Cost Benefit Analysis of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation
... many regions across Canada (Lemmen et al., 2008, IPCC, 2014). Over the past sixty years, average air temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees Celsius, with more rapid increases observed in Northern regions of the country (Warren and Lemmen, 2014). In the same time period, Canada's average annual pre ...
... many regions across Canada (Lemmen et al., 2008, IPCC, 2014). Over the past sixty years, average air temperature has increased by 1.5 degrees Celsius, with more rapid increases observed in Northern regions of the country (Warren and Lemmen, 2014). In the same time period, Canada's average annual pre ...
Climate Change and Internal Displacement
... Conflict and social upheaval, directly or indirectly related to climate change-related factors, such as competition for scarcer natural resources, changing livelihood patterns, increased social tensions and the possible concentration of vulnerable populations, especially in poor urban areas ...
... Conflict and social upheaval, directly or indirectly related to climate change-related factors, such as competition for scarcer natural resources, changing livelihood patterns, increased social tensions and the possible concentration of vulnerable populations, especially in poor urban areas ...
Status Description Total Funding Strengthening Communities
... determined). More information on this project coming soon. ...
... determined). More information on this project coming soon. ...
Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant
... estimates were standardized by Z-score transformation [Z(xi) = (xi ) mean(x)) ⁄ SD(x)]. In addition to contemporary climate, we considered the glacial history of sites and temperature change since the Eocene. On the basis of models of the distribution of glaciers during the last glacial maximum, sit ...
... estimates were standardized by Z-score transformation [Z(xi) = (xi ) mean(x)) ⁄ SD(x)]. In addition to contemporary climate, we considered the glacial history of sites and temperature change since the Eocene. On the basis of models of the distribution of glaciers during the last glacial maximum, sit ...
What is climate change - Committees
... What is climate change? Through time, the earth’s climate has naturally fluctuated. However in modern language, climate change is commonly associated with ‘global warming’ and the ‘greenhouse effect’. The Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated th ...
... What is climate change? Through time, the earth’s climate has naturally fluctuated. However in modern language, climate change is commonly associated with ‘global warming’ and the ‘greenhouse effect’. The Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the Intergovernmental panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated th ...
WCRP Grand Challenge: Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal
... Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending subst ...
... Contemporary global mean sea level rise will continue over many centuries as a consequence of anthropogenic climate warming, with the detailed pace and final amount of rise depending subst ...
Climate-change lore and its implications for
... warnings concerning the threat presented in the narrative (Gross, 201 0). According to Mosier (2005) these narratives both construct and reinforce worldviews in populations in which they circulate and ‘provide us with coherent and convincing explanations of complex events’. One of the characteristic ...
... warnings concerning the threat presented in the narrative (Gross, 201 0). According to Mosier (2005) these narratives both construct and reinforce worldviews in populations in which they circulate and ‘provide us with coherent and convincing explanations of complex events’. One of the characteristic ...
adaptive capacity and human cognition
... perceive any options to do so (Grothmann & Reusswig, in revision). Hence, human actors are not always aware of their objective action scope. Or, they perceive actions, which they could perform physically (e.g., going to a flood shelter), normatively as impossible. But people can also overestimate th ...
... perceive any options to do so (Grothmann & Reusswig, in revision). Hence, human actors are not always aware of their objective action scope. Or, they perceive actions, which they could perform physically (e.g., going to a flood shelter), normatively as impossible. But people can also overestimate th ...
Changing Climate, Changing Forests: The Impacts of Climate Change on
... with potential increases in atmospheric deposition of pollutants, forest fragmentation, and nuisance species. Investigations of links to water and nutrient cycling suggest that changes in evapotranspiration, soil respiration, and mineralization rates could result in significant alterations of key ec ...
... with potential increases in atmospheric deposition of pollutants, forest fragmentation, and nuisance species. Investigations of links to water and nutrient cycling suggest that changes in evapotranspiration, soil respiration, and mineralization rates could result in significant alterations of key ec ...
Impacts of climate change on Australia`s World Heritage properties
... listed as World Heritage sites. However, Australia’s World Heritage properties, and their unique values, are under threat from global climate change. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that ‘global warming is unequivocal’ and is due largely to an ...
... listed as World Heritage sites. However, Australia’s World Heritage properties, and their unique values, are under threat from global climate change. The latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report states that ‘global warming is unequivocal’ and is due largely to an ...
Changing climate, changing forests
... with potential increases in atmospheric deposition of pollutants, forest fragmentation, and nuisance species. Investigations of links to water and nutrient cycling suggest that changes in evapotranspiration, soil respiration, and mineralization rates could result in significant alterations of key ec ...
... with potential increases in atmospheric deposition of pollutants, forest fragmentation, and nuisance species. Investigations of links to water and nutrient cycling suggest that changes in evapotranspiration, soil respiration, and mineralization rates could result in significant alterations of key ec ...
Green Resilience: Climate Adaptation + Mitigation Synergies
... Reflections on Policy, Research, Capacity Building and Funding Needs With this background on how the process of connecting adaptation and mitigation, we can now delve into how climate A+M fits into the policy, research, and funding aspects at the community and national levels. Susan Ruffo provided a ...
... Reflections on Policy, Research, Capacity Building and Funding Needs With this background on how the process of connecting adaptation and mitigation, we can now delve into how climate A+M fits into the policy, research, and funding aspects at the community and national levels. Susan Ruffo provided a ...
