Planning and costing agricultural adaptation to climate change in
... crop and livestock agriculture, while one per cent is purely livestock keepers. Livestock accounted for 5.9 per cent to total GDP in 2006 and 4.7 per cent in 2010 (Mashingo 2010). ...
... crop and livestock agriculture, while one per cent is purely livestock keepers. Livestock accounted for 5.9 per cent to total GDP in 2006 and 4.7 per cent in 2010 (Mashingo 2010). ...
Impacts of Climate Change on all European islands
... Climate change poses significant risks to many if not all European islands with associated impacts in several key areas including security, migration, and biodiversity. Climate risk is a particular challenge to islands as their pressure absorption capacity and territorial redeployment abilities are ...
... Climate change poses significant risks to many if not all European islands with associated impacts in several key areas including security, migration, and biodiversity. Climate risk is a particular challenge to islands as their pressure absorption capacity and territorial redeployment abilities are ...
Spatial and Temporal Responses of Soil Erosion to Climate Change
... two models differed both in magnitude and regional distributions. Zhang et al. [3] used HadCM3 to assess potential changes in rainfall erosivity in the Huanghe River Basin of China, projecting increases in rainfall erosivity by as much as 11% to 22% by 2050. Pruski and Nearing [4] used HadCM3 to sim ...
... two models differed both in magnitude and regional distributions. Zhang et al. [3] used HadCM3 to assess potential changes in rainfall erosivity in the Huanghe River Basin of China, projecting increases in rainfall erosivity by as much as 11% to 22% by 2050. Pruski and Nearing [4] used HadCM3 to sim ...
Climate change and water in south Asia
... (Himalayas) interacting with Indian and eastern monsoons and westerly climate systems. Hydrological responses vary across the region given differences in streamflow sources from north‐west (glacier and snowmelt dominated) to east and south (rainfall dominated). Projected increases in intensit ...
... (Himalayas) interacting with Indian and eastern monsoons and westerly climate systems. Hydrological responses vary across the region given differences in streamflow sources from north‐west (glacier and snowmelt dominated) to east and south (rainfall dominated). Projected increases in intensit ...
Assessing Current Climate Risks
... some measure, e.g., crop yield. Under normal circumstances, outcomes are positive but become negative in response to extremes of climate variability. Using a response relationship between climate and other drivers and specific outcomes, we can select criteria or indicators representing different lev ...
... some measure, e.g., crop yield. Under normal circumstances, outcomes are positive but become negative in response to extremes of climate variability. Using a response relationship between climate and other drivers and specific outcomes, we can select criteria or indicators representing different lev ...
Tropical Fruit Tree Species and Climate Change
... characteristics that allow farmers to choose a new crop that they are not used to growing? Are farmers already experiencing impacts of climate change? If so, what are their adaptation strategies? Are there new opportunities for capitalizing tropical fruit tree genetic resources that benefit human ki ...
... characteristics that allow farmers to choose a new crop that they are not used to growing? Are farmers already experiencing impacts of climate change? If so, what are their adaptation strategies? Are there new opportunities for capitalizing tropical fruit tree genetic resources that benefit human ki ...
Climate Change in Park City: An Assessment of Climate, Snowpack
... change may affect snow conditions, such as snow coverage and depth, can help Utah ski area managers plan for the changes to mitigate their adverse effects. In this study, we used climate, snowpack, and economic models to estimate how the duration and quality of the snowpack at the Park City ski area ...
... change may affect snow conditions, such as snow coverage and depth, can help Utah ski area managers plan for the changes to mitigate their adverse effects. In this study, we used climate, snowpack, and economic models to estimate how the duration and quality of the snowpack at the Park City ski area ...
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
... of change in distribution (km per decade) for marine taxonomic groups based on observations over 1900-2010. Positive distribution changes are consistent with warming (moving into previously cooler waters, generally poleward). The number of responses analyzed is given within parentheses for each cate ...
... of change in distribution (km per decade) for marine taxonomic groups based on observations over 1900-2010. Positive distribution changes are consistent with warming (moving into previously cooler waters, generally poleward). The number of responses analyzed is given within parentheses for each cate ...
Mountains and Climate Change: A Global Concern
... The world’s mountains are home to about 800 million people. They serve as water towers for billions and provide ecosystem services for the entire globe. Climate change will affect the world’s mountain regions and may jeopardize the important services provided by mountains. This could include impacts ...
