Changing Risk Perceptions Policy Brief
... and the winter recreation industry. The frequency and intensity of heat waves and wildfires are projected to rise, increasing the risks of heat-related deaths and the physical damage, air pollution, and suppression costs of large wildfires. Tropical diseases are projected to spread as conditions bec ...
... and the winter recreation industry. The frequency and intensity of heat waves and wildfires are projected to rise, increasing the risks of heat-related deaths and the physical damage, air pollution, and suppression costs of large wildfires. Tropical diseases are projected to spread as conditions bec ...
The Evolution of Multilateral Regimes: Implications for
... single consolidated judicial system to hear complaints, did not dictate a new institutional structure; rather, it reflected the evolution that had already occurred in practice over the previous two decades, through which the Court had become the central institution in the European human rights syste ...
... single consolidated judicial system to hear complaints, did not dictate a new institutional structure; rather, it reflected the evolution that had already occurred in practice over the previous two decades, through which the Court had become the central institution in the European human rights syste ...
Winter 2013
... AMS 2013 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award Gabriel Vecchi, a lecturer in the Department of Geosciences and the AOS Program, who teaches GEO 425 Introduction to Physical Oceanography in the fall, and a researcher in the Climate Change, Variability and Prediction Group at GFDL, has been awarded the 2013 ...
... AMS 2013 Clarence Leroy Meisinger Award Gabriel Vecchi, a lecturer in the Department of Geosciences and the AOS Program, who teaches GEO 425 Introduction to Physical Oceanography in the fall, and a researcher in the Climate Change, Variability and Prediction Group at GFDL, has been awarded the 2013 ...
Handbook for Local Elected Officials on Climate Change
... Mayors and other elected officials as you are the ones on the front lines; your communities are experiencing the changes in climate most acutely. The goal of this Handbook is to provide justifications for why cities should proactively undertake an adaptation process and information on climate change ...
... Mayors and other elected officials as you are the ones on the front lines; your communities are experiencing the changes in climate most acutely. The goal of this Handbook is to provide justifications for why cities should proactively undertake an adaptation process and information on climate change ...
The potential contribution of British Columbia`s forest sector to
... products and bioenergy. Using an integrated systems approach, changes in all three components will be evaluated jointly and over time to design mitigation portfolios that achieve net reductions in GHG emissions to the atmosphere. All activities in a mitigation portfolio need to be evaluated against ...
... products and bioenergy. Using an integrated systems approach, changes in all three components will be evaluated jointly and over time to design mitigation portfolios that achieve net reductions in GHG emissions to the atmosphere. All activities in a mitigation portfolio need to be evaluated against ...
Natural Disaster, Risk and Catastrophic Scenarios: a Review.
... the opportunity to engage policy increasing the well-being of future generations (Stern, 2006), (Weitzman, 2009); the social equity, meaning the opportunity to suffer the cost of policy only for the rich countries or also to the poorer ones (Dasgupta, 2007). Thus, every paper or report investigatin ...
... the opportunity to engage policy increasing the well-being of future generations (Stern, 2006), (Weitzman, 2009); the social equity, meaning the opportunity to suffer the cost of policy only for the rich countries or also to the poorer ones (Dasgupta, 2007). Thus, every paper or report investigatin ...
Stakeholder perceptions
... NGOs were the most aware of changes in climate while respondents from North America and the private sector were the least aware. Respondents that were aware of climate driven changes, considered that trends such as increases in extreme weather events, changes in water availability, more frequent and ...
... NGOs were the most aware of changes in climate while respondents from North America and the private sector were the least aware. Respondents that were aware of climate driven changes, considered that trends such as increases in extreme weather events, changes in water availability, more frequent and ...
Queensland Climate Adaptation Directions Statement
... can better provide guidance to local governments on how to incorporate climate change considerations into local planning schemes. Tools already made available to local governments for use in planning schemes, such as bushfire hazard mapping, include climate change assumptions within their methodolog ...