WHAT IS THE “DAMAGES FUNCTION” FOR GLOBAL WARMING
... relative risk aversion (CRRA) class. For all C * > 0 and T > 0, they both share the same constant coefficient of relative C* -risk aversion, denoted (where here ¼ 2). And they both share the same constant coefficient of relative T-risk aversion for all C * and T, denoted (where here ¼ 1). I ...
... relative risk aversion (CRRA) class. For all C * > 0 and T > 0, they both share the same constant coefficient of relative C* -risk aversion, denoted (where here ¼ 2). And they both share the same constant coefficient of relative T-risk aversion for all C * and T, denoted (where here ¼ 1). I ...
Superannuation Trustees and Climate Change Report
... main reasons. Firstly, technology maturity is relevant due to the uncertainty regarding the viability and performance of some clean energy technologies.14 It is acknowledged that some clean energy technologies have had less success to date than other traditional energy technologies. However, those t ...
... main reasons. Firstly, technology maturity is relevant due to the uncertainty regarding the viability and performance of some clean energy technologies.14 It is acknowledged that some clean energy technologies have had less success to date than other traditional energy technologies. However, those t ...
National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change USDA Forest Service
... adapt to changing climates will help ensure that they continue to produce the benefits that Americans need while helping to mitigate the effects of a changing climate and to compensate for fossil fuel emissions through carbon storage in healthy forests. The Forest Service has a long history of manag ...
... adapt to changing climates will help ensure that they continue to produce the benefits that Americans need while helping to mitigate the effects of a changing climate and to compensate for fossil fuel emissions through carbon storage in healthy forests. The Forest Service has a long history of manag ...
Characterizing and attributing the warming trend in sea and land
... the effects of natural variability. Their results show that the slowdown cannot be explained away by natural variability and that it is a statistically significant feature of the underlying warming trend. Recently, a new approach for testing for the attribution of changes in the rate of warming was d ...
... the effects of natural variability. Their results show that the slowdown cannot be explained away by natural variability and that it is a statistically significant feature of the underlying warming trend. Recently, a new approach for testing for the attribution of changes in the rate of warming was d ...
The Role of Climate Change in the Egyptian Revolution
... one that can be disregarded as a future issue, one that the inhabitants of this Earth do not have to worry about. The impacts of climate change are wide-ranging and are unfortunately deadly. Today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are 405.2 parts per million, which is the highest that CO2 levels h ...
... one that can be disregarded as a future issue, one that the inhabitants of this Earth do not have to worry about. The impacts of climate change are wide-ranging and are unfortunately deadly. Today’s atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are 405.2 parts per million, which is the highest that CO2 levels h ...
Assessing recent trends in high-latitude Southern
... their trends in the context of palaeoclimate records and climate model simulations. Over the 36-year satellite era, significant linear trends in annual mean sea-ice extent, surface temperature and sea-level pressure are superimposed on large interannual to decadal variability. Most observed trends, ...
... their trends in the context of palaeoclimate records and climate model simulations. Over the 36-year satellite era, significant linear trends in annual mean sea-ice extent, surface temperature and sea-level pressure are superimposed on large interannual to decadal variability. Most observed trends, ...
Numerical simulations of the 3D virtual model of the human hip joint
... direction). In time, this stressed area wears out, the support capacity of the cartilage in this area (emphasized in Figure 13) diminishes, and osteophytes appear in the inferior region of the femoral head (as shown in Figure 14) as a normal reaction of organism that grows bone in the stressed areas ...
... direction). In time, this stressed area wears out, the support capacity of the cartilage in this area (emphasized in Figure 13) diminishes, and osteophytes appear in the inferior region of the femoral head (as shown in Figure 14) as a normal reaction of organism that grows bone in the stressed areas ...
Landscaping climate change: a mapping technique for
... 4. Conceptualizing the debate mapping technique In determining the constitution of scientific knowledge or the construction of technology, science and technology scholars have benefited from notions of archaeology—the deeper mangles to be discovered upon deconstruction of sets of knowledge claims.22 ...
... 4. Conceptualizing the debate mapping technique In determining the constitution of scientific knowledge or the construction of technology, science and technology scholars have benefited from notions of archaeology—the deeper mangles to be discovered upon deconstruction of sets of knowledge claims.22 ...
Adapting to climate change in England
... • continuing global sea level rise – by 2100 it could have risen by as much as 80cm around some parts of the UK coast. ...
... • continuing global sea level rise – by 2100 it could have risen by as much as 80cm around some parts of the UK coast. ...
CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE IN THE SOUTHWEST
... aspects of climatic variability in the Southwest during the recent past, or period of instrumentation and records; and on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995 report on potential future climate changes. ...
... aspects of climatic variability in the Southwest during the recent past, or period of instrumentation and records; and on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 1995 report on potential future climate changes. ...
Sustainability Insight
... Action Plan with targets and timescales to achieve significant reduction in emissions from all business activities • This will require the allocation of time and resources but should become part of an institution’s strategic planning process • FHE representatives liaising with Scottish Government on ...
... Action Plan with targets and timescales to achieve significant reduction in emissions from all business activities • This will require the allocation of time and resources but should become part of an institution’s strategic planning process • FHE representatives liaising with Scottish Government on ...