Climate vulnerability of socio-economic systems
... economic systems in moist forests, woodlands/savannas and coastal wetlands of Africa to identify the likely impacts of climate change on livelihoods. Climate change will have profound impacts on moist forest of Africa including reduction of the capacity of the forests to supply the ecosystem goods a ...
... economic systems in moist forests, woodlands/savannas and coastal wetlands of Africa to identify the likely impacts of climate change on livelihoods. Climate change will have profound impacts on moist forest of Africa including reduction of the capacity of the forests to supply the ecosystem goods a ...
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... payments also shifts policy support from intensive to extensive production regions4. Regarding regional climate change impacts several integrated agronomic studies have already assessed the vulnerability of croplands to climate change in Austria until the mid of the 21st century (Alexandrov et al., ...
... payments also shifts policy support from intensive to extensive production regions4. Regarding regional climate change impacts several integrated agronomic studies have already assessed the vulnerability of croplands to climate change in Austria until the mid of the 21st century (Alexandrov et al., ...
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... which adaptation action would offer the best returns. There is emerging evidence that the Earth’s climate might be changing more rapidly than expected and there are warnings that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change target of limiting global warming to 2°C has become unrealistic. If mitigat ...
... which adaptation action would offer the best returns. There is emerging evidence that the Earth’s climate might be changing more rapidly than expected and there are warnings that the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change target of limiting global warming to 2°C has become unrealistic. If mitigat ...
PREPARING FOR CLIMATIC CHANGE: THE WATER, SALMON, AND
... The spatial patterns of SST are similar for ENSO and PDO, but PDO’s footprint in SST is stronger in the central and northern Pacific than near the equator, and its irregular period is several decades; in the 20th century, PDO tended to stay in one phase or the other for 20 to 30 years at a time. PDO ...
... The spatial patterns of SST are similar for ENSO and PDO, but PDO’s footprint in SST is stronger in the central and northern Pacific than near the equator, and its irregular period is several decades; in the 20th century, PDO tended to stay in one phase or the other for 20 to 30 years at a time. PDO ...
ON ThE RELATIONShIP bETWEEN bRYOPhYTE COVER ANd ThE
... that bryophytes provide an important substrate for the recruitment, growth, and survival of orchids, and therefore Lepanthes spp. should occur on trees with substantial amounts of moss cover (Tremblay et al. 1998, Tremblay & Velazquez-Castro 2009). Accordingly, the hypothesis tested here is that the ...
... that bryophytes provide an important substrate for the recruitment, growth, and survival of orchids, and therefore Lepanthes spp. should occur on trees with substantial amounts of moss cover (Tremblay et al. 1998, Tremblay & Velazquez-Castro 2009). Accordingly, the hypothesis tested here is that the ...
Potential Vegetation and Carbon Redistribution in Northern North
... that they could replicate ~80% of the observed land surface before predicting future distribution from climate change [17]. While equilibrium response of vegetation to climate is important, the transient response is also important, potentially introducing lags in response, novel communities, and oth ...
... that they could replicate ~80% of the observed land surface before predicting future distribution from climate change [17]. While equilibrium response of vegetation to climate is important, the transient response is also important, potentially introducing lags in response, novel communities, and oth ...
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... changes and risks at a local level. Adaptation options whose costs exceed their anticipated benefits will, on the whole, not be implemented, but options with positive ratios will. Hence benefit-cost ratios somewhere above one, as posited by Bosello, Carraro and de Cian (2009), are unsurprising. Much ...
... changes and risks at a local level. Adaptation options whose costs exceed their anticipated benefits will, on the whole, not be implemented, but options with positive ratios will. Hence benefit-cost ratios somewhere above one, as posited by Bosello, Carraro and de Cian (2009), are unsurprising. Much ...
Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability in the Eastern Himalayas
... ecosystems (IPCC 2007a). These include the prospect of more severe weather, longer droughts, higher temperatures (milder winters), heat waves, changes in local biodiversity, and reduced ground and surface water quantity and quality. These changes will impact on everything from the natural landscape ...
... ecosystems (IPCC 2007a). These include the prospect of more severe weather, longer droughts, higher temperatures (milder winters), heat waves, changes in local biodiversity, and reduced ground and surface water quantity and quality. These changes will impact on everything from the natural landscape ...
