impact scenarios of a future climate, theystudy adaptive processes in communities to today’s climate and socio-economic context,and investigate how these processes serve to increase or decrease vulnerability to climatechange. Using poverty, inequality and institut[r]
intensive shrimp producers may incur additionalcosts of water pumping to maintain water andsalinity levels. Since the industry is both capitalintensive and growing rapidly, adaptation is likelyto be autonomous with the costs borne by operators. The total cost of adaptation is es[r]
Food Sec. (2011) 3:111–112DOI 10.1007/s12571-010-0090-3BOOK REVIEWMatthew P. Reynolds (Ed): Climate change and cropproductionCAB International, Wallingford, 292pp. 2010Peter J. GregoryReceived: 29 November 2010 / Accepted: 29 November 2010 / Published online: 7 December 2010# Springer[r]
• Assess options for tagging and tracking climate change andgreen growth relevant expenditures;• Provide analyses on climate change and green growthexpenditures;• Recommend improvements in monitoring and assessment;• Assess the institutional set up and governance structur[r]
In Jared Diamond’s followup to the PulitzerPrize winning Guns, Germs and Steel, the author explores how climate change, the population explosion and political discord create the conditions for the collapse of civilizationEnvironmental damage, climate change, globalization, rapid population growth, a[r]
From the former vice president and 1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything—a frank and cleareyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same[r]
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pressure. The government needs to create over 10 million jobsfor new urban labor force entrants every year; as theurbanization process moves forward, tens of millions of rurallaborers move to the urban areas every year. Statistics from theInternational Monetary Fund show that the per-c[r]
VolcanismIn atmospheric temperature from 1979 to 2010, determined by MSU NASA satellites, effects appearfrom aerosols released by major volcanic eruptions (El Chichón andPinatubo). El Niño is a separate event, fromocean variability.Volcanic eruptions release gases and particulates into the at[r]
Land is a scarce resource increasingly affected by the competition of mutually exclusive uses. Fertile land in rural areas becomes scarcer due to population growth, pollution, erosion and desertification, effects of climate change, urbanization etc. On the remaining land, local, national and interna[r]