S Devereux, J Edwards - IDS BULLETIN, 2004 - academia.edu
1 Introduction We live in a highly food insecure world. Although global food supplies are more than adequate, the latest UnitedNations 'Report on theWorldNutrition …
Bangladesh remains one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to the effects of climate change. Given the reliance of a large segment of the population on the agricultural …
B Siebenhüner - Global Environmental Change, 2003 - Elsevier
In 1988, the incoming head of one of the most prominent scientific assessment bodies, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), explained:“Right now, many countries …
N Hübbe, J Kunkel - Computer Science-Research and Development, 2013 - Springer
Large HPC installations today also include large data storage installations. Data compression can significantly reduce the amount of data, and it was one of our goals to find …
B Siebenhüner - … of Regional and Global Environmental Risks, 2010 - taylorfrancis.com
WHEN CARRIED OUT OVER a longer period of time with several recurrent processes, assessments provide an outstanding opportunity for learning from past experiences and …
G Nhamo, S Nhamo - Gender Questions, 2017 - journals.co.za
Drawing mostly from publicly available data and information, we analyse how gender and geographical balance play out in the United Nations (UN) bodies, with a focus on the …
Our built environment is responsible for some of the most serious global and local en- vironmental change. The construction industry therefore faces pressure to increase the …
Since the 1970s, climate change has dominated the international scientific and political agenda. In particular, the foundation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change at …
The report are organised around four main points: 1. We do have a serious climatic problem and we need to bring down the global emissions of greenhouse gases, industrialised …