Climate change and European forests: What do we
... very short drought stretches) and Southern Europe (currently with extended drought stretches). According to these models, Central Europe will see a strong increase in the length of the average longest annual drought period by 3e15 days, now approaching numbers formerly typical for the subMediterrane ...
... very short drought stretches) and Southern Europe (currently with extended drought stretches). According to these models, Central Europe will see a strong increase in the length of the average longest annual drought period by 3e15 days, now approaching numbers formerly typical for the subMediterrane ...
Climate change effects on rangelands and rangeland management
... Brackets on the thermometers represent likely ranges of model projections under higher and lower emissions scenarios. The average temperature in the Southwest has already increased roughly 1.5°F compared to a 1960–1979 baseline period. By the end of the century, average annual temperature is project ...
... Brackets on the thermometers represent likely ranges of model projections under higher and lower emissions scenarios. The average temperature in the Southwest has already increased roughly 1.5°F compared to a 1960–1979 baseline period. By the end of the century, average annual temperature is project ...
The Adaptation Challenge: Key issues for crop production
... an improvement in conditions for some farm operations, including harvesting. At the same time, the National Report noted that it will not be possible for Russia to attain advantages over other countries which are food exporters without action to adapt agriculture to the expected changes in climate a ...
... an improvement in conditions for some farm operations, including harvesting. At the same time, the National Report noted that it will not be possible for Russia to attain advantages over other countries which are food exporters without action to adapt agriculture to the expected changes in climate a ...
Severe weather and UK food chain resilience
... supply chain. This includes the impacts of severe weather on UK production. It also includes impacts of severe weather outside the UK as it impacts on our food supply chains (via fluctuation in global supply of food and feed and also on price). There is an important distinction between “high impact ...
... supply chain. This includes the impacts of severe weather on UK production. It also includes impacts of severe weather outside the UK as it impacts on our food supply chains (via fluctuation in global supply of food and feed and also on price). There is an important distinction between “high impact ...
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... and climate scenarios were also examined and the implications on the cost of carbon sequestration over the next 100 years presented. www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df42.pdf Voluntary guidelines for the responsible management of planted forests (2006) These non-legally binding FAO guidelines may be adop ...
... and climate scenarios were also examined and the implications on the cost of carbon sequestration over the next 100 years presented. www.metla.fi/dissertationes/df42.pdf Voluntary guidelines for the responsible management of planted forests (2006) These non-legally binding FAO guidelines may be adop ...
Using climate information to support crop breeding decisions and
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
... could be impacted by the changing climate and changing threats from pests and pathogens. Crop breeding, both through conventional techniques, and GM assisted breeding could help meet these challenges, if adequately supported by appropriate information on the future climate. We highlight some of the ...
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... dry spells comprise of ecosystem desiccation by increased salinization in freshwater wetland and loss of productivity in croplands, saltwater encroachment up the river, deforestation, and loss of productivity and biodiversity in woodland ecosystems as a result of wildfires and land use change. More ...
... dry spells comprise of ecosystem desiccation by increased salinization in freshwater wetland and loss of productivity in croplands, saltwater encroachment up the river, deforestation, and loss of productivity and biodiversity in woodland ecosystems as a result of wildfires and land use change. More ...
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... Many studies have explored climate change in different perspectives: projecting population, income, damages on infrastructure, health, among others. They have used a wide range of approaches such as integrated assessment models and dynamic modeling (van der Mensbrugghe 2013, Cai, Lenton, and Lontzek ...
... Many studies have explored climate change in different perspectives: projecting population, income, damages on infrastructure, health, among others. They have used a wide range of approaches such as integrated assessment models and dynamic modeling (van der Mensbrugghe 2013, Cai, Lenton, and Lontzek ...
Review of current monitoring efforts in coastal ecosystems
... The second objective is to estimate the distribution and rate of change of population, urbanization, and land use/land cover in the coastal zone. It is believed that using current datasets these rates can be estimated within 1 year. The third goal is to assess the vulnerability of ecosystems in ...
