How Does a Regional Climate Model Modify the Projected Climate
... The historical experiment of MPI-ESM started in 1850 from a pre-industrial control simulation with a total length of 1,000 years with prescribed constant natural climate forcing. Starting from three different years of the pre-industrial control run, three realizations were integrated from 1850–2005 ...
... The historical experiment of MPI-ESM started in 1850 from a pre-industrial control simulation with a total length of 1,000 years with prescribed constant natural climate forcing. Starting from three different years of the pre-industrial control run, three realizations were integrated from 1850–2005 ...
anthropology and climate change - North Atlantic Biocultural
... cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implications of reindeer-centered cultures (or other groups dependent on species that ...
... cultures as the reindeer-herding Eveny of northeastern Siberia will find ways to feed themselves even if their reindeer cannot survive the projected climactic shifts, as anthropologists we need to grapple with the implications of reindeer-centered cultures (or other groups dependent on species that ...
Climate Change and Nutrition Security
... of the AWG-LCA should stress that support for adaptation and mitigation should protect and improve nutrition. Climate Funds and private investments that will finance climate change adaptation and mitigation in LMIC should be nutrition-sensitive, with national adaptation plans ensuring adequate budget ...
... of the AWG-LCA should stress that support for adaptation and mitigation should protect and improve nutrition. Climate Funds and private investments that will finance climate change adaptation and mitigation in LMIC should be nutrition-sensitive, with national adaptation plans ensuring adequate budget ...
Climate change and drought policy in Victoria: context and
... the goods and services we have come to take for granted, to a large extent depend on energy use systems which are unsustainable. A 2°C increase in average global temperatures is generally accepted as the threshold beyond which dangerous climate change will occur. To avoid warming of this scale is es ...
... the goods and services we have come to take for granted, to a large extent depend on energy use systems which are unsustainable. A 2°C increase in average global temperatures is generally accepted as the threshold beyond which dangerous climate change will occur. To avoid warming of this scale is es ...
Migration in response to environmental change
... There are several global environmental changes which may cause human migration. There are several global environmental changes which may cause human migration. Climate change is, of course, a major factor. Sea level rise, changes in storm or cyclone frequency, changes in rainfall patterns, forest fi ...
... There are several global environmental changes which may cause human migration. There are several global environmental changes which may cause human migration. Climate change is, of course, a major factor. Sea level rise, changes in storm or cyclone frequency, changes in rainfall patterns, forest fi ...
A Framework for the Development of New Socio
... GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide variety of methods. These scenarios are essential not only for understanding potential impacts, but also as input for possible decision-making about adaptation to climate change’s effects. In each case, the flow of information has been one-way, from one set ...
... GCMs, or may be downscaled through a wide variety of methods. These scenarios are essential not only for understanding potential impacts, but also as input for possible decision-making about adaptation to climate change’s effects. In each case, the flow of information has been one-way, from one set ...
Curriculum Vitae - Center for Research on Environmental
... Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet. Theoretical and methodological considerations on the study of mountain peoples: reflections on the idea of subsistence type and the role of history in human ecology. Mountain Research and Development 5(1):3-18. Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet, eds. Convergences a ...
... Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet. Theoretical and methodological considerations on the study of mountain peoples: reflections on the idea of subsistence type and the role of history in human ecology. Mountain Research and Development 5(1):3-18. Benjamin Orlove and David Guillet, eds. Convergences a ...
Land-use and carbon cycle responses
... the mitigation potential of deforestation avoidance and afforestation3,26–28. However, none of these studies accounted for possible land-use responses to climate change (e.g. less deforestation due to climate-change induced crop yield increases that reduce cropland requirements) and their impacts on ...
... the mitigation potential of deforestation avoidance and afforestation3,26–28. However, none of these studies accounted for possible land-use responses to climate change (e.g. less deforestation due to climate-change induced crop yield increases that reduce cropland requirements) and their impacts on ...
Adapting bridge infrastructure to climate change: institutionalizing resilience in intergovernmental transportation planning
... for improvement include standardization and digitization of records, infrastructure resilience monitoring, the expansion of asset inventories, and updating project prioritization guidelines (Johnson 2012). Not long after Tropical Storm Irene, in 2012, Super Storm Sandy caused approximately $5.7 bill ...
