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... Sustainability 2013, 5, 136-159; doi: 10.3390/su50 10136 This file was created by scanning the printed publication. Text errors identified by the software have been corrected: however, some errors may remain. ...
... Sustainability 2013, 5, 136-159; doi: 10.3390/su50 10136 This file was created by scanning the printed publication. Text errors identified by the software have been corrected: however, some errors may remain. ...
Potentials for Adaptation to Climate Change in Human
... filled by referring to several comprehensive analyses that do exist, to literature on effects of climate variation on settlements and their responses, to research on climate change impacts on cities in other parts of the world, and to analogs from the U.S. historical experience with responses of urb ...
... filled by referring to several comprehensive analyses that do exist, to literature on effects of climate variation on settlements and their responses, to research on climate change impacts on cities in other parts of the world, and to analogs from the U.S. historical experience with responses of urb ...
How limiting factors drive agricultural adaptation to climate change.
... Warmer temperatures More frequent heat waves Indicate your level of agreement with the following statements The global climate is changing Average global temperatures are increasing Human activities such as fossil fuel combustion are an important cause of climate change Climate change poses risks to ...
... Warmer temperatures More frequent heat waves Indicate your level of agreement with the following statements The global climate is changing Average global temperatures are increasing Human activities such as fossil fuel combustion are an important cause of climate change Climate change poses risks to ...
Estimates of the Damage Costs of Climate Change
... Previous papers that estimate impacts share a common deficiency: The methods and assumptions behind the numbers are not always clear. The chapter on the social costs of climate change in the Second Assessment Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Pearce et al. ...
... Previous papers that estimate impacts share a common deficiency: The methods and assumptions behind the numbers are not always clear. The chapter on the social costs of climate change in the Second Assessment Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Pearce et al. ...
crTanzania - University of York File Library
... Development Research Centre (IDRC). However, the ideas expressed and the content is solely the responsibility of the authors. ...
... Development Research Centre (IDRC). However, the ideas expressed and the content is solely the responsibility of the authors. ...
Future Climate: Projected extremes
... Northern Hemisphere and its continental sub-regions (Guirguis et al. 2011). Within regions, cold outbreaks are most intense in low-lying topography that channels the cold dense air. Their frequency also responds to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns, in particular to transient high pressure ...
... Northern Hemisphere and its continental sub-regions (Guirguis et al. 2011). Within regions, cold outbreaks are most intense in low-lying topography that channels the cold dense air. Their frequency also responds to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns, in particular to transient high pressure ...
East Riding of Yorkshire Council Climate Change Strategy
... This strategy takes our commitment to tackling climate change further and details how we expect to cut the carbon footprint of the Council, adapt our services to a changing climate and lead the county towards a low carbon future. Climate change is a global issue and it is a human one. The warming of ...
... This strategy takes our commitment to tackling climate change further and details how we expect to cut the carbon footprint of the Council, adapt our services to a changing climate and lead the county towards a low carbon future. Climate change is a global issue and it is a human one. The warming of ...
Climate Change Impacts and Responses in Bangladesh
... backing up of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna rivers along the delta [12].This will result in increased drainage congestion due to higher water levels, which will be exacerbated by other factors associated with climate change such as siltation of estuary branches in line with increased surface runoff, ...
... backing up of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna rivers along the delta [12].This will result in increased drainage congestion due to higher water levels, which will be exacerbated by other factors associated with climate change such as siltation of estuary branches in line with increased surface runoff, ...
Transitions in climate and energy discourse between Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy
... more difficult for people to understand (Barkemeyer et al. 2015), which highlights the critical interpretive role of the media in public discourse. Here, we quantitatively compare media coverage of climate change, energy, and the links between climate and energy after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, t ...
... more difficult for people to understand (Barkemeyer et al. 2015), which highlights the critical interpretive role of the media in public discourse. Here, we quantitatively compare media coverage of climate change, energy, and the links between climate and energy after Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, t ...
General Knowledge About Climate Change, Factors Influencing
... change and expected climate impacts, the control group of 53 individuals received no additional information.7 The selection of treatment groups was random. The provided informative input had been gathered from mainstream literature sources such as IPCC (2007) (as source for the scientific background ...
... change and expected climate impacts, the control group of 53 individuals received no additional information.7 The selection of treatment groups was random. The provided informative input had been gathered from mainstream literature sources such as IPCC (2007) (as source for the scientific background ...
2nd Joint International Workshop – June 21st 2004
... Because of the new water policy and its implementation by the Government, water has now entered the spatial planning arena. Also as a consequence of this change in policy, a new department to look at spatial planning and water management has been established at RIZA – the Department for Spatial Pla ...
... Because of the new water policy and its implementation by the Government, water has now entered the spatial planning arena. Also as a consequence of this change in policy, a new department to look at spatial planning and water management has been established at RIZA – the Department for Spatial Pla ...
Urban Transit Systems and Conditions of Enhanced Climate Variability
... 9 Global mean sea level has risen by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] meter, estimated from a linear trend over the period 1901–2010, based on tide gauge records and additionally from satellite data since 1993. It is very likely that the mean rate of sea level rise was 1.7 [1.5 to 1.9] mm yr–1 between 1901 and ...
... 9 Global mean sea level has risen by 0.19 [0.17 to 0.21] meter, estimated from a linear trend over the period 1901–2010, based on tide gauge records and additionally from satellite data since 1993. It is very likely that the mean rate of sea level rise was 1.7 [1.5 to 1.9] mm yr–1 between 1901 and ...
Global warming in the public sphere
... read ‘Man upsets the balance of natural processes by adding billions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year’ (as cited in Weart 2003). This coverage resembles what has become routine media coverage of global warming in recent years. Yet global warming, as a clear social and political ...
