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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 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 as a veiled driver of migration in Bangladesh and Ghana
(Science of the Total Environment, 2024-04-20)People living in deltaic areas in developing countries are especially prone to suffer the effects from natural disasters due to their geographical and economic structure. Climate change is contributing to an increase in ... -
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, 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 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 ... -
Combined application of cost-benefit and multi-criteria analysis for decision support in air quality management policy: a case study in Lima and El Callao, Perú
(2017-06-02)Los dos tipos de herramientas más utilizados para la evaluación de políticas públicas con impactos ambientales son el análisis coste-beneficio (ACB) y el análisis multicriterio (AMC). Aunque el carácter complementario de ... -
Combined artificial intelligence, sustainable land management, and stakeholder engagement for integrated landscape management in Mediterranean watersheds
(Environmental Science and Policy, 2023)In the context of water scarcity, soil erosion, and biodiversity decline, the Mediterranean basin urges to manage its nearly hundred coastal watersheds in a coordinated manner. To this end, we propose an integrated approach ... -
Combined effects of life-history traits and human impact on extinction risk of freshwater megafauna.
(CONSERVATION BIOLOGY, 2020)Megafauna species are intrinsically vulnerable to human impact. Freshwater megafauna (i.e., freshwater animals ≥30 kg, including fishes, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians) are subject to intensive and increasing threats. ... -
Combining eight research areas to foster the uptake of ecosystem-based management in fresh waters
(John Wiley and Sons, 2019)Freshwater ecosystems are under a constant risk of being irreversibly damaged by human pressures that threaten their biodiversity, the sustainability of ecosystem services (ESs), and human well-being. Despite the implementation ...