Institutionalizing delay
... The locus of cultural contests over the appropriate field frame centers on the interaction between social movements and counter-movements. Social movements seek to bring about change through redefining the dominant field frame, spreading familiarity and acceptance of this alternative frame, and gene ...
... The locus of cultural contests over the appropriate field frame centers on the interaction between social movements and counter-movements. Social movements seek to bring about change through redefining the dominant field frame, spreading familiarity and acceptance of this alternative frame, and gene ...
Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation in the Land Use Sector
... addressing climate change (effectiveness per unit cost). Indepth empirical analysis relating to the models above is subjects of continuing research though we believe the Ngitili case study illustrated in this paper could suffice for the current context. ...
... addressing climate change (effectiveness per unit cost). Indepth empirical analysis relating to the models above is subjects of continuing research though we believe the Ngitili case study illustrated in this paper could suffice for the current context. ...
Climate Change, Mean Sea Level and High Tides in the Bay of Fundy
... Climate Change, Mean Sea Level and High Tides in the Bay of Fundy / 3 this process is not uniform in the area. These models compute the interactions of ice sheets, the earth’s mantle and the redistribution of the ocean water mass. Computations have indicated sea level changes in the Gulf of Maine an ...
... Climate Change, Mean Sea Level and High Tides in the Bay of Fundy / 3 this process is not uniform in the area. These models compute the interactions of ice sheets, the earth’s mantle and the redistribution of the ocean water mass. Computations have indicated sea level changes in the Gulf of Maine an ...
Climate Change Analysis
... This report has been prepared as a collaborative effort led by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. We gratefully acknowledge: • The financial support of the Columbia Basin Trust, a regional corporation created to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbi ...
... This report has been prepared as a collaborative effort led by the Pacific Climate Impacts Consortium. We gratefully acknowledge: • The financial support of the Columbia Basin Trust, a regional corporation created to deliver social, economic and environmental benefits to the residents of the Columbi ...
Urban Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience
... Since 2011, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific has been helping countries in the region develop climate change adaptation projects and build capacities to access related finance in a sustainable way. One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific does this is by designing and implementing standalone capacity buildi ...
... Since 2011, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific has been helping countries in the region develop climate change adaptation projects and build capacities to access related finance in a sustainable way. One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific does this is by designing and implementing standalone capacity buildi ...
National Climate Change Strategy
... The development of this strategy responds to the above needs by ensuring that there is more coordination and complementarity between key economic sectors in implementing climate change activities. Moreover this Strategy makes it easier for the country to benefit from global climate change mitigatio ...
... The development of this strategy responds to the above needs by ensuring that there is more coordination and complementarity between key economic sectors in implementing climate change activities. Moreover this Strategy makes it easier for the country to benefit from global climate change mitigatio ...
Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change: A Literature Review*
... adaptation”, which resembles a “public good.” For joint adaption, he points out, even with government intervention, it is very difficult to achieve efficient adaptation because: 1) the collective gain may not be perceived by every member of the group; 2) the collective body may not agree on the le ...
... adaptation”, which resembles a “public good.” For joint adaption, he points out, even with government intervention, it is very difficult to achieve efficient adaptation because: 1) the collective gain may not be perceived by every member of the group; 2) the collective body may not agree on the le ...
Mid- to Late Holocene climate change: an overview
... conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in comparison to larger glacial–interglacial changes), and because abundant, detailed regional palaeoclimatic proxy records cover this period. We use selected proxy-based reconstructions of different climate variables, together with state ...
... conditions of the climate system did not change dramatically (in comparison to larger glacial–interglacial changes), and because abundant, detailed regional palaeoclimatic proxy records cover this period. We use selected proxy-based reconstructions of different climate variables, together with state ...
Urban Climate Change Adaptation and - East
... Since 2011, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific has been helping countries in the region develop climate change adaptation projects and build capacities to access related finance in a sustainable way. One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific does this is by designing and implementing standalone capacity buildi ...
... Since 2011, USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific has been helping countries in the region develop climate change adaptation projects and build capacities to access related finance in a sustainable way. One of the ways USAID Adapt Asia-Pacific does this is by designing and implementing standalone capacity buildi ...
DANGER The of Corporate Landfill Gas-to-Energy Schemes and How to Fix It
... the U.S.4 In 2007, landfills emitted at least 132.9 million metric tons (146.5 million U.S. tons) of methane gas.5 Landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) projects create more problems than they solve: In LFGTE projects, landfills are fitted with equipment to capture emissions of methane gas, yet only a frac ...
... the U.S.4 In 2007, landfills emitted at least 132.9 million metric tons (146.5 million U.S. tons) of methane gas.5 Landfill gas to energy (LFGTE) projects create more problems than they solve: In LFGTE projects, landfills are fitted with equipment to capture emissions of methane gas, yet only a frac ...
I am sorry to say that global warming is not just "hot air"
... Good weather records extend back less than 150 years in most places. In that time, the Earth's global average temperature has increased by approximately 0.5 degrees centigrade or 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit. This figure shows direct observations of global temperatures since the 1850s. ...
... Good weather records extend back less than 150 years in most places. In that time, the Earth's global average temperature has increased by approximately 0.5 degrees centigrade or 0.9 degrees Fahrenheit. This figure shows direct observations of global temperatures since the 1850s. ...
Yes Impact – Water Wars
... (http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2012/04/04/carbon-dioxide-caused-global-warming-at-ice-ages-end-pioneering-simulationshows/) Climate science has an equivalent to the “what came first—the chicken or the egg?” question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by r ...
... (http://www.olcf.ornl.gov/2012/04/04/carbon-dioxide-caused-global-warming-at-ice-ages-end-pioneering-simulationshows/) Climate science has an equivalent to the “what came first—the chicken or the egg?” question: What came first, greenhouse gases or global warming? A multi-institutional team led by r ...
