The 5th Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) states with very high certainty that anthropogenic emissions have caused …

This paper is motivated by a concern that adaptation and vulnerability research suffer from
an under-theorization of the political mechanisms of social change and the processes that …

Species with physically dormant (PY) seeds make up over 25% of plant species in a number
of ecologically important ecosystems around the globe, such as savannah and …

Transformation as an adaptive response to climate change opens a range of novel policy
options. Used to describe responses that produce non-linear changes in systems or their …

EURO-CORDEX (Coordinated Downscaling Experiment over Europe), a new generation of
downscaled climate projections, has become available for climate change impact studies in …

The studies that quantify the human and economic costs of increasing exposure of cities to
various natural hazards consider climate change together with increasing levels of …

This paper focuses on a collection of methods that can be used to analyze the water-energy-
food (WEF) nexus. We classify these methods as qualitative or quantitative for …

Densely populated deltas are so vulnerable to sea level rise and climate change that they
cannot wait for global mitigation to become effective. The Netherlands therefore puts huge …

Soil microbial biomass is a key determinant of carbon dynamics in the soil. Several studies
have shown that soil microbial biomass significantly increases with plant species diversity …

Emissions from 377 gas actuated (pneumatic) controllers were measured at natural gas
production sites and a small number of oil production sites, throughout the United States. A …