... The world’s mountains are home to about 800 million people. They serve as water towers for billions and provide ecosystem services for the entire globe. Climate change will affect the world’s mountain regions and may jeopardize the important services provided by mountains. This could include impacts ...
IPCC 5-2014 WG-2 Summary.pdf
... of change in distribution (km per decade) for marine taxonomic groups based on observations over 1900-2010. Positive distribution changes are consistent with warming (moving into previously cooler waters, generally poleward). The number of responses analyzed is given within parentheses for each cate ...
... of change in distribution (km per decade) for marine taxonomic groups based on observations over 1900-2010. Positive distribution changes are consistent with warming (moving into previously cooler waters, generally poleward). The number of responses analyzed is given within parentheses for each cate ...
Mountains and Climate Change: A global concern - EDA
... The world’s mountains are home to about 800 million people. They serve as water towers for billions and provide ecosystem services for the entire globe. Climate change will affect the world’s mountain regions and may jeopardize the important services provided by mountains. This could include impacts ...
... The world’s mountains are home to about 800 million people. They serve as water towers for billions and provide ecosystem services for the entire globe. Climate change will affect the world’s mountain regions and may jeopardize the important services provided by mountains. This could include impacts ...
Climate Change Impacts on the Mediterranean Coastal Zones
... factor which can influence the global and regional climate system. Aerosols are small particles and droplets which are originated by natural and anthropic sources. An increase in the concentration of these particles tends to produce negative radiative forcing and to cool the atmosphere through two d ...
... factor which can influence the global and regional climate system. Aerosols are small particles and droplets which are originated by natural and anthropic sources. An increase in the concentration of these particles tends to produce negative radiative forcing and to cool the atmosphere through two d ...
Prospering in a Changing Climate
... policy measures to build an effective longterm approach to dealing with the impacts of climate change particularly in urban form, including energy efficient building design, less vulnerability of critical infrastructure and continued protection of coastal development from seawater inundation. The Li ...
... policy measures to build an effective longterm approach to dealing with the impacts of climate change particularly in urban form, including energy efficient building design, less vulnerability of critical infrastructure and continued protection of coastal development from seawater inundation. The Li ...
Sample pages 2 PDF
... 4/3 transition. This hypothesis was based on faunal data from two main sites: Qafzeh, dated to 100–90 ka, and Kebara, dated to ca. 65 ka. However, these two sites are located in two distinct regions in the Southern Levant, Qafzeh being further east than Kebara, which is located in Mount Carmel on th ...
... 4/3 transition. This hypothesis was based on faunal data from two main sites: Qafzeh, dated to 100–90 ka, and Kebara, dated to ca. 65 ka. However, these two sites are located in two distinct regions in the Southern Levant, Qafzeh being further east than Kebara, which is located in Mount Carmel on th ...
Agricultural Technologies for Climate Change Mitigation and
... the development and effective diffusion of new agricultural practices and technologies will largely shape how and how well farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change. This adaptation and mitigation potential is nowhere more pronounced than in developing countries where agricultural productivity re ...
... the development and effective diffusion of new agricultural practices and technologies will largely shape how and how well farmers mitigate and adapt to climate change. This adaptation and mitigation potential is nowhere more pronounced than in developing countries where agricultural productivity re ...
Environmental tipping points and food system dynamics: Main Report
... patterns, such as those that caused the grasslands in North Africa to become deserts, 6000 years ago. These non-linear shifts arise following a critical degree of change, resulting from either many small cumulative changes or one large shock, “tipping” the system over a threshold and into a new stab ...
... patterns, such as those that caused the grasslands in North Africa to become deserts, 6000 years ago. These non-linear shifts arise following a critical degree of change, resulting from either many small cumulative changes or one large shock, “tipping” the system over a threshold and into a new stab ...
Personal experience and the `psychological distance` of
... the psychological distance of more specific and well-defined events (e.g., the psychological distance of a talk one has promised to deliver next month; cf. Weber, 2006). Given this additional complexity, it is clear that the existing research examining specific instantiations of distance from specific c ...
... the psychological distance of more specific and well-defined events (e.g., the psychological distance of a talk one has promised to deliver next month; cf. Weber, 2006). Given this additional complexity, it is clear that the existing research examining specific instantiations of distance from specific c ...
