Climate change and human health
... warmest since instrumental records began in the nineteenth century, and contained 9 of the 10 warmest years ever recorded. The causes of this change are increasingly well understood. The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2001, goes further than it ...
... warmest since instrumental records began in the nineteenth century, and contained 9 of the 10 warmest years ever recorded. The causes of this change are increasingly well understood. The Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, published in 2001, goes further than it ...
Workshop Proceedings Report: South Asia Media Workshop
... sub-district or the Binh Dinh province of Viet Nam, where it is all set to be integrated into local development planning. Adaptation to the changing climate is fast becoming a reality. Journalists need to remain objective and balanced; they should avoid taking an advocacy position on issues. They sh ...
... sub-district or the Binh Dinh province of Viet Nam, where it is all set to be integrated into local development planning. Adaptation to the changing climate is fast becoming a reality. Journalists need to remain objective and balanced; they should avoid taking an advocacy position on issues. They sh ...
Camels and Climate Resilience: Adaptation in Northern Kenya
... ecological, on closer inspection it is complex and related to multiple fundamental dimensions of life. ...
... ecological, on closer inspection it is complex and related to multiple fundamental dimensions of life. ...
Scoping study: Modelling the interaction between mitigation and adaptation
... in the literature on tipping points (Schellnhuber et al, 2005) or tipping extremes1 (Lenton et al, 2008), for example, the abrupt solid ice discharge from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a critical threshold temperature at which a complete disintegration of Greenland Ice Sheet is certain, etc. These e ...
... in the literature on tipping points (Schellnhuber et al, 2005) or tipping extremes1 (Lenton et al, 2008), for example, the abrupt solid ice discharge from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a critical threshold temperature at which a complete disintegration of Greenland Ice Sheet is certain, etc. These e ...
Impacts of Climate Change on Biodiversity, Ecosystems
... 3.4. Societal response: Managing change—it can be done. Adaptation and mitigation responses for ecosystems .............................................................................................. 3-35 3.5. Critical gaps in knowledge, research, and data needs ................................... ...
... 3.4. Societal response: Managing change—it can be done. Adaptation and mitigation responses for ecosystems .............................................................................................. 3-35 3.5. Critical gaps in knowledge, research, and data needs ................................... ...
The Role of New Media in Protest Organisation
... Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... - 1 Table of Content ......................................................................................................................... - 2 1. Chapte ...
... Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... - 1 Table of Content ......................................................................................................................... - 2 1. Chapte ...
America's Climate Choices: Panel on Informing Effective
... perspective: Is the right information available and accessible for the different types of decisions that people are making? Where is there potential for confusion? How can information services be designed so as to allow monitoring and assessment of climate and climate policy so that we can understan ...
... perspective: Is the right information available and accessible for the different types of decisions that people are making? Where is there potential for confusion? How can information services be designed so as to allow monitoring and assessment of climate and climate policy so that we can understan ...
Considering Vermont`s Future in a Changing Climate: The First
... impacting lives and seriously impairing already strained budgets. Many of these ecological imbalances are exacerbated by climate change. It is my hope that the Vermont Climate Assessment is the start of an inclusive, broad based, and sustained process for assessing and communicating scientific knowl ...
... impacting lives and seriously impairing already strained budgets. Many of these ecological imbalances are exacerbated by climate change. It is my hope that the Vermont Climate Assessment is the start of an inclusive, broad based, and sustained process for assessing and communicating scientific knowl ...
Comparing Conceptualizations of Urban Climate Resilience in
... 2. Materials and Methods To examine how practitioners and academics conceptualize resilience, we combined an extensive literature review with the results of a 2014 survey of U.S. local government officials. For the literature review, we drew from a broader review of the urban resilience literature [ ...
... 2. Materials and Methods To examine how practitioners and academics conceptualize resilience, we combined an extensive literature review with the results of a 2014 survey of U.S. local government officials. For the literature review, we drew from a broader review of the urban resilience literature [ ...
Vulnerability - Adaptación al cambio climático para el desarrollo
... Florida’s vulnerability, emphasizing its low elevation that makes it highly susceptible to sea-level rise, its current exposure to hurricanes and the severe damages caused by them, and its present climate being rather warm already. Some scholars may refrain from giving an answer unless provided with ...
... Florida’s vulnerability, emphasizing its low elevation that makes it highly susceptible to sea-level rise, its current exposure to hurricanes and the severe damages caused by them, and its present climate being rather warm already. Some scholars may refrain from giving an answer unless provided with ...
