The Spatial Dimensions of Climate Change at the Mega
... development planning, scoping planning issues and opportunities at different spatial scales and highlighting the need to link global mitigation measures and local adaptation responses at the urban scale. For HCMC it creates the necessity to take climate change responses into account in spatial plann ...
... development planning, scoping planning issues and opportunities at different spatial scales and highlighting the need to link global mitigation measures and local adaptation responses at the urban scale. For HCMC it creates the necessity to take climate change responses into account in spatial plann ...
Climate change and groundwater: a short review Geological Society
... defined at present. In any case, today, there is an unanimous consensus on the forecast that the warming will persist for decades, no matter what action is taken (Michaels 2005; Singer & Avery 2006; Trenberth et al. 2006; IPCC 2007). As the warming process continues, it will bring about numerous env ...
... defined at present. In any case, today, there is an unanimous consensus on the forecast that the warming will persist for decades, no matter what action is taken (Michaels 2005; Singer & Avery 2006; Trenberth et al. 2006; IPCC 2007). As the warming process continues, it will bring about numerous env ...
Demographic Amplification of Climate Change Experienced by the
... Finally, because human population size and distribution have been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each coun ...
... Finally, because human population size and distribution have been previously argued to be strongly associated with coastal zones and navigable rivers and only weakly with climate conditions [19] we included distance from waterway (calculated as the shortest distance between the centroid of each coun ...
This PDF is a selection from a published volume from... Research Volume Title: The Economics of Climate Change: Adaptations Past and...
... damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifications may seem arcane, but I explain why it can make a surprisingly significant difference in the evaluation of future scenarios involving both high temperatures and high consumption. There are a great many structural uncer ...
... damages. The distinction between multiplicative and additive welfare specifications may seem arcane, but I explain why it can make a surprisingly significant difference in the evaluation of future scenarios involving both high temperatures and high consumption. There are a great many structural uncer ...
On the Risk of Overshooting 2°C - Potsdam Institute for Climate
... For other uncertainties, this study assumes IPCC TAR ‘best estimate’ parameters, such as those related to climate system inertia and carbon cycle feedbacks. Assumptions in regard to solar and volcanic forcing are described elsewhere [22]. In order to assess the emission implications of different sta ...
... For other uncertainties, this study assumes IPCC TAR ‘best estimate’ parameters, such as those related to climate system inertia and carbon cycle feedbacks. Assumptions in regard to solar and volcanic forcing are described elsewhere [22]. In order to assess the emission implications of different sta ...
WMO Global Observing Systems for Climate Monitoring
... Secretary-General of WMO within 12 months of the task force being set up. The report should contain findings and proposed next steps for developing and implementing a Framework. In the development of their report, the taskforce will take into account the concepts outlined in the annexed Brief Note; ...
... Secretary-General of WMO within 12 months of the task force being set up. The report should contain findings and proposed next steps for developing and implementing a Framework. In the development of their report, the taskforce will take into account the concepts outlined in the annexed Brief Note; ...
Comparative Climate Change Governance: Lessons from European
... TMNs have adapted to the opportunity structure in the EU’s multi-level system to connect and have access to key decision-makers as well as resources (Ladrech, 2005). Most networks concentrate on two goals: representing the interest of their members, at the European level in particular, and facilitat ...
... TMNs have adapted to the opportunity structure in the EU’s multi-level system to connect and have access to key decision-makers as well as resources (Ladrech, 2005). Most networks concentrate on two goals: representing the interest of their members, at the European level in particular, and facilitat ...
The Demographic Implications of Climate Change for Aotearoa New
... The international literature reveals little about changes in fertility as a result of climate change. While global fertility clearly has large implications for future population growth and therefore flow-on effects on carbon emissions and climate change, there is to date no evidence of effects of cl ...
... The international literature reveals little about changes in fertility as a result of climate change. While global fertility clearly has large implications for future population growth and therefore flow-on effects on carbon emissions and climate change, there is to date no evidence of effects of cl ...
the calm before the storm
... then suffers from the consequences of this. Vietnam, the second most important coffee growing region in the world, was one of the seven countries most seriously affected by extreme weather events between 1994 and 2013. In this period the Global Climate Risk Index recorded over 200 extreme weather ev ...
... then suffers from the consequences of this. Vietnam, the second most important coffee growing region in the world, was one of the seven countries most seriously affected by extreme weather events between 1994 and 2013. In this period the Global Climate Risk Index recorded over 200 extreme weather ev ...
SUBREGIONAL CLIMATE ACTION PLAN ADAPTATION AND
... Similarly, low-income individuals are less likely to adapt to increased prices for food, water, and other basic necessities as a result of drought conditions. Some areas in the subregion have high rates of poverty; in some census tracts, over 70% of residents are identified as low income (Cal OEHHA ...
... Similarly, low-income individuals are less likely to adapt to increased prices for food, water, and other basic necessities as a result of drought conditions. Some areas in the subregion have high rates of poverty; in some census tracts, over 70% of residents are identified as low income (Cal OEHHA ...
Aerosol exposure versus aerosol cooling of climate
... the estimated number of lives saved from the cooling effect of the emissions. The analysis showed that, with current level of scientific understanding, it could not be determined whether ship emissions are negative or positive for human health on a short time scale. This first attempt to approximate ...
... the estimated number of lives saved from the cooling effect of the emissions. The analysis showed that, with current level of scientific understanding, it could not be determined whether ship emissions are negative or positive for human health on a short time scale. This first attempt to approximate ...
COP 17 and accountants: where next? AccountAncy futures
... And it is a problem we must solve: our natural world is the foundation for everything else. It is the foundation of business success. It is the foundation of economic growth. It is the foundation of our way of life. We can solve the world’s financial problems, but without solving the challenges to t ...
