Environmental change and risk
Capacity to adapt to environmental change: evidence from a network of organizations concerned with increasing wildfire risk
... ABSTRACT. Because wildfire size and frequency are expected to increase in many forested areas in the United States, organizations involved in forest and wildfire management could arguably benefit from working together ...
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Ecological Grief as a Response to Environmental Change: A Mental Health Risk or Functional Response?
... climate change on the environment is becoming a lived experience for more and more ...climate change-induced distress have been introduced to describe the long-term emotional consequences of anticipated or ...
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Risk Perceptions of Climate Change in International Environmental Negotiations
... of risk discourse, with those most at risk or already suffering from climate change impacts, such as Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), citing the most ...
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Global Environmental Change
... the environmental security literature, great rural resource scarcity, causing rural to urban migration, is seen as an important source of violent ...higher risk or frequency of social ...
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Disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and environmental migration A POLICY PERSPECTIVE
... IOM is distributing all-weather tents and relief kits to flood victims but as the number of affected people rises, more assistance is urgently needed. IOM and its partners have contributed to the formulation of the ...
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The diversity of population responses to environmental change
... Extinction risk is associated with anthro- pogenic activities and their consequences, with climate change playing a critical role (Pearson et ...Climate change can influence extinction risk by ...
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The Resilience of Indigenous Peoples to Environmental Change
... minimize risk from extreme events, 77 the banning of logging in environmentally fragile areas, 69 and the placing of taboos on certain areas and resources to ensure recovery of the stocks in the face of stress ...
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Climate and environmental change and food security
... and environmental vulnerability of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) also frequently highlights small islands’ exposure to natural hazards and their difficulties in responding adequately to such ...to ...
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ARTICLE IN PRESS. Global Environmental Change
... of Risk Management; the Denali Commission; and the Alaska Departments of Natural Resources, Transportation and Public Facilities, and Education and Early ...
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ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE & SUSTAINABILITY FIELD SCHOOL
... for risk management ...contrasting environmental settings and economic contexts, and implications for current dilemmas in Turkana’s changing landscape ...
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Managing Environmental Risk in Presence of Climate Change: The Role of Adaptation in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia
... Climate Change Adaptation and Risk Exposure In this section we specify an econometric model of climate change adaptation and risk ...climate change adaptation on farm households’ ...
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Project Stories from the CENTRAL EUROPE Programme Environmental Risk Management and Climate Change
... landscape change visible The changes that affect our landscapes often occur so slowly that they can be difficult to ...of change through images or simulations that help stakeholders visualise threats to the ...
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Risk preferences under heterogeneous environmental risk
... of risk preferences We hypothesize in Section 2.1 that risk preferences are endogenous with respect to precipitation risk experienced during childhood and adolescence and that formation of ...
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Environmental catastrophes, climate change, and attribution
... at risk, which either increased or decreased depending on the counter- factual ...flood risk mapping shows “a small increase in prop- erties in the Thames catchment potentially at risk of riverine ...
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Climate Change and Corporate Environmental Responsibility
... climate change as follows: “The potential economic impacts of climate change were brought into sharp focus in late 2006 with the publication of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate ...climate ...
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Environmental Risk. Trends in Environmental Risk Management and Insurance. Issue
... primary Environmental markets has in the past few years subsided somewhat to around $500 million, mainly as a result of the general hardening of reinsurance market ...Some Environmental insurers are able to ...
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Organizational Change and Environmental Sustainability
... sustainability fund that goes toward purchasing renewable energy produced off- campus, funding renewable energy and energy conservation projects on-. campus, or a combination of off-camp[r] ...
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Epigenetic variation and environmental change.
... sensitive to heritable epigenetic variation in response to environmental conditions, 262. the local concentration of regulatory factors may therefore mediate environme[r] ...
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Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
... damaging environmental effects it may have on the lagoon’s ecosystems, including impeding its tidal flushing action and threatening large areas of habitat for fish and water ...
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Coastal Cities and Environmental Change
... damaging environmental effects it may have on the lagoon’s ecosystems, including impeding its tidal flushing action and threatening large areas of habitat for fish and water ...
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