Changes in global-mean precipitation in response to warming, greenhouse gas forcing and black carbon.
Frieler, K, Meinshausen, M., von Deimling, T.S., Andrews, T., and Forster, P. February 2011. Geophysical Research Letters, v.38.
Publication type: Research articles
Policies Integration and environmental governance: the case of rural environmental licensing in Brazil
Fatorelli L; Mertens, F. (2011 . Ambiente e Sociedade (Campinas), 13(2), p. 401-415. Doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1414-753×2010000200012
Cross-scale monitoring and assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management: a methodological framework for knowledge management
Reed, M.S., Buenemann, M., Atlhopheng, J., Akhtar-Schuster, M., Bachmann, F., Bastin, G., Bigas, H., Chanda, R., Dougill, A.J., Essahli, W., Evely, A.C., Geeson, N., Fleskens, L., Glass, J.H., Hessel, R., Holden, J., Ioris, A.A.R., Kruger, B., Liniger, H.P., Mphinyane, W., Nainggolan, D., Perkins, J., Raymond, C.M., Ritsema, C.J., Schwilch, G., Sebego, R., Seely, M., Stringer, […]
The Changing Wealth of Nations: measuring sustainable development in the New Millennium
Close to one third of the wealth of low-income countries comes from their “natural capital” which includes forests, protected areas, agricultural lands, energy and minerals, according to a new … read more »
Jatropha curcas: sowing local seeds of success in Malawi? In response to Achten et al (2010)
Dyer, J.C., Stringer, L.C., Dougill, A.J. April 2012. Journal of Arid Environments, v.79, pp.107-110.
Low-carbon development for the least developed countries
The contribution of the least developed countries (LDCs) to the greenhouse gas problem is very small. LDCs accounted for just over 4% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in … read more »
Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK’s Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
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 »
Optimal harvesting of fish stocks under a time-varying discount rate
Optimal control theory has been extensively used to determine the optimal harvesting policy for renewable resources such as fish stocks. In such optimisations, it is common to maximise the … read more »
Water availability in +2ºC and +4ºC worlds
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 »
Cap-and-trade properties under different hybrid scheme designs
This paper examines the key design mechanisms of existing and proposed cap-and-trade markets. First, it is shown that the hybrid systems under investigation (price floor using a minimum price … read more »