Climate Change Impacts in Alpine Environments
... Fig. 7. Projection of warming effects on the distribution of suitable sites for the nival plant Androsace alpina based on a spatial explicit model: (a) Digital Elevation Model of Mt. Schrankogel (resolution 1 m2). (b) Setting of 1 m2 permanent plots in transects (see yellow markings in (a) for deriv ...
... Fig. 7. Projection of warming effects on the distribution of suitable sites for the nival plant Androsace alpina based on a spatial explicit model: (a) Digital Elevation Model of Mt. Schrankogel (resolution 1 m2). (b) Setting of 1 m2 permanent plots in transects (see yellow markings in (a) for deriv ...
Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative to Act 20
... matched with very slow ethical-social evolution. The human ability to do has vastly outstripped the ability to understand. As a result civilization is faced with a perfect storm of problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich, the use of environmentally malign technologies, and gro ...
... matched with very slow ethical-social evolution. The human ability to do has vastly outstripped the ability to understand. As a result civilization is faced with a perfect storm of problems driven by overpopulation, overconsumption by the rich, the use of environmentally malign technologies, and gro ...
France`s adaptation to global climate change
... Summary of the Opinion1 In the face of climate change linked to human activity, adaptation is essential. There is, of course, still a critical and urgent need to limit global warming to less than 2°C by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (see IPCC report). Even at this level, detrimental consequences ...
... Summary of the Opinion1 In the face of climate change linked to human activity, adaptation is essential. There is, of course, still a critical and urgent need to limit global warming to less than 2°C by reducing greenhouse gas emissions (see IPCC report). Even at this level, detrimental consequences ...
Marine Phytoplankton Temperature versus Growth Responses from
... temperature and pCO2; Ozmon et al., unpublished data), provided a contrast with offshore species. In addition, eukaryotic and mixotrophic dinoflagellate species involved in estuarine and coastal harmful algal blooms (HABs) and nearshore eutrophication were examined [32] as blooms of these groups of ...
... temperature and pCO2; Ozmon et al., unpublished data), provided a contrast with offshore species. In addition, eukaryotic and mixotrophic dinoflagellate species involved in estuarine and coastal harmful algal blooms (HABs) and nearshore eutrophication were examined [32] as blooms of these groups of ...
Long-term effects of warming and ocean acidification are modified
... of diachronic response mechanisms, such as acclimation, adaptation [29,31,32], physiological or behavioural compensatory mechanisms linked to biodiversity–environmental context and/or seasonal timing [16,33,34]. These emergent properties of ecological communities can radically alter ( perceived or r ...
... of diachronic response mechanisms, such as acclimation, adaptation [29,31,32], physiological or behavioural compensatory mechanisms linked to biodiversity–environmental context and/or seasonal timing [16,33,34]. These emergent properties of ecological communities can radically alter ( perceived or r ...
The Butterfly Effect: Conservation Easements, Climate Change, and
... more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.18 Activities as simple as driving a car to the store to buy groceries, or even turning on a single light bulb, discharge more carbon into the atmosphere.19 What is worse, today it is not just one of us turning on the light bulb.20 Every day abo ...
... more carbon dioxide being released into the atmosphere.18 Activities as simple as driving a car to the store to buy groceries, or even turning on a single light bulb, discharge more carbon into the atmosphere.19 What is worse, today it is not just one of us turning on the light bulb.20 Every day abo ...
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... global level that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) could reduce the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture. Mitigation efforts could also directly affect agricultural production by constraining farm production activities that emit relatively high levels of GHG. Model-based adapt ...
... global level that reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) could reduce the negative impacts of climate change on agriculture. Mitigation efforts could also directly affect agricultural production by constraining farm production activities that emit relatively high levels of GHG. Model-based adapt ...
This paper offers a unifying conceptual framework for examining the
... Inequality has been a constant issue in the climate change discussion. However, the focus so far has been on inequality across countries. Thus, debates have raged and are still raging over differences across countries regarding the climate change “burden” with respect to the responsibility for causi ...
... Inequality has been a constant issue in the climate change discussion. However, the focus so far has been on inequality across countries. Thus, debates have raged and are still raging over differences across countries regarding the climate change “burden” with respect to the responsibility for causi ...