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... consequent impacts on human societies. The theoretical basis for regime shifts has been described by Beisner et al. (2003), Carpenter (2003), Ludwig et al. (1997), Scheffer & Carpenter (2003), and Scheffer et al. (2001). Here, we review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic ecosys ...
... consequent impacts on human societies. The theoretical basis for regime shifts has been described by Beisner et al. (2003), Carpenter (2003), Ludwig et al. (1997), Scheffer & Carpenter (2003), and Scheffer et al. (2001). Here, we review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic ecosys ...
National Climate Response Strategy
... Kenya takes no action to reduce or minimise expected impacts of current and future climate change, the costs of potential damage to the economy could be enormous. A recent study has estimated that the direct costs of climate change damage in Kenya will potentially amount to between one and two billi ...
... Kenya takes no action to reduce or minimise expected impacts of current and future climate change, the costs of potential damage to the economy could be enormous. A recent study has estimated that the direct costs of climate change damage in Kenya will potentially amount to between one and two billi ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – Cenchrus
... Containment strategies for buffel grass are required for high value environmental assets, given that eradication will be impossible without unsustainable resources. Likewise control is likely to be very difficult, if not impossible, in areas where the plant is already widespread. This makes containm ...
... Containment strategies for buffel grass are required for high value environmental assets, given that eradication will be impossible without unsustainable resources. Likewise control is likely to be very difficult, if not impossible, in areas where the plant is already widespread. This makes containm ...
DRAFT New Jersey Climate and Health Profile Report is available
... The authors would like to thank the Kresge Foundation and the James J. Gallagher Family Foundation for their support. We would also like to thank the participants of the New Jersey Climate Change and Public Health Working Group for their helpful review and comments. Additionally, we are grateful for ...
... The authors would like to thank the Kresge Foundation and the James J. Gallagher Family Foundation for their support. We would also like to thank the participants of the New Jersey Climate Change and Public Health Working Group for their helpful review and comments. Additionally, we are grateful for ...
Promoting Climate Resilient Infrastructure in
... Since the adoption of market-oriented reforms almost two decades ago, and the opening of the economy to international trade, Vietnam has taken great strides to overcoming economic and human poverty. It is now well on its way to achieving middle-income status. The national poverty rate declined from ...
... Since the adoption of market-oriented reforms almost two decades ago, and the opening of the economy to international trade, Vietnam has taken great strides to overcoming economic and human poverty. It is now well on its way to achieving middle-income status. The national poverty rate declined from ...
Northern Canada
... with greatest temperature changes at higher latitudes. As a result, there will continue to be significant changes in the physical environment, particularly in the cryosphere (snow, glaciers, permafrost and river/lake/sea ice). ere is increasing evidence that changes in climate are already having imp ...
... with greatest temperature changes at higher latitudes. As a result, there will continue to be significant changes in the physical environment, particularly in the cryosphere (snow, glaciers, permafrost and river/lake/sea ice). ere is increasing evidence that changes in climate are already having imp ...
Australian rangelands and climate change – Cenchrus
... Containment strategies for buffel grass are required for high value environmental assets, given that eradication will be impossible without unsustainable resources. Likewise control is likely to be very difficult, if not impossible, in areas where the plant is already widespread. This makes containm ...
... Containment strategies for buffel grass are required for high value environmental assets, given that eradication will be impossible without unsustainable resources. Likewise control is likely to be very difficult, if not impossible, in areas where the plant is already widespread. This makes containm ...
REGIME SHIFTS, RESILIENCE, AND BIODIVERSITY IN
... consequent impacts on human societies. The theoretical basis for regime shifts has been described by Beisner et al. (2003), Carpenter (2003), Ludwig et al. (1997), Scheffer & Carpenter (2003), and Scheffer et al. (2001). Here, we review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic ecosys ...
