This book explores the significance of human behaviour to understanding the causes and impacts of changing climates and to assessing varied ways of responding to such changes.

This collection of essays breaks new theoretical and empirical ground by presenting climate change as a thoroughly social phenomenon, embedded in our institutions and cultural practices.

Discussion and Questions Lorena San Román from the United Nations Environmental Program ( UNEP ) Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean ... at all levels of society the analysis of global change and its implications .

Climate change is considered one of the most serious global environmental threats of our time . ... Adaptation depends on how the climate changes locally , the degree of ecosystem vulnerability , society , infrastructure and local ...

This project evaluates the vulnerability of tropical forests to the impacts of climate change and variability , taking into account sectors of society in the target countries that depend on environmental services from water provided by ...

7 The models used were: a) the CERES model, to assess the water needed for corn and soybean (i.e., the demand for water); b) the WATBAL model, to assess the impact of climate change on the flow of water in watersheds (i.e., ...

TROFCCA - CIFOR - CATIE / EU Tropical Forest and Climate Change Adaptation Honduras , Nicaragua and Costa Rica otential ... Likewise , civil society , especially the most vulnerable groups , could have access to planning processes and ...

“Coupled Ocean-Atmospheric Model Experiments of Future Climate Change with an Explicit Representation of Sulfate Aerosol Scattering”, J. Meteorological Society Japan 77: 1299-1307. Evenson, R. y Gollin, D. (2003).

Madison , Wisconsin , US , Soils Science Society of America Inc. p . 419-435 . IPCC ( Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ) . 1996. Good practice guidance for land use , land - use change and forestry .

21 Given the need to increase food supply, face the risks posed by climate change and tailor food supply to market ... the economic viability of agricultural production; and improve living conditions for farmers and society in general.