Agroecology and the design of climate change-resilient
... between 40 million and 170 million. Moreover, the effects of progressive increases in global mean temperatures will successively lead to a pronounced increase in food prices (as much as 30 %), which in turn will lead to more frequent social upheavals as witnessed during the 2008’s food riots (Hillel ...
... between 40 million and 170 million. Moreover, the effects of progressive increases in global mean temperatures will successively lead to a pronounced increase in food prices (as much as 30 %), which in turn will lead to more frequent social upheavals as witnessed during the 2008’s food riots (Hillel ...
Value of information for climate observing systems
... concentrations over the last several decades struggle with both surface and air temperature accuracy (IPCC 2007; Karl et al. 2006; Hansen et al. 2010) and even more so with uncertainties in anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing. Uncertainty in anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing causes a facto ...
... concentrations over the last several decades struggle with both surface and air temperature accuracy (IPCC 2007; Karl et al. 2006; Hansen et al. 2010) and even more so with uncertainties in anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing. Uncertainty in anthropogenic aerosol radiative forcing causes a facto ...
Climate Change Legislation in the 113th Congress
... In the 113th Congress, Members have introduced multiple bills that include provisions that would directly or indirectly address climate change. This report describes and compares the bills and provisions that directly address climate change, as opposed to those that primarily address other issues (e ...
... In the 113th Congress, Members have introduced multiple bills that include provisions that would directly or indirectly address climate change. This report describes and compares the bills and provisions that directly address climate change, as opposed to those that primarily address other issues (e ...
Climate change vulnerability assessment for aquatic ecosystems in
... greater risk of hypoxia (Dove et al. 2011). Human activities, such as non-native species introductions, river regulation, groundwater withdrawal, shoreline development, and point and non-point source pollution will further stress these ecosystems. While agreement is widespread of the need to recogni ...
... greater risk of hypoxia (Dove et al. 2011). Human activities, such as non-native species introductions, river regulation, groundwater withdrawal, shoreline development, and point and non-point source pollution will further stress these ecosystems. While agreement is widespread of the need to recogni ...
Workshop report ”Adaptation options in the Barents – Writers
... How to define the concept of adaptation options? The concept was coined in the IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5). The range of adaptation options is partly based on analysis and synthesis of adaptation ...
... How to define the concept of adaptation options? The concept was coined in the IPCC fifth assessment report (AR5). The range of adaptation options is partly based on analysis and synthesis of adaptation ...
COSTA RICA`s
... activities for the country. Costa Rica selected from very early moments a path of sustainable development to provide wellness to its citizens of today and the future. This path has taken the country in a continuous innovation and experimentation, where science has helped adjust periodically the publ ...
... activities for the country. Costa Rica selected from very early moments a path of sustainable development to provide wellness to its citizens of today and the future. This path has taken the country in a continuous innovation and experimentation, where science has helped adjust periodically the publ ...
PHYC 40050 Environmental Physics
... Increased frequency of floods and droughts Water supplies and ecosystems under threat Agricultural practices will have to change Millions of people displaced as the sea rises ...
... Increased frequency of floods and droughts Water supplies and ecosystems under threat Agricultural practices will have to change Millions of people displaced as the sea rises ...
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... methodology is not designed to compute accurately climate change induced changes in crop productivity: its estimation is based on statistical inference of yield correlation to Environmental Strata (EnS, [12]) defined by a set of environmental variables excluding soil properties, agricultural managem ...
... methodology is not designed to compute accurately climate change induced changes in crop productivity: its estimation is based on statistical inference of yield correlation to Environmental Strata (EnS, [12]) defined by a set of environmental variables excluding soil properties, agricultural managem ...
Public Perception of Climate Change Adaptation
... motivating factor for individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adopt adaptation measures to reduce health risks. However, it is not clear if the health frame would suffice to engage the pubic in adaptation and mitigation steps, since they hinge on public appreciation of the health threa ...
... motivating factor for individuals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adopt adaptation measures to reduce health risks. However, it is not clear if the health frame would suffice to engage the pubic in adaptation and mitigation steps, since they hinge on public appreciation of the health threa ...
