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Ponencia presentada en: VIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Climatología celebrado en Salamanca entre el 25 y el 28 de septiembre de 2012. ; [EN]Tourism is an important sector of the Spanish economy. The popularity of Mediterranean beaches does not decrease even during the European economic crisis. Rising temperature and extreme weather events may threat the popularity of summer tourism, both directly and indirectly. Unpleasant heat waves and severe persistent droughts can occur even without a systematic change of the climatic characteristics, but the growing frequency and severity of such events are expected due to the global warming process. ; [ES]El turismo es un importante sector de la economía española. La popularidad de las playas mediterráneas no decrece aún en los años de crisis económica europea. El aumento de la temperatura y fenómenos meteorológicos extremos pueden amenazar la popularidad del turismo de verano, tanto directa como indirectamente. Olas de calor y desagradables graves sequías persistentes pueden ocurrir aún sin cambio sistemático de las características climáticas, pero la creciente frecuencia y gravedad de tales eventos se espera debido al proceso de calentamiento global. ; The research was supported by the Spanish project "Tourism, Environment and Politics" ECO 2010-18158.

AbstractClimate change is very likely to lead to undesirable climate impacts. How to compensate for such negative impacts at the international level has, hitherto, received little attention. This article reviews the most frequently discussed grounds for legal obligations of states vis-à-vis climate impacts (damages) and concludes that no convincing mechanism has yet been found to compensate climate impacts. The authors outline an architecture for a voluntary, international compensation fund with specialized, independent climate courts. Subsequently, this article addresses three strategic considerations related to the fund, namely, the incentives for founding it, the merits of double proportionality with respect to contributions and payments, as well as the benefits of employing prediction markets to enhance trustworthiness.

This bibliography supplements the Long-term Research and Monitoring Plan (LRMP; see Special Publication No. 1) by listing literature associated with climate and ocean change impacts on Pacific salmon. The bibliography covers literatures published up to 2009 most of them with abstracts.

Póster presentado en: VIII Congreso de la Asociación Española de Climatología celebrado en Salamanca entre el 25 y el 28 de septiembre de 2012. ; The research was supported by the Spanish project "Tourism, Environment and Politics" ECO 2010-18158.

Local government managers are increasingly on the front lines of the unprecedented challenge of climate change. Preparing Your (Small) Community for Climate Impacts offers a quick reference for ways to adapt your community to the hazards of climate change and describes how small local governments are developing adaptation best practices.

This thematic issue focuses on important but understudied connections between cities and climate impacts of long-distance travel. While urbanization and urban density have climate change mitigation potential in short-distance travel (e.g., by reducing car use and supporting public transportation, walking, and cycling), they have been associated with a higher level of emissions from flights. This highlights the role that city-regions could potentially play in reducing climate impacts of aviation. At the same time, the development of airports and flight connections has been an important driver of economic growth at regional scale and a factor contributing to global competitiveness of city-regions. This thematic issue includes seven interesting articles focusing on different aspects of the theme, all of which are briefly presented in this editorial. We also lay down some suggestions for future research directions based on the findings presented in this thematic issue.