Browsing by Subject "Climate Change"
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A Ripe Future? Coastal Climate Perceptions and Adaptations among the Long Island Wine Industry
(2017-04-28)Coastal climates have distinctive effects on the growth, quality, and quantity produced of wine grapes. A changing coastal climate could alter these interactions and impact regional wine style and variety. There is a need ... -
A Time Series Regression Analysis of Future Climate
(2012-04-23)Current approaches to climate modeling, including environmental simulation, may not be able to generate actionable results for a few decades yet. Over the last 50 years, methods attempting to capture and predict states of ... -
Above-ground biomass and structure of 260 African tropical forests.
(Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2013-01)We report above-ground biomass (AGB), basal area, stem density and wood mass density estimates from 260 sample plots (mean size: 1.2 ha) in intact closed-canopy tropical forests across 12 African countries. Mean AGB is 395.7 ... -
Antibiotic resistance-the need for global solutions.
(Lancet Infect Dis, 2013-12)The causes of antibiotic resistance are complex and include human behaviour at many levels of society; the consequences affect everybody in the world. Similarities with climate change are evident. Many efforts have been ... -
Assessing the Potential Effects of Climate Change on Species in the Cumberland Piedmont Network of the National Park Service
(2012-04-26)In this study, we evaluate the climate change vulnerability of a subset of key species found in the Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) of the National Park Service (NPS), an ecologically important and diverse region. We ... -
Attracting Investment to REDD+: Capitalizing on Co-Benefits?
(2014-04-25)At its inception in 2007, the United Nations-sponsored Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) mechanism had one primary goal: to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions from the global forest sector, ... -
Climate adaptation and policy-induced inflation of coastal property value.
(PLoS One, 2015)Human population density in the coastal zone and potential impacts of climate change underscore a growing conflict between coastal development and an encroaching shoreline. Rising sea-levels and increased storminess threaten ... -
Climate, Conflict, and Development Assistance
(2012-05-04)Overview Global climate change is predicted to increase the number and severity of natural disasters and other severe weather events. Concern about how this change will affect the livelihoods, resources, and security of ... -
Connecting differential responses of native and invasive riparian plants to climate change and environmental alteration.
(Ecol Appl, 2015-04)Climate change is predicted to impact river systems in the southeastern United States through alterations of temperature, patterns of precipitation and hydrology. Future climate scenarios for the southeastern United States ... -
Cultural Perceptions of Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Adaptation Strategies in Maryland, North Carolina, and the Baltic Sea Coast
(2013-04-25)Climate change and sea level rise pose significant threats to both the natural and built environment. Thus, it is becoming increasingly important for coastal communities to develop strategies that facilitate adaptation efforts ... -
Devil in the Water, Lights on the Mountain: Climate Change in Andean Peru
(2018)This dissertation examines everyday life and storytelling in Peru's Huaylas Valley: a transnational mining hub beneath melting Andean glaciers. During one year of ethnographic fieldwork, I listened to citydwellers and villagers ... -
Ecosystem Response to a Changing Climate: Vulnerability, Impacts and Monitoring
(2017)Rising temperatures with increased drought pose three challenges for management of future biodiversity. First, are the species expected to be vulnerable concentrated in specific regions and habitats? Second, are the impacts ... -
Enabling Conservation Concessions in the Context of Guyana’s Low-Carbon Development Strategy
(2014-04-25)The reduction of green house gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, especially in tropical countries, is a necessary action for the mitigation of global climate change. Guyana is one of few countries which ... -
Environmental Economics. Using and improving the social cost of carbon.
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Essays in Asset Pricing
(2013)The three essays in this dissertation explore the role of fluctuations in aggregate volatility and global temperature as sources of systemic risk. The first essay proposes a production-based asset pricing model and provides ... -
Estimating the Impacts of Local Policy Innovation: The Synthetic Control Method Applied to Tropical Deforestation.
(PLoS One, 2015)Quasi-experimental methods increasingly are used to evaluate the impacts of conservation interventions by generating credible estimates of counterfactual baselines. These methods generally require large samples for statistical ... -
Genomic signatures of near-extinction and rebirth of the crested ibis and other endangered bird species.
(Genome Biol, 2014)BACKGROUND: Nearly one-quarter of all avian species is either threatened or nearly threatened. Of these, 73 species are currently being rescued from going extinct in wildlife sanctuaries. One of the previously most ... -
Global air quality and health co-benefits of mitigating near-term climate change through methane and black carbon emission controls.
(Environ Health Perspect, 2012-06)BACKGROUND: Tropospheric ozone and black carbon (BC), a component of fine particulate matter (PM ≤ 2.5 µm in aerodynamic diameter; PM(2.5)), are associated with premature mortality and they disrupt global and regional climate. ... -
Implications of shale gas development for climate change.
(Environ Sci Technol, 2014)Advances in technologies for extracting oil and gas from shale formations have dramatically increased U.S. production of natural gas. As production expands domestically and abroad, natural gas prices will be lower than without ... -
Indigenous lands, protected areas, and slowing climate change.
(PLoS Biol, 2010-03-16)Recent climate talks in Copenhagen reaffirmed the crucial role of reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD). Creating and strengthening indigenous lands and other protected areas represents an effective, ...
