Climate Risk Assessment for Water Resources
... The CRA initiative is prudent because of a history of marked climate variability with significant socio-economic and environmental impacts. Archival records show evidence of a regional, multi-decadal drought between 1738 and 1756, centered on the Great Bend of the River Niger but extending far south ...
... The CRA initiative is prudent because of a history of marked climate variability with significant socio-economic and environmental impacts. Archival records show evidence of a regional, multi-decadal drought between 1738 and 1756, centered on the Great Bend of the River Niger but extending far south ...
Dissemination of information on climate change: a case study KwaNgwanase in KwaZulu-Natal
... Technologies (ICTs) and climate change Despite all these adaptive efforts and strategies, geographic distance could result in the delayed dissemination of urgent information in rural areas. While the contribution of traditional ways for the prediction of climate change is acknowledged, the diffusion ...
... Technologies (ICTs) and climate change Despite all these adaptive efforts and strategies, geographic distance could result in the delayed dissemination of urgent information in rural areas. While the contribution of traditional ways for the prediction of climate change is acknowledged, the diffusion ...
... and consistent priority on effective coordination among the working groups. This is being implemented through joint planning and management of expert meetings and IPCC workshops, ongoing coordination at the TSU and author level on key topics where perspectives from more than one working group are re ...
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES CLIMATE ECONOMICS: A META-REVIEW AND SOME SUGGESTIONS Geoffrey Heal
... large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not only quantity but quality too. What have we learned from all of this? Are there any emerging conclusions? In particular, what do we have to assume to make an economic case f ...
... large collection in World Economics.1 And many of them were by very distinguished colleagues, so the Stern Review provoked not only quantity but quality too. What have we learned from all of this? Are there any emerging conclusions? In particular, what do we have to assume to make an economic case f ...
Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Water Availability
... over time in any one geographical area and also varies from one geographical area to another. Typically, climate is characterized in terms of averages of climate elements over periods of a month or more. Beginning with the view of local climate as little more than the annual course of long-term aver ...
... over time in any one geographical area and also varies from one geographical area to another. Typically, climate is characterized in terms of averages of climate elements over periods of a month or more. Beginning with the view of local climate as little more than the annual course of long-term aver ...
Multi-hazard assessment in Europe under climate change
... existing literature, the first issue has been mainly addressed through standardization approaches, such as classification of hazard intensity and development of continuous indices (Dilley 2005; Kappes et al. 2012; Lung et al. 2013). While these approaches represent a starting point, they describe on ...
... existing literature, the first issue has been mainly addressed through standardization approaches, such as classification of hazard intensity and development of continuous indices (Dilley 2005; Kappes et al. 2012; Lung et al. 2013). While these approaches represent a starting point, they describe on ...
energy: Supply, Demand, and impacts
... depends on such factors as total runoff, timing of runoff, reservoir operations, and the profile of electricity demand, each of which is vulnerable to climate change. Projected changes in runoff due to potential decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Chapter 6) means less water for hydro ...
... depends on such factors as total runoff, timing of runoff, reservoir operations, and the profile of electricity demand, each of which is vulnerable to climate change. Projected changes in runoff due to potential decreased precipitation and increased evaporation (Chapter 6) means less water for hydro ...
Silvicultural Challenges and Options in the Context of Global Change
... projects, wood and biomass substitution, and wildlife behavior modification. Several publications focus specifically on silvicultural recommendations. Similar to the aforementioned reports, climate change, rather than global change issues, has received most of the attention. Most silvicultural recom ...
... projects, wood and biomass substitution, and wildlife behavior modification. Several publications focus specifically on silvicultural recommendations. Similar to the aforementioned reports, climate change, rather than global change issues, has received most of the attention. Most silvicultural recom ...
Sensitivity of Crop Water Need to 2071–95
... change, it is clear that human activities linked closely to ecosystems or natural resources will be severely impacted (Solomon et al. 2007). Of particular concern for many developing regions is the impact of climate change upon food security, especially for those countries reliant on rain-fed agricu ...
