Adapting to an Uncertain Climate : Lessons From Practice / / edited by Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco, Annemarie Groot, Carin Nilsson, Hans-Martin Füssel, Leendert Van Bree, Roger B. Street
| Adapting to an Uncertain Climate : Lessons From Practice / / edited by Tiago Capela Lourenço, Ana Rovisco, Annemarie Groot, Carin Nilsson, Hans-Martin Füssel, Leendert Van Bree, Roger B. Street |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (200 p.) |
| Disciplina |
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| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes
Climate Environmental sciences Physical geography Climate Change Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts Climate Change Management and Policy Climate, general Environmental Science and Engineering Earth System Sciences |
| ISBN | 3-319-04876-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Introduction to the Use of Uncertainties to Inform Adaptation Decisions -- 1.1 Why Is Guidance on the Role of Uncertainty Needed and Who Is It For?- 1.2 Why Is It Important to Include Uncertainties in Adaptation Planning?- 1.3 What Information Is Included in This Book and Where Can I Find It?- 1.4 How Can This Publication Be Used?- Suggested Readings -- 2. Background On Uncertainty Assessment Supporting Climate Adaptation Decision-Making -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Uncertainties in Climate Change -- 2.3 Uncertainty Typology -- 2.4 Methods of Assessing Uncertainty -- 2.5 Decision-Making Frameworks Under Climate Change Uncertainty -- 2.6 Using Uncertainty Assessment in Decision-Making Practice On Climate Adaptation -- 2.7 Cases, Types of Uncertainty, and Methods As Used in Chapter 4 -- 2.8 Communicating Uncertainty Assessment To Policy-Makers and Decision-Makers -- 2.9 Conclusions -- 3. How Is Uncertainty Addressed in the Knowledge Base For National Adaptation Planning?- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Overview of National Adaptation Activities -- 3.3 Consideration of Uncertainty in the Knowledge Base For Adaptation -- 3.4 Conclusions -- 4. Showcasing Practitioners’ Experiences -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Real Life Case Studies -- 5. Making Adaptation Decisions Under Uncertainty - Lessons From Theory And Practice -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A New Support Framework For Adaptation Decisions Under Uncertainty -- 5.3 What Has Practice Shown Us?- 5.4 Dealing With Uncertainty in Adaptation Decision-Making -- 5.5 Guidance and Recommendations -- 5.6 Final Remarks -- Index. |
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Beyond the North-South Culture Wars : Reconciling Northern Australia's Recent Past With Its Future / / by Allan Dale
| Beyond the North-South Culture Wars : Reconciling Northern Australia's Recent Past With Its Future / / by Allan Dale |
| Autore | Dale Allan |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (154 p.) |
| Disciplina | 994 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Geography |
| Soggetto topico |
Economic geography
Political science Ecology Climate Economic Geography Political Science Environment, general Climate, general |
| ISBN | 3-319-05597-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | From the Contents: Themes in the North's Recent History -- Understanding the Cultural Divide -- Southern Enclaves - Mining, Tourism and Urban Development -- Enviro-colonialism - World Heritage and the Northern Psyche. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910298393203321 |
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Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet / / by Abhijit Mitra, Sufia Zaman
| Blue Carbon Reservoir of the Blue Planet / / by Abhijit Mitra, Sufia Zaman |
| Autore | Mitra Abhijit̲ |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Delhi : , : Springer India : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (306 p.) |
| Disciplina |
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500 55 551.4 |
| Soggetto topico |
Oceanography
Climate Ecology Marine sciences Fresh water Popular works Climate, general Environment, general Marine & Freshwater Sciences Popular Science, general |
| ISBN | 81-322-2107-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: The Blue Zone of the Planet Earth -- Chapter 2: Biodiversity of the Blue Zone -- Chapter 3: Blue Carbon Assessment -- Chapter 4: Blue Carbon in Floral Community -- Chapter 5: Phytoplankton Carbon Stock -- Chapter 6: Blue Carbon in Faunal Community -- Chapter 7: Threats to Blue Carbon Reservoir -- Chapter 8: Road Map to Expand Blue Carbon Reservoir. |
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Climate, planetary and evolutionary sciences : a machine-generated literature overview / / Guido Visconti. Editor
| Climate, planetary and evolutionary sciences : a machine-generated literature overview / / Guido Visconti. Editor |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 pages) |