... can better provide guidance to local governments on how to incorporate climate change considerations into local planning schemes. Tools already made available to local governments for use in planning schemes, such as bushfire hazard mapping, include climate change assumptions within their methodolog ...
Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and
... Owing to its cross-cutting mandate to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, IOM has been looking beyond the emergency phase to promote “durable solutions” in response to displacement induced by natural disasters. This includes facilitating sustainable return or, if the latter i ...
... Owing to its cross-cutting mandate to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, IOM has been looking beyond the emergency phase to promote “durable solutions” in response to displacement induced by natural disasters. This includes facilitating sustainable return or, if the latter i ...
Turning points in climate change adaptation
... and consequences of this new framing. We focus on the specific situation in which a social-political threshold of concern is likely to be exceeded as a result of climate change, requiring consideration of alternative strategies. Action is imperative when such a situation is conceivable, and at this ...
... and consequences of this new framing. We focus on the specific situation in which a social-political threshold of concern is likely to be exceeded as a result of climate change, requiring consideration of alternative strategies. Action is imperative when such a situation is conceivable, and at this ...
REPUBLIC REPUBLIC OF NAURU
... and arable land. Scarcity of arable land and fresh water resources, geographic isolation, dependence on imports for meeting basic food and energy needs, environmental degradation and the emergence of chronic health problems all make achieving sustainable development a difficult task, and at the same ...
... and arable land. Scarcity of arable land and fresh water resources, geographic isolation, dependence on imports for meeting basic food and energy needs, environmental degradation and the emergence of chronic health problems all make achieving sustainable development a difficult task, and at the same ...
Towards a unifying narrative for climate change
... dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,”3 a position that 97.2% of researchers agree with4. This warming may have catastrophic effects on a global scale – “If we don’t tackle climate change, our other problems will be moot”5. A number of reports have shown that there are m ...
... dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century,”3 a position that 97.2% of researchers agree with4. This warming may have catastrophic effects on a global scale – “If we don’t tackle climate change, our other problems will be moot”5. A number of reports have shown that there are m ...
Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation
... Owing to its cross-cutting mandate to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, IOM has been looking beyond the emergency phase to promote “durable solutions” in response to displacement induced by natural disasters. This includes facilitating sustainable return or, if the latter i ...
... Owing to its cross-cutting mandate to help ensure the orderly and humane management of migration, IOM has been looking beyond the emergency phase to promote “durable solutions” in response to displacement induced by natural disasters. This includes facilitating sustainable return or, if the latter i ...
Effects of climate change on European ducks: what do we know and
... cover and hence micro-climate have already changed dramatically in parts of the continent (Tang et al. ...
... cover and hence micro-climate have already changed dramatically in parts of the continent (Tang et al. ...
Climate Change Resources Working Group
... The Climate Change Resources Working Group (CCRWG) suggested that the Regional Backstopping Mechanism be considered separately from any possible regional fund (which has not yet been agreed) and that it should focus on a few focal areas. Amongst other things this backstopping mechanisms should provi ...
... The Climate Change Resources Working Group (CCRWG) suggested that the Regional Backstopping Mechanism be considered separately from any possible regional fund (which has not yet been agreed) and that it should focus on a few focal areas. Amongst other things this backstopping mechanisms should provi ...
The Need for (and Obstacles to) Regional Collective Action in Climate Adaptation
... practices in addressing the major transnational climate challenges identified in Part III: international waterways, conservation, and climate refugees. The picture is largely discouraging, although bright spots exist. Most transboundary water treaties, for example, fail to provide effective adaptive ...
... practices in addressing the major transnational climate challenges identified in Part III: international waterways, conservation, and climate refugees. The picture is largely discouraging, although bright spots exist. Most transboundary water treaties, for example, fail to provide effective adaptive ...
Inaugural Lecture
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
... • Using models and observations to establish that: – 20th century climate change is likely to be human driven with greenhouse gas warming being offset by natural and other human drivers – That external drivers are an important driver of natural climate variability – That humans might have affected 1 ...