... change, it is clear that human activities linked closely to ecosystems or natural resources will be severely impacted (Solomon et al. 2007). Of particular concern for many developing regions is the impact of climate change upon food security, especially for those countries reliant on rain-fed agricu ...
Submitted to a confernce in Forli
... Kiribati may be on the map, what kind of country it is, what kind of people inhabit it, what they might do for a living and how well they manage. Think, also, why would such an unknown country take the trouble to come all the way to Geneva. What kind of case will it plead? And think, besides, why al ...
... Kiribati may be on the map, what kind of country it is, what kind of people inhabit it, what they might do for a living and how well they manage. Think, also, why would such an unknown country take the trouble to come all the way to Geneva. What kind of case will it plead? And think, besides, why al ...
Kyoto - Curio.ca
... and electricity generation are all major contributors to greenhouse gases. The federal government has committed Canada to reaching its target level of greenhouse gas reductions by 20082012, under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol. This will help reverse the trend toward global warming, and also result ...
... and electricity generation are all major contributors to greenhouse gases. The federal government has committed Canada to reaching its target level of greenhouse gas reductions by 20082012, under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol. This will help reverse the trend toward global warming, and also result ...
Shared Vision for South Asia - Pakistan Institute of Trade And
... The context of vulnerability GHGs emission at South Asia level Climate change impact and its implications Regional cooperation and what we have at SAARC level • What would constitute our shared vision ...
... The context of vulnerability GHGs emission at South Asia level Climate change impact and its implications Regional cooperation and what we have at SAARC level • What would constitute our shared vision ...
loss and damage
... communities from GLOFs is to manage the volumes of water in these glacial lakes. However, there are major challenges in implementing these measures, such as limited accessibility (sites are only accessible in certain seasons), inhabitability for people to stay there due to high elevation (4500 metre ...
... communities from GLOFs is to manage the volumes of water in these glacial lakes. However, there are major challenges in implementing these measures, such as limited accessibility (sites are only accessible in certain seasons), inhabitability for people to stay there due to high elevation (4500 metre ...
Hot Damned America: Evangelicalism and the Climate Change
... Invitation adopted by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) on June 30, 2004, at the Creation Care Conference was the most notable evangelical statement on climate change prior to ECI’s 2006 Call to Action. The covenant “invite[s] our brothers and sisters in Christ to engage with us the mos ...
... Invitation adopted by the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) on June 30, 2004, at the Creation Care Conference was the most notable evangelical statement on climate change prior to ECI’s 2006 Call to Action. The covenant “invite[s] our brothers and sisters in Christ to engage with us the mos ...
Hydrology as a driver of biodiversity: Controls on carrying capacity
... Maintenance of biodiversity across multiple scales has been of basic interest to the biological and ecological sciences for decades [43,41,31]. The debate over the ultimate controls on biodiversity is a contentious one and indeed the numerous papers investigating them rarely reach solid conclusions. ...
... Maintenance of biodiversity across multiple scales has been of basic interest to the biological and ecological sciences for decades [43,41,31]. The debate over the ultimate controls on biodiversity is a contentious one and indeed the numerous papers investigating them rarely reach solid conclusions. ...
Long-term natural variability and 20th century climate change
... fingerprints with internal variability. Linear discriminant analysis, an exploratory data analysis pattern recognition technique, provides a way to distinguish forced from internal RASST variability when applied in an identical fashion to modelled and observed RASST fields (17). This analysis lifts ...
... fingerprints with internal variability. Linear discriminant analysis, an exploratory data analysis pattern recognition technique, provides a way to distinguish forced from internal RASST variability when applied in an identical fashion to modelled and observed RASST fields (17). This analysis lifts ...
International Climate Change Negotiations and Agriculture Policy Focus May 2009
... Allowing Annex I countries to include in their overall reduction commitments emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) was a significant step. Such a step had also been considered but ultimately not included during the UNFCCC negotiatio ...
... Allowing Annex I countries to include in their overall reduction commitments emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) was a significant step. Such a step had also been considered but ultimately not included during the UNFCCC negotiatio ...
