Sentences with phrase «assessing key vulnerabilities»

Involved with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1988, he was Coordinating Lead Author, WG II, Chapter 19, «Assessing Key Vulnerabilities and the Risk from Climate Change» and a core writer for the Fourth Assessment Synthesis Report.

Section 19.4.4 concludes this chapter by suggesting research priorities for the natural and social sciences that may provide relevant knowledge for assessing key vulnerabilities of climate change.

Schneider, S.H., S. Semenov, A. Patwardhan, I. Burton, C.H.D. Magadza, M. Oppenheimer, A.B. Pittock, A. Rahman, J.B. Smith, A. Suarez and F. Yamin, 2007: Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change.

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-chapter19.pdf «Assessing key vulnerabilities and the risk from climate change For some impacts, qualitative rankings of magnitude are more appropriate than quantitative ones.

Both teams say that a global view of the internet's infrastructure will be invaluable for assessing key vulnerabilities.

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«Having a better understanding of the chances of local flood damage from rising seas in coastal areas is a key factor in being able to assess vulnerability, risk and adaptation options.»

This annex addresses the major challenges the Mass Transit Sub-Sector may face and should assess in its pandemic influenza planning within the seven key areas of vulnerability highlighted in blue boxes in the Guideline.

This analysis updates the work done in 2012 and assesses current and future freshwater requirements for energy production, highlighting potential vulnerabilities and key stress points.

This manual outlines key approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures.

The scope of this chapter, with a focus on food crops, pastures and livestock, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry (commercial forests), aquaculture and fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculturalists and artisanal fishers, is to: examine current climate sensitivities / vulnerabilities; consider future trends in climate, global and regional food security, forestry and fisheries production; review key future impacts of climate change in food crops pasture and livestock production, industrial crops and biofuels, forestry, fisheries, and small - holder and subsistence agriculture; assess the effectiveness of adaptation in offsetting damages and identify adaptation options, including planned adaptation to climate change; examine the social and economic costs of climate change in those sectors; and, explore the implications of responding to climate change for sustainable development.

This analysis assesses current and future freshwater requirements for energy production, highlighting potential vulnerabilities and key stress points.

Alternative approaches include using SRES scenarios as surrogates for some stabilisation scenarios (Swart et al., 2002; see Table 2.4), for example to assess impacts on ecosystems (Leemans and Eickhout, 2004) and coastal regions (Nicholls and Lowe, 2004), demonstrating that socio - economic assumptions are a key determinant of vulnerability.