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Elagib, Nadir Ahmed. "The effect of climate change on evapotranspiration in Sudan." Thesis, University of the West of Scotland, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246425.

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Buendía-Atencio, Cristian, and Vaneza Lorett-Velásquez. "Climate change and computational chemistry: a molecular perspective." Revista de Química, 2017. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/123961.

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Ante la evidente necesidad de comprender los frecuentes cambios negativos que experimenta el planeta Tierra en los suelos, los ríos y la atmosfera y con la idea de intentar mitigar el cambio climático, aparece la química computacional como una rama de la química que nos permite estudiar y predecir diversas propiedadesfisicoquímicas de sistemas moleculares complejos de interés ambiental las cuales son, algunas veces, imposibles de estudiar de forma experimental. El presente artículo muestra un panorama molecular del comportamiento y características fisicoquímicas de algunos contaminantes atmosf

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Dellinger, Myanna F. "Rethinking «Fuerza Mayor» in a World of Anthropogenic Climate Change." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118876.

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This article addresses the question of whether extreme weather events should form the basis for individuals or even the States, may be exempted from complying with its legal obligations.The old, but still very viable institution of force majeure can empower both companies and nations to absolve themselves of their responsibilities and duties. However, in a world where human-induced climate change is proven, could we say that such disasters are truly«natural»? Does it make sense, from a legal and factual matter, that they continue to allow the parties to be exempt from liability when modern sci

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Narayanan, Santhosh. "Environmental Performance of Multinationals: A Comparative Study Based On Climate Change Strategy." FIU Digital Commons, 2014. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/1518.

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In the context of distinctive international business phenomena of global environmental concern i.e., climate change, this dissertation addresses two research questions. Does multinational enterprise (MNE) orientation (global- or regional-orientation) have an influence on the carbon performance of the multinational? Is there any significant home country effect that drives carbon performance? Stakeholders are increasingly watching the green performance of the firms and investors are looking for information of how firms deal with externalities such as carbon emission. Environmental capabilities a

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Gutiérrez, Nájera Raquel. "Climate Change in the Context of the Energy Reform in Mexico." Derecho & Sociedad, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/118930.

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The author analyzes the Mexico’s energetic reform during the sexennial of 2013 to 2018. A historic study refers that Mexican energy matrix was based on fossil sources of energy as crude oil and natural gas. This represents nearly 90% of primary energy’s total production while the profit of non-fossil energy represents only 8% until 2012.Then, during the period of 2007-2012, the majority of the programmatic and normative instruments about climate change were generated. From 2013 to 2018, said the author, a national structural reform has been discussed. Thisamend includes Mexico’s energetic refo

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Nthakomwa, Asimenye. "Assessing the role of weather index insurance in climate change adaptation in Malawi." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/19991.

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Climate change is one of the most challenging problems of the 21st century. Its effects have already been experienced in the different parts of the world. Farmers face particularly high risks considering that their occupation is climate dependent. Therefore farmers have been implementing different adaptation activities in an effort to reduce the impacts of climate change on their livelihoods. Weather index insurance (WII) has been recommended as one potential climate change adaptation strategy. In Malawi WII was introduced and piloted in 2005 to help farmers get access to loans. In this study

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Borowicz, Lydia. "Traversing the Rift: Cultivating Climate Change Literacy Through Theatrical Performance." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/24557.

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Climate change is a persistent and growing threat to the well-being of both humans and nonhuman species, and little action has been taken to halt it. It is imperative the public gains a sufficient level of climate change literacy to be able to take action to mitigate climate change. Theatrical performance offers audiences diverse ways to engage with climate change through both improving scientific understanding and connecting with climate change’s effects through live, embodied performance. Employing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s tenets of climate literacy, I examine

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Paliampelou, Ifigeneia <1993&gt. "Constructing a climate change bank risk (CCBRω) index for the Italian banking system". Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/16528.

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Climate change is emerging as systemic risk with domino effects throughout the global banking system and economy. This study formulates a climate-change bank risk index (CCBRω) for the Italian banking system, with a probability-like mathematical framework limited to a range of 0 to 1, where 0% is no risk and 100% is certain risk. This index calculates climate-change transitional risk for a selected financial intermediary (SFI) by incorporating three types of factors: (i) the sum of green equities (Sgreen), (ii) the sum of brown equities (Sbrown) of a SFI in green and/or a brown company, (iii)

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Qiao, Yaning. "Flexible pavements and climate change : impact of climate change on the performance, maintenance, and life-cycle costs of flexible pavements." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29582/.

