Climate Change and Outdoor Recreation Resources
... 2009). Climate model runs with a 2.4°C warming show a 17 percent reduction in runoff in the Colorado River Basin, which leads to a 40 percent reduction in basin storage (Christensen et al. 2004). Reservoirs in the basin include such popular recreation areas as Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Lake Havasu ...
... 2009). Climate model runs with a 2.4°C warming show a 17 percent reduction in runoff in the Colorado River Basin, which leads to a 40 percent reduction in basin storage (Christensen et al. 2004). Reservoirs in the basin include such popular recreation areas as Lake Powell, Lake Mead, and Lake Havasu ...
madagascar`s intended nationally determined contribution
... Madagascar is equally committed to contribute to mitigate climate change, as well as to reduce climate change vulnerability and promote adaptation measures, although the importance of the two complementary strategies is different. Moreover, the choice of the identified adaptation sectors (agricultur ...
... Madagascar is equally committed to contribute to mitigate climate change, as well as to reduce climate change vulnerability and promote adaptation measures, although the importance of the two complementary strategies is different. Moreover, the choice of the identified adaptation sectors (agricultur ...
The Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Interactions in the Spaces
... predominant ‘claims makers’. Yet, in addition to climate science ‘speaking’ on behalf of the climate, carbon-based business and industry interests and ENGOs grappled for their particular discursive and material ‘locations’ from which to address climate challenges. Many of the struggles to represent ...
... predominant ‘claims makers’. Yet, in addition to climate science ‘speaking’ on behalf of the climate, carbon-based business and industry interests and ENGOs grappled for their particular discursive and material ‘locations’ from which to address climate challenges. Many of the struggles to represent ...
Climate Change and Climate Change Policy as Human Sacrifice
... Ellul’s pointed critique emphasized the emergence of technique as a new milieu for human activity – the third in a series that includes the milieus of nature and of society.14 While the technical milieu “was meant to be a buffer between man and nature,” offering the capacity to transcend limits and ...
... Ellul’s pointed critique emphasized the emergence of technique as a new milieu for human activity – the third in a series that includes the milieus of nature and of society.14 While the technical milieu “was meant to be a buffer between man and nature,” offering the capacity to transcend limits and ...
Reducing Human Vulnerability
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
... difficult. Well-managed landscapes can modulate flood waters. Intact coastal wetlands can buffer against storm damage. But management of natural resources will face a rapidly changing climate with more extreme events and with ecosystems under increasing threats from stresses other than climate (such ...
Presentation
... • We are unsure exactly how regional climate will change • Scenarios are plausible combinations of variables, consistent with what we know about human-induced climate change • Think of them as the prediction of a model, contingent upon the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios ...
... • We are unsure exactly how regional climate will change • Scenarios are plausible combinations of variables, consistent with what we know about human-induced climate change • Think of them as the prediction of a model, contingent upon the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios ...
Internalizing Climate Change—Scientific Resource Management and the Climate Change Challenges
... term based only on recent performance. Rather, systems that work well this decade may run afoul of the increasingly different climates in subsequent decades. As a consequence, monitoring of the long-term status of systems affected by restoration actions and research efforts should receive more cons ...
... term based only on recent performance. Rather, systems that work well this decade may run afoul of the increasingly different climates in subsequent decades. As a consequence, monitoring of the long-term status of systems affected by restoration actions and research efforts should receive more cons ...
... lead in the region. Developing countries, in particular, should be proactive in adopting similar initiatives to stay competitive while mitigating climate change. At the multilateral level, as discussed in chapter 1, the region should play an increasingly influential role in framing regional cooperat ...
WSCC Community Awareness Survey
... Participants are much readier to agree that the local climate is changing than that the global temperature is rising. The mainstream opinion is that, irrespective of the worldwide question of global warming, things are getting warmer locally and the local climate has changed in other ways. Most sali ...
... Participants are much readier to agree that the local climate is changing than that the global temperature is rising. The mainstream opinion is that, irrespective of the worldwide question of global warming, things are getting warmer locally and the local climate has changed in other ways. Most sali ...
The Climate Change Challenge
... and the resulting climate change, and coping with impacts that were, by then, inevitable.”5 ...
... and the resulting climate change, and coping with impacts that were, by then, inevitable.”5 ...
Full Text - Life Science Journal
... mainly by causing some C, from CO2 in the atmosphere, to be locked up ("sequestered") in soil or vegetation. Soils that have been in arable cropping for a long period usually have a low content of organic C, so they offer scope for additional sequestration. With soils already high in C, such as thos ...
... mainly by causing some C, from CO2 in the atmosphere, to be locked up ("sequestered") in soil or vegetation. Soils that have been in arable cropping for a long period usually have a low content of organic C, so they offer scope for additional sequestration. With soils already high in C, such as thos ...
Referencing Guides: Harvard
... Note 2: Works published in the same year Where there is more than one citation for an author in the same year, they should each have a letter added into the citation, in order of appearance in your work. Example: Olmek, B. 2009a.; Olmek, B. 2009b.; Olmek, B. 2009c.; etc. If there is no date, the ref ...
... Note 2: Works published in the same year Where there is more than one citation for an author in the same year, they should each have a letter added into the citation, in order of appearance in your work. Example: Olmek, B. 2009a.; Olmek, B. 2009b.; Olmek, B. 2009c.; etc. If there is no date, the ref ...
