Indian Ocean Territory Climate Change Risk Assessment
... The IOT are home to distinctive ecosystems and a number of endemic species that are considered to be vulnerable to climate change. Terrestrial forests in particular, are highly sensitive to increases in temperature and humidity, and any changes in evapo-transpiration would affect soil moisture, fore ...
... The IOT are home to distinctive ecosystems and a number of endemic species that are considered to be vulnerable to climate change. Terrestrial forests in particular, are highly sensitive to increases in temperature and humidity, and any changes in evapo-transpiration would affect soil moisture, fore ...
Climate Change in Zimbabwe - Konrad-Adenauer
... Zimbabwe has abundant natural resources, including minerals, agricultural land, water, natural vegetation and wildlife. The population in both urban and rural areas depends heavily on ecosystem services that provide a clean, regular water supply, fertile soils and trees for fuel, building constructi ...
... Zimbabwe has abundant natural resources, including minerals, agricultural land, water, natural vegetation and wildlife. The population in both urban and rural areas depends heavily on ecosystem services that provide a clean, regular water supply, fertile soils and trees for fuel, building constructi ...
Modeling climate mitigation and adaptation policies to predict their effectiveness: The limits of randomized controlled trials: Working Paper 120 (327 kB) (opens in new window)
... A policy must have been implemented for its effects to be measured. These IEs have two main functions: First, when an IE establishes that the policy had the effect it was designed to have, it thereby provides a post hoc justification for the decision to fund and implement the policy. Second, the res ...
... A policy must have been implemented for its effects to be measured. These IEs have two main functions: First, when an IE establishes that the policy had the effect it was designed to have, it thereby provides a post hoc justification for the decision to fund and implement the policy. Second, the res ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... implementation of national policies at the regional level. The integrated planning framework will articulate both short and medium-to-long term regional development priorities, help align development assistance with the identified regional development priorities, identify potential trade-offs betwee ...
... implementation of national policies at the regional level. The integrated planning framework will articulate both short and medium-to-long term regional development priorities, help align development assistance with the identified regional development priorities, identify potential trade-offs betwee ...
Guidelines on Analysis of extremes in a changing climate in support
... 1.1 The rationale for focusing on weather and climate extremes Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate (CCSP, 2008). Indeed, ”confidence has increased that some extremes will become ...
... 1.1 The rationale for focusing on weather and climate extremes Changes in extreme weather and climate events have significant impacts and are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with a changing climate (CCSP, 2008). Indeed, ”confidence has increased that some extremes will become ...
Adapting to Climate Change: Challenges for
... from private wells and cisterns. Several of these areas are already under moderate or significant groundwater stress. As climate change progresses, drier summers and more frequent droughts will reduce groundwater recharge. More precipitation will come in intense rainfall, which causes water to run o ...
... from private wells and cisterns. Several of these areas are already under moderate or significant groundwater stress. As climate change progresses, drier summers and more frequent droughts will reduce groundwater recharge. More precipitation will come in intense rainfall, which causes water to run o ...
References
... Bonan, G.B. 1991a. Atmosphere-biosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research 96D:7301-7312. Bonan, G.B. 1991b. A biophysical surface energy budget analysis of soil temperature in the boreal forests of interior Alaska. Water Resources Research 27:767-781. Bona ...
... Bonan, G.B. 1991a. Atmosphere-biosphere exchange of carbon dioxide in boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research 96D:7301-7312. Bonan, G.B. 1991b. A biophysical surface energy budget analysis of soil temperature in the boreal forests of interior Alaska. Water Resources Research 27:767-781. Bona ...
health perspectives
... heat injuries and deaths. Based on the assumption that the mortality rate is related to the projected increase in the number of days where maximum temperature is greater than 95oF and using the conservative 2012 New York City base rate of 0.11 deaths per 100,000, the fatality rate could increase mor ...
