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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"climate instability"”.
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Climate Instability, Security, and United States Defense Policy
The far-reaching effects of an unstable climate have the potential to impact national security interests. Despite the recognized negative impacts, considerations of this facet of environmental security have not been comprehensively incorporated into United States defense policy. In light of climate …
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Speleothem climate capture of the Neanderthal demise
… refuge of the Neanderthals. The influence of climate changes on Neanderthal populations remains a mystery due to the lack of independently-dated high-resolution terrestrial records of past climate and environmental change from the Iberian Peninsula. The primary aim of this project was to …
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Il Gravettiano dell'Italia tirrenica nel contesto mediterraneo: definizione delle strategie di insediamento e mobilità attraverso lo studio delle materie prime e delle industrie litiche
… and 20.000 years BP. During this period, the climate instability due to the LGM approach created different environments. Particularly, Italy was split in two regions separated by the Apennine mountains: the cold and arid Adriatic coast on the first hand and the more temperate Tyrrhenian coast …
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The Impact of Welfare Colonialism on Inuit Responses to Climate Change in Qikiqtani, Canada
Climate instability in the Arctic poses large challenges for Inuit who live there and whilst climate vulnerability research is effective on many levels, this approach has been critiqued for overlooking the impacts of colonialism. Therefore, a niche exists that investigates how the ongoing issues of …
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Dynamically orthogonal field equations for stochastic fluid flows and particle dynamics
… which has elements of ocean, atmospheric and climate instability behaviors. Finally, we use our new stochastic description for flow fields to study the motion of inertial particles in flows with uncertainties. Inertial or finite-size particles in fluid flows are commonly encountered in nature …
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Toward Ecological Holism: Discerning Pattern, Process and Scale Across the Productivity Landscape
… by pollution, nutrient loading, disturbance, and climate instability, ecosystems are being pushed past critical thresholds resulting in loss of biodiversity and declines in productivity. The internal processes of natural ecosystems are self-correcting, conditioned on the adaptive traits of …
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL EVALUATION AND VALIDATION OF PRACTICES, TOOLS AND INNOVATIVE MODELS FOR THE LANDSCAPE AND AGROECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SYSTEMS: TRADE-OFFS AND SYNERGIES IN THE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES FRAMEWORK
… a lower dependency of POLY rice yields on climate instability, which should be further tested on wider datasets and timeframes. Output 1.b. A detailed methodology was delivered dealing with the assessment, design and monitor of on-farm land use choices. These tools are specifically intended …