Social Aspects of Climate Change in Urban Areas in Low
... brings or is likely to bring are distributed unevenly within urban areas among different social groups. Location influences many impacts — for instance, storms, floods or heat waves usually hit particular parts of a city more severely than others. All impacts are influenced by the quality of housing ...
... brings or is likely to bring are distributed unevenly within urban areas among different social groups. Location influences many impacts — for instance, storms, floods or heat waves usually hit particular parts of a city more severely than others. All impacts are influenced by the quality of housing ...
here - Snowchange Cooperative
... research projects as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, ACIA [Arctic Council, November 2004] and the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC confirm that the Arctic ecosystems and human societies face immense challenges in the near future. At the same time around the Circumpolar ...
... research projects as the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment, ACIA [Arctic Council, November 2004] and the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC confirm that the Arctic ecosystems and human societies face immense challenges in the near future. At the same time around the Circumpolar ...
2 The scientification of climate politics
... had a shock effect in the Netherlands – this first environmental investigation had a fairly alarming tone. Thanks to this scientific input, a National Environmental Policy Plan (NMP) was set up in 1989. In it, global warming is prominently named as a global environmental problem. Ambitious goals for ...
... had a shock effect in the Netherlands – this first environmental investigation had a fairly alarming tone. Thanks to this scientific input, a National Environmental Policy Plan (NMP) was set up in 1989. In it, global warming is prominently named as a global environmental problem. Ambitious goals for ...
- Wiley Online Library
... variables the signal of anthropogenic change has yet to clearly emerge from the ‘noise’ of natural climate variability. [3] So when will the signal emerge? And where and how? These are key questions for adaptation policy and planning in particular. Much attention has focused on the absolute magnitud ...
... variables the signal of anthropogenic change has yet to clearly emerge from the ‘noise’ of natural climate variability. [3] So when will the signal emerge? And where and how? These are key questions for adaptation policy and planning in particular. Much attention has focused on the absolute magnitud ...
Advancing adaptation through climate information services
... n the past when businesses, governments or civil society spoke about action on climate change, they usually spoke about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the reasons for focusing on climate change mitigation are manifold and convincing, it appears true that the urgent need to seriously think ...
... n the past when businesses, governments or civil society spoke about action on climate change, they usually spoke about reducing greenhouse gas emissions. While the reasons for focusing on climate change mitigation are manifold and convincing, it appears true that the urgent need to seriously think ...
Climate change projections for Greater Manchester
... coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about factors such as demographic changes, socio-economic development and technological change. Six storylines for future emissions were developed, each resulting in different estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and the associated increase in g ...
... coherent and internally consistent set of assumptions about factors such as demographic changes, socio-economic development and technological change. Six storylines for future emissions were developed, each resulting in different estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and the associated increase in g ...
production and fish production in large marine ecosystems Potential
... and predation mortality. Other size-dependent (but temporally constant) sources of mortality include intrinsic natural mortality, senescence and fishing mortality. The size-based model was forced with outputs (daily phytoplankton, microzooplankton and detritus biomass density, sea surface and sea fl ...
... and predation mortality. Other size-dependent (but temporally constant) sources of mortality include intrinsic natural mortality, senescence and fishing mortality. The size-based model was forced with outputs (daily phytoplankton, microzooplankton and detritus biomass density, sea surface and sea fl ...
Adaptation Research Program - Department of Agriculture and
... vegetative biomass and tillering was stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in all cultivars. However, side by side comparison of a freely tillering with a restricted tillering cultivar showed that high tillering was not absolutely necessary to capitalise on elevated carbon dioxide if restricted till ...
... vegetative biomass and tillering was stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in all cultivars. However, side by side comparison of a freely tillering with a restricted tillering cultivar showed that high tillering was not absolutely necessary to capitalise on elevated carbon dioxide if restricted till ...