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1. Climate change and human health in Latin America: drivers, effects, and policies

Author:
Ana Rosa Moreno
Source:
Regional environmental change 2006 v.6 no.3 pp. 157-164
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
El Nino; adverse effects; air pollution; cholera; cities; climate; coasts; eyes; food production; freshwater; global warming; heat; human health; issues and policy; malaria; people; pests; phytoplankton; population; risk; seafoods; smoke; throat; toxins; vector-borne diseases; Latin America
Abstract:
... Many people would be increasingly affected by living under critical conditions in Latin America if, as expected, global warming aggravates disease and pest transmission processes. Heat waves and air pollution would increase heat-related diseases and illness episodes in large cities. Fire smoke has been associated with irritation of the throat, lung and eyes, and respiratory problems. Climate extre ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-006-0015-z

2. Anthropogenic impacts on suspended sediment load in the Upper Yangtze river

Author:
Jie Wei; Xiubin He; Yuhai Bao
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.4 pp. 857-868
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
basins; climate; climate change; deforestation; drought; floods; humans; land restoration; land use; play activities; pollution load; rain; runoff; sediments; soil conservation; surveys; watersheds; Yangtze River
Abstract:
... Climate change and human disturbance drive catchment erosion and increase riverine sediment load sensitively in small and medium-sized watersheds. This is not always true in large basins, where aggregation and buffering effects have dampen the ability to determine the driving forces of sedimentation. Even though there are significant responses to sedimentation in large river basins, it is difficul ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0222-0

3. Climate change, drought risk and land capability for agriculture: implications for land use in Scotland

Author:
Iain Brown; Laura Poggio; Alessandro Gimona; Marie Castellazzi
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.3 pp. 503-518
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
agricultural land; case studies; climate; climate change; climate models; drought; irrigation; land classification; land use; meteorological data; plant-water relations; risk; soil profiles; soil water deficit; water resources; Scotland
Abstract:
... Land capability classification systems define and communicate biophysical limitations on land use, including climate, soils and topography. They can therefore provide an accessible format for both scientists and decision-makers to share knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation. Underlying such classifications are complex interactions that require dynamic spatial analysis, particularly be ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-010-0163-z

4. Mid-21st century climate and weather extremes in Cyprus as projected by six regional climate models

Author:
Panos Hadjinicolaou; Christos Giannakopoulos; Christos Zerefos; Manfred A. Lange; Stelios Pashiardis; Jos Lelieveld
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.3 pp. 441-457
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
islands; winter; global warming; rain; summer; climate models; ecosystems; temperature; climate; Cyprus
Abstract:
... We present climate change projections and apply indices of weather extremes for the Mediterranean island Cyprus using data from regional climate model (RCM) simulations driven by the IPCC A1B scenario within the ENSEMBLES project. Daily time-series of temperature and precipitation were used from six RCMs for a reference period 1976–2000 and for 2026–2050 (‘future‘) for representative locations, ap ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-010-0153-1

5. Predicting hot-spots of land use changes in Italy by ensemble forecasting

Author:
Monia Santini; Riccardo Valentini
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.3 pp. 483-502
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
climate; conservation areas; emissions; history; land use change; landscapes; models; planning; prediction; watersheds; Italy
Abstract:
... In the context of environmental change projections at the regional level, not only the climate but also the land use plays a key role. The limited availability of historical information reduces the possibility to calibrate land use change (LUC) models. Even in case of successful calibration, using it both for diagnostic and prognostic studies does not guarantee the reliability of single future sim ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-010-0157-x

6. Rainfall variability and household coping strategies in northern Tanzania: a motivation for district-level strategies

Author:
Sara L. M. Trærup; Ole Mertz
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.3 pp. 471-481
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
assets; climate; climate change; coping strategies; developing countries; employment; households; livelihood; meteorological data; motivation; new crops; rain; risk; rural policy; surveys; Tanzania
Abstract:
... Climate variability is an important stress factor for rural livelihoods in most developing countries where households have been adapting to environmental shocks for decades. Climate change results in increased variability and poses new challenges for rural livelihoods, as well as for policymakers in adjusting policies to changing conditions. This paper examines the potential relationships between ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-010-0156-y

7. Risk management strategies to cope with climate change in grassland production: an illustrative case study for the Swiss plateau

Author:
Robert Finger; Pierluigi Calanca
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.4 pp. 935-949
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
carbon dioxide; case studies; climate; climate change; coping strategies; farmers; grasslands; insurance; models; plateaus; rain; rangelands; risk; risk management; summer; temperature
Abstract:
... In this paper, we assess climate change impacts on an intensively managed grassland system at the Swiss Plateau using the process-based grassland model PROGRASS. Taking the CO2 fertilization into account, we find increasing yield levels (in the range of 10–24%) and sharp increases in production risks for an illustrative climate change scenario that suggests a marked increase in temperature and dec ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0234-9

8. Sensitivity of Portuguese forest fires to climatic, human, and landscape variables: subnational differences between fire drivers in extreme fire years and decadal averages

