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Is climate change framed as ‘business as usual’ or as a challenging issue? The practitioners’ dilemma
(SAGE Publications Ltd info@sagepub.co.uk, 2016)
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. There is growing recognition that routine climate change framing is insufficient for addressing the challenges presented by this change, and that different framings of climate change shape ...
Ship and Offshore Structure Design in Climate Change Perspective
This book summarizes results of longstanding research and scientific contributions from many projects and relevant working groups. It collects and evaluates wind and wave climate projections under changing climate having ...
Adaptation to the climate change and management of natural risks: searching for synthesis in urban planning
(PONTIFICA UNIV CATOLICA CHILE, INST GEOGRAFIA, 2016)
Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...
An assessment of the economic impact of climate change on the health sector In Guyana
(ECLAC, Subregional Headquarters for the Caribbean, 2011-10-22)
Climate change is considered to be the most pervasive and truly global of all issues affecting humanity. It poses a serious threat to the environment, as well as to economies and societies. Whilst it is clear that the ...
How much does climate change add to the challenge of feeding the planet this century?
(IOP Publishing, 2019)
Paris Climate Agreement: Beacon of Hope
On 11 November 2014, a remarkable event occurred. President Barack Obama of
the United States and President Xi Jinping of China announced a bilateral agree-
ment to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) that ...
Irrigation infrastructure development in the Limarí Basin in Central Chile: implications for adaptation to climate variability and climate change
(2014)
One option to deal with climate variability in agriculture is to build irrigation infrastructure, although
this may lead to the overdevelopment of water resources, leading to ‘basin closure’. The Limarí
Basin, in central ...
Adapting to a changing climate: An operational space for local adaptation committee in Santos coastal area
(2018-11-23)
Coastal living countries are the frontline of climate change impacts presenting vulnerability to natural disasters and other climate hazards. Specially, in developing countries, there is greater vulnerability and environmental ...
Climate change and natural disasters
(Universidad de Chile, 2015-12)
Intense climate-related disasters—floods, storms, droughts, and heat
waves—have been on the rise worldwide. At the same time and coupled with
an increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,
temperatures, ...