Here, we reassess the human climate niche, review its mechanistic basis, link it to temperature extremes, and calculate exposure outside the niche up to present and into the future under different demographic scenarios and levels of global warming. Exposure outside the niche could result in increa...
adaptation and vulnerability research advances and empirical findings could substantially improve damage modelling and the robustness of social cost of carbon values produced. We discuss the opportunities and challenges associated with integrating these research advances into cost–benefit integrated assessment ...
Estimates show that theglobal sea levelis rising by about 3 mm a year. This is one of the major threats of global warming, especially for low-lying coastal areas. Identifying the individual contributors to sea-level rise is a complicated challenge inclimatescience. Earth-observing satellites are...
2017). Meltwaters from HMA glaciers flow into downstream rivers; large human populations depend on glacier-fed water supplies. The impact of climate change on the extent of glacier melt is of major interest. The HMA includes the Tibetan Plateau, for which observed climatic datasets and GCM ...
Marginal abatement costCement industryIncreasing urbanization in China has led to growing demands for better air quality and human welfare. Global warming and local pollutants, such as SO2, NOx and PMs are the two main issues during China's development. However, these two topics are always ...
They also found that the impact on global warming from capital goods in relation to the impact from the operation of a waste incinerator depended strongly on the composition of the waste treated. The reason was the importance of energy recovery, as more energy was recovered when the incinerated...
(Wang et al.2012), it has been heavily criticized due to its limitations, which include incomplete combustion, variations in oxidation of various forms of SOC by dichromate, high cost of chemicals used for the analysis, and considerable low efficiency in C determination (FAO2001,2007; Gelman ...
While much of the basic information required for human decisions are possibilistic rather than probabilistic in nature and fuzzy set theory provides a basis for the theory of possibility. Fuzzy method as a potent tool for uncertainty-based assessment, not only covers the uncertainties, but also ...
The challenge of balancing biodiversity protection with economic growth is epitomized by the development of renewable and unconventional energy, whose adoption is aimed at stemming the impacts of global climate change, yet has outpaced our understanding
While adaptation to climate change should be the priority for smallholder production systems, adoption of cost-effective mitigation options in agriculture not only contributes to food security but also reduces the extent of climate change and future adaptation needs. Utilizing management data from 16,...