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Abstract Syria recently suffered a once in 500-year meteorological drought followed by one of the worst conflicts of the twenty-first century. We exploit subnational variation in drought impact to examine associations between climatic stress and Syria’s political unrest. Climatic stress…...
Abstract This study uses the results of 28 CMIP5 global climate projections to link regional climate extremes in the Mediterranean region to the global mean annual surface temperature change. It shows that global warming will further increase the existing difference…...
Otto, I. M., Donges, J. F., Cremades, R., Bhowmik, A., Hewitt, R. J., Lucht, W., ... & Lenferna, A. (2020). Social tipping dynamics for stabilizing Earth’s climate by 2050. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(5), 2354-2365. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1900577117 Significance Achieving a…...
Meena, R.S. (2020) Soil Health Restoration and Management. Springer Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-8570-4 About the book Meeting the food requirements of an ever-increasing population is a pressing challenge for every country around the globe. Soil degradation has a negative impact on…...
de Ruiter, M. C., Couasnon, A., van den Homberg, M. J., Daniell, J. E., Gill, J. C., & Ward, P. J. (2019). Why we can no longer ignore consecutive disasters. Earth's Future. 8(3), e2019EF001425. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EF001425 Abstract In recent decades, a striking…...
Highlights • Seasonal and spatial features of a biosphere reserve affect the human value domain. • Higher springtime values reflect longer distances traveled to the site in autumn. • The seashore landscape yields a higher value than maquis and conifer…...