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Manuel Pulido, Jesús Barrena-González, Alberto Alfonso-Torreño, Rafael Robina-Ramírez and Saskia Keesstra
Water is a key strategic resource, particularly in Mediterranean climate-type areas with impermeable rocks and shallow soils like Southwestern Spain. The region of Extremadura is commonly known by its large surface occupied by big dams (30% of water damm...
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Andrea Momblanch, Ian P. Holman and Sanjay K. Jain
Global change is expected to have a strong impact in the Himalayan region. The climatic and orographic conditions result in unique modelling challenges and requirements. This paper critically appraises recent hydrological modelling applications in Himala...
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Francisco Leitão, Vânia Baptista, Vasco Vieira, Patrícia Laginha Silva, Paulo Relvas and Maria Alexandra Teodósio
Coastal upwelling has a significant local impact on marine coastal environment and on marine biology, namely fisheries. This study aims to evaluate climate and environmental changes in upwelling trends between 1950 and 2010. Annual, seasonal and monthly ...
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Karolína Bílá
We attempt here to review recent studies focusing on droughts and hydrology in the ?umava Mts. The main question is can bark beetles affect water regimes in forest and what kind of measures might be taken ? if any ? to prevent bark beetle attacks. We com...
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Riguga Su, Chaobin Yang, Zhibo Xu, Tingwen Luo, Lilong Yang, Lifeng Liu and Chao Wang
Urban landscape has important effects on urban climate, and the local climate zone (LCZ) framework has been widely applied in related studies. However, few studies have compared the relative contributions of LCZ on the urban thermal environment across di...
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Todd A. Eisenstadt, Sk Tawfique M. Haque, Michael A. Toman and Matthew Wright
After decades of presuming that climate adaptation is a private good benefitting only those receiving resources to reduce individual climate risks, respondents in a survey experiment among the climate-vulnerable in Bangladesh chose less-particularistic a...
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David Mfitumukiza, Gordon Y. Mwesigwa, Ellen J. Kayendeke and Vincent B. Muwanika
Climate change impacts threaten sustainable development efforts. The magnitude of the impacts, however, varies with the socio-ecological characteristics of locations. This is the reason there is consensus on the necessity for climate change adaptive capa...
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Leonardo Seabra Furtado, Raimundo Vitor Santos Pereira and Everaldo Barreiros de Souza
This work contributes to the studies on landscape mapping induced by human pressure directly related to the urbanization process, whose approach is based on the concept of hemeroby adapted to the metropolitan area of Belém in the eastern Amazon. The mapp...
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Qingyan Wang, Longzhi Sun and Xuan Yang
Rice yield is essential to global food security under increasingly frequent and severe climate change events. Spatial analysis of rice yields becomes more critical for regional action to ensure yields and reduce climate impacts. However, the understandin...
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Melita Grant and Juliet Willetts
Partnerships between water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) and rights-holder organisations (RHOs) have become more common, important and impactful in the international development sector, and they have been driven by aligned agendas, mutual benefits and t...
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