Extreme rainfall events have
important societal impacts: for example, by causing flooding, replenishing reservoirs, and affecting agricultural yields.
Not exact matches
«It is
important to take the global projections and zoom them in to regional and local levels to better understand the
societal impacts of climate change,» Pal says.
Modelling the
impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is
important for
societal preparedness.
At the bottom of this post I'm appending a moving and
important contribution from Kevin Simmons, an economist who blogs on the economics of natural hazards and is co-author, with Daniel Sutter, of «Economic and
Societal Impacts of Tornadoes.»
... incomplete and misleading because it 1) omits any mention of several of the most
important aspects of the potential relationships between hurricanes and global warming, including rainfall, sea level, and storm surge; 2) leaves the impression that there is no significant connection between recent climate change caused by human activities and hurricane characteristics and
impacts; and 3) does not take full account of the significance of recently identified trends and variations in tropical storms in causing
impacts as compared to increasing
societal vulnerability.
Modelling the
impacts of long power outages during extreme weather conditions is
important for
societal preparedness.
Temperature changes at and just above the earth's surface are of singular importance from the standpoint of
societal and human
impacts, and they are also widely regarded as an
important indicator of human - induced climate change.
Climate exhibits variability on decadal (10 - 20 year) timescales, with
important societal consequences from
impacts on rainfall patterns to altering fishery habitats.
As the Joint Institute for the Study of the Oceans and the Atmosphere says, from â a
societal impacts perspective, recognition of PDO is
important because it shows that «normal» climate conditions can vary over time periods comparable to the length of a human's lifetime.â
The field of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy is incredibly
important given its
impact on so many aspects of daily life,
societal norms and interpersonal dynamics.