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  1. Communicating Seasonal Forecasts

    Delivering, taking advantage of, and obtaining benefit from climate information, including predictions, are at least as substantial a challenge as...
    Mike Harrison, Jim B. Williams in Seasonal Climate: Forecasting and Managing Risk
    Conference paper 2008

  2. Biological control of mosquito populations: An applied aspect of pest control by means of natural enemies

    Mosquitoes were recognized as a health and nuisance problem only in the last century. Since mosquito oviposition sites were initially associated with...
    Anna Samanidou-Voyadjoglou, Vassilios Roussis, Panos V. Petrakis in Predation in Organisms
    Chapter 2007

  3. Healthy people 2100: modeling population health impacts of climate change

    Quantitatively estimating the potential health impacts of climate change is facilitated by multi-determinant models that integrate micro- to...

    Kristie L. Ebi in Climatic Change
    Article 15 March 2007

  4. Opportunities for Sustainable Mining Pit Lakes in Australia

    Due to operational and regulatory practicalities, pit lakes will continue to be common legacies of mine lease relinquishments. Unplanned or...

    Cherie D. McCullough, Mark A. Lund in Mine Water and the Environment
    Article 01 December 2006

  5. Pests Under Global Change — Meeting Your Future Landlords?

    Robert W. Sutherst, Richard H. A. Baker, ... Harald Scherm in Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World
    Chapter 2007

  6. Integrated strategies to reduce vulnerability and advance adaptation, mitigation, and sustainable development

    Determinants of adaptive and mitigative capacities (e.g., availability of technological options, and access to economic resources, social capital and...

    Indur M. Goklany in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    Article 09 May 2007

  7. An Ensemble Seasonal Forecast of Human Cases of St. Louis Encephalitis in Florida Based on Seasonal Hydrologic Forecasts

    We present a method for the ensemble seasonal prediction of human St. Louis encephalitis (SLE) incidence and SLE virus transmission in Florida. We...

    Jeffrey Shaman, Jonathan F. Day, ... Mark Cane in Climatic Change
    Article 01 April 2006

  8. Some Lessons Learned from Public Health on the Process of Adaptation

    Lessons learned from more than 150 years of public health research and intervention can provide insights to guide public health professionals and...

    Kristie L. Ebi, Joel Smith, ... Joel Scheraga in Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change
    Article 01 May 2006

  9. Climate Suitability for Stable Malaria Transmission in Zimbabwe Under Different Climate Change Scenarios

    Climate is one factor that determines the potential range of malaria. As such, climate change may work with or against efforts to bring malaria under...

    Kristie L. Ebi, Jessica Hartman, ... John Weyant in Climatic Change
    Article 01 December 2005

  10. Climate Change and Human Health

    Anthony J. McMichael, Rosalie E. Woodruff in Encyclopedia of World Climatology
    Reference work entry 2005

  11. Human Health and Climate

    Laurence S. Kalkstein in Encyclopedia of World Climatology
    Reference work entry 2005

  13. Climate Hazards

    Jack Hobbs in Encyclopedia of World Climatology
    Reference work entry 2005

  14. Impacts of Present and Future Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture and Forestry in the Arid and Semi-Arid Tropics

    The arid and semi-arid regions account for approximately 30% of the world total area and are inhabited by approximately 20% of the total world...

    M. V. K. Sivakumar, H. P. Das, O. Brunini in Climatic Change
    Article 01 May 2005

  15. Impacts of Present and Future Climate Variability and Change on Agriculture and Forestry in the Arid and Semi-Arid Tropics

    The arid and semi-arid regions account for approximately 30% of the world total area and are inhabited by approximately 20% of the total world...
    M. V. K. Sivakumar, H. P. Das, O. Brunini in Increasing Climate Variability and Change
    Chapter 2005

  16. Insect migration and dispersal with emphasis on Mediterranean ecosystems

    Insects migrate in many different scales ranging from a few metres to many hundreds of kilometres. The holistic conceptual model hosts a suite of...
    Panos V. Petrakis, Anastasios Legakis in Migration of Organisms
    Chapter 2005

  17. Climate, the environment, and humankind: lessons from the past

    Climatic change and in particular the notion of “global warming” is a theme of scientific concern that has come into the realm of public awareness...
    Martin Beniston in Climatic Change and Its Impacts
    Chapter 2004

  18. Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts

    This paper addresses a number of issues related to current and future climatic change and its impacts on mountain environments and economies,...

    Martin Beniston in Climatic Change
    Article 01 July 2003

  19. A Scenario of Possible Effect of Changes in the Hydrological Conditions on the Medical and Environmental Situation: On the Problem of Global Hydroclimatic Changes

    The effect of transformation of the human habitat on the medical and ecological situation is considered in the context of anticipated changes in the...

    L. I. Elpiner in Water Resources
    Article 01 July 2003

  20. Climatic Change in Mountain Regions: A Review of Possible Impacts

    This paper addresses a number of issues related to current and future climatic change and its impacts on mountain environments and economies,...
    Martin Beniston in Climate Variability and Change in High Elevation Regions: Past, Present & Future
    Chapter 2003
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