... Tanaka, 2006 Climate Change: What it Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren, ed Joseph F.C DiMento, Pamela M Doughman, 2007 Creating a Climate for Change: Communicating ClimateChange ... prattcenter.net Transportation and Land Use Coalition www.transcoalition.org Transportation and Land Use Collaborative of Southern California www.tluc.net Urban Habitat urbanhabitat.org Urban Land Institute ... the wetlands Wetlands are an important storm buffer, and miles of wetlands used to stand between New Orleans and severe coastal weather Over time, global warming has caused and will cause rising...
... left blank Chapter CLIMATE CHANGE: AN INTEGRATED PERSPECTIVE P Martens and J Rotmans 1.1 Introduction The consequences of rapid and substantial human-induced global climatechange on life on Earth ... how climate may change Variation of the effective transmittance of the atmosphere albedo and the solar constant (5) are the basic parameters that changeclimate 2.4.1 Solar radiation and Milankovich ... time? Climate Change: An Integrated Perspective What drives processes such as urbanisation and migration? As indicated above, exploring global climatechangeand its consequences for human society...
... pollution andclimate change? (pdf MB) • Jan Willem Erisman, ECN, Netherlands: Nitrogen management as an option for air pollution andclimatechange abatement (pdf MB) Backgroud papers and presentations ... building; financing and technology exchange e.g South- South and North South; (iii) Need for much more interaction and integration of air pollution andclimatechange networks and exchange of information; ... pollution andclimate change? David Fowler, CEH, United Kingdom - Nitrogen management as an option for air pollution andclimatechange abatement Jan Willem Erisman, ECN the Netherlands - Combined...
... Figure climate change, desertification and loss of biological diersity are intimately conected to one another- they overlap and affect, and are affectedby, eachother Studies of climatechangeand ... CONCLUSION Vietnam climatechangeand variability are a part of global climate change, if it occurs will definitely effect agriculture In Vietnam the changeand variability of climate elements ... Changing crop types requires sufficient knowledge to grow and cultivate c) Changes in intensity of production: d) Improved nutrient and pest control management e) Changes in tillage practices and...
... require political and public awareness and economic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment In particular – and of no less significance than climatechange – natural and humanmade hazards ... environmental changeandclimatechange are rapidly altering the world’s socio-ecological systems and affecting human populations at multiple scales Important manifestations of these changes are hazard and ... implications of climatechangeandclimatechange itself This calls for more investment of human and pecuniary resources in Earth science research – a unique source of data enrichment and knowledge...
... CCA and DRR with insurance mechanisms and other financial tools There is a significant body of literature exploring insurance for CCA and DRR (e.g Kunreuther, 1996; Kunreuther and Michel-Kerjan, ... CCA and DRR merged with insurance schemes could play an important role when discussing financial vulnerability and managing risks for governments and communities Understanding resilience and vulnerability ... both DRR and CCA (e.g UNISDR Working Group on ClimateChangeand the Red Cross/Red Crescent ClimateChange Center), suggesting that DRR has much to contribute to CCA policy and research (Handmer,...
... Complexity and Creativity in Organizations Berett-Koehler Publishers, San Francisco, CA ´ Suarez, P., Anderson, W., Mahal, V and Lakshmanan, L., 2005 Impacts of flooding andclimatechange on urban transportation: ... 456 Meyer, W B and Turner, B L., 1992 Human-population growth and global land-use cover change Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 23 39–61 Næss, L O., Bang, G., Eriksen, S and Vevatne, J., ... Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters andclimatechange Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance...
... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane counts, ... hurricane landfalls and zero landfalling intense hurricanes per year The long-term climatology would have suggested 1.5 hurricane landfalls and about 0.6 intense hurricane landfalls To improve...
... report of the UK Committee on ClimateChange SAMUEL FANKHAUSER1, *, DAVID KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA3 Grantham Research Institute and Centre for ClimateChange Economics and Policy, London School of ... States hurricane landfalls and damages 199 Coughlin, K., Bellone, E., Laepple, T., Jewson, S and Nzerem, K., 2009 A relationship between all Atlantic hurricanes and those that make landfall in ... Nzerem, K., O’Shay, A., Penzer, J and Coughlin, K., 2009 year prediction of the number of hurricanes which make US landfall Hurricanes andClimate Change, J B Elsner and T H Jagger (eds) SpringerVerlag,...