... consequent impacts on human societies. The theoretical basis for regime shifts has been described by Beisner et al. (2003), Carpenter (2003), Ludwig et al. (1997), Scheffer & Carpenter (2003), and Scheffer et al. (2001). Here, we review the evidence of regime shifts in terrestrial and aquatic ecosys ...
Understanding Climate Diplomacy
... In this paper “intelligence” is used in its traditional technical sense to refer to any information which underpins analysis inside a decision support framework; this covers information collected from open public sources, privileged diplomatic information and other government communications and info ...
... In this paper “intelligence” is used in its traditional technical sense to refer to any information which underpins analysis inside a decision support framework; this covers information collected from open public sources, privileged diplomatic information and other government communications and info ...
Aalborg Universitet Climate for Change? Wejs, Anja
... and these vertical meltwater channels appeared increasingly each year. Experts had told them it was caused by climate change, although for me at the time it provided an exciting experience rather than an insight into the natural as well as social issues related to the phenomenon. Ten years later in ...
... and these vertical meltwater channels appeared increasingly each year. Experts had told them it was caused by climate change, although for me at the time it provided an exciting experience rather than an insight into the natural as well as social issues related to the phenomenon. Ten years later in ...
Tools and Approaches for Capacity Building for - ClimDev
... supporting scenario planning, allowing consideration of future risks as well as implications on different development pathways; identifying areas with high potential for future vulnerability to climate risk; climate proof development plans and investments and; guide long-lived, large-scale infrastru ...
... supporting scenario planning, allowing consideration of future risks as well as implications on different development pathways; identifying areas with high potential for future vulnerability to climate risk; climate proof development plans and investments and; guide long-lived, large-scale infrastru ...
Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming
... on the authors’ previous work. This book is based on a chapter in a forthcoming much larger examination of the climate change debate to be titled Climate Change Reconsidered II: Benefits and Costs of Fossil Fuels. That volume will finish the three-volume Climate Change Reconsidered II series, totali ...
... on the authors’ previous work. This book is based on a chapter in a forthcoming much larger examination of the climate change debate to be titled Climate Change Reconsidered II: Benefits and Costs of Fossil Fuels. That volume will finish the three-volume Climate Change Reconsidered II series, totali ...
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... long term set of action taken maintain the ability to deal and recover from current and future stress and shocks ...
... long term set of action taken maintain the ability to deal and recover from current and future stress and shocks ...
Simple Messages Help Set the Record Straight about Scientific
... [10]. Several explanations have been offered for why the public doesn’t know about the scientific consensus about human-caused climate change, including “false balance” in news coverage [11] and organized efforts to create an illusion of scientific disagreement [12–15] Public belief about the level ...
... [10]. Several explanations have been offered for why the public doesn’t know about the scientific consensus about human-caused climate change, including “false balance” in news coverage [11] and organized efforts to create an illusion of scientific disagreement [12–15] Public belief about the level ...
Climate Scenario Development
... issues discussed later in this chapter. We also distinguish between a climate scenario and a climate change scenario. The latter term is sometimes used in the scientific literature to denote a plausible future climate. However, this term should strictly refer to a representation of the difference be ...
... issues discussed later in this chapter. We also distinguish between a climate scenario and a climate change scenario. The latter term is sometimes used in the scientific literature to denote a plausible future climate. However, this term should strictly refer to a representation of the difference be ...
Climate Volatility and Change in Central Asia: Economic Impacts
... for Central Asia’s predominantly rural population, especially for the poor. Agricultural production, being sensitive to weather shocks and climate volatility, may suffer from climate change if no adaptive actions are taken. Taking these into account, the present study seeks to estimate the potential ...
... for Central Asia’s predominantly rural population, especially for the poor. Agricultural production, being sensitive to weather shocks and climate volatility, may suffer from climate change if no adaptive actions are taken. Taking these into account, the present study seeks to estimate the potential ...
