Sentences with phrase «future land change»

The pace of agricultural intensification is, therefore, also likely to remain a major determinant of future land change and our ability to meet societal demands for food, feed, housing, and energy (104).

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That does have the benefit of propping up the U.S. stock market in the near future and enabling the Fed to navigate a soft landing for the U.S. taking into account rapidly changing global conditions.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

The new proposed model could allow a better quantification of the impacts that will likely occur under changing climate and could be considered in future ocean resources and land use management.

Therefore, also changes in land cover should be represented in climate models for projections of future climate,» concludes Francesco S.R. Pausata.

GCAM is especially suited for projections such as this because it takes into account ongoing future changes in technology, society and the economy, including energy and land use.

New research from scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources brings into clearer focus just how dramatically Hawaiʻi beaches might change as sea level rises in the future.

Researchers show that future carbon accumulation rates are highly sensitive to future land use changes.

«Future land transitions are uncertain but relatively small changes in afforestation from agriculture resulted in substantial decrease in accumulation rates,» said Coulston.

«The future of freshwater biodiversity is inextricably linked to land and water infrastructure management,» writes N LeRoy Poff of Colorado State University in his guest editorial for ESA Frontiers, in which he contemplates whether rivers have changed so much that we need to rethink some of our conceptions about restoration.

Vulnerability of anaerobically protected carbon to future climate or land use change thus constitutes a yet unrecognized soil carbon - climate feedback that should be incorporated into terrestrial ecosystem models.»

They report that the future resilience of penguin populations to climate change impacts will almost certainly depend upon addressing current threats to existing habitat degradation on land and at sea.

By showing which land use changes have driven pollinator declines over the past 100 years, the research reveals how we could ensure future land use benefits these vital insects.

In order to anticipate and adapt to climate change, land managers must better understand how landscapes are likely to change in the future.

THE RESULTS Both studies found that changes in land use related to biofuel production would be a significant source of greenhouse gases in the future.

To avoid costly problems in the future, ICA and other groups recommend a variety of policy improvements, including changing land use regulations in fire - and flood - prone areas, strengthening building codes, and improving weather warning and modelling services.

«Our finding that vegetation plays a key role future in terrestrial hydrologic response and water stress is of utmost importance to properly predict future dryness and water resources,» says Gentine, whose research focuses on the relationship between hydrology and atmospheric science, land / atmosphere interaction, and its impact on climate change.

Methods: A global collaboration of scientists responded to a request from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use cChange, and generated a set of four scenarios to represent future greenhouse gas emissions and land use changechange.

Future carbon accounting frameworks will need to cover all land uses and land use changes in order to fully recognize the land use sector's mitigation contribution.

To solve this mystery, scientists in this study investigated how irrigation affects climate through the exchange of heat or fluxes from between the land surface and the atmosphere, the formation of low - level clouds, and to what extent irrigation may modify future climate change.

Several guidebooks exist for developing adaptation options on forested lands; these include Responding to Climate Change on National Forests (Peterson et al. 2011), Climate Change in Forests of the Future (Millar et al. 2007), and Forest Adaptation Resources (Swanston et al. 2016).

Cochrane, M. A. & Barber, C. P. Climate change, human land use and future fires in the Amazon.

Its staff conducts basic research on the interactions among Earth's ecosystems, land, atmosphere, and oceans to understand how these interactions shape the behavior of the Earth system, including its response to future change.

This country is the land with opportunities that they can change their future for themselves and children.

Developed by Related Designs in collaboration with Blue Byte, Anno 2070 takes place in a near - future environment where climate change has forced humanity to adapt to rising sea levels that have left stretches of once - fertile land completely inhospitable.

California will continue to land at the very bottom of every measure of how well we're preparing our students for the future — graduation rates, social and emotional wellbeing, math and reading achievement — unless we make serious changes to ensure every student has a great teacher, in every subject, every year.

Future Range Rovers, Land Rovers and Jaguars could read off - road surface changes, sense bumpy terrain and connect in off - road convoys.

In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long - term pl...

Attempts to address climate change that remove land and control from local communities will only result in greater susceptibility to future droughts and further crises like the one we are seeing now.»