... consistency with EU- wide energy andclimatechange policy, (2) the need to be consistent with the 2050 objective and make an adequate early contribution to the 2050 target; and (3) the need for ... Mastrandrea, M D., Patwardhan, A., Burton, I., Corfee-Morlot, J., Magadza, C H D., ¨ssel, H M., Pittock, A B., Rahman, A., Suarez, A Fu and van Ypersele, J P., 2009 Assessing dangerous climatechange ... HAZARDS 208 Fankhauser, Kennedy and Skea Panel on ClimateChange (IPCC) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK Stern, N., 2008 Key Elements of a Global Deal on ClimateChange Grantham Research...
... into the effect of urban growth on the one hand andclimatechange on the other.5 Effects of climatechange were modelled using three sea level rise scenarios of 60, 85 and 150 cm per 100 years, ... natural hazards (Botzen and van den Bergh, 2009a) If changes in households’ WTP under climatechange develop in line with changes in expected losses of the insurance, premium changes may have little ... high-impact risk (see Section 3) In addition to changes in demand for existing insurance arrangements, climatechange may also raise demand for new financial arrangements Valuation techniques of consumers’...
... M and van den Bergh, J C J M., 2009b Climatechangeand hailstorm damage: empirical evidence and implications for agriculture and insurance, forthcoming Botzen, W J W., Aerts, J C J H and van ... availability and use Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 9(2) 289 –301 Dlugolecki, A F., 2000 Climatechangeand the insurance industry The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance – Issues and Practice, ... disasters caused by climate change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet may...
... functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems A number of the Basin wetlands are recognized under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ... policy areas involving water management andclimate change, policy areas that are highly politicized in the Australian context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which the states depending ... today than it did a decade ago’ (The Australian, September 2008), and ‘Water dries up life on the land – Randall Crozier stands in the barren paddock, frowning at the drought-bleached desert sand’...
... minister for climatechangeand water The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most important wetlands in Australia The wetland consists of ocean beach, the mouth of the Murray River, lakes and estuaries ... Contingencies and Crisis Management, 8(4) 218– 222 Rosenthal, U., Boin, A and ’t Hart, P., 2001 The changing world of crises and crisis management Managing Crises: Threats, Dilemmas and Opportunities, ... arguing over the link between the drought andclimatechange for fear that the climatechange issue risked taking over the debate and being used as an excuse for inaction The second proposition...
... Vietnam and other countries /international organizations to respond to climate change; - Promote the role of Vietnam in regional andinternational negotiations and cooperation on climate change. ” ... and policy system, and assess the current way of addressing climatechange in the State’s legal documents and policies; develop, supplement and perfect the legal document system, mechanisms and ... for Viet Nam Mitigating the Impact of ClimateChangeand Land Degradation through IFAD's COSOP for Viet Nam Mitigating the Impact of ClimateChangeand Land Degradation through IFAD's COSOP for...
... temperature and changing precipitation pattern lead to a change in different crops and grassland species in Asia and East Africa These changes can lead to a different composition in animal diets andchange ... heads and 1.3 farrows per year 30 FINDINGS AND DISSCUSSION 5.1 Climatechangeand variability in Quang Tri province and the study area 5.1.1 Comparison between perceptions of Changes in Climateand ... land plots land including garden land and agricultural land Table 4.3 presents that the size of land area in the study was not a problem Average farm size including garden, agricultural land and...
... season and droughts in dry season • Increase in frequency and intensity of typhoons, storms would cause high floods & inundation, flash floods, landslide and erosion • Increasing water shortage and ... soil moisture and high evapotranspiration • Biodiversity degradation: extinction of endangered species; • Increasing risk of forest fire; • Increase and wide spread of plant pests and diseases ... high temperature and humidity Source: Vietnam National communication Impacts on Human Health Negative Impact Very high confidence Malaria: contraction and expansion, changes in transmission season...
... transport and urban mobility; land use and urban planning Douglas, Ian, Kurshid Alam, MaryAnne Maghenda, Yasmin Mcdonnell, Louise McLean and Jack Campbell (2008), ‘Unjust waters: climate change, ... Chapter Water and sanitation Case study 36 Megacities andClimateChange Solutions must consider social and environmental impact and strike a balance between the needs of urban and rural areas ... 41 Chapter Land use and urban planning hectares of farmland were transformed into towns and cities during 1972–1992 and in the USA around 400,000 hectares of farmland are lost to urbanisation every...