Author:
Luís Costa; Kirsten Thonicke; Benjamin Poulter; Franz-W. Badeck
Source:
Regional environmental change 2011 v.11 no.3 pp. 543-551
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
climate; fire regime; forest fires; humans; landscapes; population density; socioeconomic factors; statistics; temperature; Portugal
Abstract:
... Within the changing fire regimes of Portugal, the relative importance of humans and climatic variability for regional fire statistics remains poorly understood. This work investigates the statistical relationship between temporal dynamics of fire events in Portugal and a set of socioeconomic, landscape, and climatic variables for the time periods of 1980–1990, 1991–2000, and extreme fires year ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-010-0169-6

9. Adaptation to climate change-related risks in Dutch urban areas: stimuli and barriers

Author:
Hens Runhaar; Heleen Mees; Arjan Wardekker; Jeroen van der Sluijs; Peter P. J. Driessen
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.4 pp. 777-790
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
risk; rivers; sustainable development; water management; floods; urban areas; urban planning; heat stress; climate change; rain; climate
Abstract:
... Climate change is associated with various risks, such as flooding and heat stress. So far, most research has concentrated on the identification and quantification of these risks as well as the development of adaptation measures. Yet much less is known about how planners actually perceive and deal with climate change, and why. This paper focuses on the governance of two climate change-related risks ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-012-0292-7

10. Agronomic adaptation strategies under climate change for winter durum wheat and tomato in southern Italy: irrigation and nitrogen fertilization

Author:
Domenico Ventrella; Monia Charfeddine; Marco Moriondo; Michele Rinaldi; Marco Bindi
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.3 pp. 407-419
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
tomatoes; carbon dioxide; crop models; decision support systems; greenhouse gases; nitrogen fertilizers; irrigation; air temperature; data collection; dry matter accumulation; climate change; weather; Triticum aestivum; crops; winter wheat; water resources; climate; Solanum lycopersicum var. lycopersicum; Italy; Mediterranean region
Abstract:
... Agricultural crops are affected by climate change due to the relationship between crop development, growth, yield, CO2 atmospheric concentration and climate conditions. In particular, the further reduction in existing limited water resources combined with an increase in temperature may result in higher impacts on agricultural crops in the Mediterranean area than in other regions. In this study, th ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0256-3

11. Downscaling nonclimatic drivers for surface water vulnerabilities in the Elbe river basin

Author:
Jürgen Blazejczak; Martin Gornig; Volkmar Hartje
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.1 pp. 69-80
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
climate; climate change; econometric models; economic development; employment; exports; globalization; manufacturing; metropolitan areas; pollution; socioeconomics; surface water; water management; water stress; watersheds
Abstract:
... Aggregated consideration of both climate and socio-economic change in a coarse spatial resolution is a central feature for scenario development in global change research. Downscaling of the supposed aggregated changes is a necessary prerequisite for the assessments of global change at the regional scale. The present paper describes the method and results of an approach to develop and to apply scen ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0237-6

12. Environmental and climatic signals from stable isotopes in Anatolian tree rings, Turkey

Author:
Halim Mutlu; Nesibe Köse; Ünal Akkemik; Duru Aral; Ali Kaya; Sturt W. Manning; Charlotte L. Pearson; Nüzhet Dalfes
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.3 pp. 559-570
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
Pinus nigra; altitude; carbon; cellulose; climate; correlation; dendrochronology; forests; growth rings; industrialization; latitude; oxygen; pollution; solar radiation; stable isotopes; summer; temperature; time series analysis; trees; Turkey (country)
Abstract:
... Dendrochronological and oxygen–carbon isotopic analysis was conducted on tree rings collected at two different elevations from three different regions in western Anatolia, Turkey. Tree rings were sampled from Anatolian black pines (Pinus nigra Arn. subsp. pallasiana (Lamb.) Holmboe) of at least 200 years old through an N–S transect covering Bolu-Mengen (north), Kütahya–Simav, and Antalya–Alanya (s ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0273-2

13. Exposure and vulnerability to climate extremes: population and asset exposure to coastal flooding in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Author:
Abiy S. Kebede; Robert J. Nicholls
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.1 pp. 81-94
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
altitude; assets; climate; climate change; coasts; developing countries; issues and policy; meteorological data; people; population growth; sea level; socioeconomics; spatial data; urbanization; Tanzania
Abstract:
... The paper provides a first quantitative estimate of the potential number of people and value of assets exposed to coastal flooding in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study used an elevation-based geographic information system-analysis based on physical exposure and socio-economic vulnerability under a range of climate and socio-economic scenarios. It particularly considered a worst-case scenario assu ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0239-4

14. Fluctuations in the size of Lake Chad: consequences on the livelihoods of the riverain peoples in eastern Niger

Author:
Anne Luxereau; Pierre Genthon; Jean-Marie Ambouta Karimou
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.3 pp. 507-521
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
basins; climate; corn; cowpeas; exports; farmers; farming systems; fertilizers; gasoline; hydrology; income; irrigation systems; lakes; lifestyle; livelihood; men; nationalities and ethnic groups; pesticides; prices; pumps; rain; risk; rivers; smoked fish; soil; soil exhaustion; sweet peppers; villages; women; Chad; Lake Chad; Niger; Nigeria
Abstract:
... Recent level changes in Lake Chad are associated with large area changes because the lakebed is almost flat. They have deeply impacted the lifestyle of local populations. The Mober are the main ethnic group living in the surroundings of Bosso, in eastern Niger near the Yobe River and in Lake Chad. They were initially herders and farmers who developed flood-retreat farming and sophisticated irrigat ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0267-0