Future Changes: Are there construction plans near your land, like new highways, schools, shopping centers or other improvements?

The Eastern Quoll may be detrimentally affected by feral cat predation (especially if cats have increased, or increase in the future, following the severe decline of the Tasmanian Devil Sarcophilus harrisii), and dogs, land - use changes and road mortality.

The «Open Skies» policy between the EU and United States has allowed airlines to fly and land anywhere with American and European Union territories — Brexit has caused no immediate change in this arrangement, but could possibly do so in the near future.

Though challenges posed by climate change, air pollution, and light pollution affect the seemingly pristine tracts of land in Katmai and other national parks, wilderness ensures that future generations can experience an untrammeled land.

Drawing parallels between the phantom presence of augmented reality and equally intangible notions of «the future» — given the rapid progression of global technological and environmental change — Lucas prompted each artist to create a virtual work imagining the future of Land Art and land Land Art and land land use.

As surfaces absorb roughly 100 times more solar energy than the CO2 in the atmosphere, future anthropogenic changes in both land and water albedo may figure significantly in climate policy outcomes.

Limiting Human Influences on Future Climate We can't stop climate changing, but we can reduce our many influences on it through our use of energy, land and chemicals.

We find that without dramatic increases in the area of forests, without substantially positive changes in land - use practices, without large net positive effects of CO2 or climate change in the future, or without some other new significant carbon storage mechanism, the U.S. carbon sink itself will decrease substantially over the 21st century.

«Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal: extinctions driven by the latter processes of habitat loss pose a far greater threat to global biodiversity.

Based on these studies, and many others using fossil and historical records, we argue that evidence for the widely cited view that future climate change poses an equal or greater threat to global biodiversity than anthropogenic land - use change and habitat loss (Thomas et al., 2004) is equivocal

No future historian will write a book about a world in which massive and ever expanding exploitation of coal and oil coexist with a safe landing on climate change.

Understanding past changes in the characteristics of such events, including recent increases in the intensity of heavy precipitation events over a large part of the Northern Hemisphere land area (3 — 5), is critical for reliable projections of future changes.

Implement the Global Climate Change Initiative: Undertaking a pragmatic, whole - of - government approach to speed the transition to a low - carbon, climate - resilient future, including (1) promoting clean energy solutions; (2) slowing, halting, and reversing emissions from land use; and (3) helping the most vulnerable countries strengthen climate resilience.

My opinion is that, putting global warming and climate change aside, we have much greater evidence of the difficult future caused by land degradation, shrinking drinkable water supplies, collapsing fish stocks, and the troubles that will be caused to the economy and society as supply of oil and gas supplies shrink and energy becomes too expensive.

These models take into account past and future greenhouse gas concentrations, pollutant emissions, and changes to how land is used.

At the EPA, Dr. Carter integrated the effects of climate change into estimates of future coastal inundation on contaminated lands, such as brownfields and superfund sites, to help guide decisions on adaptation efforts that could better protect nearby communities from the spread of dangerous contaminants during future floods.

«The way we manage the lands in the future could deliver 37 % of the solution to climate change... if we are serious about climate change, then we are going to have to get serious about investing in nature

Presuming that we want to be able to compare weather records over time without having to adjust or note for changes in exposure and land use and ground cover, it is best to locate weather stations over natural ground cover, and in an area not likely to experience significant changes in ground cover in the foreseeable future.

However, bioenergy that entails the dedicated use of land to grow the energy feedstock will undercut efforts to combat climate change and to achieve a sustainable food future.

Based on evidence from Earth's history, we suggest here that the relevant form of climate sensitivity in the Anthropocene (e.g. from which to base future greenhouse gas (GHG) stabilization targets) is the Earth system sensitivity including fast feedbacks from changes in water vapour, natural aerosols, clouds and sea ice, slower surface albedo feedbacks from changes in continental ice sheets and vegetation, and climate — GHG feedbacks from changes in natural (land and ocean) carbon sinks.

The United Nations are predicting a full one metre rise in ocean levels due to climate change by the end of this century, with disastrous implications for future floods, inundation of fertile land, and storm surges.