National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Atmospheric Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309725408)
Atypical weather events, such as extreme tropical cyclones, pose substantial threats to life, property and livelihoods in the U.S. and worldwide. Despite major advances in forecasting capabilities, communicating about extreme weather events with deci...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Committee on National Statistics, Board on Environmental Change and Socie
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Dec-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309725033)
The National Climate Assessment (NCA) is a report produced periodically by the United States Global Change Research Program that takes a comprehensive look at global climate change. Before release, it undergoes intensive review for technical accuracy...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Board on Environmental Change
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Dec-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309726825)
Over the past two decades, wildfires in western North America have greatly increased in frequency, magnitude and severity. Scientists have documented three main causes - a century of suppression and inadequate forest management that has led to overly...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Policy and Global Affairs Division, Board on Science, Technology,
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309721301)
Understanding the intricate relationship between climate dynamics and the macroeconomy is crucial for informed policy and long-term planning. However, there is a gap between climate modeling and the understanding of its full macroeconomic effects, pa...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Policy and Global Affairs, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309714693)
Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic significance. Challenges integrating climate factors...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Population, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committee on Managed Retreat in the U.S.
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2024, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309708753)
Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually since 2018. The variety and frequency of storms have exacerbated historic inequalities and led to cycles of...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Heather Kreidler, Hannah Stewart
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309705851)
Responding to climate change will entail massive socio-emotional and behavioral changes. Translating policies, investments, or built infrastructure-reshaping mandates into real and sustained local impact that incorporates accountability and culture c...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Transportation Research Board, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Division on Earth and Life Studies-
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309701792)
While technologies are clearly instrumental in transitioning away from fossil fuel-based energy and toward a decarbonized economy, decisions about which technologies are prioritized, how they are implemented, and the policies that drive these changes...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Energy and
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309693349)
Over the last three decades, there have been fundamental shifts in the electricity system, including the growing adoption of clean distributed generation energy technologies such as rooftop solar. Net metering, which compensates customers for excess...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Atmospheric Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-May-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309695268)
Roughly every four years, the U.S. Global Change Research Program produces a congressionally mandated assessment of global change science and the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of climate change in the United States. The draft Fifth National Cli...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Heather Kreidler
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309695824)
In 2021, the Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine sponsored a two-year consensus study, Managed Retreat in the U.S. Gulf Coast Region, to examine and make findings and recommendations regarding the un...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Heather Kreidler
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309693202)
Strategically moving communities and infrastructureincluding homes and businessesaway from environmentally high-risk areas, such as vulnerable coastal regions, has been referred to as "e;managed retreat."e; Of all the ways humans respond to c...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Atmospheric Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309689977)
More intense heat waves, extended wildfire seasons and other escalating impacts of climate change have made it more important than ever to fill knowledge gaps that improve societys understanding, assessment, and response to global change. The US Glo...Loe edasi...
Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, Engineering National Academies of Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committee on Sustainability Partnerships in the U.S.–Mexico Drylands Region, Heather Kreidler, Jordyn White, Christopher A. Scott
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Dec-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309276092)
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Atmospheric Sciences
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Sep-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309262071)
The US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is a collection of 13 Federal entities charged by law to assist the United States and the world to understand, assess, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural processes of global change. Global...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Board on Energy and
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Aug-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309682954)
The world is transforming its energy system from one dominated by fossil fuel combustion to one with net-zero emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the primary anthropogenic greenhouse gas. This energy transition is critical to mitigating climate change...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committ
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309680769)
Approximately 30 percent of the edible food produced in the United States is wasted and a significant portion of this waste occurs at the consumer level. Despite foods essential role as a source of nutrients and energy and its emotional and cultural...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Health and Medicine Division, Food and Nutrition Board, Divisio
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Mar-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309473958)
For nearly a century, scientific advances have fueled progress in U.S. agriculture to enable American producers to deliver safe and abundant food domestically and provide a trade surplus in bulk and high-value agricultural commodities and foods. Toda...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Ocean Studies Board, Board
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309475877)
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscape in the region has changed significantly due to br...Loe edasi...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Ocean Studies Board, Board
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: National Academies Press, ISBN-13: 9780309475853)
The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, interconnected coastal system. The physical landscape in the region has changed significantly due to br...Loe edasi...