Changing Climate: Pre-visit lesson 2
... Image: http://www.pleasingnews.com/remains-of-ice-age-child-found-in-alaska/587642662/ http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation ...
... Image: http://www.pleasingnews.com/remains-of-ice-age-child-found-in-alaska/587642662/ http://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation ...
Food Security and Climate
... Advances in technology and biotechnology have produced a revolution in the world’s ability to produce food for a rapidly growing population over the past century. Although industrialization has justifiably received most of the credit for the economic boom of the 20th century, high rates of economic ...
... Advances in technology and biotechnology have produced a revolution in the world’s ability to produce food for a rapidly growing population over the past century. Although industrialization has justifiably received most of the credit for the economic boom of the 20th century, high rates of economic ...
climate change and biodiversity for food and agriculture
... benefits, mitigate climate change, avoid land degradation, and improve water retention and productivity. Biologically based agricultural systems that require less external energy input could also contribute to mitigating climate change. Resilience: extreme climate events will increase disturbance of ...
... benefits, mitigate climate change, avoid land degradation, and improve water retention and productivity. Biologically based agricultural systems that require less external energy input could also contribute to mitigating climate change. Resilience: extreme climate events will increase disturbance of ...
pdf - The Paleoindian Database of the Americas
... understandings than individual scholars working alone. As scientific knowledge of the causes of climate change has grown, so, too, has public interest in the subject. ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth,’’ a film about global warming produced by former United States Vice President Al Gore, won an Oscar for best d ...
... understandings than individual scholars working alone. As scientific knowledge of the causes of climate change has grown, so, too, has public interest in the subject. ‘‘An Inconvenient Truth,’’ a film about global warming produced by former United States Vice President Al Gore, won an Oscar for best d ...
All Climate Change is Local: Understanding and Predicting the
... rapid evolutionary responses to climate change within some populations, although the extent to which evolution can prevent localized extinctions remains unclear.10 Importantly, there are likely to be “winners” and “losers” in organismal responses to climate change, depending on how close organisms a ...
... rapid evolutionary responses to climate change within some populations, although the extent to which evolution can prevent localized extinctions remains unclear.10 Importantly, there are likely to be “winners” and “losers” in organismal responses to climate change, depending on how close organisms a ...
The Role of Landscape Processes within the Climate System
... to affect the amount and distribution of clouds and rainfall (Pielke et al. 2007). At a larger scale, the systematic transformation of the land surface can alter regional flow patterns associated with developing persistent zones of moisture convergence, and localized pockets that lead to long-term r ...
... to affect the amount and distribution of clouds and rainfall (Pielke et al. 2007). At a larger scale, the systematic transformation of the land surface can alter regional flow patterns associated with developing persistent zones of moisture convergence, and localized pockets that lead to long-term r ...
Policy Brief Series - IOM Online Bookstore
... to Camp Ithier, whose houses were threatened of crackdown. All the households, in principle, have agreed to move to the new location given the degree of severity of this natural calamity. IOM has also conducted studies to investigate the migration of people from Rodrigues to Mauritius (2011a and 201 ...
... to Camp Ithier, whose houses were threatened of crackdown. All the households, in principle, have agreed to move to the new location given the degree of severity of this natural calamity. IOM has also conducted studies to investigate the migration of people from Rodrigues to Mauritius (2011a and 201 ...
More than Meets the Eye: The Social Cost of Carbon in U.S. Climate
... benefits side of the cost-benefit equation. From that perspective, to conserve limited resources, society as a whole should not pay any more for these restrictions than is justified by the benefits received from compliance with the regulation. Thus, regulators seek to determine whether greenhouse em ...
... benefits side of the cost-benefit equation. From that perspective, to conserve limited resources, society as a whole should not pay any more for these restrictions than is justified by the benefits received from compliance with the regulation. Thus, regulators seek to determine whether greenhouse em ...
Climate change justice and the global policy mix
... geographical vulnerability, limited adaptive capacity, and the reliance of developing state economies on ecosystem services) and vulnerable social groups located in all regions (due to the way the impacts of climate change compound existing social and economic inequalities) (Parry, Canzani and Palut ...