Climate change and integrated analysis of mountain
... of sediment transfers in the Borgne d’Arolla watershed, and (iii) mapping of sediment sources in mountain torrents. 2 Conceptualisation: sediment transfers and high mountain systems Figure 1 synthesises the typical sediment cascade of steep Alpine catchments, showing its link to gravitational-, i ...
... of sediment transfers in the Borgne d’Arolla watershed, and (iii) mapping of sediment sources in mountain torrents. 2 Conceptualisation: sediment transfers and high mountain systems Figure 1 synthesises the typical sediment cascade of steep Alpine catchments, showing its link to gravitational-, i ...
Exploring the role of local adaptation in the response
... Shifts in species distributions have been evidenced as a common response to climate warming across taxonomic groups with migration to higher latitudes and elevations in response to warming being common. Species responses to climate warming can be influenced by the local adaptations of their populati ...
... Shifts in species distributions have been evidenced as a common response to climate warming across taxonomic groups with migration to higher latitudes and elevations in response to warming being common. Species responses to climate warming can be influenced by the local adaptations of their populati ...
Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Production
... state have increased dramatically since 1940 (Figure 8) even with the acres planted decreasing since 1981 (ID-125 2009). In Kentucky, wheat is primarily produced for grain as part of a corn-wheat-double crop soybean rotation with more than 50% of wheat produced currently in a no-tillage management s ...
... state have increased dramatically since 1940 (Figure 8) even with the acres planted decreasing since 1981 (ID-125 2009). In Kentucky, wheat is primarily produced for grain as part of a corn-wheat-double crop soybean rotation with more than 50% of wheat produced currently in a no-tillage management s ...
GILDED WP3 report – draft
... Plans have been made for five peer-reviewed journal papers drawing on the qualitative data, each involving researchers from multiple research teams, on the following topics, which can be used as a convenient framework for reporting our main results: (1) Representations of the energy, climate change ...
... Plans have been made for five peer-reviewed journal papers drawing on the qualitative data, each involving researchers from multiple research teams, on the following topics, which can be used as a convenient framework for reporting our main results: (1) Representations of the energy, climate change ...
Nature template
... The ability of each taxonomic group to cope with temperature increase (and hence, the potential mismatch between groups) should also depend on the biogeographic, socioeconomic and conservation context. When calculated at the country-level, we found that the temporal trend in CTI was positive and hig ...
... The ability of each taxonomic group to cope with temperature increase (and hence, the potential mismatch between groups) should also depend on the biogeographic, socioeconomic and conservation context. When calculated at the country-level, we found that the temporal trend in CTI was positive and hig ...
Climate Dynamics and Global Change
... surface data are sparse. Trenberth et al (1992) have recently reviewed this situation, concluding that surface data from the late 19th century may be less reliable than claimed. Howcvcr, even without this caveat, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Houghton et al 1990) notes that the surf ...
... surface data are sparse. Trenberth et al (1992) have recently reviewed this situation, concluding that surface data from the late 19th century may be less reliable than claimed. Howcvcr, even without this caveat, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Houghton et al 1990) notes that the surf ...
Potential Threats from Climate Change to Human
... individual experts in collaboration with institutions that synthesised the available information on the region. A summary of the findings of the rapid assessment was published in 2009, and is being followed with a series of publication comprising the main vulnerability synthesis report and technical ...
... individual experts in collaboration with institutions that synthesised the available information on the region. A summary of the findings of the rapid assessment was published in 2009, and is being followed with a series of publication comprising the main vulnerability synthesis report and technical ...
Global Climate Science, Uncertainty and Politics: Data
... different US government agencies, hovers near $1.8 billion (US Global Change Research Program, 1998). Although the USGCRP covers many areas in addition to atmospheric science, a large num ber of these—including oceanography, ecology, agriculture, and for est studies—are linked via the question of ho ...
... different US government agencies, hovers near $1.8 billion (US Global Change Research Program, 1998). Although the USGCRP covers many areas in addition to atmospheric science, a large num ber of these—including oceanography, ecology, agriculture, and for est studies—are linked via the question of ho ...