Building Climate Resilience in the Agriculture Sector of Asia and the
... Figure 2.2: Climate Change Vulnerability Map of Southeast Asia Figure 2.3: Countries Vulnerable to Climate Change Figure 3.1: The IMPACT 2009 Modeling Framework Figure 3.2: Yield Changes between 2000 and 2050 by Crop and Management System for Three GCMs With and Without CO2 Fertilization Effects Fig ...
... Figure 2.2: Climate Change Vulnerability Map of Southeast Asia Figure 2.3: Countries Vulnerable to Climate Change Figure 3.1: The IMPACT 2009 Modeling Framework Figure 3.2: Yield Changes between 2000 and 2050 by Crop and Management System for Three GCMs With and Without CO2 Fertilization Effects Fig ...
Climate Vulnerability Monitor
... limate change is already with us. It kills. It steals livelihoods. And it takes the most from those who have the least. But the costs are largely hidden from our understanding. Inaction on climate change actually takes from us all. Only together can we plot a different course: one of greater prosper ...
... limate change is already with us. It kills. It steals livelihoods. And it takes the most from those who have the least. But the costs are largely hidden from our understanding. Inaction on climate change actually takes from us all. Only together can we plot a different course: one of greater prosper ...
a study of public understanding of and response to climate
... Prevalence of and reasons for energy-reduction action ..................................... 67 Theoretical perspectives relevant to energy conservation.................................. 68 Costs and benefits of energy conservation.......................................................... 69 Social a ...
... Prevalence of and reasons for energy-reduction action ..................................... 67 Theoretical perspectives relevant to energy conservation.................................. 68 Costs and benefits of energy conservation.......................................................... 69 Social a ...
Climate-Smart Conservation - National Wildlife Federation
... Financial support for this publication was provided by the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
... Financial support for this publication was provided by the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Forest Service, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Wildlife Conservation Societ ...
UNEP Regional Office for Africa
... There is a consensus among scientists, policy makers and development practitioners that climate change poses complex challenges to the development of countries in Africa. Recent scientific information since the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report confirms the worl ...
... There is a consensus among scientists, policy makers and development practitioners that climate change poses complex challenges to the development of countries in Africa. Recent scientific information since the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report confirms the worl ...
protected areas and climate change in canada
... several other images featured in the report. Photo credits are assigned to images throughout the report. David Ainsworth at the CBD Secretariat, Montreal, provided the logo for the International Year of Biodiversity. This report would have not been possible without funding provided by the CCEA, the ...
... several other images featured in the report. Photo credits are assigned to images throughout the report. David Ainsworth at the CBD Secretariat, Montreal, provided the logo for the International Year of Biodiversity. This report would have not been possible without funding provided by the CCEA, the ...
An Analysis of Adaptation as a Response to Climate Change
... agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, 2007). According to the main IPCC scenarios, world-average temperature is likely to increase in the business as usual scenarios as shown in Figure 1, which also shows our projections. ...
... agents were held constant at the 2000 level, a further warming would be observed due to the inertia of oceans (IPCC, 2007). According to the main IPCC scenarios, world-average temperature is likely to increase in the business as usual scenarios as shown in Figure 1, which also shows our projections. ...
Economic Costs and Benefits of Climate Change Impacts and
... Tourism is the largest sector of the economy in the Maldives, and it is critical to the country’s economic future. However, tourism in the Maldives is at risk to climate and non-climate influences. Non-climate influences – such as land-use pressure and coastal erosion, waste management, limited fres ...
... Tourism is the largest sector of the economy in the Maldives, and it is critical to the country’s economic future. However, tourism in the Maldives is at risk to climate and non-climate influences. Non-climate influences – such as land-use pressure and coastal erosion, waste management, limited fres ...
Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture
... in its interactions, has important links with capture fisheries. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in recognizing the likely changes to come and the interactions between fisheries and aquaculture, agriculture and forestry and these changes, held a High-Level Conferen ...
... in its interactions, has important links with capture fisheries. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in recognizing the likely changes to come and the interactions between fisheries and aquaculture, agriculture and forestry and these changes, held a High-Level Conferen ...
Academic paper: Vulnerability: A generally applicable conceptual
... low elevation that makes it highly susceptible to sea-level rise, its current exposure to hurricanes and the severe damages caused by them, and its present climate being rather warm already. Some scholars may refrain from giving an answer unless provided with detailed, preferably probabilistic, scen ...
... low elevation that makes it highly susceptible to sea-level rise, its current exposure to hurricanes and the severe damages caused by them, and its present climate being rather warm already. Some scholars may refrain from giving an answer unless provided with detailed, preferably probabilistic, scen ...