... heat injuries and deaths. Based on the assumption that the mortality rate is related to the projected increase in the number of days where maximum temperature is greater than 95oF and using the conservative 2012 New York City base rate of 0.11 deaths per 100,000, the fatality rate could increase mor ...
A Geographic Mosaic of Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial
... scenarios (defined below), avoiding the need to select particular futures or approaches based on aggregate performance across an ensemble of models [20]. Lastly, the potential impacts of climate change on biological communities can be viewed as a function of the magnitude of climate change (exposure ...
... scenarios (defined below), avoiding the need to select particular futures or approaches based on aggregate performance across an ensemble of models [20]. Lastly, the potential impacts of climate change on biological communities can be viewed as a function of the magnitude of climate change (exposure ...
Acceleration technique for Milankovitch type forcing in a coupled
... LORENZ AND LOHMANN: ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE FOR MILANKOVITCH FORCING ...
... LORENZ AND LOHMANN: ACCELERATION TECHNIQUE FOR MILANKOVITCH FORCING ...
Victoria`s Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... state-wide adaptation actions that will complement sector-based Adaptation Action Plans (AAPs). This Adaptation Plan lays the foundations for transforming our approach to adaptation by developing sector-based planning, in preparation for sectoral AAPs under the proposed new legislative framework. Se ...
... state-wide adaptation actions that will complement sector-based Adaptation Action Plans (AAPs). This Adaptation Plan lays the foundations for transforming our approach to adaptation by developing sector-based planning, in preparation for sectoral AAPs under the proposed new legislative framework. Se ...
Key factors governing uncertainty in the response to sunshade
... two approaches differ in important ways, both allow identification of common responses and also of disagreement in model response. They can both be used to project likely outcomes and give some measure of the uncertainty of such projections. Furthermore, they highlight the most important and sensitiv ...
... two approaches differ in important ways, both allow identification of common responses and also of disagreement in model response. They can both be used to project likely outcomes and give some measure of the uncertainty of such projections. Furthermore, they highlight the most important and sensitiv ...
Scenario Planning for Solar Radiation Management
... important ecosystem effects of high atmospheric carbon dioxide—particularly ocean acidification, which is a chemical process not driven by solar radiation—would not be ameliorated by a SRM approach. Deploying SRM could also affect a variety of other human activities and ecosystems, for example by re ...
... important ecosystem effects of high atmospheric carbon dioxide—particularly ocean acidification, which is a chemical process not driven by solar radiation—would not be ameliorated by a SRM approach. Deploying SRM could also affect a variety of other human activities and ecosystems, for example by re ...
Climate Change and Poverty—An Analytical Framework
... losses. “All else being the same, the odds of a non-poor household falling into poverty increase more than 15 times when drought is a significant feature of its event history” (Krishna, 2006). Of nearly 400 Bangladeshi households falling into poverty, 15% cite natural disasters and 18% loss of natur ...
... losses. “All else being the same, the odds of a non-poor household falling into poverty increase more than 15 times when drought is a significant feature of its event history” (Krishna, 2006). Of nearly 400 Bangladeshi households falling into poverty, 15% cite natural disasters and 18% loss of natur ...
ecosystem adaptation: do ecosystems maximize
... The model has three finite steady states, although only one finite steady state is physically feasible (Table 1). The unstable steady state at (A, H, N ) 5 (0, 0, 0) is ignored as a trivial solution, and the steady state specified by the other root of the quadratic for Nss is ignored as unrealistic ...
... The model has three finite steady states, although only one finite steady state is physically feasible (Table 1). The unstable steady state at (A, H, N ) 5 (0, 0, 0) is ignored as a trivial solution, and the steady state specified by the other root of the quadratic for Nss is ignored as unrealistic ...
PARCC Project Training Manual 2014 Protected Areas Resilient to Climate Change,
... by 2100, and up to 1m within about 2-3 centuries, depending on how much GHGs are emitted. ...
