A5064985228- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Climate Change and Environmental Impact
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Climate variability and models
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Forest Management and Policy
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Forest ecology and management
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Climate Change and Sustainable Development
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
- Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Plant and animal studies
- Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
American Association For The Advancement of Science
2023
Boston University
2014-2021
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
2009-2013
Joint Global Change Research Institute
2006-2013
University of Maryland, College Park
2005-2013
University Research Co (United States)
2009-2012
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania
2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005
Carnegie Mellon University
2005
Harvard University
2005
In preparation for the fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), international community is developing new advanced Earth System Models (ESMs) to assess combined effects human activities (e.g. land use and fossil fuel emissions) carbon-climate system. addition, four Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios future (2005–2100) are being provided by Integrated Model (IAM) teams be used as input ESMs projections (Moss et al. 2010). The...
Limiting atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations to low levels requires strategies manage anthropogenic emissions from terrestrial systems as well fossil fuel and industrial sources. We explore the implications of fully integrating energy system into a comprehensive mitigation regime that limits CO2 concentrations. find this approach lowers cost meeting environmental goals but also carries with it profound for agriculture: Unmanaged ecosystems forests expand, food crop livestock...
Summary Accurate assessment of the spatial extent forest cover is a crucial requirement for quantifying sources and sinks carbon from terrestrial biosphere. In more immediate context United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, implementation Kyoto Protocol calls estimates stocks baseline year as well subsequent years. Data country level statistics other ground‐based information are based varying definitions ‘forest’ consequently problematic obtaining spatially temporally...
This article presents a synthesis of what is known about areas rapid land-cover change around the world over past two decades, based on data compiled from remote sensing and censuses, as well expert opinion. Asia currently has greatest concentration changes, dryland degradation in particular. The Amazon basin remains major hotspot tropical deforestation. Rapid cropland increase, often associated with large-scale deforestation, prominent Southeast Asia. Forest Siberia, mostly related to...
Nelson, G. C., E. Bennett, A. Berhe, K. Cassman, R. DeFries, T. Dietz, Dobermann, Dobson, Janetos, M. Levy, D. Marco, N. Nakicenovic, B. ONeill, Norgaard, Petschel-Held, Ojima, P. Pingali, Watson, and Zurek. 2006. Anthropogenic drivers of ecosystem change: an overview. Ecology Society 11(2): 29.
Market-based solutions to climate change are widely advocated by financial actors and policy makers in order foster a smooth transition low-carbon economy. A first important limiting factor this approach is recognized be the imperfect information on investors’ portfolios’ exposure climate-related risks. While better disclosure of climate-relevant often recommended as remedy, current lack concise comparable measures risk fails provide major investors with full incentives reallocate their...
Abstract This special issue has highlighted recent and innovative methods results that integrate observations modelling analyses of regional to global aspect biophysical biogeochemical interactions land‐cover change with the climate system. Both Earth System Integrated Assessment modeling communities recognize importance an accurate representation land use understand quantify feedbacks socio‐economic systems, respectively. To date, cooperation between these been limited. Based on common...
Land-use change to meet 21st-century demands for food, fuel, and fiber will depend on many interactive factors, including global policies limiting anthropogenic climate realized improvements in agricultural productivity. Climate-change mitigation alter the decision-making environment land management, changes productivity influence cultivated expansion. We explore what extent future increases might offset conversion of tropical forest lands crop under a policy contrasting no-policy scenario...
Historically, scenarios have served multiple uses for climate-related research and decisionmaking.Scenarios provide an essential scientific method exploring possible future climatse change its impacts.They also help inform consideration of decisions regarding mitigation adaptation.Over the last several decades, climate community has produced two widely-used sets scenarios.The development a new scenario set is now underway.This volume reports on novel central component this effortthe shared...