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Studies assessing impacts of climate change on forests are numerous, but most evaluate potential tree growth for current and future conditions at discrete time intervals, which is generally insufficient for developing short to medium term forest policies and strategies. Analysis of forest growth...
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The assessment of regional vulnerability to climate change has become an important issue in climate change adaptation. In order to aid decision making in terms of prioritising adaptation action or allocating resources for adaptation measures, both scholars and policy makers emphasise the need...
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Farmers in rural Africa use a number of adaptive strategies to cope with observed climatic changes and their impacts on agriculture. Most studies on adaptive capacity focus on socio-economic parameters (such as poverty or education), and few provide detailed analysis on the role played by...
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changes in water supply and demand as influenced by climate change. Water balances were modeled for the 99 assessment sub …-regions, and are presented for 18 water resource regions in the United States. Benefit functions are developed for irrigated … agriculture, municipal and domestic water use, commercial and industrial water use, and hydroelectric power generation …
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increase in rainfall of 25 % by the end of this century. Water diversion in the upstream regions of the Ganges River delta … contributes to increase water scarcity in the dry season. Enhanced rainfall and the immense pressure of water discharges from … upstream water sources are increasing the risk of floods and river erosion in the dry season. An increase in the water holding …
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Community-based water storage in semi arid areas can help to adapt to climate change and mitigate household water … shortages. Since little is known on the downstream effects of local water storage, this study employs a water balance model to … perform a catchment scale assessment of upscaling local scale water storage in sand dams. The impacts of increasing water …
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In addition to many other stressors, climate change has emerged as one of the major threats for smallholder farmers from Toumodi in the center and Korhogo in the north of Côte d’Ivoire. This study examined farmers’ adaptation behavior with respect to subjective, socio-demographic,...
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<Para ID="Par1">This study argues that enhanced energy education will help resolve the dilemmas of mitigating climate change and thus promote sustainability. Without enhanced energy literacy among both the energy workforce and citizens, society will be hard-pressed to make strategic choices about energy. We...</para>
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In 2010, as part of a rulemaking on efficiency standards, the U.S. government published its first estimates of the benefits of reducing CO<Subscript>2</Subscript> emissions, referred to as the social cost of carbon (SCC). Using three climate economic models, an interagency task force concluded that regulatory impact...</subscript>
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projections, and the frequency of major El Niño events. Extreme total water levels are more influenced by wave height variability …
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