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Toward a consistent modeling framework to assess multi-sectoral climate impacts

Nature Communications, 2018
Climate impact assessments usually rely on modeling approaches that are either comprehensive but inflexible and inefficient, or lacking sufficient detail.
Erwan Monier, Sergey Paltsev, Andrei Sokolov, Y.-H. Henry Chen, Xiang Gao, Qudsia Ejaz, Evan Couzo, C. Adam Schlosser, Stephanie Dutkiewicz, Charles Fant, Jeffery Scott, David Kicklighter, Jennifer Morris, Henry Jacoby, Ronald Prinn, Martin Haigh   +15 more
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An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein

, 1988
There has been a great deal of research in recent years concerning the use of substantive policy analysis in public policy-making. This paper seeks to integrate those findings - e.g., the ‘enlightenment function’ of policy research - into a more general ...
P. Sabatier
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Scrutinizing Virtual Citizen Involvement in Planning: Ten Applications of an Online Participatory Tool

Politics and Governance, 2018
How to organize citizen participation in planning is continuously debated. The amount of Online Participatory Tools (OPTs) to facilitate inclusive and efficient participation has increased.
Mattias Hjerpe, Erik Glaas, Sofie Storbjörk   +2 more
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Impact of Climate Change on Natural Snow Reliability, Snowmaking Capacities, and Wind Conditions of Ski Resorts in Northeast Turkey: A Dynamical Downscaling Approach

Atmosphere, 2016
Many ski resorts worldwide are going through deteriorating snow cover conditions due to anthropogenic warming trends. As the natural and the artificially supported, i.e., technical, snow reliability of ski resorts diminish, the industry approaches a ...
Osman Cenk Demiroglu, Mustafa Tufan Turp, Tugba Ozturk, Mehmet Levent Kurnaz   +3 more
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Probabilistic projections of 21st century climate change over Northern Eurasia

Environmental Research Letters, 2013
We present probabilistic projections of 21st century climate change over Northern Eurasia using the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Integrated Global System Model (IGSM), an integrated assessment model that couples an Earth system model of ...
Erwan Monier, Andrei Sokolov, Adam Schlosser, Jeffery Scott, Xiang Gao   +4 more
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Causal mechanisms of common barriers to national adaptation policy processes and practical solutions in South Korea and the UK

Global Sustainability, 2023
Non-technical Summary As adaptation deficits become increasingly evident and widespread, barriers to adaptation draw more attention as a key reason.
Seunghan Lee, Jouni Paavola, Suraje Dessai   +2 more
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Agriculture in the climate change negotiations; ensuring that food production is not threatened

Animal, 2013
With the human population predicted to reach nine billion by 2050, demand for food is predicted to more than double over this time period, a trend which will lead to increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture.
J. Muldowney, J. Mounsey, L. Kinsella
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Exploring the role of materials in policy change: innovation in low energy housing in the UK [PDF]

, 2007
There remains uncertainty in models of the policy process about how and when radical change takes place. Most policy authors focus on explaining incremental change, and yet in practice a pattern of change described as punctuated equilibrium has been ...
Akrich M, Barker K, Barlow J, Baumgartner F R, Boardman B, BRE, BRE, BRECSU, BRECSU, BRECSU, Coutard O, DEFRA, DETR, Dryzek J, DTI, ODPM, DEFRA, DTLR, Egan J, Elans P, Fawcett T, Geels F W, Gorgolewski M, Grant W, Griset P, Guy S, Hajer M A, Hall P, Ham C, Hansard, Heather Lovell, Hockerton Housing Project, Hughes T P, Hughes T P, James N, Kingdon J W, London Borough of Enfield, Lovell H, Malpass P, Nelson R, NHBC, Pett J, POST, Raman S, RCEP, Rip A, Ross K, Sabatier P A, Schumpeter J A, Shapin S, Smith A, Tarr J A, The Housing Corporation, The Housing Forum, The Stationery Office, True J   +53 more
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China‘s Climate Change Policy Strengthening Its Diplomacy [PDF]

, 2016
This research attempts to examine China‘s climate change diplomacy. This paper also observes how China strengthens its interest in line with the speed of climate change impact.
Wulansari, I. (Ica)
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Can Policy Change Culture? Government Pension Plans and Traditional Kinship Practices

, 2019
Policies may change the incentives that allow cultural practices to persist. To test this, I study matrilocality and patrilocality, kinship traditions that determine daughters' and sons' post-marriage residences and thus, which gender lives with and ...
Natalie Bau
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