... The second objective is to estimate the distribution and rate of change of population, urbanization, and land use/land cover in the coastal zone. It is believed that using current datasets these rates can be estimated within 1 year. The third goal is to assess the vulnerability of ecosystems in ...
Indigenous Australians` knowledge of weather and climate
... than we do.—quoted and translated in (Hill 2004, 66). Paleoenvironmental and thermoluminescence studies have shown that Aboriginal Australians have one of the longest living cultural traditions in the world, with recent archaeological records dating their culture back at least 50,000 years (Roberts ...
... than we do.—quoted and translated in (Hill 2004, 66). Paleoenvironmental and thermoluminescence studies have shown that Aboriginal Australians have one of the longest living cultural traditions in the world, with recent archaeological records dating their culture back at least 50,000 years (Roberts ...
FFESCsynthesisJune7 - Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural
... the approaches for making good decisions about climate change are the same as those used to deal with uncertainty arising from other sources. Climate change makes existing uncertainties (e.g. wildfire, global markets) more acute while also challenging those attributes of forest and range management ...
... the approaches for making good decisions about climate change are the same as those used to deal with uncertainty arising from other sources. Climate change makes existing uncertainties (e.g. wildfire, global markets) more acute while also challenging those attributes of forest and range management ...
4B.4 IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AND WEATHER ON
... FMCSA as it pertains to how climate change could amplify some of those effects in its long-term planning horizon by increasing the frequency or intensity of severe weather. Commodities carried by CMVs are of great economic importance. Recent data indicate that trucking as a single mode, or as part o ...
... FMCSA as it pertains to how climate change could amplify some of those effects in its long-term planning horizon by increasing the frequency or intensity of severe weather. Commodities carried by CMVs are of great economic importance. Recent data indicate that trucking as a single mode, or as part o ...
- Energy
... of the system (de Beurs and Henebry, 2004). The extent to which short-term climate variability and, hence, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will be altered by climate change remains uncertain, although there is also growing evidence that future climate change is likely to increa ...
... of the system (de Beurs and Henebry, 2004). The extent to which short-term climate variability and, hence, the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events will be altered by climate change remains uncertain, although there is also growing evidence that future climate change is likely to increa ...
Executive Summary - UNECE Environmental Policy web-site
... period will strengthen the agro-climatic potential of the area contributing to the growing of late and more productive crops and also supporting introduction of the new warm-season crops. However, the earlier incoming of spring can «provoke» the earlier vegetation period for plants creating a threat ...
... period will strengthen the agro-climatic potential of the area contributing to the growing of late and more productive crops and also supporting introduction of the new warm-season crops. However, the earlier incoming of spring can «provoke» the earlier vegetation period for plants creating a threat ...
IPCC Asia - Climate Change and Food Security
... Rice is central to nutrition in Asia. In 1997, rice provided about 700 kilocalories per person per day or more for approximately 2.9 billion people, most of whom live in developing countries of Asia and Africa. During the 1990s, rice production and productivity in Asia grew at a much slower rate tha ...
... Rice is central to nutrition in Asia. In 1997, rice provided about 700 kilocalories per person per day or more for approximately 2.9 billion people, most of whom live in developing countries of Asia and Africa. During the 1990s, rice production and productivity in Asia grew at a much slower rate tha ...
Print - Climate Change Knowledge Portal
... The number of warm days increased by 2.5 percent and nights by 1.7 percent, while the number of cold nights and cold days decreased by -2.2 and -2.4 percent per decade Temperature extremes increased by between 0.2 and 0.3°C per decade; While most climate data show positive trends (increased precipit ...
... The number of warm days increased by 2.5 percent and nights by 1.7 percent, while the number of cold nights and cold days decreased by -2.2 and -2.4 percent per decade Temperature extremes increased by between 0.2 and 0.3°C per decade; While most climate data show positive trends (increased precipit ...
editorial: protected areas as natural solutions to climate change
... threats and start comprehending and planning for longterm changes. This will require managers to take steps now in current policy and planning that are targeted at addressing the implications of changes that will take effect long into the future. This involves building capacity to accept and manage ...
... threats and start comprehending and planning for longterm changes. This will require managers to take steps now in current policy and planning that are targeted at addressing the implications of changes that will take effect long into the future. This involves building capacity to accept and manage ...