JH Kotir - Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2011 - Springer
Abstract Sub-Saharan Africa has been portrayed as the most vulnerable region to the impacts of global climate change because of its reliance on agriculture which is highly …
Satellite remote sensing and geographic information system (GIS) have revolutionalized the mapping, quantifying, and assessing the land surface processes, particularly analyzing the …
The reasons for concern framework communicates scientific understanding about risks in relation to varying levels of climate change. The framework, now a cornerstone of the IPCC …
Climate change is widely recognized as a major risk to societies and natural ecosystems but the high end of the risk, ie, where risks become existential, is poorly framed, defined, and …
N Stern - Journal of Economic Literature, 2013 - aeaweb.org
Scientists describe the scale of the risks from unmanaged climate change as potentially immense. However, the scientific models, because they omit key factors that are hard to …
Y Xu, V Ramanathan - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The historic Paris Agreement calls for limiting global temperature rise to “well below 2° C.” Because of uncertainties in emission scenarios, climate, and carbon cycle feedback, we …
RSJ Tol - Journal of economic perspectives, 2009 - aeaweb.org
I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost …
N Stern - American Economic Review, 2008 - pubs.aeaweb.org
By Nicholas Stern* quickly as possible, because policy decisions are both urgent and moving quickly—particularly following the recent United Nations Framework Convention on …
W Leal Filho, LE Icaza, A Neht, M Klavins… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018 - Elsevier
The urban heat island (UHI) is a phenomenon whereby temperature levels in urban areas are higher than in surrounding rural settings. Urban heat islands are a matter of increasing …