[PDF] Top 20 Climate change research and policy in Portugal

... of research and policy on climate change in Portugal and is organized into three main themes: scientific knowledge and assessment of climate ... See full document

... exist in most places, and much of the streamflow eventually becomes polluted and is thus lost for human consumption and food production (or causes serious health issues like Cholera outbreaks ... See full document

... states and that the agreement would prepare the EU for the COP21 negotiations in Paris in December 2015 (Albrechtsen, ...position in the European Council represents environmental pragmatism, ... See full document

... Lisbon, Portugal; 9) University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 11) Agroscope, Switzerland, 10) Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain; 11) AGROOF, Fran ce ... See full document

... to climate change may be much more difficult in less-developed regions (FUHRER, 2003), and climate change-related problems are expected to take place sooner (a few months) after ... See full document

... ABSTRACT. Climate change may be a game-changer for scientific research by promoting a science that is grounded in linking the production of knowledge and societal action in a ... See full document

... Development and the Reef: the rules have been lax for too long (May 28, 2015), ...changes in land and water use, coastal planning decisions, and the future demands for coal, sugar cane, ... See full document

... governance, in which donors want to improve the eff ectiveness of aid in developing countries in diff erent policy domains, including, but not limited to, the environment, education, ... See full document

... of policy definition and change will require examining three interrelated dynamics: i) the impact of policies on the conduction of the socio-technical processes that can drive the development of new ... See full document

... actors and levels in implementing educational innovations, there are still many open ...teachers and the recipients of ...ways in which the different levels of governance can be better ... See full document

... relevant in ex situ conservation, maintaining seed banks and living plant collections, actively participating in the conservation of threatened species and in species recovery ... See full document

... Our research mainly differs from earlier efforts in two ...focus in isolation on LNG storage tanks at importation terminals, which are becoming increasingly important parts of the supply ... See full document

... barriers and flood defenses are practically useless when their islands are already almost ...to research showing this trend throughout the last 30 ...Nature in 2008, showing how Atlantic hurricanes ... See full document

... – Climate change – between costs and benefits. At global and regional levels the effects of climate change start to show ...effects and to find solutions, others are ... See full document

... adaptation and acclimation of marine macrophytes, we highlight in this section that acclimation can also be mediated by changes in the structure of associated microbial ...dividing and ... See full document

... on climate change over the past century indicate the increase in ...changes in plant/vegetation/crop phenology, have been investigated globally and found to be intimately as well as ... See full document

... lected and contributed to the research: Es- tadual de São Paulo (USP), Federal do Pará (UFPA), Federal do Ceará (UFC), Estadual da Bahia (UNEB); and foreign universities: Coim- bra (Portugal), ... See full document

... uncertainty in scientific predictions, levels of vulnerability and the ability to adapt, these are all clearly urgent issues for developing countries, particularly because it will be the already poor ... See full document

... chemistry and forest health, and manage- ment recommendations for improving sus- tainability of the impacted ecosystems have been subject to studies on atmospheric de- position and nutrient cycles ... See full document

... em Portugal na última década, devido a uma intervenção intensiva na educação científica, nomeadamente através de doutoramentos inter- nacionais e da criação dos chamados ‘Laboratórios Asso- ciados’ do Ministério ... See full document