... geographical vulnerability, limited adaptive capacity, and the reliance of developing state economies on ecosystem services) and vulnerable social groups located in all regions (due to the way the impacts of climate change compound existing social and economic inequalities) (Parry, Canzani and Palut ...
The Need To Assess Spatial Variations In Climate Forcings - Suggestions For
... From: National Research Council, 2005: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties, Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate, Climate Research Committee, 224 pp. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11175.html ...
... From: National Research Council, 2005: Radiative Forcing of Climate Change: Expanding the Concept and Addressing Uncertainties, Committee on Radiative Forcing Effects on Climate, Climate Research Committee, 224 pp. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11175.html ...
On summing the components of radiative forcing of climate change
... ni®cant local changes in climate (Cox et al. 1995; Ramaswamy and Chen 1997b). e. The additivity of the climate responses to dierent RFs, which is the central justi®cation for a summation of RF, has been shown for some but not all of the RF mechanisms (e.g. Ramaswamy and Chen 1997a; Hansen et al. 19 ...
... ni®cant local changes in climate (Cox et al. 1995; Ramaswamy and Chen 1997b). e. The additivity of the climate responses to dierent RFs, which is the central justi®cation for a summation of RF, has been shown for some but not all of the RF mechanisms (e.g. Ramaswamy and Chen 1997a; Hansen et al. 19 ...
IELRC.ORG - Cultural Legitimacy and Regulatory Transitions for
... water already scarce will lead to drought but not so much where water is already abundant. Similarly, the impact of increases in the ocean level will be greater in low lying islands where a small increase in ocean level will obliterate coastal communities, if not submerge entire islands. One might c ...
... water already scarce will lead to drought but not so much where water is already abundant. Similarly, the impact of increases in the ocean level will be greater in low lying islands where a small increase in ocean level will obliterate coastal communities, if not submerge entire islands. One might c ...
Assessing the Relative Roles of Initial and Boundary Conditions in
... been to select an atmospheric state corresponding to, for example, the previous day. However, as stated above, the experiments were not designed specifically to address this problem and we use them opportunistically to illustrate the method. In practice, the atmospheric states in the simulations dif ...
... been to select an atmospheric state corresponding to, for example, the previous day. However, as stated above, the experiments were not designed specifically to address this problem and we use them opportunistically to illustrate the method. In practice, the atmospheric states in the simulations dif ...
High Flows and Freshet Timing in Canada: Observed Trends CCRR
... organisms, and physical processes in streams (Poff et al. 1997, Bunn and Arthington 2002). The natural flow regime is predicated on the idea that various patterns of flooding and drought (e.g., the magnitude, frequency and predictability of flow events) result in different degrees of physical contro ...
... organisms, and physical processes in streams (Poff et al. 1997, Bunn and Arthington 2002). The natural flow regime is predicated on the idea that various patterns of flooding and drought (e.g., the magnitude, frequency and predictability of flow events) result in different degrees of physical contro ...
Executive Report
... for assets. Some gaps have been identified, notably related to weather and climate related thresholds, wet weather management procedures, and upper temperature for design standards. While the GB railway is relatively advanced in climate change adaptation and/ or weather management, compared to other ...
... for assets. Some gaps have been identified, notably related to weather and climate related thresholds, wet weather management procedures, and upper temperature for design standards. While the GB railway is relatively advanced in climate change adaptation and/ or weather management, compared to other ...
South Asian Regional Study on Climate Change Impacts and
... Livelihoods and economic activities in South Asia are closely tied to the natural resource base, and are hence, highly sensitive to changes in the climate. Agriculture and aquaculture will be threatened by a combination of thermal and water stresses, sea level rise, increased flooding, and strong wi ...
... Livelihoods and economic activities in South Asia are closely tied to the natural resource base, and are hence, highly sensitive to changes in the climate. Agriculture and aquaculture will be threatened by a combination of thermal and water stresses, sea level rise, increased flooding, and strong wi ...