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Flexible pavements are environmentally sensitive elements of infrastructure and their performance can be influenced by climate. Climate change poses a challenge to design and management of flexible pavements in the future. Climate change can occur worldwide and thus all flexible pavements can be exposed to the impact. However, an assessment framework is not available to evaluate the impact of climate change on flexible pavements in terms of performance, maintenance decision-making and the subsequent life-cycle costs (LCC). This research has attempted to develop such a framework. Case studies o

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Geil, Kerrie L., and Kerrie L. Geil. "Assessing the 20th Century Performance of Global Climate Models and Application to Climate Change Adaptation Planning." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623015.

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Rapid environmental changes linked to human-induced increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations have been observed on a global scale over recent decades. Given the relative certainty of continued change across many earth systems, the information output from climate models is an essential resource for adaptation planning. But in the face of many known modeling deficiencies, how confident can we be in model projections of future climate? It stands to reason that a realistic simulation of the present climate is at least a necessary (but likely not sufficient) requirement for a model’s

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Grover, Himanshu. "Planning for mitigating climate change risk to metropolitan areas (USA)." [College Station, Tex. : Texas A&M University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1870.

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Chattopadhyay, Somsubhra. "IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON EXTREME HYDROLOGICAL EVENTS IN THE KENTUCKY RIVER BASIN." UKnowledge, 2017. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/bae_etds/50.

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Anthropogenic activities including urbanization, rapid industrialization, deforestation and burning of fossil fuels are broadly agreed on as primary causes for ongoing climate change. Scientists agree that climate change over the next century will continue to impact water resources with serious implications including storm surge flooding and a sea level rise projected for North America. To date, the majority of climate change studies conducted across the globe have been for large-sized watersheds; more attention is required to assess the impact of climate change on smaller watersheds, which ca

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Bhatkoti, Roma. "Infrastructure Performance and Risk Assessment under Extreme Weather and Climate Change Conditions." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81694.

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This dissertation explores the impact of climate change and extreme weather events on critical infrastructures as defined by US Department of Homeland Security. The focus is on two important critical infrastructure systems – Water and Transportation. Critical infrastructures are always under the risk of threats such as terrorist attacks, natural disasters, faulty management practices, regulatory policies, and defective technologies and system designs. Measuring the performance and risks of critical infrastructures is complex due to its network, geographic and dynamic characteristics and multip

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Kronborg, Pelle. "Identifying Quaternary Climate Change with XRF Analysis on Loess From South-Western England." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412179.

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Huge changes in climate occurred at the end of the last Quaternary glaciation. The end of this glaciation corresponds with the end of Pleistocene with its repeated glacial cycles and the start of the current geological epoch, the Holocene interglacial. The climate at this time was characterized by increasing temperatures and an increase in rainfall. This project focuses on understanding and examining these changes in climate using loess deposits from south-western England. Loess is an aeolian sediment and covers around 10 % of the Earth’s land surface and these deposits are excellent archives

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Moore, Alan H. "Deforestation and the Transformation of the Landscape of North China: prehistory - present." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/45092.

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Environmental evidence shows that 10,000 years ago North China was primarily a lush deciduous forest. Like many other regions of the planet, this landscape has been dramatically transformed by human activity, yet unusually this mostly occurred long ago under pre-industrial conditions. Fortunately China has a long recorded history of human activity. Complementary environmental evidence helps to extend this record into prehistory, for even prehistoric Chinese substantially altered their environment. The first half of this study examines historical and physical evidence in order to better expl

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Farrou, Ifigenia. "Investigation of energy performance and climate change adaptation strategies of hotels in Greece." Thesis, Brunel University, 2013. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/8137.

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There is evidence that hotels are the highest energy use buildings of the tertiary sector in Europe and internationally because of their operational characteristics and the large number of users. Therefore, there is potential for significant energy savings. This study investigated the energy performance of the hotel sector in Greece and proposes a methodology for their energy classification and climate change mitigation strategies for an optimum building envelope design for a typical hotel building operated all year or seasonally. This was achieved by collecting operational energy data for 90

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Hendricks, Lauren. "The Performance of Four Native Perennial Forb Species Along a Climate Gradient in Pacific Northwest Prairies." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20707.

