Sentences with phrase «for urban climate»

A study comparing fiscal provisions for urban climate and disaster resilience across ten cities in India notes that the per capita capital expenditure in sectors closely linked to disaster resilience is insufficient compared to other areas of funding.

Finally, the main advances are summarized and recommendations for urban climate work in the future are made.

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There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self - reliance in the face of climate change.

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While I believe there is already great material for men out there, as I surveyed the Bible and the culture of manhood (cross-ethnically), musical art, media, movies, magazines, the state of the church, urban dwellings, global cities, and the political climate of our country on gender, I continued to find the issue of manhood needing to be engaged.

These systems provide for moderate levels of meat and dairy, but they do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish Hiclimate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish HiClimate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

The comparative framework included the seminal work of German and Japanese urban climatologists, as well as the more recent climate policy initiatives of New York City and the City of Manchester.The project was a collaboration between MARC and the Centre for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

Also at 10 a.m., state Sen. Tony Avella co-sponsors a forum with the CUNY School of Law and the Center for Urban Environmental Reform on the Climate and Community Protection Act, 2 Court Square W., Queens.

«There isn't a lot of granular information on poverty and slums in the cities we're working in,» says Brian English, country director of slum upgrading, urbanization and climate change initiatives in India for CHF, which was founded in 1952 as the Foundation for Cooperative Housing to provide affordable homes for low - income families in rural and urban America.

Ms Tanner said monitoring of estuarine CO2 was important for planning and remediation efforts: «As each estuary is different, the potential impacts of climate change and urban development will be different in every ecosystem.»

Those sky - climbing costs are mostly caused by people, not climate change, cautions Munich Reinsurance, which says urban sprawl and expanding development increase the number of targets for Mother Nature to damage.

Co-author Dr Rachel McInnes, Senior Climate Impacts Scientist at the Met Office, added: «This finding that the effects of different types of vegetation — green space and gardens, and tree cover — differ at both very high and very low air pollution levels is particularly relevant for public health and urban planning policies.

For the pronghorn and 25 other endangered or threatened species, these are the hardest living conditions in the United States, and they are made worse by livestock grazing, recreational and urban development, hunting and poaching, and the effects of climate change.

Stories on the stressful impact of urban violence on children, the shared aptitudes of humans and songbirds for vocal learning, and the impact of climate change on the forests of Minnesota and beyond, are among the winners of the 2015 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards.

«Adaptation to urban - induced climate change depends on specific geographic factors,» Georgescu adds, noting that white, reflective cool roofs work well in California, but could reduce rainfall from Florida up the U.S. east coast, for example.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

«Our study highlights the usefulness of dense sensor networks for urban weather and climate research with practical implications for human health, energy consumption, and environmental quality.»

When the urban heat island effect was taken into account, they found that the economic cost of climate change for these cities would be 2.6 times higher than previously thought.

-- 7) Forest models for Montana that account for changes in both climate and resulting vegetation distribution and patterns; 8) Models that account for interactions and feedbacks in climate - related impacts to forests (e.g., changes in mortality from both direct increases in warming and increased fire risk as a result of warming); 9) Systems thinking and modeling regarding climate effects on understory vegetation and interactions with forest trees; 10) Discussion of climate effects on urban forests and impacts to cityscapes and livability; 11) Monitoring and time - series data to inform adaptive management efforts (i.e., to determine outcome of a management action and, based on that outcome, chart future course of action); 12) Detailed decision support systems to provide guidance for managing for adaptation.

Developing a community - based worldwide urban morphology and materials database (WUDAPT) using remote sensing and crowdsourcing for improved urban climate modelling.

Improvements in air quality, microclimate and behavioural aspects of urban dwellers will be achieved in the selected cities assessed for future climate change scenarios and representative of different cultural and life styles in Europe.

Robinson, Lloyd and Rowe noted that: «Instructional leadership theory has its empirical origins in studies undertaken during the late 1970's and 80's of schools in poor urban communities where students succeeded despite the odds... these schools typically had strong instructional leadership, including a learning climate free of disruption, a system of clear teaching objectives, and high teacher expectations for students.»

Recent research shows that a positive school climate contributes significantly to academic success, especially for struggling students in urban schools.

For this project, entire classrooms of students were selected based on (a) voluntary participation of teachers whose schools matched specific urban, suburban, or rural characteristics and were located in one of two major climate zones in the US, and (b) consent forms signed by the students» parents.

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A dog originally bred for racing in harsh environment is not suitable for living in urban area, especially in humid climate.

