Perception of Climate Change Among Egyptians Living in Egypt and
... Canadian dataset in order to identify the differences in attitudes and beliefs (world-views) and the differences in factors influencing risk perception of climate change between these two datasets. The research provides insight into the conditions under which risk perceptions are maintained or trans ...
... Canadian dataset in order to identify the differences in attitudes and beliefs (world-views) and the differences in factors influencing risk perception of climate change between these two datasets. The research provides insight into the conditions under which risk perceptions are maintained or trans ...
Washing Away Our Heritage: The Impacts of Rising Sea
... and what policies can be put into place to mitigate the effects. When looking at potential impacts, the physical impacts to specific structures and historic districts is discussed. However, the economic and social impacts that will occur from the loss or semidestruction of these historic resources w ...
... and what policies can be put into place to mitigate the effects. When looking at potential impacts, the physical impacts to specific structures and historic districts is discussed. However, the economic and social impacts that will occur from the loss or semidestruction of these historic resources w ...
A comprehensive review of climate adaptation in the United States
... mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (GCRA), P.L. 101–606, which evaluates, integrates, and interprets the findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP’s) research agenda every four years] and approximately 30 external documents from peer-reviewed and grey literature. ...
... mandated by the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (GCRA), P.L. 101–606, which evaluates, integrates, and interprets the findings of the U.S. Global Change Research Program’s (USGCRP’s) research agenda every four years] and approximately 30 external documents from peer-reviewed and grey literature. ...
Forests and climate change in Latin America : linking
... is not explicit in the project document. Adaptation projects can also have negative impacts on mitigation. For instance, infrastructure-based adaptation projects in coastal areas (such as dikes and dams) can adversely affect coastal ecosystems and reduce their capacity to store carbon. Integrating e ...
... is not explicit in the project document. Adaptation projects can also have negative impacts on mitigation. For instance, infrastructure-based adaptation projects in coastal areas (such as dikes and dams) can adversely affect coastal ecosystems and reduce their capacity to store carbon. Integrating e ...
Global Increase in Climate-Related Disasters
... this paper considers the three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards—behind the global increase in frequency of intense natural hazards. One important difference from previous work is that our empirical analysi ...
... this paper considers the three main disaster risk factors—rising population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards—behind the global increase in frequency of intense natural hazards. One important difference from previous work is that our empirical analysi ...
Managing Physical Impacts of Climate Change: An Attentional
... Adaptation calls into question firms’ relation with the ecosystems they are embedded in and depend on for (natural) resources (Whiteman, Walker, & Perego, 2013). Adaptation is also highly complex, not only due to the novelty of the issue, but also due to the great number of factors related to weathe ...
... Adaptation calls into question firms’ relation with the ecosystems they are embedded in and depend on for (natural) resources (Whiteman, Walker, & Perego, 2013). Adaptation is also highly complex, not only due to the novelty of the issue, but also due to the great number of factors related to weathe ...
Implications of Climate Change for the Construction Sector.
... The built environment will be affected by climate change in many ways: the purpose of this research was to identify how, and (where possible) how much. Climate change research has so far concentrated on climate models, measurements of climate variables, and research underpinning impact and adaptatio ...
... The built environment will be affected by climate change in many ways: the purpose of this research was to identify how, and (where possible) how much. Climate change research has so far concentrated on climate models, measurements of climate variables, and research underpinning impact and adaptatio ...
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... three key factors. First, given the current state of international climate policy, substantial warming is projected by the end of the 21st Century, even with implementation of the Copenhagen Accord (Nordhaus, 2010).6 Second, due to delays in the climate system, some warming from past emissions will ...
... three key factors. First, given the current state of international climate policy, substantial warming is projected by the end of the 21st Century, even with implementation of the Copenhagen Accord (Nordhaus, 2010).6 Second, due to delays in the climate system, some warming from past emissions will ...
Climate Adaptation Plan for the Territories of the Yakama Nation
... of our heritage and culture. From the vast information now available concerning climate change, we understand that its impacts on our natural resources will continue and that our grandchildren will likely see profound and ever-increasing changes within their lifetimes. The issues in front of us are ...
... of our heritage and culture. From the vast information now available concerning climate change, we understand that its impacts on our natural resources will continue and that our grandchildren will likely see profound and ever-increasing changes within their lifetimes. The issues in front of us are ...
Climate change and stratospheric ozone depletion Early effects on
... Human effects on the environment now include unprecedented changes at the global level in the atmosphere and the stratosphere. Climatologists project that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere will change the world’s climate, and this has apparently already begun. Stratospheri ...
... Human effects on the environment now include unprecedented changes at the global level in the atmosphere and the stratosphere. Climatologists project that the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the lower atmosphere will change the world’s climate, and this has apparently already begun. Stratospheri ...
Phoenix Islands Protected Area Climate Change Vulnerability
... Kiribati is an atoll and ocean nation of some 100,000 people straddling the equator and the dateline, in the Central Pacific Ocean. Its land area is some 811 km2 spread across 3.6 million km2 of ocean. With human populations growing and testing the limits of island resources, climate change is now b ...
