Results 11 to 20 of about 386,901 (168)

Multi-scale assessment of social vulnerability to climate change: An empirical study in coastal Vietnam

Climate Risk Management, 2018
Climate change poses significant threats to the livelihoods of people living in coastal areas, especially in the developing world. There is a critical need to assess vulnerability to inform both scientific debates and policy makers in facilitating ...
Lam Thi Mai Huynh, Lindsay C. Stringer
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the yields of lignocellulosic bioenergy crops from observations at the global scale [PDF]

Earth System Science Data, 2020
Most scenarios from integrated assessment models (IAMs) that project greenhouse gas emissions include the use of bioenergy as a means to reduce CO2 emissions or even to achieve negative emissions (together with CCS – carbon capture and storage).
W. Li, W. Li, P. Ciais, E. Stehfest, D. van Vuuren, A. Popp, A. Arneth, F. Di Fulvio, J. Doelman, F. Humpenöder, A. B. Harper, A. B. Harper, T. Park, T. Park, T. Park, D. Makowski, D. Makowski, P. Havlik, M. Obersteiner, J. Wang, A. Krause, A. Krause, W. Liu   +22 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elaphostrongylus and Dictyocaulus infections in Norwegian wild reindeer and red deer populations in relation to summer pasture altitude and climate

International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife, 2019
Nematodes of the genera Elaphostrongylus and Dictyocaulus are associated with disease in semi-domesticated tundra reindeer and farmed red deer whereas less knowledge exists in the wild.
Kjell Handeland, Rebecca K. Davidson, Hildegunn Viljugrein, Anders Mossing, Erling L. Meisingset, Marianne Heum, Olav Strand, Ketil Isaksen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘Partial functional redundancy’: An expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk

Climate Risk Management, 2020
This article extends ecological framings of resilience into socio-ecological and governance domains for urban infrastructure managers concerned with climate risk.
Nicholas Philip Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing, Benoit Dupont   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide on the global threat of zinc deficiency: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health, 2015
Background: Increasing concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) lower the content of zinc and other nutrients in important food crops. Zinc deficiency is currently responsible for large burdens of disease globally, and the populations who are ...
Dr. Samuel S Myers, MD, K Ryan Wessells, PhD, Itai Kloog, PhD, Antonella Zanobetti, PhD, Prof. Joel Schwartz, PhD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

From risk calculations to narratives of danger

Climate Risk Management, 2020
The purpose of this perspective article is to provide a broader viewpoint on the contents of this special issue on ‘narratives of change’ and the role of narratives not only for climate risk governance, but also for the science-society nexus at the ...
Silvio Funtowicz
doaj   +1 more source

Global, regional, and national estimates of pneumonia morbidity and mortality in children younger than 5 years between 2000 and 2015: a systematic analysis

The Lancet Global Health, 2019
Summary: Background: Global child mortality reduced substantially during the Millennium Development Goal period (2000–15). We aimed to estimate morbidity, mortality, and prevalence of risk factors for child pneumonia at the global, regional, and ...
David A McAllister, MD, Li Liu, PhD, Ting Shi, PhD, Yue Chu, MSPH, Craig Reed, PhD, John Burrows, MBChB, Davies Adeloye, PhD, Igor Rudan, ProfPhD, Robert E Black, ProfMD, Harry Campbell, ProfMD, Harish Nair, ProfPhD   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Challenges in groundwater resource management in coastal aquifers of East Africa: Investigations and lessons learnt in the Comoros Islands, Kenya and Tanzania

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2016
Study region: Coastal areas of Kenya (Kilifi County), Tanzania (Kilwa district) and Comoros (Ngazidja island), East Africa. Study focus: Research aimed to understand the physical and societal drivers of groundwater accessibility and identify critical ...
Jean-Christophe Comte, Rachel Cassidy, Joy Obando, Nicholas Robins, Kassim Ibrahim, Simon Melchioly, Ibrahimu Mjemah, Halimu Shauri, Anli Bourhane, Ibrahim Mohamed, Christine Noe, Beatrice Mwega, Mary Makokha, Jean-Lambert Join, Olivier Banton, Jeffrey Davies   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of mineral dust direct radiative forcing at the European Aerosol Research Lidar NETwork site of Lecce, Italy, during the ChArMEx/ADRIMED summer 2013 campaign: Impact of radiative transfer model spectral resolutions [PDF]

, 2016
© 2016. American Geophysical UnionA field campaign took place in the western and central Mediterranean basin on June–July 2013 in the framework of the ChArMEx (Chemistry-Aerosol Mediterranean Experiment, http://charmex.lsce.ipsl.fr/)/ADRIMED (Aerosol ...
Barragán Cuesta, Rubén, Burlizzi, Pasquale, Comerón Tejero, Adolfo, Perrone, Maria-Rita, Salvatore, Romano, Sicard, Michaël   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Facing a future water resources management crisis in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2019
Study region: Sub-Saharan Africa. Study focus: Water resources availability assessments are highly uncertain due to inadequate observation networks, and this is expected to get worse into the future. This uncertainty is expected to increase in the future
D.A. Hughes
doaj   +1 more source