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IPCC WGII Fifth Assessment Report (AR5): Expanding the solution space for adaptation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-25)
The IPCC Report shows increasing confidence of current impacts of anthropogenic climate change, including migration of species in oceans and diminishing crop yields. *Adaptation is widely occurring and has become the central ...
Is the current EU climate instrument mix adequate?
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-09-24)
The EU is on track to meet the 2020 targets for greenhouse gas emissions reduction and renewable energy. However, climate policies have not been the main drivers of emission reductions but the economic crisis. *The price ...
The adoption of ecosystem-based adaptation in the international climate agenda
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-02)
There is a growing recognition of the role that healthy ecosystems play in helping people to adapt to climate change through the delivery of ecosystem services. • Ecosystem-based Adaptation promotes the sustainable use of ...
Discounting the value of natural resources in costbenefit analysis: a case study for policy making
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-04-10)
The issue of discounting (i.e. how future cost and benefits are valued today) plays a major role in policies with long-term effects on the natural environment, such as those required in a climate change context, or decisions ...
Warning to navigators: IPCC report on climate change mitigation
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2014-05-13)
Despite the proliferation of climate change plans and strategies, global emissions have accelerated over the last decade. *If the present trends continue, temperatures will have risen between 3.7 and 4.3ºC by the end of ...
Analysis of Spanish text-thesaurus as a complex network
(2014-02-06)
[EN]Based on the theoretical tools of Complex Networks, this work provides a basic descriptive study of a synonyms dictionary, the Spanish Open Thesaurus represented as a graph. We study the main structural measures of the ...
An R package for permutations, Mallows and Generalized Mallows models
(2014-01-22)
[EN]Probability models on permutations associate a probability value to each of the permutations on n items. This paper considers two popular probability models, the Mallows model and the Generalized Mallows model. We ...
Efficient learning of decomposable models with a bounded clique size
(2014-05-08)
The learning of probability distributions from data is a ubiquitous problem in the fields of Statistics and Artificial Intelligence. During the last decades several learning algorithms have been proposed to learn probability ...
Sampling and learning the Mallows and Generalized Mallows models under the Cayley distance
(2014-01-22)
[EN]The Mallows and Generalized Mallows models are compact yet powerful and natural ways of representing a probability distribution over the space of permutations. In this paper we deal with the problems of sampling and ...
Sampling and learning the Mallows and Weighted Mallows models under the Hamming distance
(2014-01-22)
[EN]In this paper we deal with distributions over permutation spaces. The Mallows model is the mode l in use. The associated distance for permutations is the Hamming distance.