... for improvement include standardization and digitization of records, infrastructure resilience monitoring, the expansion of asset inventories, and updating project prioritization guidelines (Johnson 2012). Not long after Tropical Storm Irene, in 2012, Super Storm Sandy caused approximately $5.7 bill ...
Research and systematic observation
... Over the past decade, the number of R&D personnel has grown from 40,000 to nearly 80,000. This equates to over 2 per cent of the labour force, which is the highest figure among all OECD countries. The number of doctoral degrees has also doubled in the past ten years. Climate change has become a prio ...
... Over the past decade, the number of R&D personnel has grown from 40,000 to nearly 80,000. This equates to over 2 per cent of the labour force, which is the highest figure among all OECD countries. The number of doctoral degrees has also doubled in the past ten years. Climate change has become a prio ...
Document
... Climate change is an extraordinarily complex problem about which many uncertainties (in the Knightian sense of the term13) persist. The international community is endeavoring to resolve a global-cost problem (i.e., a social-cost problem affecting the entire world) that is not yet, and may never be, ...
... Climate change is an extraordinarily complex problem about which many uncertainties (in the Knightian sense of the term13) persist. The international community is endeavoring to resolve a global-cost problem (i.e., a social-cost problem affecting the entire world) that is not yet, and may never be, ...
The Emergence of Climate Change Mitigation Action by Society: An
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
... 1.4 Currently society’s response to climate change has not been incorporated adequately in modelling studies on the energy system, climate change and associated impact as researchers have widely acknowledged (Balbi & Giupponi 2009; Brede & de Vries 2013; Giupponi et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2013; Pfe ...
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... convictions and beliefs which act powerfully in the form of ‘popular beliefs’.”21 Such a conception of necessity on global warming has to do with the amount of greenhouse gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concr ...
... convictions and beliefs which act powerfully in the form of ‘popular beliefs’.”21 Such a conception of necessity on global warming has to do with the amount of greenhouse gases we can emit into the atmosphere. The perceived necessity on global warming is developing fast, and becoming ever more concr ...
The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production
... an improvement in conditions for some farm operations, including harvesting. At the same time, the National Report noted that it will not be possible for Russia to attain advantages over other countries which are food exporters without action to adapt agriculture to the expected changes in climate a ...
... an improvement in conditions for some farm operations, including harvesting. At the same time, the National Report noted that it will not be possible for Russia to attain advantages over other countries which are food exporters without action to adapt agriculture to the expected changes in climate a ...
Harley b/l - CalCOFI.org
... Rocky intertidal assemblages, by virtue of their straddling the interface between the marine and terrestrial realms, respond to changes in both oceanic and atmospheric conditions. Intertidal sampling in the 1930s and 1990s in Pacific Grove, California, revealed an increase in the abundance of southe ...
... Rocky intertidal assemblages, by virtue of their straddling the interface between the marine and terrestrial realms, respond to changes in both oceanic and atmospheric conditions. Intertidal sampling in the 1930s and 1990s in Pacific Grove, California, revealed an increase in the abundance of southe ...
How climate change responses by land managers could benefit
... The theme of this think piece is to identify the positive opportunities and practices for land managers to implement adaptation and mitigation measures that benefit New Zealand’s native biodiversity. Some adaptation options to climate change, including some proposed or in place, can be maladaptive a ...
... The theme of this think piece is to identify the positive opportunities and practices for land managers to implement adaptation and mitigation measures that benefit New Zealand’s native biodiversity. Some adaptation options to climate change, including some proposed or in place, can be maladaptive a ...
Climate Change and Water Resources in the Tropical Andes
... Soruco et al. recently estimated that the 376 glaciers in the Cordillera Real on average had been subject to an estimated 43 percent (0.9 km3) volume loss between 1963 and 2006 and a 48 percent decline in surface area between 1975 and 2006.41 These changes in glacier volume will eventually lead to s ...
... Soruco et al. recently estimated that the 376 glaciers in the Cordillera Real on average had been subject to an estimated 43 percent (0.9 km3) volume loss between 1963 and 2006 and a 48 percent decline in surface area between 1975 and 2006.41 These changes in glacier volume will eventually lead to s ...
