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Assessing resilience to climate change in the US cities
(2012-03-09)
In the face of uncertainties associated with climate change, building adaptive capacity and resilience at the community level emerges as an essential and timely element of local planning. However, key social factors that ...
Climate justice: a new way of looking at environmental issuesJustiça climática: uma nova forma de olhar para as questões ambientais
(Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2022)
Climate change and environmental planning: Working to build community resilience and adaptive capacity in Washington State, USA
(07/01/2009)
This work focuses on the efforts being made by King County, Washington to respond to the challenges of global climate change, concentrating on both mitigation and adaptation. King County is a leader in the United States ...
Observed and projected changes in temperature and precipitation in the core crop region of the humid pampa, Argentina
(MDPI AG, 2021-02)
The core crop region of the Humid Pampa is one of the most productive agricultural lands around the world and depends highly on climate conditions. This study assesses climate variability, climate extremes, and observed ...
Climate change in the light of integral ecology
(Universidad de Malta. Facultad de Teología, 2021-12)
There is no doubt that climate change is a crucial issue on the global agenda of the countries organised under the orbit of the United Nations. It is a human-made disturbance in the energy balance of the earth’s climate ...
Climate change and its impacts: Perception and adaptation in rural areas of Manizales, Colombia
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-05)
Tropical social-ecological systems are highly vulnerable to climate change, given the limited natural climate variability in the tropics. Tropical rural populations, with livelihoods dependent on agriculture, are particularly ...
Climate in the Monte Desert: Past trends, present conditions, and future projections
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2009-02)
This paper documents the main features of climate and climate variability across the Monte Desert for the Last Glacial Maximum, the Glacial-Interglacial transition, and the Holocene on the basis of proxy records and for ...
Seaweeds ecology and climate change
(CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group, 2013)
The goal of this chapter ´Seaweeds Ecology and Climatic Change´ is to introduce basic concepts on seaweeds´ ecology and to emphasize their ecologic role, within the phenomena of climatic change occurring on Earth. We will ...
A simple reflection on climate change
(Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2019)