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Browsing by Subject "Climate change"
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A Climate Change Vulnerability and Risk Assessment for the City of Atlanta, Georgia
(2010-04-28)The Southeastern United States will experience several impacts from climate change over the coming decades, including average temperature increases of several degrees, more frequent droughts, and heavier rain and flood events. ... -
A Hard Bargain? A cost-benefit analysis of an improved cookstove program in India
(2016-08-01)In developing countries, access to modern energy for cooking and heating still remains a challenge to raising households out of poverty. About 2.5 billion people depend on solid fuels such as biomass, wood, charcoal and ... -
Adapting to Rising Sea Levels
(2010)According to IPCC estimates, sea levels will rise between .18 and .6 meters by 2100. More recent estimates indicate that actual amounts of sea level rise may be much more, and that 1 meter of sea level rise by 2100 is likely ... -
An Analysis of the Distribution and Economics of Oil Fields for Enhanced Oil Recovery-Carbon Capture and Storage
(2012)The rising carbon dioxide emissions contributing to climate change has lead to the examination of potential ways to mitigate the environmental impact. One such method is through the geological sequestration of carbon (CCS). ... -
An Evaluation of Microgrid-Based Enterprise Viability
(2020-04-20)The global need to meet population housing needs through infrastructure development is at odds with the urgent necessity to mitigate the impacts of climate change. This investigation considers the relationships between ... -
AN EVALUATION OF MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE OUTBREAKS IN COLORADO AND WYOMING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE USING GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS
(2011-04-26)In the past two decades, the native mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) has decimated the pine forests of Colorado and Wyoming. These infestations are an issue for local communities because of the loss of ecosystem ... -
An Evaluation of Participation in Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Tracking and Reduction Programs
(2008-08-27)The debate on climate change has moved from a question of whether humans are responsible to how best to address man-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that are the cause. The United States has yet to pass any legislation ... -
Analysis of Climate Adaptation Strategies for Southeast U.S. Coastal Cities
(2008-04-25)The realities of climate change are no longer future predictions to address in years to come. Impacts to Southeast coastal communities from rising sea levels, strange weather, and stronger storms caused by a warming planet ... -
Assessing Climate Change under Uncertainty: A Monte Carlo Approach
(2008-04-25)Climate change has emerged as one of the most multifaceted manifestations of global change of our time. However, there is less confidence about exactly how the climate will change in the future, and lesser confidence still ... -
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 ... -
Balancing the good and the bad: Assessing the positive and negative effects of alien species on native plant demography
(2022)Alien species are considered one of the primary threats to native plant populations and their control is often prominent among proposed management actions. While negative alien effects are well documented, there are also ... -
Changes in U.S. Residential Monthly Energy Use per Capita: 1990-2017
(2019)Residential energy consumption represents a large share of total end use energy and shows strong correlation with monthly cooling and heating degree days. This study focuses on quantifying temporal change in the relationship ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
(2012-04-20)Policy Question: What policy strategies should the government of the state of Oaxaca implement to adapt to climate change? The Mexican government and the international community have identified climate change as one ... -
Climate Change Adaptation Strategies for the State of Oaxaca, Mexico
(2012-04-19)Policy Question: What policy strategies should the government of the state of Oaxaca implement to adapt to climate change? The Mexican government and the international community have identified climate change as one ... -
Climate Change and Forest Biodiversity in the Eastern United States: Insights from Inventory Data
(2014)Ecologists have long been interested in the relationships between climate change and forest biodiversity. For centuries, the scientific problems remain understanding the patterns of climate variation, forest geographic ... -
Climate change challenges the current conservation strategy for the giant panda
(Biological Conservation, 2015-10-01)The global total of protected areas to conserve biodiversity is increasing steadily, while numerous studies show that they are broadly effective. That said, how will current conservation strategies work, given the current ... -
Climate change induced changes in moisture availability in eastern Wyoming ranchlands with management recommendations for adaptation
(2008-04-25)In the future there is an expectation for climate change to have impacts on both natural systems and agricultural enterprises. A number of studies have been conducted for the purpose of determining the effects of a changing ... -
Climate Variability and Ecohydrology of Seasonally Dry Ecosystems
(2015)Seasonally dry ecosystems cover large areas over the world, have high potential for carbon sequestration, and harbor high levels of biodiversity. They are characterized by high rainfall variability at timescales ranging ... -
Collaborative Climate Change Communications: An Assessment and Recommendations for the Future
(2011-04-28)The threat posed by anthropogenic climate change to the world’s wildlife and natural systems has prompted the conservation community in the United States and across the globe to make communicating about climate change one ... -
Compositional Trends in the Primary Floodplain Forest of the Manu National Park, Peru
(2009-04-24)Over the past ~20 years, various stand-level assessments of undisturbed Amazonian forests have revealed an increase in stem turnover (resulting from increases in recruitment and mortality), an increase in stem density ...
