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Climate and sustainability co-governance in Kenya: A multi-criteria analysis of stakeholders' perceptions and consensus
(Energy for Sustainable Development, 2022)The Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development embody highly intertwined targets to act for climate in conjunction with sustainable development. This, however, entails different meanings and challenges ... -
Climate change adaptation preferences of winemakers from the Rioja wine appellation
(Elsevier, 2023-09)The goal of this study is to elicit the preferences of winemakers in the Spanish Rioja wine appellation regarding climate change adaptation strategies. This is achieved through the use of a discrete choice experiment which ... -
Climate change and heatwaves in the main coastal cities of the Basque Country
(Ekonomiaz: Revista Vasca De Economía, 2020)In this paper we analyse the probabilistic behaviour of heatwaves (HWs) in the main coastal cities of the Basque Country (Bayonne, Bilbao and Donostia-San Sebastian) in the twentyfirst century. We estimate HW behaviour ... -
Climate Change and Its Socioeconomic Importance
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-21)Climate change has played an increasingly key role in recent years and is now one of the leading political priorities worldwide. This article illustrates the scope of the problem, its causes and its impacts, along with the ... -
Climate Change and Knowledge Communities
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)Climate change is a global problem whose particular characteristics mean that public-sector policy is fundamental in tackling it: a public-sector policy implemented world-wide that requires the co-operation of a large ... -
Climate change effects on northern Spanish grassland-based dairy livestock systems
(Plant and Soil, 2023)Background: Understanding the effects of climate change on agro-ecosystems is fundamental in order to select the optimum management practices to mitigate environmental pressures. There is a need to forecast greenhouse gas ... -
Climate change impact, adaptation, and mitigation in temperate grazing systems: A review
(MDPI, 2019)Managed temperate grasslands occupy 25% of the world, which is 70% of global agricultural land. These lands are an important source of food for the global population. This review paper examines the impacts of climate change ... -
CLIMATE CHANGE IN HIGH-MOUNTAIN REGIONS An international perspective and a look at the Pyrenees
(Metode, 2022)High mountains are among the regions most affected by climate change. The complex network of interactions between climate, biological, and sociocultural structures in these regions is being altered by the changing climate. ... -
Climate Change in the Basque Country: Impact on Health and Adaptation measures
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2016-06)The adaptation to climate change must involve free-flowing dialogue between the different sectors in society -Specific adaptation measures can also lead to an improvement in health and resilience of the population -There ... -
Climate change induced socio-economic tipping points: Review and stakeholder consultation for policy relevant research
(IOP Publishing, 2020)Tipping points have become a key concept in research on climate change, indicating points of abrupt transition in biophysical systems as well as transformative changes in adaptation and mitigation strategies. However, the ... -
Climate change perception: Driving forces and their interactions
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2020-06-01)Public perception of climate change can either facilitate or hinder the implementation of climate policies. This perception is dependent on a number of influencing factors, called drivers, in ways that are still not clearly ... -
Climate Change Perceptions and Adaptations among Smallholder Farmers in the Mountains of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo
(Land, 2002)The warming rates in many mountain areas are higher than the global average, negatively impacting crop systems. Little is known about the climatic changes which are already being observed in eastern Democratic Republic ... -
Climate change risk management for the sustainable development of the historic city: from the material to the territory
(2017-07-05)La ciencia de la conservación del patrimonio histórico se caracteriza por la amplia y articulada variedad de disciplinas que la componen. Sin embargo, no siempre existe una visión integral del sistema cultural capaz de ... -
Climate change, flood risk and adaptation measures: Challenges in assessing damage and evaluating of measures
(Ekonomiaz, 2020-01-01)Floods generate a considerable risk to human wellbeing due to the great impacts they cause. This is the reason behind the plans developed by different institutions that have the objective of improving alert and prevention ... -
Climate Change, Responsibilities, and Defeatism and Complacency
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-12-12)Paradoxically, knowledge of the increasing certainty about climate change, and of the severe consequences of this phenomenon for large portions of the world population, may lead individuals and communities to fall into a ... -
Climate finances. A review
(Ekonomiaz, 2018-01-01)"Klima-finantzak» terminoak klima-aldaketaren aurkako borrokan finantza-baliabideak emateko beharrari dagokio, bai arintzeko bai egokitzeko. Zehatzago, klima-finantzak 2009az geroztik herrialde garatuek hartutako nazioarteko ... -
Climate reverses directionality in the richness–abundance relationship across the World’s main forest biomes
(Nature, 2020-11-06)More tree species can increase the carbon storage capacity of forests (here referred to as the more species hypothesis) through increased tree productivity and tree abundance resulting from complementarity, but they can ... -
Climate Risk Assessment under Uncertainty: An Application to Main European Coastal Cities
(Frontiers in Marine Science, 2016-12-16)This paper analyses the risk of extreme coastal events in major European coastal cities using a stochastic diffusion model that is calibrated with the worst case emission scenario from the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate ... -
Climate-induced plasticity in leaf traits of riparian plants
(Wiley, 2022-04)[EN] Aim Leaf litter inputs from riparian vegetation and its decomposition play a key role in energy and nutrient transfer in many stream ecosystems. Instream leaf litter decomposition is driven by both leaf traits and ... -
Climate-trait relationships exhibit strong habitat specificity in plant communities across Europe
(Nature, 2023)Ecological theory predicts close relationships between macroclimate and functional traits. Yet, global climatic gradients correlate only weakly with the trait composition of local plant communities, suggesting that important ...