Global urbanization projections for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [PDF]
The new scenario process for climate change research includes the creation of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) describing alternative societal development trends over the coming decades. Urbanization is a key aspect of development that is relevant to studies of mitigation, adaptation, and impacts. Incorporating urbanization into the SSPs requires a
Jiang, Leiwen, O’Neill, Brian C.
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China’s Socioeconomic and CO2 Status Concerning Future Land-Use Change under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways [PDF]
China has experienced a huge socioeconomic advancement over the past few decades, resulting in great change in land use and land cover. To date, negligible attention has been given to examining the socioeconomic changes in the context of land-use change, especially from a futuristic standpoint.
Jian Zhou +8 more
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Temperament influences on parenting and child psychopathology: Socio-economic disadvantage as moderator [PDF]
Despite calls for research on how the socio-economic environment may be related to temperament we still do not know enough about the relationship between temperament and socio-economic disadvantage (SED).
Flouri, Eirini
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Meeting Global Cooling Demand with Photovoltaics during the 21st Century
Space conditioning, and cooling in particular, is a key factor in human productivity and well-being across the globe. During the 21st century, global cooling demand is expected to grow significantly due to the increase in wealth and population in sunny ...
Buonassisi, Tonio +5 more
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Climate Change and Health under the Shared Socioeconomic Pathway Framework [PDF]
A growing body of literature addresses how climate change is likely to have substantial and generally adverse effects on population health and health systems around the world. These effects are likely to vary within and between countries and, importantly, will vary depending on different socioeconomic development patterns.
Sellers, Samuel, Ebi, Kristie L.
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The global and regional impacts of climate change under representative concentration pathway forcings and shared socioeconomic pathway socioeconomic scenarios [PDF]
Abstract This paper presents an evaluation of the global and regional consequences of climate change for heat extremes, water resources, river and coastal flooding, droughts, agriculture and energy use. It presents change in hazard and resource base under different rates of climate change (representative concentration pathways (RCP ...
N W Arnell +6 more
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Fostering Muslim Civic Engagement through Faith-Based Community Organizing [PDF]
Muslims often encounter discriminatory practices similar to those experienced by other minority groups living in the United States. Such practices range from mass incarceration and anti-immigration efforts to racial and religious profiling.
Fulton, Brad R.
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Association between temperature variability and global meningitis incidence
Background: Meningitis can cause devastating epidemics and is susceptible to climate change. It is unclear how temperature variability, an indicator of climate change, is associated with meningitis incidence.
Junjun Chen +8 more
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Culture and climate change scenarios: the role and potential of the arts and humanities in responding to the ‘1.5 degrees target’ [PDF]
This paper critically assesses the role and potential of the arts and humanities in relation to the ‘1.5 degree target’ embedded within the Paris Agreement. Specifically, it considers the purpose of scenarios in inviting thinking about transformed futures.
Smith, Joe, Tyszczuk, Renata
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Narrating climate futures: shared socioeconomic pathways and literary fiction [PDF]
In parallel with five new scientific scenarios of alternative societal developments (shared socioeconomic pathways, SSPs), a wide range of literary representations of a future world in which climate change comes to matter have emerged in the last decade.
Alexandra Nikoleris +2 more
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