Browsing by Subject "Climate Change"
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Climate Threats from Kyoto to Paris: Framing and Images in Securitizing Climate Change Discourses
(2017-08-01)Climate change is an issue that presents many threats that are dispersed according to geography and vulnerability. Climate change exists within separate discourses and is framed uniquely in each discourse. The question ... -
Conservation planning in an uncertain climate: Identifying projects that remain valuable and feasible across future scenarios
(2020-12-21)Conservation actors face the challenge of allocating limited resources despite uncertainty about future climate conditions. In many cases, the potential value and feasibility of proposed projects vary across climate ... -
Drought mildly reduces plant dominance in a temperate prairie ecosystem across years
(2020-06-01)1. Shifts in dominance and species reordering can occur in response to global change. However, it is not clear how altered precipitation and disturbance regimes interact to affect species composition and dominance. 2. We ... -
THE EMERGENCE OF GREEN MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN HISTORIC BUILDING ADAPTATION CASE STUDY: TABRIZ HISTORIC BAZAAR COMPLEX
(2017-12-15)The adverse environmental condition of the 21st century can impede sustainable settlement in buildings for future use. However, historic buildings as an example of vernacular architecture have potential to provide a healthy ... -
Engaging with Stakeholders to Produce Actionable Science: Moving from Theory to Practice
(2022-05)Over time, the idea of the public value of federally funded science has slowly transitioned from basic science that helps fight disease and maintain national security (Bush 1945) to use-inspired science that directly informs ... -
Future Impact on the Low-Level Jet and its Effects on Wind Energy Generation in Oklahoma
(2019-05-11)Future increases of wind energy density for the United States’ South-Central Plains region have been projected by several previous research examples. The Central Plains’ low-level jet has been projected to become faster ... -
Ground-nesting birds in a changing climate: case studies of proximate behavioral mechanisms used by skimmers and terns to address seasonal variation in resources
(2022-12-16)Understanding how species will adapt to anthropogenic climate change is one of the greatest challenges for ecologists and evolutionary biologists. For organisms with low dispersal abilities, rapid adaptation will often be ... -
Non-market adaptations to climate change and recreational policy evaluation: three essays in environmental and applied microeconomics
(2021-05-14)The first chapter examines the role of non-market behavioral adaptation to climate change in the United States for the case of outdoor leisure with a novel estimation procedure that accounts for both short-run weather and ... -
Numeracy Predicts Accurate Climate Change Knowledge and Beliefs: A Model of Factors That Influence Biases and Polarization
(2020)Although 97% of experts generally agree that modern global warming is largely caused by human activities, some people hold biased, inaccurate beliefs about the causes of climate change and the strength of the scientific ... -
Riparian Nitrate and Phosphate Removal Under Future Climate Scenarios
(2024-05-11)Riparian buffer zones are specially managed zones that lie between agricultural fields and rivers, lakes, or wetlands. They are crucial for protecting water quality, human health, and ecosystem function. Critical ecosystem ... -
SEASONAL AND CLIMATIC MODEL OF LESSER PRAIRIE-CHICKEN DEMOGRAPHICS
(2017-05)Abstract The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) has suffered substantial losses in both population number and occupied range over the last century. Although the species has been the focus of range-wide ... -
Spatial occupancy of passerines: relative to other individuals, relative to weather, and relative to climate change
(2023-12-15)Behavioral changes are necessary for an individual to adjust to the environment to avoid fitness loss and death. Understanding how behaviors change based on environmental cues is important in their local management and ... -
Spatial planning for water sustainability projects under climate uncertainty: balancing human and environmental water needs
(2021-03-02)Societies worldwide make large investments in the sustainability of integrated human-freshwater systems, but uncertainty about water supplies under climate change poses a major challenge. Investments in infrastructure, ... -
UTILIZING PROCESS-BASED CROP MODELLING TO ASSESS CLIMATE-INDUCED CROP YIELDS AND ADAPTATION OPTIONS IN THE NIGER RIVER BASIN OF WEST AFRICA
(2018)This dissertation used the FAO AquaCrop model to evaluate the impact of climate change on major cereal yields and adaptation options in three agro-ecological zones of the Niger River Basin. The crops analysed include maize, ...