Nota di lavoro 2000.038 - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
... Human population is attracted to coastal zones to a greater extent than to other regions. Urbanisation and the rapid growth of coastal cities have therefore been a dominant population trend over the last decades, leading to the development of numerous megacities in all coastal regions around the wor ...
... Human population is attracted to coastal zones to a greater extent than to other regions. Urbanisation and the rapid growth of coastal cities have therefore been a dominant population trend over the last decades, leading to the development of numerous megacities in all coastal regions around the wor ...
How well do we understand and evaluate climate change feedback
... is not a new issue. It is a long-standing problem that is central to discussions about the uncertainty of climate change projections. A number of reasons for the slow progress in this area are proposed. First, climate feedback studies have long been focused on the derivation of global estimates of t ...
... is not a new issue. It is a long-standing problem that is central to discussions about the uncertainty of climate change projections. A number of reasons for the slow progress in this area are proposed. First, climate feedback studies have long been focused on the derivation of global estimates of t ...
Climate Change and Wetlands: Impacts and Mitigation
... This paper has been prepared by the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) in response to Action 5.1.6 of the Convention’s Work Plan 2000-2002, which requested the STRP to prepare for consideration at the 8th meeting of the Conference of the P ...
... This paper has been prepared by the Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands (Ramsar, Iran, 1971) in response to Action 5.1.6 of the Convention’s Work Plan 2000-2002, which requested the STRP to prepare for consideration at the 8th meeting of the Conference of the P ...
Enhancing Agricultural Yields Sierra Leone
... This report therefore presents the final findings and views of small-holder farmers on the state of climate change impacts on small-holder agriculture in the country. Methodologically, a multi-stage sampling technique was implored and 500 small-holder farmers were engaged using structured questionna ...
... This report therefore presents the final findings and views of small-holder farmers on the state of climate change impacts on small-holder agriculture in the country. Methodologically, a multi-stage sampling technique was implored and 500 small-holder farmers were engaged using structured questionna ...
Queensland Climate Change Centre of
... manage risk in any area of human life influenced by climatic events. Hence, considerable resources have been devoted to climate prediction (one field of climate science). Yet even as this science continues to advance, our climate is changing and becoming less predictable. All sectors will be affecte ...
... manage risk in any area of human life influenced by climatic events. Hence, considerable resources have been devoted to climate prediction (one field of climate science). Yet even as this science continues to advance, our climate is changing and becoming less predictable. All sectors will be affecte ...
Bony et al., 2006
... is not a new issue. It is a long-standing problem that is central to discussions about the uncertainty of climate change projections. A number of reasons for the slow progress in this area are proposed. First, climate feedback studies have long been focused on the derivation of global estimates of t ...
... is not a new issue. It is a long-standing problem that is central to discussions about the uncertainty of climate change projections. A number of reasons for the slow progress in this area are proposed. First, climate feedback studies have long been focused on the derivation of global estimates of t ...
Using Remote Sensing to Quantify Vegetation Change and
... vegetation and unidirectional shifts in vegetation composition towards shrub dominated landscapes [28,29]. Long-term monitoring of southern African savannas is needed to enhance the understanding of broad-scale changes in vegetation and the possible relationship between such changes and ecosystem re ...
... vegetation and unidirectional shifts in vegetation composition towards shrub dominated landscapes [28,29]. Long-term monitoring of southern African savannas is needed to enhance the understanding of broad-scale changes in vegetation and the possible relationship between such changes and ecosystem re ...
An Earth-System Prediction Initiative for the 21st Century
... necessity to advance predictive skill and diversify forecast applications on hourly-toseasonal time scales. Accelerated progress will optimize policy and risk management decisions valued at billions of dollars. The potential to accelerate further advances depends critically on cooperation across man ...
... necessity to advance predictive skill and diversify forecast applications on hourly-toseasonal time scales. Accelerated progress will optimize policy and risk management decisions valued at billions of dollars. The potential to accelerate further advances depends critically on cooperation across man ...