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To determine how Pacific Northwest prairies are influenced by local site factors versus. regional climate, we studied the reproduction, plant size, and density of sixteen natural populations of four perennial forb species native to Pacific Northwest prairies: Ranunculus austro-oreganus, Sidalcea malviflora spp. virgata, Microseris laciniata, and Eriophyllum lanatum. These populations were distributed along a 700 kilometer latitudinal gradient from southern Oregon to Whidbey Island, Washington. We found significant differences in plant size and reproduction among populations for all species, bu

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Wall-Palmer, Deborah. "Response of pteropod and related faunas to climate change and ocean acidification." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/1398.

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Recent concern over the effects of ocean acidification upon calcifying organisms in the modern ocean has highlighted the aragonitic shelled thecosomatous pteropods as being at a high risk. Laboratory studies have shown that increased pCO2, leading to decreased pH and low carbonate concentrations, has a negative impact on the ability of pteropods to calcify and maintain their shells. This study presents the micropalaeontological analysis of marine cores from the Caribbean Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Indian Ocean. Pteropods, heteropods and planktic foraminifera were picked from samples to provide

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Jiang, Huiquan. "Incorporating Climate Sensitivity for Eastern United States Tree Species into the Forest Vegetation Simulator." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/75220.

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Detecting climate-induced effects in forest ecosystems become increasingly important as more evidence of greenhouse-gas-related climate change were founded. The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) is an important growth and yield model used to support management and planning on public forest lands over the southern United States, however its prediction accuracy was challenged due to its climate- insensitive nature. The goal of this study was to develop species-specific prediction models for eastern U.S. forest tree species with climate and soil properties as predictors in order to incorporate t

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Ali, Syed Mahtab. "Climate change and water management impacts on land and water resources." Thesis, Curtin University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/202.

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This study evaluated the impacts of shallow and deep open drains on groundwater levels and drain performance under varying climate scenarios and irrigation application rates. The MIKE SHE model used for this study is an advanced and fully spatially distributed hydrological model. Three drain depths, climates and irrigation application rates were considered. The drains depths included 0, 1 and 2 m deep drains. The annual rainfall and meteorological data were collected from study area from 1976 to 2004 and analysed to identify the typical wet, average and dry years within the record. Similarly t

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Monahan, William B., Alyssa Rosemartin, Katharine L. Gerst, et al. "Climate change is advancing spring onset across the U.S. national park system." WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622065.

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Many U.S. national parks are already at the extreme warm end of their historical temperature distributions. With rapidly warming conditions, park resource management will be enhanced by information on seasonality of climate that supports adjustments in the timing of activities such as treating invasive species, operating visitor facilities, and scheduling climate-related events (e.g., flower festivals and fall leaf-viewing). Seasonal changes in vegetation, such as pollen, seed, and fruit production, are important drivers of ecological processes in parks, and phenology has thus been identified

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Pack, Jessica Spencer. "Effect of Localized Temperature Change on Vigilance Performance." Wright State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1429286666.

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Ali, Syed Mahtab. "Climate change and water management impacts on land and water resources." Curtin University of Technology, Faculty of Engineering and Computing, Dept. of Civil Engineering, 2007. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=18688.

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This study evaluated the impacts of shallow and deep open drains on groundwater levels and drain performance under varying climate scenarios and irrigation application rates. The MIKE SHE model used for this study is an advanced and fully spatially distributed hydrological model. Three drain depths, climates and irrigation application rates were considered. The drains depths included 0, 1 and 2 m deep drains. The annual rainfall and meteorological data were collected from study area from 1976 to 2004 and analysed to identify the typical wet, average and dry years within the record. Similarly t

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Dogrul, Selver Ayca. "The effect of global climate change on the release of terrestrial organic carbon in the Arctic Region." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-effect-of-global-climate-change-on-the-release-of-terrestrial-organic-carbon-in-the-arctic-region(64ed1c27-07ff-42b3-83a7-7803b4b697f4).html.

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The Arctic Region is currently experiencing an amplified warming if compared to the rest of the world. The soils in this region store approximately half of the global soil organic carbon (OC), mainly locked in the permanently-frozen ground (permafrost). This carbon sink is sensitive to global warming meaning that the predicted warming will likely increase the thaw-release of this ‘old’ carbon. However, what happens to this remobilized OC once it is transported to the Arctic Ocean, including the potential conversion to greenhouse gasses causing a positive feedback to climate warming, remains un

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Chua, Pih Fong. "Corporate Governance Determinants of Environmental and Climate Change Disclosures and Performance: An Australian Empirical Study." Thesis, Curtin University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/68272.

