Turn Down the Heat

Turn Down the Heat
Author: A Report for the World Bank by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Analytics.
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2013-06-19
Genre: Climatic changes
ISBN: 1464800553

This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day, 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, and coastal vulnerability. It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and that as warming increases from present day (0.8°C) to 2°C and 4°C, multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea-level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest and most vulnerable. The report finds that agricultural yields will be affected across the three regions, with repercussions for food security, economic growth, and poverty reduction. In addition, urban areas have been identified as new clusters of vulnerability with urban dwellers, particularly the urban poor, facing significant vulnerability to climate change. In Sub-Saharan Africa, under 3°C global warming, savannas are projected to decrease from their current levels to approximately one-seventh of total land area and threaten pastoral livelihoods. Under 4°C warming, total hyper-arid and arid areas are projected to expand by 10 percent. In South East Asia, under 2°C warming, heat extremes that are virtually absent today would cover nearly 60-70 percent of total land area in northern-hemisphere summer, adversely impacting ecosystems. Under 4°C warming, rural populations would face mounting pressures from sea-level rise, increased tropical cyclone intensity, storm surges, saltwater intrusions, and loss of marine ecosystem services. In South Asia, the potential sudden onset of disturbances to the monsoon system and rising peak temperatures would put water and food resources at severe risk. Well before 2°C warming occurs, substantial reductions in the frequency of low snow years is projected to cause substantial reductions in dry season flow, threatening agriculture. Many of the worst climate impacts could still be avoided by holding warming below 2°C, but the window for action is closing rapidly. Urgent action is also needed to build resilience to a rapidly warming world that will pose significant risks to agriculture, water resources, coastal infrastructure, and human health.

COVID-19 and Similar Futures

COVID-19 and Similar Futures
Author: Gavin J. Andrews
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2021-06-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030701794

This volume provides a critical response to the COVID-19 pandemic showcasing the full range of issues and perspectives that the discipline of geography can expose and bring to the table, not only to this specific event, but to others like it that might occur in future. Comprised of almost 60 short (2500 word) easy to read chapters, the collection provides numerous theoretical, empirical and methodological entry points to understanding the ways in which space, place and other geographical phenomenon are implicated in the crisis. Although falling under a health geography book series, the book explores the centrality and importance of a full range of biological, material, social, cultural, economic, urban, rural and other geographies. Hence the book bridges fields of study and sub-disciplines that are often regarded as separate worlds, demonstrating the potential for future collaboration and cross-disciplinary inquiry. Indeed book articulates a diverse but ultimately fulsome and multiscalar geographical approach to the major health challenge of our time, bringing different types of scholarship together with common purpose. The intended audience ranges from senior undergraduate students and graduate students to professional academics in geography and a host of related disciplines. These scholars might be interested in COVID-19 specifically or in the book’s broad disciplinary approach to infectious disease more generally. The book will also be helpful to policy-makers at various levels in formulating responses, and to general readers interested in learning about the COVID-19 crisis.

Health in the Anthropocene

Health in the Anthropocene
Author: Katharine Zywert
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1487524145

How will the ecological and economic crises of the 21st century transform health systems and human wellbeing?

D'ici 2050

D'ici 2050
Author: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada)
Publisher: National Round Table
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Reducing our own GHG emissions means that Canada is facing a transition to a low emissions society -- a transition that will be driven by environmental, economic and social factors. We have a substantial national interest in understanding and anticipating the nature and scope of that change and in proactively seeking to manage our response, with respect to both mitigation and adaptation measures, in a way that benefits Canada. This Advisory Report addresses the issue of how to mitigate potential effects of climate change, through deep emission reductions.

Gone with the Headwinds

Gone with the Headwinds
Author: Gustavo Adler
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2017-04-03
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1475589824

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Innovate Bristol

Innovate Bristol
Author: Sven Boermeester
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781949677072

Innovate Bristol highlights and celebrates those companies and individuals that are actively working at building a better tomorrow for all. Innovation Ecosystems thrive through the involvement and support of companies and individuals from all industries, which is why the Innovate series not only focuses on the innovators but also those people whom the Innovation Ecosystem, would not be able to thrive without.

Free and Fair Elections

Free and Fair Elections
Author: Guy S. Goodwin-Gill
Publisher: Inter-Parliamentary Union
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: Election law
ISBN: 9291422770

CIDA's Sustainable Development Strategy, 2001-2003

CIDA's Sustainable Development Strategy, 2001-2003
Author: Canadian International Development Agency
Publisher: Agence canadienne de développement international
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The mandate of the Agency, the lead organization responsible for Canadian international development co-operation, is sustainable development. This document presents the Agency's sustainable development strategy, which will be integrated into its business cycle and will become the strategic & unifying business plan for the Agency. The document begins with an overview of the Agency's mandate & policy framework and the diverse, complex, & connected challenges involved in international development co-operation. Objectives, strategies, key actions, and desired results are then set out under the three long-term goals of the sustainable development strategy: support sustainable development in developing countries, support democratic development & economic liberalization, and apply a management-system approach based on continual improvement. Appendices include a table showing desired key results & performance indicators, a summary of a stakeholder forum held to solicit views on the strategy, and a profile of the Agency.

Culture: urban future

Culture: urban future
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-12-31
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 9231001701

Report presents a series of analyses and recommendations for fostering the role of culture for sustainable development. Drawing on a global survey implemented with nine regional partners and insights from scholars, NGOs and urban thinkers, the report offers a global overview of urban heritage safeguarding, conservation and management, as well as the promotion of cultural and creative industries, highlighting their role as resources for sustainable urban development. Report is intended as a policy framework document to support governments in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Urban Development and the New Urban Agenda.