ENG - UN CC:Learn
... assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possible adaption and mitigation options Was awarded ...
... assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possible adaption and mitigation options Was awarded ...
Means and extremes: building variability into
... Means and extremes: building variability into community-level climate change experiments Abstract Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to inco ...
... Means and extremes: building variability into community-level climate change experiments Abstract Experimental studies assessing climatic effects on ecological communities have typically applied static warming treatments. Although these studies have been informative, they have usually failed to inco ...
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... assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possible adaption and mitigation options Was awarded ...
... assessment of climate change Established in 1988 by UNEP and WMO Assesses all peer reviewed and published climate change research and synthesizes the results Coordinates global and regional projections for future climate change Analyzes possible adaption and mitigation options Was awarded ...
The Problem - CLIMsystems
... Major concerns have been raised about the effects of climatic changes on Australia’s tropical forests (Williams et al., 2003). Many species are well-adapted to current climatic variability. However, many are restricted to geographic and climatic ranges and are vulnerable to long-term changes in aver ...
... Major concerns have been raised about the effects of climatic changes on Australia’s tropical forests (Williams et al., 2003). Many species are well-adapted to current climatic variability. However, many are restricted to geographic and climatic ranges and are vulnerable to long-term changes in aver ...
Climate Change in the Sydney Metropolitan Catchments
... dryland cropping, reductions in rainfall and increases in evaporation directly contribute to reductions in soil moisture. Meanwhile, irrigated agriculture is likely to be affected by tighter constraints on water allocations possibly resulting in a more developed and competitive water market. In this ...
... dryland cropping, reductions in rainfall and increases in evaporation directly contribute to reductions in soil moisture. Meanwhile, irrigated agriculture is likely to be affected by tighter constraints on water allocations possibly resulting in a more developed and competitive water market. In this ...
S C U UPREME
... Needless to say, this is the “key” question concerning climate change. Prospective individual positive and negative effects can be cited (for example, longer growing seasons vs. possible increases in agricultural pests), but a comprehensive analysis of the risks and benefits of both climate change a ...
... Needless to say, this is the “key” question concerning climate change. Prospective individual positive and negative effects can be cited (for example, longer growing seasons vs. possible increases in agricultural pests), but a comprehensive analysis of the risks and benefits of both climate change a ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... impacts of climate risks are likely to magnify the uneven social and spatial distribution of risk in Ghana, and possibly amplify poverty in the north. In response, the Government of Ghana has initiated actions to develop strategies and strengthen institutional capacity in disaster risk management wi ...
... impacts of climate risks are likely to magnify the uneven social and spatial distribution of risk in Ghana, and possibly amplify poverty in the north. In response, the Government of Ghana has initiated actions to develop strategies and strengthen institutional capacity in disaster risk management wi ...
Climate Change and Health on the US Gulf Coast
... threats facing the coastline areas, including severe erosion, subsidence, and—given the amount of energy production infrastructure—the ever-present potential for large-scale industrial accidents. The Gulf Coast population is expected to reach over 74 million by 2030 [7] with a growing number of peop ...
... threats facing the coastline areas, including severe erosion, subsidence, and—given the amount of energy production infrastructure—the ever-present potential for large-scale industrial accidents. The Gulf Coast population is expected to reach over 74 million by 2030 [7] with a growing number of peop ...
Asynchronous exposure to global warming: freshwater resources and terrestrial ecosystems
... This modelling study demonstrates at what level of global mean temperature rise (1Tg ) regions will be exposed to significant decreases of freshwater availability and changes to terrestrial ecosystems. Projections are based on a new, consistent set of 152 climate scenarios (eight 1Tg trajectories re ...
... This modelling study demonstrates at what level of global mean temperature rise (1Tg ) regions will be exposed to significant decreases of freshwater availability and changes to terrestrial ecosystems. Projections are based on a new, consistent set of 152 climate scenarios (eight 1Tg trajectories re ...
Study of Impacts of Global Warming on Climate Change
... social, economic and ecological impacts), and large-scale high-impact events. ...
... social, economic and ecological impacts), and large-scale high-impact events. ...
Impact of climate change on crops, irrigation and
... 180,000 ha of which are equipped for irrigation (World Bank 2010). Agriculturally the year is split into two productive seasons, a wet summer season and a dry winter season. The average cereal yield is about 1 tonne/ ha basinwide, while some estimate a potential irrigated yield of 5 to 8 tonnes/ha ( ...
... 180,000 ha of which are equipped for irrigation (World Bank 2010). Agriculturally the year is split into two productive seasons, a wet summer season and a dry winter season. The average cereal yield is about 1 tonne/ ha basinwide, while some estimate a potential irrigated yield of 5 to 8 tonnes/ha ( ...
Climate change impacts in Greece in the near future
... Hot days and tropical nights The changes in the number of days, with temperature above 35oC, were examined, which are also expected to have an impact in population discomfort in the tourist areas. It became clear that tourist sites with a more continental influence will experience the largest change ...
... Hot days and tropical nights The changes in the number of days, with temperature above 35oC, were examined, which are also expected to have an impact in population discomfort in the tourist areas. It became clear that tourist sites with a more continental influence will experience the largest change ...