15. Global warming potential of French grassland-based dairy livestock systems under climate change

Author:
Anne-Isabelle Graux; Romain Lardy; Gianni Bellocchi; Jean-François Soussana
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.4 pp. 751-763
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
cattle; climate; climate models; dairies; digestion; effluents; emissions; farms; fermentation; forage; forage production; global warming; greenhouse gases; guidelines; ingestion; irrigation; liquid manure; livestock production; pastures; permanent grasslands; primary productivity; production technology; simulation models; soil organic matter
Abstract:
... Despite the increasing interest in assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) budget of livestock production systems, little is known about the possible impacts of climate change on the future contribution of such systems to global warming. The aim of this study was to assess the global warming potential (GWP) of differently managed grassland-based dairy systems, based either on permanent or on sown grass ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-012-0289-2

16. Human impacts on fire occurrence: a case study of hundred years of forest fires in a dry alpine valley in Switzerland

Author:
Thomas Zumbrunnen; Patricia Menéndez; Harald Bugmann; Marco Conedera; Urs Gimmi; Matthias Bürgi
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.4 pp. 935-949
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
anthropogenic activities; case studies; climate; dry forests; fire regime; forest fires; fuel loading; grazing; humans; land use; livestock; logging; models; population density; roads; temperature; valleys; wood; Alps region; Switzerland
Abstract:
... Forest fire regimes are sensitive to alterations of climate, fuel load, and ignition sources. We investigated the impact of human activities and climate on fire occurrence in a dry continental valley of the Swiss Alps (Valais) by relating fire occurrence to population and road density, biomass removal by livestock grazing and wood harvest, temperature and precipitation in two distinct periods (190 ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-012-0307-4

17. Impacts of climatic disasters in coastal Bangladesh: why does private adaptive capacity differ?

Author:
M. Mustafa Saroar; Jayant K. Routray
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.1 pp. 169-190
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
agricultural land; climate; disasters; drinking water; education; employment; freshwater; hydrometeorology; infrastructure; issues and policy; livelihood; meteorological data; multivariate analysis; principal component analysis; public health; radio; rain; risk; salinity; sea level; shorelines; socioeconomic factors; villages; Bangladesh
Abstract:
... This paper quantitatively assesses the influences of various demographic and socio-economic factors, past adaptive behavioral factors, access to weather/climate information, and spatial/locational factors on coastal populations’ perceived adaptive capacity against major impacts of hydro-meteorological disasters on their livelihood. A total of 285 respondents from three coastal villages in Banglade ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0247-4

18. Land-cover changes and recent hydrological evolution in the Duero Basin (Spain)

Author:
Enrique Morán-Tejeda; Antonio Ceballos-Barbancho; José Manuel Llorente-Pinto; Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.1 pp. 17-33
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
basins; climate; developed countries; forest growth; forests; humans; hydrologic cycle; land cover; land restoration; land use and land cover maps; mountains; rivers; runoff; temperature; watersheds; Mediterranean region; Spain
Abstract:
... Land-use and land-cover changes have attracted substantial scientific interest in recent years because of their marked influence on hydrological cycles. In developed countries of the Mediterranean basin, the generalized revegetation and forest growth in mountainous areas that occurred during the last five decades are negatively affecting the evolution of water resources in headwaters. In this stud ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0236-7

19. Migration and reclamation in Northeast China in response to climatic disasters in North China over the past 300 years

Author:
Yu Ye; Xiuqi Fang; Mohammad Aftab U Khan
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.1 pp. 193-206
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
climate; climate change; cold; cropland; disasters; drought; farmers; humans; issues and policy; land restoration; land use; population growth; China
Abstract:
... Climatic disaster-induced migration and its effects on land exploitation of new settlements is a crucial topic that needs to be researched to better understand the impact of climate change and human adaptation. This paper focuses on the process and mechanism of migrant–reclamation in Northeast China in response to climatic disasters over the past 300 years. The research used comparative analysis o ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-011-0245-6

20. Mitigating future climate change effects by shifting planting dates of crops in rice–wheat cropping system

Author:
S. K. Jalota; Harsimran Kaur; S. S. Ray; R. Tripathi; Bharat Bhushan Vashisht; S. K. Bal
Source:
Regional environmental change 2012 v.12 no.4 pp. 913-922
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
rice; simulation models; General Circulation Models; cropping systems; research management; wheat; climate change; crop yield; temperature; climate; crops; India
Abstract:
... The present study focuses on (1) impact of climate change scenarios on crop yields in rice–wheat cropping system in central Indian Punjab and (2) assessment of shifting trans-/planting date as an adaptation strategy to mitigate that impact. Climate scenarios were derived from General Circulation Model’s simulations viz. Hadley Center Coupled Model Version 3, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-012-0300-y