This paper presents a first estimate of the exposure of the world’s large port cities (population exceeding one million inhabitants in 2005) to coastal flooding due to sea-level rise … read more »
Spracklen, D.V., Jimenez, J.L., Carslaw, K.S., Worsnop, D.R., Evans, M.J., Mann, G.W., Zhang, Q., Canagaratna, M.R., Allan, J., Coe, H., McFiggans, G., Rap, A., and Forster, P. February 2011. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, v.11, pp.5699-5755. External link to full article
Frieler, K, Meinshausen, M., von Deimling, T.S., Andrews, T., and Forster, P. February 2011. Geophysical Research Letters, v.38.
Dietz, S., Michie, J., and Oughton, C., editors. 2011. Routledge, Abingdon.
In this article, we compare two high-profile strategic policy reviews undertaken for the U.K. government on environmental risks: radioactive waste management and climate change. These reviews took very different … read more »
While the parties to the UNFCCC agreed in the December 2009 Copenhagen Accord that a 2°C global warming over pre-industrial levels should be avoided, current commitments on greenhouse gas … read more »
Yidana, S.M, Yiran, G.A.B., Sakyi, P.A., Nude, P.M. and Banoeng-Yakubo, B. (2011) Natural Science Journal. Vol.3, No.10, 837-854 (2011). Elservier
Forster, P.M., Thompson, D.W.J., Baldwin, M.P., Chipperfield, M.P., Dameris, M., Haigh, J.D., Karoly, D.J., Kushner, P.J., Randel, W.J., Rosenlof, K.H., Seidel, D.J., Solomon, S; Beig, G; Braesicke, P; Butchart, N., Gillett, N.P., Grise, K.M., Marsh, D.R., McLandress, C., Rao, T.N., Son, S.W., Stenchikov, G.L., Yoden, S. 2011. In: (Ed) Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion: 2010, […]
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 4. Economic evaluation of climate policy traditionally treats uncertainty by appealing to expected utility theory. Yet our knowledge of the impacts of climate policy may not be of sufficient quality to justify probabilistic beliefs. In such circumstances, it has been argued that the axioms of expected utility theory […]
Climate change is likely to lead to an increase in the frequency and/or intensity of certain types of natural hazards, if not globally, then at least … read more »