... And it is a problem we must solve: our natural world is the foundation for everything else. It is the foundation of business success. It is the foundation of economic growth. It is the foundation of our way of life. We can solve the world’s financial problems, but without solving the challenges to t ...
FREE MARKETS, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
... property rights. Tort litigation on the basis of strict liability would therefore take the place of taxes and emissions trading. By providing a public arena in the courts for the testing of scientific hypotheses about the causes of climate change, litigation would also promote the public understandi ...
... property rights. Tort litigation on the basis of strict liability would therefore take the place of taxes and emissions trading. By providing a public arena in the courts for the testing of scientific hypotheses about the causes of climate change, litigation would also promote the public understandi ...
Challenges to adaptation - National Center for Atmospheric Research
... cultural, or social significance and value. Both the vulnerability and resilience literatures originally focused on the ability of systems to resist or recover from stresses, although there was also some discussion of the ability to take advantage of opportunities. Over time, however, greater attent ...
... cultural, or social significance and value. Both the vulnerability and resilience literatures originally focused on the ability of systems to resist or recover from stresses, although there was also some discussion of the ability to take advantage of opportunities. Over time, however, greater attent ...
“Community Vulnerability Mapping”: Enabling Participation and
... especially in the Sahel region has reduced the income and livelihoods of families and populations which rely on agriculture as the primarily economic activity.15 Vulnerability varies widely across states in the region, and within states and communities.16 The degree of vulnerability of a people larg ...
... especially in the Sahel region has reduced the income and livelihoods of families and populations which rely on agriculture as the primarily economic activity.15 Vulnerability varies widely across states in the region, and within states and communities.16 The degree of vulnerability of a people larg ...
Arviat Climate Change Adaptation Action Plan
... Adaptation is required, to plan for the short and long term needs of the community and to support healthy and sustained community growth. The objective of this project is to raise overall awareness of climate change and to assist the community with identifying appropriate responses to the potential ...
... Adaptation is required, to plan for the short and long term needs of the community and to support healthy and sustained community growth. The objective of this project is to raise overall awareness of climate change and to assist the community with identifying appropriate responses to the potential ...
Climate Finance for the Middle East and North Africa - Heinrich
... abundant oil resources, however, are neighbours to poorer nations, many of which have been struck by political unrest and conflict. There are large disparities in per capita income within countries, and across the region. For all countries, however, the sustainable use of environmental resources is ...
... abundant oil resources, however, are neighbours to poorer nations, many of which have been struck by political unrest and conflict. There are large disparities in per capita income within countries, and across the region. For all countries, however, the sustainable use of environmental resources is ...
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
... transient alterations in an organism’s neurophysiological and somatovisceral state that represent its immediate relationship to the flow of changing events… in a sense, core affect is a neurophysiologic barometer of the individual’s relationship to an environment at a given point in time. To the ext ...
Regional Impacts of climate change
... loss of wetlands, higher risk to human life and property from stronger storms and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, more potential for hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay and other coastal waters, more frequent and more intense heatwaves with greater risks to human health, and more freque ...
... loss of wetlands, higher risk to human life and property from stronger storms and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic, more potential for hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay and other coastal waters, more frequent and more intense heatwaves with greater risks to human health, and more freque ...
Aysha Fleming, Frank Vanclay
... adversely affected regions from future changes in climate in terms of reductions in agricultural production and exports’ (ABARE 2007, p. 657). Agriculture is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions – in Australia in 2005, 17% of greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture (Garnaut 2008 ...
... adversely affected regions from future changes in climate in terms of reductions in agricultural production and exports’ (ABARE 2007, p. 657). Agriculture is a significant producer of greenhouse gas emissions – in Australia in 2005, 17% of greenhouse gas emissions came from agriculture (Garnaut 2008 ...
The impacts of climate change in coastal marine systems
... organisms. Ocean circulation, which drives larval transport, will also change, with important consequences for population dynamics. Furthermore, climatic impacts on one or a few Ôleverage speciesÕ may result in sweeping community-level changes. Finally, synergistic effects between climate and other ...
... organisms. Ocean circulation, which drives larval transport, will also change, with important consequences for population dynamics. Furthermore, climatic impacts on one or a few Ôleverage speciesÕ may result in sweeping community-level changes. Finally, synergistic effects between climate and other ...
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... interpreting new documentary and natural climate proxy evidence allow a better insight into past spatiotemporal high resolution climate/extremes and related socio-economic impacts. In this talk we provide a first multiproxy-based real-world product for the Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling (BHM) formal ...
... interpreting new documentary and natural climate proxy evidence allow a better insight into past spatiotemporal high resolution climate/extremes and related socio-economic impacts. In this talk we provide a first multiproxy-based real-world product for the Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling (BHM) formal ...
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... measures in the short term, this should not justify the absence of policy action now, because it could lower abatement costs in the future. Since the publication of these seminal papers, much effort has been devoted to identifying the optimal timing of abatement, but the majority of the existing wor ...
... measures in the short term, this should not justify the absence of policy action now, because it could lower abatement costs in the future. Since the publication of these seminal papers, much effort has been devoted to identifying the optimal timing of abatement, but the majority of the existing wor ...
Climate Change Awareness - Minnesota Department of Health
... A Presentation from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...
... A Presentation from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...
The MDGs have no relevance
... ‘While the MDGs are important they miss the point about how you get there. It’s the wrong starting place for where we need to be post 2015 but that doesn’t mean we throw it out at this point, we get what we can out of it.’ Think Tank, Female, UK ...
... ‘While the MDGs are important they miss the point about how you get there. It’s the wrong starting place for where we need to be post 2015 but that doesn’t mean we throw it out at this point, we get what we can out of it.’ Think Tank, Female, UK ...