Our current programs focus on parks as a tool for preventive healthcare, a classroom for climate education, and a resource for critical urban issues like homelessness, income and racial inequity, and rapid development.

From literal urban jungles to the so - called untarnished wilderness, from the scientific realities of climate change to the poetic human longing for time outside, Human Nature is a nuanced exploration of the forces — both internal and external — that both pit us against and bring us closer to the natural world.

As a Research Fellow for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Etienne Turpin's research considers the consequences of climate change on urban settlements and develops potential design responses.

Each Survival Piece reflected a thoroughly researched forward - thinking proposal for sustainable urban farming in the face of, what the Harrisons» anticipated, a future where climate change and subsequent food shortages would be inevitable.

Located at the Palazzo Bembo, Fragments of an Urban Future answers to the most pressing issues facing megacities today — unprecedented urbanization, accelerating climate change, and the need for preservation of tropical biodiversity.

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, Matthew Kluber, curator, Jeff Fleming, (brochure), 2011 Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai, China, Animamix Biennial: Metaphors of Un / Real, curator, Victoria Lu, 2010 Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John F. Simon, Jr. and Matthew Kluber: Hybrid Media (catalog), 2010 Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE, Borderland Abstraction, Curator, Hesse McGraw (brochure), 2010 Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI, Matthew Kluber: Half - Day Closing, 2010 FOCUS09 / Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Cool Stories for When the Planet Gets Hot II, curators, Corinne Erni, New York and Anne - Marie Melster, Spain; traveled to: Valencia Museum of Illustration and Modernity, Valencia, Spain: Pavilion City Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, UN Climate Conference COP 15, 2009 Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, So Much Water So Close To Home, (film installation / exterior projection), 2009

Presentations focused on deepening inequality, the evidence for dangerous climate change, population trends, urban problems, new economic models and more.

However, the actual claim of IPCC is that the effects of urban heat islands effects are likely small in the gridded temperature products (such as produced by GISS and Climate Research Unit (CRU)-RRB- because of efforts to correct for those biases.

Likewise, they prefer to debate urban heat island effects rather than to discuss the rising temperature trends, other clear signs of rising temperatures, the positive feedbacks which are beginning to kick in so that climate change will take on a life of its own independently of what we do in the future if changes are not made now (# 111, «Storm World» post, comment # 141) and what such climate change will imply for humanity as a whole (Curve manipulation, comment # 74, A Saturated Gassy Argument, comment # 116).

For our 2007 series called «The Climate Divide,» Dr. Mendelsohn told me that in semi-arid regions facing worsening extremes in a warming world, it's perhaps best to encourage people to abandon rain - fed agriculture and move to urban centers.

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The full Presidential Climate Action Plan (as opposed to summaries) contains a comprehensive set of ideas to reduce transportation emissions, covering not only improvements in vehicle efficiency and alternative fuels, but also changes in national policy to promote high - speed rail for intercity travel, mass transit and telecommuting, and smart growth in urban development.

The» top ten» arguments employed by the relatively few deniers with credentials in any aspect of climate - change science (which arguments include «the sun is doing it», «Earth's climate was changing before there were people here», «climate is changing on Mars but there are no SUVs there», «the Earth hasn't been warming since 1998», «thermometer records showing heating are contaminated by the urban - heat - island effect», «satellite measurements show cooling rather than warming») have all been shown in the serious scientific literature to be wrong or irrelevant, but explaining their defects requires at least a paragraph or two for each one.

In this editorial, Steve E. Koonin, Undersecretary for Science in the Department of Energy during President Barack Obama's first term and current director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University, argued that while there is agreement that the climate is changing, there is no scientific agreement about the implications of climate change.

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Global Green opened a New Orleans office shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf and is collaborating with environmentalists, community developers, the Recovery School District, urban organizations, and others to create the building blocks for a climate friendly, model sustainable city for the 21st century.

As climate change makes regions hotter and urban areas grow, cities with green roofs will get an array of benefits that will improve quality of life for their citizens.

It reminds me of a conference I was involved in re: long term urban planning for climate change (my role was to review the climatic change literature).

Urban Climate Adaptation Research: New Technologies, Materials & Thinking Location: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. Stuart Gaffin

This edition focuses on urban areas and the environment, exploring how cities and climate change are affecting the way we live and how good public policies can improve prospects for future generations.

The analytical report considers the implications of population growth and urbanization for climate change in terms of the contribution of urban populations (and centres) to human induced climate change.

They must be a blue print for low carbon development the world over, encompassing all sectors affected by climate change, including health, agriculture urban development, energy, water access and income generation.