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This study examines the association between corporate governance and environmental and climate-change (ECC) disclosures and performance of top ASX listed firms, during the operative periods of carbon pricing and prescriptive requirements on firms to disclose ECC information in corporate reports: 2011 to 2015. Quantitative evidence show board independence, environmental assurance, and boards with community affiliation are substantive measures while environmental committees and boards with environmental and social affiliations tend to be symbolic environmental governance measures.

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Córdova, Rengifo Javier. "Adaptación a la sequía en el caserío Tucaque, Distrito de Frías, Ayabaca, Piura dentro de un contexto de cambio climático." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119861.

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Climate change is promoting alterations in climatic conditions. This article analyzes the way how people deal with dry seasons in the community of Tucaque. Droughts are a rough limit in the development of any population. Even more if there are obstacles that retain the adaptive capacity to this event. These barriers are the economic resources scarcity and, the social and institutional factors. The latter two are seen in Tucaque where individualism dominates the people’s social life; there is also weak governance, and the weak connections with the Frias Municipality do not allow the right manag

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Francart, Nicolas. "Buildings in municipal climate change mitigation strategies : towards life cycle thinking." Licentiate thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-244063.

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Fulfilling climate targets requires ambitious changes. The building sector is a large contributor to emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG), but also offers opportunities for climate change impact reductions. This thesis aims at supporting strategic decisions to reach climate change mitigation targets in the building sector, based on knowledge about what factors contribute significantly to climate impact from buildings in a life cycle perspective and how practitioners can influence these factors. More specifically, a first point of investigation concerns what aspects play a key importance in buil

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Petrucco, Toffolo Edoardo. "Climate change and pine processionary moth role of the host plant." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3425070.

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Seiner, Lizárraga Lizardo. "Carey, Mark. In the Shadow of Melting Glaciers. Climate Change and Andean Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010, 273 pp." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2012. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/121552.

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Sue, Wing Ian, A. Denny Ellerman, and Jaemin Song. "Absolute vs. Intensity Limits for CO2 Emission Control: Performance Under Uncertainty." MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/31204.

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We elucidate the differences between absolute and intensity-based limits of CO2 emission when there is uncertainty about the future. We demonstrate that the two limits are identical under certainty, and rigorously establish their relative attractiveness under two criteria: preservation of expectations—the minimization of the difference between the actual level and the initial expectation of abatement associated with a one-shot emission target, and temporal stability—the minimization of the variance of abatement due to fluctuations in emissions and GDP over time. Empirical tests of these theore

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Lai, Chi-Ming. "Development and thermal performance assessment of the opaque PV façades for subtropical climate region." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/204562.

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Fiebig, Julia Helen. "The Effect of Value-Tailored Leader Rule Statements on Employee Performance Targeting Identified Organizational Objectives| The Influence of Motivating Operations in Leader Communication with Followers." Thesis, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10101147.

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<p> The importance of effective leadership practices as related to environmental issues and climate change is well established by climate change policy negotiators and there has been an increasing trend in leadership roles being created in organizations to address environmental issues. Organizational change efforts focused on social responsibility initiatives, such as changing environmentally relevant behaviors, often generate significant costs for organizations without contributing to desired results and messages from leaders to stakeholders in organizations do not frequently align with perfo

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Prill, Nadine. "Effects of environmental change on plant performance and plant-herbivore interactions." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:c58761e9-666c-4b7d-a78a-d70de7f253d4.

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Global environmental change fundamentally affects plants and their interactions with other species, and this has profound impacts on communities and ultimately ecosystems. In order to understand the mechanisms involved, we need to elaborate on the combined effects of different global change drivers on multiple levels of plant organization, including the biochemical level (production of defence compounds), the whole organism, the population, and the plant-herbivore interaction level. This thesis investigates (1) the combined effects of factors related to climate change and habitat fragmentation

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Birbilaitė, Inesa. "Manifestations of deliberative democracy online: measuring quality of global public discussions on climate change on Facebook." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20131009_100901-11555.

