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Ecosystem-based adaptation

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Multi-scale modelling to improve climate data for building energy models

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jérôme Henri Kämpf, Dasaraden Mauree

The recent AR5 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has again stressed on the need for mitigation and adaptation measures to tackle issues related to climate change. Tackling future urban planning and energy efficiency in the building ...

2015

Experimental response of Salix cuttings to different flow regimes due to human activities

Alexandre Buttler, Paolo Perona, Pascal Turberg, Constant Signarbieux, Lorenzo Gorla

Hydropower production and other human activities change the natural flow regime of rivers, in turn impacting the riparian environment. The main challenge in order to define eco-sustainable flows is to quantify the effects in terms of geomorphology and ecos ...

2014

Review of methods addressing freshwater use in life cycle inventory and impact assessment

Anna Kounina Massé

In recent years, several methods have been developed which propose different freshwater use inventory schemes and impact assessment characterization models considering various cause-effect chain relationships. This work reviewed a multitude of methods and ...

Springer-Verlag2013

Effect-based tools for monitoring and predicting the ecotoxicological effects of chemicals in the environment

Ecotoxicology faces the challenge of assessing and predicting the effects of an increasing number of chemical stressors on aquatic species and ecosystems. Herein we review currently applied tools in ecological risk assessment, combining information on expo ...

2012

Optimizing the operation of the Qingshitan Reservoir in the Lijiang River for multiple human interests and quasi-natural flow maintenance

Koen Blanckaert

For reservoir operation, maintaining a quasi-natural flow regime can benefit river ecosystems, but may sacrifice human interests. This study took the Qingshitan Reservoir in the Lijiang River as a case, and developed an optimization model to explore a trad ...

2012

On-line unsupervised adaptation for face verification using Gaussian Mixture Models with multiple user models

Sébastien Marcel, Niklas Johansson

In this paper, we present an initial study of on-line unsupervised adaptation for face verification. To the authorsâ€™ knowledge this is the first study of this type. The key contributions consist of four test scenarios for the BANCA database as well as tw ...

Idiap2011

The economic impact of climate change and adaptation strategies in the water sector

Marc Vielle, Camille Gonseth, Anne-Kathrin Faust

In the near future, Switzerland is predicted to be affected by climate change, that is bound to impact both water demand and water supply in multiple ways. While water demand by households, firms and agriculture increases, water supply decreases (ProClim a ...

2011

Relationships between Local Climate and Hydrology in Sphagnum Mire: Implications for Palaeohydrological Studies and Ecosystem Management

Mariusz Lamentowicz

We investigated: a) the hydrology of a small Sphagnum mire located in a transitional climate in Eastern Europe, and b) the relationships between the local climate and hydrology of the mire. We hypothesized that temperature is the most important factor dete ...

2010

Field experiments using CO2 enrichment: a comparison of two main methods

The dramatic increase in global atmospheric carbon dioxide over the past century is hypothesized to have significant impacts on the earth system. To understand the effects of elevated CO2 on terrestrial ecosystems, two main methods have been used to simula ...

2010

Economic Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation Measures on Tourism in Switzerland

Cecilia Matasci

What will be the costs and benefits related to climate change for the Swiss tourism sector and what are the possible private and public adaptation measures on regional and national scale? ...

2009

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