Civil Society Guide to Healthy Rivers and Climate
... resources management (for example, reducing water quality and lowering water availability), and it can profoundly alter key ecological and hydrological qualities (for example, altering fundamental flow regime qualities). Climate change is now beginning to shift from its current role as an “intensifi ...
... resources management (for example, reducing water quality and lowering water availability), and it can profoundly alter key ecological and hydrological qualities (for example, altering fundamental flow regime qualities). Climate change is now beginning to shift from its current role as an “intensifi ...
Debating Climate Change David Weisbach
... these constraints are not useful. Moreover, we do not need a theory of justice tell us that we need to comply with these constraints: we do not need a theory of justice to tell us to get out of the way of a moving train. The second step, detailed in Chapter 3, focuses on the problems of trying to ap ...
... these constraints are not useful. Moreover, we do not need a theory of justice tell us that we need to comply with these constraints: we do not need a theory of justice to tell us to get out of the way of a moving train. The second step, detailed in Chapter 3, focuses on the problems of trying to ap ...
Brody Sandel - WordPress.com
... Sandel, B.S. and J. Corbin. 2007. Scale-dependent effects of restoration practices in Californian grasslands (poster). Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, San Jose, California. Sandel, B.S. and M.J. McKone. 2005. Geometric constraints on species' ranges do not necessarily produce a mid-do ...
... Sandel, B.S. and J. Corbin. 2007. Scale-dependent effects of restoration practices in Californian grasslands (poster). Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, San Jose, California. Sandel, B.S. and M.J. McKone. 2005. Geometric constraints on species' ranges do not necessarily produce a mid-do ...
Tanzania Environment and Climate Change Policy Brief
... change and the need to preserve the environment and ecosystem services. Until recently, environmental management (including ecosystem services, climate change, and disaster risk reduction) was perceived as a constraint to development, or an issue that was not central to development. However, this vi ...
... change and the need to preserve the environment and ecosystem services. Until recently, environmental management (including ecosystem services, climate change, and disaster risk reduction) was perceived as a constraint to development, or an issue that was not central to development. However, this vi ...
Anthropogenic Global Warming? Beyond CO2
... • Prof. Roger Pielke Sr. University of Colorado in Boulder The IPCC is an oligarchy that is using its privileged position to advocate for a particular perspective on the role of humans within the climate system. ...
... • Prof. Roger Pielke Sr. University of Colorado in Boulder The IPCC is an oligarchy that is using its privileged position to advocate for a particular perspective on the role of humans within the climate system. ...
Are You suprised ?
... level research project was carried out, using a number of models for sectoral analysis. Yemen's natural systems and economy generally suffer from the mounting pressure of high population growth rate, limited natural resources and economic problems. All these contribute to make Yemen highly vulnerabl ...
... level research project was carried out, using a number of models for sectoral analysis. Yemen's natural systems and economy generally suffer from the mounting pressure of high population growth rate, limited natural resources and economic problems. All these contribute to make Yemen highly vulnerabl ...
Climate and the Carbon Cycle - CARBO
... There is general concern that climate change will have fundamental impacts on our ecosystems, since increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases do not only lead to a gradual ‘global warming’ with rising mean temperatures, but also to changes in climate variability and the occurrence of ...
... There is general concern that climate change will have fundamental impacts on our ecosystems, since increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases do not only lead to a gradual ‘global warming’ with rising mean temperatures, but also to changes in climate variability and the occurrence of ...
Status of the Copenhagen Climate Change Negotiations CRS Report for Congress
... below). Without a new detailed accord, alternative outcomes are possible. One alternative could be a “framework” decision among high-level officials that spells out a plausible mandate for a future treaty—an outline more likely than the current one to gain broad consensus among nations. Another alte ...
... below). Without a new detailed accord, alternative outcomes are possible. One alternative could be a “framework” decision among high-level officials that spells out a plausible mandate for a future treaty—an outline more likely than the current one to gain broad consensus among nations. Another alte ...
Emergence of a midseason period of low floral resources in a
... interval – and can be compared with expected values from a normal or uniform distribution and (iii) the y-axis is standard (0…1) among all CFDs, regardless of variation in the magnitude of the raw flowering curves. To illustrate the second point, we present data from 1976 – a year we excluded from ot ...
... interval – and can be compared with expected values from a normal or uniform distribution and (iii) the y-axis is standard (0…1) among all CFDs, regardless of variation in the magnitude of the raw flowering curves. To illustrate the second point, we present data from 1976 – a year we excluded from ot ...
Evaluation of spatial changes in different climates of Iran
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its Fourth Assessment Report defines “vulnerability” as “the degree to which geophysical, biological and socioeconomic systems are susceptible to, and unable to cope with adverse impacts of climate change” (IPCC, 2007). In the Sect. 2 of the I ...
... The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in its Fourth Assessment Report defines “vulnerability” as “the degree to which geophysical, biological and socioeconomic systems are susceptible to, and unable to cope with adverse impacts of climate change” (IPCC, 2007). In the Sect. 2 of the I ...
Mid-21st century projections in temperature extremes in
... inform their management plans for future climate change. Regional climate models (RCMs), nested in coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (GCMs), are becoming more widely available to provide these regional climate projections (e.g., Giorgi et al. 2001; Moberg and Jones 2004; Liang et a ...
... inform their management plans for future climate change. Regional climate models (RCMs), nested in coupled atmosphere–ocean general circulation models (GCMs), are becoming more widely available to provide these regional climate projections (e.g., Giorgi et al. 2001; Moberg and Jones 2004; Liang et a ...