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The major purpose of this dissertation was to measure quality of preselected public discussions (in form of comments) generated on popular online social network Facebook. We used Discourse Quality Index as the main instrument to collect and analyze our empirical data. In particular, we measured how the quality of our discussions corresponded to the preconditions of Habermasian ideal discourse perception. In our analysis, we highlighted the role of Web 2.0 based online communications environments to support, promote or, possibly, neglect traditions and principles of deliberative democracy. Our

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Panaou, Toni. "Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Streamflow and Reservoir Operation in Central Florida." Scholar Commons, 2018. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7211.

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Climate change is a global concern as it may affect many aspects of life, including water supply. A tool used to model climate change’s impacts is called a General Circulation Model (GCM). GCMs project future scenarios including temperature and precipitation, but these are designed at a coarse resolution and require downscaling for employment for regional hydrologic modeling. There is a vast amount of research on downscaling and bias-correcting GCMs data, but it is unknown whether these techniques alter precipitation signals embedded in these models or reproduce climate states that are viable

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Serafim, João Afonso Machado Pinto de Aguiar. "Assessing the role of macro- and microclimate on Holm oak performance in Mediterranean drylands." Master's thesis, ISA, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/21285.

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Mestrado em Biologia dos Recursos Vegetais / Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Faculdade de Ciências. Universidade de Lisboa<br>Mediterranean drylands are expected to become drier due to climate change. This may aggravate desertification by increasing dryland susceptibility to land degradation, leading to the loss of biodiversity and ability to provide ecosystem services. In Mediterranean Basin drylands, a large area is occupied by oak woodlands, a semi-natural agro-silvopastoral system called Montado in Portugal. In the drier areas, where Montado seems to act as a buffer against desertificati

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Timaná, de la Flor Martín, and Romero María Alejandra Cuentas. "Biogeografía predictiva: técnicas de modelamiento de distribución de especies y su aplicación en el impacto del cambio climático." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119831.

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Species distribution modeling is presented as an analytical tool for biogeography and the study of climate change impact on biodiversity. Key modeling concepts and applications are reviewed; the maximum entropy principle is described as well as its implementation in the Maxent software. Lastly, two demonstrative examples of species modeling are presented using two plant species: Pycnophyllum spathulatum (Caryophyllaceae) and Prosopis pallida (Fabaceae). Bothe species were modeled using current climate data and under a future climatic change scenario based on RCP8.5 to examine the potential

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Zhang, Chao. "The photochemical reflectance index (PRI) as an indicator of changes in photosynthetic dynamics and gross primary productivity in response to climate change." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/457747.

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Quantificar les dinàmiques fotosintètiques des de diferents escales espacio-temporals és molt important en la recerca de l’absorció de carboni, particularment en les condicions actuals de canvi climàtic. L’índex de reflectància fotoquímica (PRI) ha demostrat ser útil per estimar de forma remota el funcionament la vegetació i constitueix un mètode prometedor per estimar la productivitat primària bruta (GPP) a escala global. Als últims anys, diversos treballs han presentat possibles millores en la comprensió i formulació del PRI per tal de millorar la seva aplicabilitat a escales espacials i te

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Vazquez, Tyara Kiileialohalani. "Physiological Responses to Heat-stress in a Desert Montane Lizard." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1544789284098965.

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Prieto, Alfredo, and Rafael Labarca. "The Late Pleistocene Southern Fuego-Patagonian Archaeological Sites: New Findings, New Problems." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/113607.

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The Fuego-Patagonian Late Pleistocene archaeological sites are scarce; we have only a handful of them for understanding a periodof time that extends for about 1000 years. These deposits coincide with a period of substantial environmental changes that contributed to the extinction of megafauna in the region, as in the rest of the Americas. All sites registered are located in caves and rock shelters. Attempts to find new sites in other contexts of the region have not yet yielded the expected results. However, thanksto recent work done by paleobiologists seeking to obtain increasingly detailed re

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Parker, Phillip Simon [Verfasser]. "Simulation of daily field management and crop performance in Southwest Germany under climate and technological change / Phillip Simon Parker." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1125345284/34.

