the governance of actual planning processes and the arrangements to distribute costs and benefits of s ...
... the challenges climate change poses for the way western societies organize their spatial planning, with a special focus on the implications for the legal principles that structure spatial planning, the governance of actual planning processes and the arrangements to distribute costs and benefits of s ...
Climate change and marine plankton
... and contract in line with funding levels. The CalCOFI programme off the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling condu ...
... and contract in line with funding levels. The CalCOFI programme off the coast of California began to sample mesozooplankton during 1949 using ring nets deployed at a regular grid of stations [65]. However, by the 1970s, funding cuts meant that the spatial coverage was reduced, with no sampling condu ...
Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press
... combined’’ (New York Times, 2001, p. A12). During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)— improved understanding of global warming, and produced three major reports and many related docum ...
... combined’’ (New York Times, 2001, p. A12). During this time, top climate change scientists from around the globe—comprising the United Nations-sponsored Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)— improved understanding of global warming, and produced three major reports and many related docum ...