Climate change

This handbook provides an overview of the UNFCCC of August 2006. It focuses on the institutional framework of the Convention and the actions taken by the conference of the parties to the convention. It touches on some aspects of the Kyoto Protocol but it

The increasingly variable climate in Europe has seen rising numbers of extreme flood events in the last decades, in the Danube, Odra and Elbe river basins just to name a few. The floods most perceived by the public are the large-scale riverine floods

Strengthening the adaptive capacity of populations at all levels from the local to the global is among the most important challenges facing development. The results of our research point, among other things, to the critical importance of transboundary

The aim of the PESETA project is to assess the impacts of climate change in Europe on a policy-relevant time horizon (2020, 2030) using consistent methods (climate scenarios) for six sectors (agriculture, river floods, coastal floods, energy demand

Environmental Science and Engineering
Subseries: Environmental Science

In many parts of the world, climatic variations are recognized as one of the major factors contributing to land degradation impacting on agricultural systems performance and

More frequent disasters have, and will increasingly become a major cause of population displacement in several parts of the world, says new UN report....

This report examines the similar aims and mutual benefits of climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction (DRR) and explores how adaptation and DRR policy makers, experts and practitioners must communicate and collaborate with each other

Adaptation to climate change is fundamental to reduce risk and enhance the resilience of the societies, particularly in countries such as Bangladesh, where the population is heavily exposed to natural hazards....