... Kiribati is an atoll and ocean nation of some 100,000 people straddling the equator and the dateline, in the Central Pacific Ocean. Its land area is some 811 km2 spread across 3.6 million km2 of ocean. With human populations growing and testing the limits of island resources, climate change is now b ...
Briefing report
... That the world’s climate is changing is irrefutable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in its most recent Assessment Report that it is very likely that the changes we have seen and measured are the result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While there may be some oppo ...
... That the world’s climate is changing is irrefutable. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated in its most recent Assessment Report that it is very likely that the changes we have seen and measured are the result of anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While there may be some oppo ...
ecosystem-based adaptation - Fundação Grupo Boticário de
... the warming of the global system, which can be evidenced based on changes such as the warming of the atmosphere and the oceans and the increase in sealevel, among other changes already observed (PBMC, 2015). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the last three decades we ...
... the warming of the global system, which can be evidenced based on changes such as the warming of the atmosphere and the oceans and the increase in sealevel, among other changes already observed (PBMC, 2015). According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the last three decades we ...
achieving a climate for health
... activities are producing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, black carbon, and methane, which concentrate in the earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping.5 This phenomenon creates a warming effect on the earth and other cascading changes that impact people, plants, wildlife, and ecosys ...
... activities are producing greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, black carbon, and methane, which concentrate in the earth’s atmosphere and prevent heat from escaping.5 This phenomenon creates a warming effect on the earth and other cascading changes that impact people, plants, wildlife, and ecosys ...
Chapter 10
... 1990 levels without CO2 effects (medium confidence) [10.4.1.1]. Freshwater availability in Central, South, East and South-East Asia, particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standard of living that cou ...
... 1990 levels without CO2 effects (medium confidence) [10.4.1.1]. Freshwater availability in Central, South, East and South-East Asia, particularly in large river basins such as Changjiang, is likely to decrease due to climate change, along with population growth and rising standard of living that cou ...
Identifying adaptation options - South Florida Regional Planning
... important as many adaptation measures (eg. land use adaptation measures) can bring both benefits and losses depending on one’s perspective. Ensuring that a broad range of perspectives are considered within the assessment and subsequent decision-making processes will further increase the likely accep ...
... important as many adaptation measures (eg. land use adaptation measures) can bring both benefits and losses depending on one’s perspective. Ensuring that a broad range of perspectives are considered within the assessment and subsequent decision-making processes will further increase the likely accep ...
- UNDP Climate Change Adaptation
... independent from climate policy, can significantly reduce emissions. Similarly, non-climate development policies at multiple scales can affect adaptive capacity and vulnerability. In this context, UNDP’s climate change strategy is to support the design of integrated climate change (adaptation and mi ...
... independent from climate policy, can significantly reduce emissions. Similarly, non-climate development policies at multiple scales can affect adaptive capacity and vulnerability. In this context, UNDP’s climate change strategy is to support the design of integrated climate change (adaptation and mi ...
uganda`s economic development - Konrad-Adenauer
... variability observed over comparable time periods2. However, it is equally vital to point out that there are many other major factors that bring about climate change such as solar output, tectonic movements and earth’s orbit pattern.3 Scientists indicate that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
... variability observed over comparable time periods2. However, it is equally vital to point out that there are many other major factors that bring about climate change such as solar output, tectonic movements and earth’s orbit pattern.3 Scientists indicate that increased levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) ...
Managing Coastal Vulnerability under Climate Change
... Lentz (29) attributed the rapid warming of coastal surface temperatures in the Gulf of Maine and Middle Atlantic Bight to the warming of the Arctic and Labrador source waters rather than to the local air-sea exchange of heat. Projections for future coastal water temperatures can be made from the gen ...
... Lentz (29) attributed the rapid warming of coastal surface temperatures in the Gulf of Maine and Middle Atlantic Bight to the warming of the Arctic and Labrador source waters rather than to the local air-sea exchange of heat. Projections for future coastal water temperatures can be made from the gen ...
text - Tilburg University
... includes the difficulties for the decision maker to assess the nature of the alleged harm feared, and the identification of whether the source of that harm is attributable to climate change. Lastly, the decision maker would need to assess whether that harm amounts to a violation of a human right, fo ...
... includes the difficulties for the decision maker to assess the nature of the alleged harm feared, and the identification of whether the source of that harm is attributable to climate change. Lastly, the decision maker would need to assess whether that harm amounts to a violation of a human right, fo ...
SoG for Climate Applications
... chance of being able to recover the data in the event of a communications or systems failure. Minimum standards will be published in a forthcoming document summarising climate requirements from AWS, but at this stage the recommendation is likely to be that a minimum of three months of data at the sh ...
... chance of being able to recover the data in the event of a communications or systems failure. Minimum standards will be published in a forthcoming document summarising climate requirements from AWS, but at this stage the recommendation is likely to be that a minimum of three months of data at the sh ...