| Disciplina | 551.6072 |
| Soggetto topico |
Exobiology
Climate, general |
| ISBN | 3-030-74713-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910484020003321 |
| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
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Grounding Global Climate Change : Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences / / edited by Heike Greschke, Julia Tischler
| Grounding Global Climate Change : Contributions from the Social and Cultural Sciences / / edited by Heike Greschke, Julia Tischler |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 p.) |
| Disciplina |
001.3
300 333.7 551.6 |
| Soggetto topico |
Ecology
Social sciences Climate Geography Environment, general Social Sciences, general Climate, general Geography, general |
| ISBN | 94-017-9322-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: grounding global climate change -- Part I: Interdisciplinarity, climate research and the role of the social sciences -- Ecological novelty: towards an interdisciplinary understanding of ecological change in the Anthropocene -- Predicting the past? Integrating climate and culture during historical famines -- Anthropology in the Anthropocene: sustainable development, climate change and interdisciplinary research -- Part II: Searching for the social facts of global climate change: ethnographic perspectives -- Climate and mobility in the West African Sahel: conceptualising the local dimensions of the environment and migration nexus -- Animal belongings: human-non human interactions and climate change in the Canadian Subarctic -- Part III: Spinning global webs of local knowledges: collaborative and comparative ethnographies -- The social facts of climate change: an ethnographic approach -- Comparing climate worlds: theorising across ethnographic fields -- Towards imagining the big picture and the finer details: exploring global applications of a local and scientific knowledge exchange methodology -- Part IV: Concluding statement -- You ain’t seen nothing yet: a death-defying look at the future of the climate debate. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299447903321 |
| Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 | ||
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Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics : Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation / / by Boualem Khouider
| Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics : Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation / / by Boualem Khouider |
| Autore | Khouider Boualem |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
| Disciplina | 551.6913 |
| Collana | Mathematics of Planet Earth |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematical physics
Atmospheric science Computer simulation Climate Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences Atmospheric Sciences Simulation and Modeling Climate, general |
| ISBN | 3-030-17775-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Part I Background and Preliminaries: Chapter 1- The Governing Equations and Dry Dynamics -- Chapter 2- Moisture and moist thermodynamics -- Chapter 3- Observations of tropical climate dynamics and convectively coupled waves -- Chapter 4- Introduction to stochastic processes, Markov chains, and Monte Carlo Simulation -- Part II The Deterministic Multicloud Model: Chapter 5- Simple models for moist gravity waves -- Chapter 6- The Multicloud Model with Congestus Preconditioning -- Chapter 7- Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in the Multicloud Model -- Chapter 8- Convective Momentum Transport and Upscale Interactions in the MJO -- Chapter 9- Implementation of the Multicloud Model in an Aquaplanet Global Climate Model -- Part III The Stochastic Multicloud Model: SMCM: Chapter 10- Stochastic birth and death models for clouds -- Chapter 11- Implementation of the SMCM in a Global Climate Model -- Chapter 12- SMCM in CFS: Improving the tropical modes of variability -- Glossary -- References. |
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Modern Climate Change Science : An Overview of Today’s Climate Change Science / / by G. Thomas Farmer
| Modern Climate Change Science : An Overview of Today’s Climate Change Science / / by G. Thomas Farmer |
| Autore | Farmer G. Thomas |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2015.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 p.) |
| Disciplina | 551.6 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Climatic changes
Climate Earth sciences Education Chemistry Energy Climate Change Climate, general Earth Sciences, general Education, general Chemistry/Food Science, general Energy, general |
| ISBN | 3-319-09222-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Chapter 1: Overview of Climate Change Science -- Chapter 2: Status of Climate Change Research -- Appendix A: Geologic Time -- Appendix B: The Metric System. |
