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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Section I: Background, Concepts, Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Human Impact on Climate: The Evolution of an Awareness -- 3 Politics and the Air Around Us: International Policy Action on Atmospheric Pollution by Trace Gases -- 4 Grappling for a Glimpse of the Future -- 5 Statistics of Climate Change: Implications for Scenario Development -- 6 Impact Assessment by Analogy: Comparing the Impacts of the Ogallala Aquifer Depletion and CO2-Induced Climate Change -- Section II: Case Studies -- 7 Great Lakes Levels and Climate Change: Impacts, Responses, and Futures -- 8 The Rising Level of the Great Salt Lake: An Analogue of Societal Adjustment to Climate Change -- 9 Future Sea-Level Rise and Its Implications for Charleston, South Carolina -- 10 Institutional Response to Sea-Level Rise: The Case of Louisiana -- 11 Climate Variability and the Mississippi River Navigation System -- 12 Climate Variability and the Colorado River Compact: Implications for Responding to Climate Change -- 13 Climate Change and California: Past, Present, and Future Vulnerabilities -- 14 Analyzing the Risk of Drought: The Occoquan Experience -- 15 The Ogallala Aquifer and Carbon Dioxide: Are Policy Responses Applicable? -- 16 Public and Private Sector Responses to Florida Citrus Freezes -- Section III: Forecasting by Analogy -- 17 Summary.

Climatic Change is a rapidly evolving domain that has prompted the publication of numerous scientific works in recent years, reflecting both the public and scientific interest in the topic. This book focuses upon climate processes, variability and change and applies the general principles related to these issues, particularly in Switzerland. Although a small country, Switzerland is characterized by complex topography where climatic processes are often enhanced due to the presence of the Alps. In addition, there is a remarkable density of observational data in both the natural and social sciences that enable a comprehensive assessment of climate processes, their long-term trends and their impacts. This book draws upon recent scientific work by the author, as well as by close colleagues working within scientific networks both in Switzerland and Europe, in order to provide the reader with up-to-date information on climate processes in the course of the 20th and 21st centuries. This book is intended for students from the undergraduate level onwards and researchers interested in climate issues specific to the alpine region.

AbstractClimate change presents challenges to policy and economic stability, necessitating effective trading strategies to reduce environmental risks. This article addresses gaps in existing studies by using a Markov‐switching model to consider climate risk. Backward stochastic differential equations are used to optimize utility with three hedging strategies based on the concept of risk aversion. Numerical scenarios confirm the model's superiority in incorporating exogenous events, with our risk‐averse strategy outperforming classical approaches. Our strategy outperforms classical strategies by taking a flexible risk trading when investors face risk‐averse behavior due to climate risk events. The findings presented in this article have important implications for the development of more resilient investment portfolios and can contribute to climate policy.

This volume is an outgrowth of a project undertaken by the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group (ESIG) for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Policy Analysis to identify societal responses to extreme climate-related events in North America.

On the basis of the newest glaciological & oceanological data, global changes in the atmosphere's temperature & gas composition over the last climatic cycle are described & a strict correlation between them is demonstrated. Paleographic analysis demonstrates the nature of changes of geographic zones & landscapes in the northern hemisphere during the Upper Pleistocene & Holocene epochs. Climatic changes & glacierization in the 20th century & the progress & possible causes of the rise of the world ocean level are analyzed. Using the well-known forecase of a global temperature rise in the 21st century, possible patterns of change in natural conditions in the North, in temperate zones, & in southern latitudes of the northern hemisphere are considered. It is stressed that anticipated global warming will not necessarily lead to a global environmental crisis, but will signify a transition to new conditions calling for profound societal adaptation. 2 Illustrations, 30 References. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractFollowing the prolonged drought at the end of the 1980s in the south east of the UK, Anglian Water undertook (a) to review the reliable yields of their resource systems and (b) to investigate the potential risks associated with alternative future investment programmes. One of the major identifiable risks is climate change, and there is a clear need to understand how different scenarios of climate change could affect the reliable output of existing sources, and thereby affect investment programmes.This paper highlights the approach which was adopted to model climate change impacts on rainfall, and on the limitations which exist for this type of assessment.