... read ‘Man upsets the balance of natural processes by adding billions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere each year’ (as cited in Weart 2003). This coverage resembles what has become routine media coverage of global warming in recent years. Yet global warming, as a clear social and political ...
Gary Yohe - Evaulating Adaptation Methods
... Panel A establishes a point of departure by portraying annual flows in a fictitious river over the past 50 years; flow, here, simply represents a specific, climate sensitive environmental variable that carries potentially enormous significance for community located on the river bank. A significant d ...
... Panel A establishes a point of departure by portraying annual flows in a fictitious river over the past 50 years; flow, here, simply represents a specific, climate sensitive environmental variable that carries potentially enormous significance for community located on the river bank. A significant d ...
insight - Green Climate Fund
... Cities are responsible for 75% of all emissions. They consume more than 75% of the planet’s natural resources and use 60-80% of the our energy. Reducing emissions from cities can therefore make a major contribution to global mitigation efforts. However, cities are also likely to be highly vulnerable ...
... Cities are responsible for 75% of all emissions. They consume more than 75% of the planet’s natural resources and use 60-80% of the our energy. Reducing emissions from cities can therefore make a major contribution to global mitigation efforts. However, cities are also likely to be highly vulnerable ...
The impacts of climate change on human rights and forced migration
... rendered infertile by salinisation. Oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic and sea levels are rising. The climate is naturally dynamic and environmental conditions have changed dramatically throughout the planet’s history, however, the changes observed in the past few hundred years do not fit the b ...
... rendered infertile by salinisation. Oceans are becoming warmer, more acidic and sea levels are rising. The climate is naturally dynamic and environmental conditions have changed dramatically throughout the planet’s history, however, the changes observed in the past few hundred years do not fit the b ...
Building Resilience and Reducing Emissions
... “Extreme weather and climate events” are storms, droughts, floods, and extreme temperature events. The calculations are made by OVE based on data from EM DAT. EM DAT severely underestimates the losses and damages (it only registers larger events). In particular, landslides and flooding are underesti ...
... “Extreme weather and climate events” are storms, droughts, floods, and extreme temperature events. The calculations are made by OVE based on data from EM DAT. EM DAT severely underestimates the losses and damages (it only registers larger events). In particular, landslides and flooding are underesti ...
Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate
... for Policymakers (SPM) for each of the four IPCC reports [McKitrick et al. 2007]. While we are often told about the thousands of scientists on whose work the Assessment reports are based, the vast majority of these scientists have no direct influence on the conclusions expressed by the IPCC. Those ...
... for Policymakers (SPM) for each of the four IPCC reports [McKitrick et al. 2007]. While we are often told about the thousands of scientists on whose work the Assessment reports are based, the vast majority of these scientists have no direct influence on the conclusions expressed by the IPCC. Those ...
Climate change and the long-term viability of the World`s busiest
... speed of calculation, whilst the main limitation is that changed baseline time series differ only in terms of their respected means, with important properties such as the range and temporal sequencing remaining unchanged (Diaz-Nieto and Wilby 2005). The other issue with the approach of Perrin et al. ...
... speed of calculation, whilst the main limitation is that changed baseline time series differ only in terms of their respected means, with important properties such as the range and temporal sequencing remaining unchanged (Diaz-Nieto and Wilby 2005). The other issue with the approach of Perrin et al. ...
A Narrative Analysis of Climate Change Coverage in the New York
... The public’s reliance on journalists to interpret science is a condition of the modern information society. As people use news to educate themselves on issues to become active citizens, media have a responsibility to ethically inform them if they are in danger and impose meaning upon uncertainties f ...
... The public’s reliance on journalists to interpret science is a condition of the modern information society. As people use news to educate themselves on issues to become active citizens, media have a responsibility to ethically inform them if they are in danger and impose meaning upon uncertainties f ...
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... take advantage of new opportunities, is an important component of the Framework Convention. [FN26] Article 4.1b, for example, commits parties to “formulate, implement ... national and where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to ... facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change.” ...
... take advantage of new opportunities, is an important component of the Framework Convention. [FN26] Article 4.1b, for example, commits parties to “formulate, implement ... national and where appropriate, regional programmes containing measures to ... facilitate adequate adaptation to climate change.” ...
Implications of land use change in tropical northern Africa under
... of land use in the study area leads to very small, mostly insignificantly small, additional differences in mean temperature and annual precipitation change in this region. These findings are only based on the specific set-up of our experiments, which only focuses on variations in the kind of land us ...
... of land use in the study area leads to very small, mostly insignificantly small, additional differences in mean temperature and annual precipitation change in this region. These findings are only based on the specific set-up of our experiments, which only focuses on variations in the kind of land us ...
Climate Change and the Historic Environment
... OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Although the Earth’s climate changes continually, and often dramatically, as a result of natural processes, there is now a strong scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human actions are causing significant additional and very rapid changes to the clim ...
... OUR CHANGING CLIMATE Although the Earth’s climate changes continually, and often dramatically, as a result of natural processes, there is now a strong scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions resulting from human actions are causing significant additional and very rapid changes to the clim ...
Misdefining ``climate change``: consequences for science and action
... also focus on adaptation in FCCC World? Is changing the energy habits of six billion people really more tractable than modulating the global earth system via carbon sequestration or other strategies of geoengineering? Such questions quickly begin to reveal many assumptions that underlie approaches t ...
... also focus on adaptation in FCCC World? Is changing the energy habits of six billion people really more tractable than modulating the global earth system via carbon sequestration or other strategies of geoengineering? Such questions quickly begin to reveal many assumptions that underlie approaches t ...