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Bai, YanYing. "Distribution of soil temperature regimes and climate change in the Mojave Desert region." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957301331&SrchMode=2&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1268844053&clientId=48051.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2009.<br>Includes abstract. Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Title from first page of PDF file (viewed March 16, 2010). Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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Aggarwal, Ashish. "The promise and performance of carbon forestry : analyzing carbon, biodiversity and livelihoods in two projects from India." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-promise-and-performance-of-carbon-forestry-analyzing-carbon-biodiversity-and-livelihoods-in-two-projects-from-india(0e569b5c-1e89-4bb7-b33e-51fba79381b7).html.

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Carbon forestry projects have proliferated over last few years on the premise of cost efficient climate mitigation along with co-benefits of biodiversity conservation and livelihood improvement. Multilateral, bilateral, public and private sources have invested billions of dollars in the carbon forestry projects based on these claims. However, there is little empirical evidence to support the enthusiasm. This gap is further accentuated by the insufficient understanding of the governance challenges of these projects. These issues are social, political and ecological in nature and hence require a

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Adam, Shalima. "Carbon disclosure and company performance : a portfolio performance approach." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/21194.

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Thesis (MBA)--Stellenbosch University, 2012.<br>The objective of this research study was to investigate whether socially responsible companies that disclose their carbon emission, referred to in this research report as ‘carbon disclosure leaders’, outperform their non-disclosing counterparts, referred to in this research report as ‘carbon disclosure laggards’. This research study attempted to substantiate the relationship between companies’ carbon disclosure practices and companies’ share price performance. An empirical analysis was conducted with a focus on South African-listed Johannesburg

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Roennefarth, Jonas. "Effects of winter climate change on plant performance and nitrogen dynamics of non-sorted circles in sub-arctic SwedenJonas RoennefarthStudentDegree." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för ekologi, miljö och geovetenskap, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-98489.

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Non-sorted circles (NSCs) are important landscape components of Arctic tundra ecosystems as they determine small-scale vegetation patterns and regulate the buildup of carbon in deep soil layers. Lack of vegetation cover and insulation through snow cover in winter play key roles in the formation of these patterns as they regulate frost heave and freeze-thaw cycles (FTCs) in the soil. Winter climate and snow cover changes are expected in the future, but the implications for plant performance and nutrient dynamics on NSCs are poorly understood. This hampers our ability to predict the responses of

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Washington, Christopher L. "The relationships among learning transfer climate, transfer self-efficacy, goal commitment, and sales performance in an organization undergoing planned change /." The Ohio State University, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486402544592042.

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Foy, Valencia Pierre Claudio. "Considerations weather on environmental relevant of international conventions." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116109.

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In the first part we introduce what we consider the main features of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (CMCC) and its context, in terms of prejuridical issues about climate diplomacy and general considerations about this convention. In the second part, we discuss some references in order to show the synergies between the international agreements and the CMCC and some other more specific legal instruments.<br>En la primera parte se elabora una caracterización de la Convención Marco de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Cambio Climático (CMCC) y su contexto en términos de consi

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Stewart, Helena K. "Peat's secret archive : interpreting the geochemical and palaeodust record from Scottish peat as a potential index of North Atlantic storminess and Holocene climate change." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24811.

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Four continuous high-resolution peat records for the Holocene have been reconstructed across a ~300km transect from Shebster in Caithness to Yell in the Shetland Isles. These records describe the nature and extent of North Atlantic climate changes inferred from indicators of storminess and minerogenic aeolian dust, and are supported by radiogenic isotope analysis, tephrochronology and radiocarbon dating. The environmental changes at all four sites displays a significant degree of synchrony in response to changes in the position of the polar front jet (PFJ) stream and the phase of the North Atl

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McHenry, Mark. "Australian agricultural, energy & climate change policies & trends in performance of stand-alone power supply systems in pastoral Western Australia." Thesis, McHenry, Mark (2006) Australian agricultural, energy & climate change policies & trends in performance of stand-alone power supply systems in pastoral Western Australia. Honours thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/6037/.

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Total renewable energy capacity in Stand-alone Power Supply (SPS) systems has increased dramatically over the past few years in Western Australian remote off-grid agricultural regions. Capital cost subsidies provided by governments has allowed the replacement of aging diesel generators with photovoltaics and wind turbines, which are known to be as reliable as traditional systems in addition to providing 24-hour availability of electricity. Over the last 30 years renewable energy SPS system technologies have seen some notable developments. However, in many respects they have also failed to live

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Lord, Nathalie Sarah. "Projecting long-term past and future climate change within the context of post-closure performance assessments for disposal of radioactive waste." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.743022.

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