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Porous Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture / / edited by An-Hui Lu, Sheng Dai
| Porous Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture / / edited by An-Hui Lu, Sheng Dai |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2014.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 p.) |
| Disciplina | 628.532 |
| Collana | Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology |
| Soggetto topico |
Renewable energy resources
Nanotechnology Catalysis Polymers Climate Renewable and Green Energy Polymer Sciences Climate, general |
| ISBN | 3-642-54646-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Ionic Liquid-Derived Carbonaceous Adsorbents for CO2 Capture -- Porous Carbons for Carbon Dioxide Capture -- Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for CO2 Capture -- Carbon Dioxide Capture in Porous Aromatic Frameworks -- Microporous Organic Polymers for Carbon Dioxide Capture -- CO2 capture via cyclic calcination and carbonation reactions -- Functionalized inorganic membranes for high temperature CO2/N2 separation. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910299621503321 |
| Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014 | ||
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Tropical Intraseasonal Variability and the Stochastic Skeleton Method / / by Andrew J. Majda, Samuel N. Stechmann, Shengqian Chen, H. Reed Ogrosky, Sulian Thual
| Tropical Intraseasonal Variability and the Stochastic Skeleton Method / / by Andrew J. Majda, Samuel N. Stechmann, Shengqian Chen, H. Reed Ogrosky, Sulian Thual |
| Autore | Majda Andrew J |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (IX, 123 p. 46 illus., 33 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 519 |
| Collana | SpringerBriefs in Mathematics of Planet Earth, Weather, Climate, Oceans |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
Probabilities Climatology Mathematics of Planet Earth Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes Climate, general |
| ISBN | 3-030-22247-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The deterministic skeleton model and observed features of the MJO -- A Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO -- Tropical–extratropical Interactions and the MJO Skeleton Model -- New indices for observations of tropical variability based on the skeleton model and a model for the Walker circulation -- Refined Vertical Structure in the Stochastic Skeleton Model for the MJO -- Current and Future Research Perspectives. |
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Water Resources and Integrated Management of the United Arab Emirates / / by Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan, Zeinelabidin E. Rizk
| Water Resources and Integrated Management of the United Arab Emirates / / by Abdulrahman S. Alsharhan, Zeinelabidin E. Rizk |
| Autore | Alsharhan A. S. |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2020.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (LXXXI, 850 p. 460 illus., 370 illus. in color.) |
| Disciplina | 333.910095357 |
| Collana | World Water Resources |
| Soggetto topico |
Hydrogeology
Hydrology Water quality Water - Pollution Environmental management Climate Geographic information systems Hydrology/Water Resources Water Quality/Water Pollution Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management Climate, general Geographical Information Systems/Cartography |
| ISBN | 3-030-31684-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Photographs -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I Geomorphology and Geology -- Chapter 2 Geomorphology -- Chapter 3 Geology -- Part II Climatic Conditions and Water Balance -- Chapter 4 Climatic Conditions -- Chapter 5 Water Balance -- Part III Conventional Water Resources -- Section A Surface Water Resources -- Chapter 6 Floods -- Chapter 7 Springs -- Chapter 8 Aflaj -- Section B Groundwater Resources -- Chapter 9 Limestone Aquifers -- Chapter 10 Ophiolite Aquifer -- Chapter 11 Gravel Aquifer -- Chapter 12 Sand Aquifer -- Chapter 13 Gravel and Sand Aquifer -- Part IV Non-Conventional Water Resources -- Chapter 14 Desalination Water -- Chapter 15 Treated Sewage Water -- Part V Water Problems -- Chapter 16 General Water Problems -- Chapter 17 Drinking Water Problems -- Chapter 18 Pollution of the Quaternary Sand Aquifer -- Part VI Integrated Water Resources Management -- Chapter 19 Water Conservation -- Chapter 20 Water Harvesting -- Chapter 21 Advanced Agricultural Technologies -- Part VII Modern Techniques in Water Studies -- Chapter 22 Remote Sensing -- Chapter 23 Geographic Information Systems -- Chapter 24 Natural Isotopes -- Chapter 25 Modelling Techniques -- Chapter 26 Water Laws in the United Arab Emirates -- Chapter 27 General Summary -- References. |
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