2015. The impacts of climate change on African cities. In Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa: A Multidisciplinary Approach, ed. S Pauleit, A Coly, S Fohlmeister, P Gasparini, G Jorgensen, et al., pp. 37-75. Cham, Switz.: Springer Int....
of major works in the field, the paper first provides an overview of most important impacts of climate change on cities, and then discusses the policy responses, which are necessary for transition from today's carbon-emitter and vulnerable cities to future's low-carbon and resilient cities.doi...
Fifth, we investigated the potential impacts of climate change on two key food production sectors, but there may be other climate change impacts which have much more profound impacts on people’s wellbeing. For example, sea level rise may destroy homes and other infrastructure43, while heat wave...
Chapter 9 The Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services and Resulting Losses and Damages to People and Society Kees van der Geest, Alex de Sherbinin, Stefan Kienberger, Zinta Zommers, Asha Sitati, Erin Roberts and Rachel James Abstract So far, studies of Loss and Damage from climate ...
climate changetransient modelingstoragespecific yieldBurgeoning cities and a changing climate impose extraordinary stresses on the management of global water supplies. Groundwater flow models can greatly assist pro-active decision making, but their practical application to date has been largely limited to ...
a reference on the subject. Stern confirmed that“greenhouse gas emissions are the biggest mistake that the world market has ever seen”.In short, the main conclusion of the Stern Report is that we need to invest the equivalent of 2% of global GDP to mitigate the impact of climate change....
As one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world, the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta Buren) is of great concern because of its impact on human health, human health, economic development, and native biodiversity. With the ongoing global climate change situation, there is ...
This study examines the influence of agricultural irrigation on heat stress and contrasts it against local impacts of urbanization in North American cities using regional climate model simulations. The results indicate that irrigation decreases air temperature and increases relative humidity, with daytime ur...
Climate change impacts on public health and lives and strategies for resilient and liveable cities Last update 6 December 2022 This special issue aims to identify and assess direct and indirect climate change impacts on people’s health and lives, enhance the awareness and knowledge of climate-relat...
/locate/jeem Impacts of climate change on agriculture: Evidence from China Shuai Chen a,1, Xiaoguang Chen b,n,1, Jintao Xu c,1 a Guanghua School of Management and IEPR, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China b Research Institute of Economics and Management, Southwestern University of Finance...