... by 2100, and up to 1m within about 2-3 centuries, depending on how much GHGs are emitted. ...
Protecting People Crossing Borders in the Context of
... and migrants are expected to rise due to more intense and frequent impacts caused by the changing climate. Thus, the IPCC stresses that “[i]f disasters occur more frequently and/or with greater magnitude, some local areas will become increasingly marginal as places to live or in which to maintain li ...
... and migrants are expected to rise due to more intense and frequent impacts caused by the changing climate. Thus, the IPCC stresses that “[i]f disasters occur more frequently and/or with greater magnitude, some local areas will become increasingly marginal as places to live or in which to maintain li ...
PARCC Project Training Manual Module 2. Climate data
... by 2100, and up to 1m within about 2-3 centuries, depending on how much GHGs are emitted. ...
... by 2100, and up to 1m within about 2-3 centuries, depending on how much GHGs are emitted. ...
Chapter 12. Human Security - Center for International Earth Science
... Human security and insecurity are universal issues. In every country there are individuals and groups who are insecure (Mahoney and Pinedo, 2007; Pietsch and McAllister, 2010). Much research suggests that while the impacts of climate change on human security will be experienced most in developing co ...
... Human security and insecurity are universal issues. In every country there are individuals and groups who are insecure (Mahoney and Pinedo, 2007; Pietsch and McAllister, 2010). Much research suggests that while the impacts of climate change on human security will be experienced most in developing co ...
Mapping climate change
... From a central-government perspective, a major part of climate change adaptation is about ensuring that the right framework conditions are in place to enable the relevant players to address climate change in a cost-effective manner. The central government must establish good framework conditions e. ...
... From a central-government perspective, a major part of climate change adaptation is about ensuring that the right framework conditions are in place to enable the relevant players to address climate change in a cost-effective manner. The central government must establish good framework conditions e. ...
- Wiley Online Library
... demographic analysis for this site by standardising the yearly estimates to the median density (Appendix S1). We modelled each scenario using a pre-census Leslie matrix model (Caswell 2001). The life cycle graph (Fig. 3) included four age classes and four demographic parameters. Female recruitment i ...
... demographic analysis for this site by standardising the yearly estimates to the median density (Appendix S1). We modelled each scenario using a pre-census Leslie matrix model (Caswell 2001). The life cycle graph (Fig. 3) included four age classes and four demographic parameters. Female recruitment i ...
About this Sourcebook - Stockholm Environment Institute
... The last few decades have witnessed extensive research on potential and observed impacts of climate change and variability. Climate variability is a relatively near-term phenomenon characterized by intensification in the departure from baseline climatic trends in temperature and precipitation extrem ...
... The last few decades have witnessed extensive research on potential and observed impacts of climate change and variability. Climate variability is a relatively near-term phenomenon characterized by intensification in the departure from baseline climatic trends in temperature and precipitation extrem ...
Xeni Gwet`in Community-based Climate Change Adaptation Plan
... and human systems to alter the productivity, diversity and functions of many ecosystems and livelihoods globally. For resource-dependent communities, such as many First Nations in BC, climate change may increasingly compound existing vulnerabilities as the availability and quality of natural resourc ...
... and human systems to alter the productivity, diversity and functions of many ecosystems and livelihoods globally. For resource-dependent communities, such as many First Nations in BC, climate change may increasingly compound existing vulnerabilities as the availability and quality of natural resourc ...
From Davos to Copenhagen and Beyond
... As a consequence, the integrated effects of climate change are anticipated to have far‐reaching impacts on tourism and travel businesses and destinations. Indeed, climate change is not some distant, future threat to tourism and travel, as the varied impacts of climate c ...
... As a consequence, the integrated effects of climate change are anticipated to have far‐reaching impacts on tourism and travel businesses and destinations. Indeed, climate change is not some distant, future threat to tourism and travel, as the varied impacts of climate c ...