Comparing Conceptualizations of Urban Climate Resilience in
... characteristics of resilient systems that we identified in the literature as important, but we find practice than what is commonly discussed in the scholarly literature. Collectively, the practitioners considerable variation in the extent to which practitioners include these characteristics in their ...
... characteristics of resilient systems that we identified in the literature as important, but we find practice than what is commonly discussed in the scholarly literature. Collectively, the practitioners considerable variation in the extent to which practitioners include these characteristics in their ...
The change of the hydrological cycle under the influence of global
... Within the broad west-east belt of taiga through West and East Siberia, runoff in the Holocene optimum was lower than at present by 50 mm and more. An insignificant decrease of runoff also took place in the north-eastern margin of the Asiatic continent and in the regions abuting the Sea of Japan. Th ...
... Within the broad west-east belt of taiga through West and East Siberia, runoff in the Holocene optimum was lower than at present by 50 mm and more. An insignificant decrease of runoff also took place in the north-eastern margin of the Asiatic continent and in the regions abuting the Sea of Japan. Th ...
Coffee and Climate Change
... perspectives of farmers indicates that 57% of farmers lost coffee in 2006, 27% due to excess rainfall and 26% due to lack of rain. Overall 39% of respondents were concerned about effects on coffee of drought, 30% heavy rains, and 23% hurricanes. Most considered the frequency of these events has incr ...
... perspectives of farmers indicates that 57% of farmers lost coffee in 2006, 27% due to excess rainfall and 26% due to lack of rain. Overall 39% of respondents were concerned about effects on coffee of drought, 30% heavy rains, and 23% hurricanes. Most considered the frequency of these events has incr ...
Predicting species responses to climate change: demography and
... Abstract Anticipating species movement under climate change is a major focus in conservation. Bioclimate models are one of the few predictive tools for adaptation planning, but are limited in accounting for (i) climatic tolerances in preadult life stages that are potentially more vulnerable to warmi ...
... Abstract Anticipating species movement under climate change is a major focus in conservation. Bioclimate models are one of the few predictive tools for adaptation planning, but are limited in accounting for (i) climatic tolerances in preadult life stages that are potentially more vulnerable to warmi ...
- SEA START RC
... through which adaptation processes are implemented? What are the current entry points for adaptation? Who are the current actors (state, non-state) with respect to climate-related governance? What are the existing strengths and limitations in these approaches? To what extent are existing institution ...
... through which adaptation processes are implemented? What are the current entry points for adaptation? Who are the current actors (state, non-state) with respect to climate-related governance? What are the existing strengths and limitations in these approaches? To what extent are existing institution ...
Paper on Enforcement with regard to the Adaptation to Climate
... At this moment, reporting at EU level of information on climate action takes place under Decisions 280/2004/EC4 and 2005/166/EC5, commonly known as the Monitoring Mechanism Decision or ‘MMD’. The MMD aims, inter alia, to ensure timely, accurate, complete, consistent, comparable and transparent (‘TAC ...
... At this moment, reporting at EU level of information on climate action takes place under Decisions 280/2004/EC4 and 2005/166/EC5, commonly known as the Monitoring Mechanism Decision or ‘MMD’. The MMD aims, inter alia, to ensure timely, accurate, complete, consistent, comparable and transparent (‘TAC ...
Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
... capacity, much of which may be attributed to a combination of spatial fixity and sunk costs. Accommodations, food and beverage outlets, and built attractions and facilities such as theme parks and marinas are all fixed entities with considerable capital investments that are not easily liquidated or ...
world development report 2010: Development and Climate Change
... Immediate action is needed to keep warming as close as possible to 2°C. That amount of warming is not desirable, but it is likely to be the best we can do. There isn’t a consensus in the economic profession that this is the economic optimum. There is, however, a growing consensus in policy and scien ...
... Immediate action is needed to keep warming as close as possible to 2°C. That amount of warming is not desirable, but it is likely to be the best we can do. There isn’t a consensus in the economic profession that this is the economic optimum. There is, however, a growing consensus in policy and scien ...